October and November, 2001

I’m starting to get a feel for the kind of content that I want to produce… but in the meantime, here are some more classic moments from VB’s past:

voraciousbunnies.com was originally hosted by $4.95.com. Back in 2001, it was pretty much an Internet rule of thumb that companies named after a price were extremely trustworthy and reliable. Unfortunately, $4.95 could not withstand the dreaded Nimda virus:

10/13/01::adam

2-3 weeks ago (I lost track), $4.95 was struck down with the dreaded Nimda virus. Unfortunately, $4.95′s 1987 version of Norton Antivirus for Apple IIe could not defeat this monstrous threat to the Internet community. Understandably, $4.95 was down for several days, and we all feared it dead, until, approximately one week later, through some sort of voodoo magic, the site miraculously resurrected itself. For awhile, nothing could be seen at their site but the cryptic message “4″, but soon this was changed in favor of a small explanation as to the situation, and promising a return to full operation in 36-48 hours. It was at this point that the site became available to the needy public once again, but we had no access to our FTP; in other words, we couldn’t update at all. Two weeks later (today – which is much longer than 48 hours, by my estimate) our magical FTP powers were finally restored to us. Naturally we are all very happy with the situation that has just transpired.

The solution? Change hosts, “once I get my mom’s credit card number.” A later post suggests that our mommies would not assist us with the host-changing procedure, and we continued to patronize $4.95.com for another year or two.

I wrote two absolutely horrific “raps” at some point; these mostly consist of random words strewn together (for example, “Mutha shit ass word”). Alex’s friend Nathaniel “Nasty Nate” Nathan, however, contributed a fine rap ballad that cuts to the heart of American racial issues in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. It was posted on 10/14/2001, and is entitled “No Title”:

Im nasty nate and my shit is tite/
Im really black but ppl think Im white/
when they call me a cracker I shoot lyrics on sight/
you got beef with me? comon lets fight/

Ive got a whole collaboration/
of fans and hoes from around every nation/
they love to flow with my lyrical divination/
they love to tune into my spiritual station/

you think you can stand my freestyling heat?/
Ive got bass and trebble in my beat/
Get off your feet and take a seat/
While I rhyme without any sheets/

I bust your cap with my 9 and smile/
Im rebel’n while propel’in freestyles/

Nothing good happened in November.  I wrote some commentaries that, at the time, I thought were at the apex of humor.  Topics include the legalization of marijuana in Jamaica (though I never smoked pot), a ridiculous minor league baseball game (watching a bench-clearing brawl is a memorable experience that will live in my heart forever, but I was not funny enough to do it justice), a review of the first Harry Potter movie (I never read any of the books or saw the movies), a discussion of the Gary Condit scandal (I made up a bunch of stuff),  and a discussion of chemical warfare (in which I mostly considered the implications of mutated animal crackers).

That’s all for tonight.  I’m afraid that these are kind of stale/lame, but my reasons for putting these posts together are, first, to share the random bits of humor that are hidden amidst this awful garbage; second, to enjoy the nostalgia; and third, to archive/memorialize most of the different aspects of the site.

That said, I’m getting to some more interesting stuff, and I’ll be adding some new content soon.