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December 28. Christmas is passed, New Years approaches. This is the season
when it is  normal
to do a year-in-review type article. Here at Dontmindme.com, normal just
doesn't happen all that often, and while this isn't a promise that there
won't be a year-in-review article forthcoming, or more likely the First
Annual Dontmindme.com Awards, it isn't happening right now. Instead, here's
an article about Sandwiches. And no, it's
not a Good/Bad/Ugly rating of sandwiches. That
would be normal, and we can't have that. Instead it's some recipes for
sandwiches. Go forth, read the article, and make yourself a sandwich.
Also, there have been a few changes to the Message
Board, and there's a new poll on the sidebar.
December 23. Christmas is a mere two days away, but a semi-seasonal
article is right around the  corner.
In fact, it's already done, and you can read it this very minute if you
so desire. It's called Lies Our Parents Told
Us, and the graphic may reveal what one of these lies, in fact the
biggest of these lies, might be.
December 4. With three weeks until Christmas, one might expect some
 festive,
seasonal, holiday-related new content to appear. One would be wrong on
all counts, apart from new. If you want a seasonal read, scroll down to
Classic Features where some holiday favourites of years gone by are posted.
If scrolling down is just too much work, you can go right to Santa
or Supervillain right from here. If, however, you feel the need for
something fresh, new and not remotely festive, read the rant about Weird
Neighbours.
November 26. The changes continue. Stuff of the Month is gone.
Replacing it is Featured Stuff, which
will continue the Dontmindme.com tradition of featuring random stuff which
the editor deems feature worthy, only now updates will be even more random
than before, and not just confined to once a month (and often not even
then). So go read Featured Stuff and enjoy.
Also, be sure to vote in the poll on the sidebar, and feel free to use
the ever-so-nifty comment feature.
November 18. There's a cliché which states that a change is as
good as a  rest.
Like most clichés there is a small element of truth to it, and
speaking of changes and small elements, there have been a few small changes
to this site, some more obvious than others. The sidebar links have been
adjusted and are now graphical in nature, which is why they do not change
colour after you've clicked on them (at least on this page, the rest of
the site has not yet been updated). There is a neat little survey running
on the sidebar as well, which, unlike the survey of old, only lets you
vote once. This one also lets you send comments. And last, but certainly
not least, there's a new article. This one is from my rapidly-becoming-prolific
guest writer Nancy Thomas, and is entitled The
Things I Learned in Childhood.
November 4. Tomorrow is a big day in Hollywood. Now, there have b een
a lot of big days in Hollywood, and there will be a lot more, and there's
basically a reasonably large day in Hollywood at least once every other
fortnight. Tomorrow, however, The Matrix Revolutions opens, and
it's on a Wednesday, so there will be a lot of people making a very big
deal about it. Here at Dontmindme.com it's not so much a very big deal
as it is pretty much the same deal as we make about lots of other stuff.
Maybe a little more, since this article was written in just a couple of
hours and is over a thousand words long. Enough introduction, so now go
forth and read about Matrix
Theories.
October 30. Some things come in bunches. Bananas, for instance, as well
as  grapes.
It appears that updates to Dontmindme.com also fall into this category.
Behold a new update, entitled Office Antics.
This is yet another addition to the popular and burgeoning Miscellaneous
Fun department. Appropriately, this is article is both miscellaneous
and decidedly fun. It's also from my new guest
writer, who last month brought us Just Say No.
October 27. Normally I'd write up a nice little intro and explain the
reason for the most recent delay. But I have to be at work in 20 minutes,
so there isn't time for that, so I'll just sum it all up. Since the last
update I've gotten married. On a related line, I've also moved. I'm also
on a new internet service. So be thankful that there's a new edition of
A Thousand Words for you to enjoy.
September 17. Everything old is new again. Wait, that's n ot
entirely true. One old thing has added to and revised. The old item is
Everything Men Know About Women. The new,
revised one is Everything Men Know About Women:
Redux. Read them both, first the old one, then the new one. Or read
them the other way around. Either way works.
Septe mber
12. Today Dontmindme.com introduces a new guest writer, which brings me
one step closer to my eventual goal of being a global media overlord.
For now I'll settle for just being an editor and publisher. I know this
means I'm not actually creating any new content of my own, but new content
is a very good thing. And this content is actually quite funny, funny
enough that I wish I could take credit for coming up with it. But I can't,
because I didn't write Just Say No.
July 31. This has been in the works for a while, and is by all counts
long overdue. Well, maybe not all counts, since hardly anyone really knew
about it. It's in all likelihood the single most self indulgent thing
I have ever written, and since simply having a website that allows me
to vent my own particular flavour of opinion, fury, and general weirdness
upon the unsuspecting world is rather self indulgent to begin with, that's
really saying something. That said, enjoy this Good/Bad/Ugly
rating of My Catch Phrases.
June 29. Most of the content on this site is created either by a guest
writer or more likely by myself. Not this time. Now
Showing is about something that was merely seen by me and photographed,
and no posted for your enjoyment. Some people may find this item perhaps
rather questionable, so consider yourself warned. Most people, however,
will find it hilarious.
June 3. Remember when I said that the vacation was over? Well, apparently
it wasn't. Is it  now?
Let's hope so. There are a stack of items in the works, but it made more
sense to do Stuff of the Month first. It's
been a few months now, so it was more than time. A couple of notes: there
are some changes to the links on the sidebar, notably a deletion (alas,
the Brunching Shuttlecocks are
no more), two additions, and now everything is in alphabetical order.
April 14. The vacation is over. Yes, yes, I know, I should have posted
that I was tak ing
abreak from updating the site, but it wasn't really a planned break. It
was more a necessary move to preserve my sanity. That said, today's new
feature, Fun With Television, is actually
from a guest writer, but I promise some new content of my own soon.
February 19. Tired. Too tired to write up a clever whatever these things
on the front page should be called. Have a rant about the Death
of Network Television done. Go read that.
February
9. Yeah, it's that time again. Okay, so it's a week beyond that time,
but I'm putting up Stuff of the Month now,
so that's that. Look for lots of new content coming soon. I really mean
it this time. And don't forget to visit the reasonably new and very much
improved message board and
let it's awesomeness overwhelm you. And yes, I've changed the font on
the front page, at least for now. A good thing to do when you visit the
message board might be to let
me know what you think of this change.
January 27. Sometimes explanation is irrelevant. This is probably o ne
of those times. Some people are going to understand this, but undoubtedly
some people aren't. I'm hoping that the level of ridiculousness is sufficient
that it will transcend the necessity of having watched Apocalypse Now
and seen entirely too many Calvin Klein fragrance advertisements. That
said, can you smell that? And no, there really
isn't a cologne for sale here. At least not yet. Who knows what the future
might bring?
Janu ary
21. Quick, change the size of your browser window. Did this text just
rearrange itself to fit the window? It did? Excellent, I was hoping it
would. So I've been tinkering with the look of the site ever so slightly.
You might also notice that the administrivia at the bottom of the page
has been tweaked. Also, I might do something with the font/size, for while
I do love this font, it's a bit wonky with size adjustments. Oh, and there's
finally a new edition of A Thousand Words
up. This makes ten if anyone is counting. And since George W. Bush didn't
make the cut this time, he gets to be in the link photo.
January 17. Where you end up is supposed to have a lot to do with where
 you
start from. That said, this time it almost didn't. I started out to write
a Good/Bad/Ugly rating of the
Food Groups, and in the end that's what I wrote, but it's almost as
much a rant as a rating. Perhaps it's been too long since the last rant.
Unrelated, the December poll is now done, with people voting heavily in
favour of the animated gifs on the front page, with not a single vote
for cutting back on the animation or eliminating it altogether. Future
polls will be held in the new message
board. Yes, I know, the message board gets a lot of plugs, but that's
only because it's so utterly awesome.
January 10. Yeah, okay, it's January 10. And yeah, this is like the latest
I've
ever posted Stuff of the Month. Maybe that's
because I've been busy playing with the new
message board, which happens to be really, really cool and good, and
if you haven't checked it out, then you should go and check it out right
now. Or at least after you've read Stuff of the
Month. A lot of effort goes into Stuff,
maybe a bit too much effort. If you think perhaps I put too much effort
into it, or maybe if you appreciate it, you should hit the message
board and post about it.
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