At 1:00 PM, Monday, September 02, 2002 Star Drifter posted the following:
Evil Scheme. Okay, the sexy TASCAM has to go on layway and someone else will have to buy groceries on the 14th. This has had me a bit upset, but more in a symbolic way: it seems like I always want to do things at the worst possible time for everyone else. And that sucks.

However, the power of an empty chat room is one to behold. A person can say anything to an empty chat room - especially when he's an Admin. No one is going to say "stop that or you're banned." But what if I'm not an admin? you ask? It's easy.

Go download mIRC or pIRCh or whatever one your friends tell you is coolest. Except Trillian - that's a piece of crap. Using your irc-specific irc client, find a network that isn't entirely family oriented (avoid newnet). Log in, and type in the name of a chat room which doesn't exist. Don't forget that it needs to start with a pound sign (#).

You'll notice that once you're in #your_chatroom your name will look like this: @yourname. That little @ thing means you have admin privelages in that room. It will be an empty room, you will be an admin, and someone could walk in at any time to see what you're cursing about. I suggest maybe dalnet for this -- the bigger the network, the better.

Hmm.. good news? I found a first edition of Wraith, with the cool glow-in-the-dark cover. I found a book on PHP programming that I've been wanting. I bought Frank Zappa's "Tinseltown Rebellion." All with my beautiful, hard-earned money. On top of that, mp3.com finally got my account straightened out. See? Life doesn't suck.

Oh, and that evil scheme? I may try to sell some halloween ambience/background noise on mp3.com in the form of compact disks to fund my rock opera. I really need the TASCAM and about three different kinds of cables, but it still costs money. My scheme - even if it fails - will still amuse me. And being amused is all that counts.