Who knew you'd need a freaking degree in engineering to get a damned playstation 3 to play a simple DVD. I mean, it's not like you expect this to be out of the box functionality of anything silly like that.
At least now I can watch Galaxy Quest in peace.

I was in the city today, running around like an idiot trying to help my sister get together all the certified copies and applications that she needed for her nursing board registration. Apparently, everything that went wrong was my fault and a lot of things did go wrong from suddenly needing a photograph for the application to her leaving the ( Read more... )

 Why? Why would I leave two essays until six hours before one is due? (And twelve hours after the last one was due?)
WHY am I still sitting here at 4 am in the morning, pulling an all nighter, like the teenager I have not been for several years?
Why have I still not learned better than leaving things until the eleventh hour (or indeed, well after the ( Read more... )

It was actually the ending of Forest of the Dead that caused me the most consternation of any scene in season 4 (well, discounting Journey’s End, because, really, that’s a whole barrel full of monkeys that my mind doesn’t want to unpack).

( Cut because of some philosophical musing on River Song's fate... are we still cutting for season 4?... oh well, just in case )

Dear Mr. Multinational Conglomerate.
    I am one of your bottom-feeders from sector 1134 and I may have hijacked your store for the evening because there was nobody suitable to run the place. 
   This in no way suggests that I was a suitable party to run the store instead, so please remember this when you come in tomorrow morning to find a pile of ( Read more... )

I've seen a lot of people complaining about voting. You know, the usual stuff, about how both sides are pretty crappy. And I know what you mean, we just went through our local government elections recently; but you have to remember, that voting is important.
Why is it so important you ask?
Voting is improtant because you have to have your say in ( Read more... )

Fuck, Fuck, Fuck.
I am having a bad day.
I came down with a cold while I was away, which means I'm feeling like crap anyway, but I've just discovered that they've changed the outline on the Arts Foundation Minor so that the subject I choose for the 'politics' category no longer counts (or rather, counts as belonging to a different category, one to ( Read more... )

So ( Read more... )