K, my turn:
So, my ten-feet-too-short ethernet cable finally got fed up with constantly being stepped on, tripped over, or crushed by various objects that happened to get dropped on top of where it precariously runs across my limited floor space.
The ethernet cable's method of retaliation against me? (If you'll forgive my anthropomorphization)
To just go ahead and cut off my internet access. It didn't do it straight away, no- this ethernet cable was sick of my abuse and obviously had a vendetta against me. It was sneaky about it- the connection would be there for hours at a time, then suddenly drop out. Then it'd come back after I finally resorted to jerking the cable connector around in the jack at the back of the machine...then go away again. Then it'd come and go and come and go(leaving me completely unsure whether I was temporarily offline for another minute, or if the page in question was just extra slow) until it finally just gave out together.
Now I am accessing the net via the Berkeley LAN "airbears"... which just sucks balls, I can tell you right now. I hate this thing. It is slow. And stupid. And I hate it so very much.
Something else that sucked today? Ants.
I got into my car this afternoon to deal with the whole parking permit situation, and a torrent of ants streamed out of the vents and front control panel. Since no one else was around to witness this, I allowed myself to flip out like the girl I am: I squealed, lept out of the seat and began to uselessly beat them against the dashboard with a large plastic bottle of lysol. (yes, i know squirting them is more effective- but the spray nozzle was defective, and I was in panic mode.)
Ants are terrible. I hate all ants. With the exception of Disney/Pixar ants that have teeth and and are blue and limited to only the four legs and voiced by Dave Foley who is just adorable, I hate all ants. All non-fictional ants should die.
If I could choose a superpower right now, it would be to kill all insects within a 10-foot invisible sphere around me. I would simply walk wherever I chose, and any insect that had the misfortune to enter this sphere would evaporate.
No, I lied. If I could choose a superpower it would still be the ability to control time or something more meaningful like that. But the ant-killing power is a good idea, though.
How about it, science?
(I have decided this is my new tag for anything I write, because I like the idea of taking any problem I have and making it the burden of the scientific community.)
The ethernet cable's method of retaliation against me? (If you'll forgive my anthropomorphization)
To just go ahead and cut off my internet access. It didn't do it straight away, no- this ethernet cable was sick of my abuse and obviously had a vendetta against me. It was sneaky about it- the connection would be there for hours at a time, then suddenly drop out. Then it'd come back after I finally resorted to jerking the cable connector around in the jack at the back of the machine...then go away again. Then it'd come and go and come and go(leaving me completely unsure whether I was temporarily offline for another minute, or if the page in question was just extra slow) until it finally just gave out together.
Now I am accessing the net via the Berkeley LAN "airbears"... which just sucks balls, I can tell you right now. I hate this thing. It is slow. And stupid. And I hate it so very much.
Something else that sucked today? Ants.
I got into my car this afternoon to deal with the whole parking permit situation, and a torrent of ants streamed out of the vents and front control panel. Since no one else was around to witness this, I allowed myself to flip out like the girl I am: I squealed, lept out of the seat and began to uselessly beat them against the dashboard with a large plastic bottle of lysol. (yes, i know squirting them is more effective- but the spray nozzle was defective, and I was in panic mode.)
Ants are terrible. I hate all ants. With the exception of Disney/Pixar ants that have teeth and and are blue and limited to only the four legs and voiced by Dave Foley who is just adorable, I hate all ants. All non-fictional ants should die.
If I could choose a superpower right now, it would be to kill all insects within a 10-foot invisible sphere around me. I would simply walk wherever I chose, and any insect that had the misfortune to enter this sphere would evaporate.
No, I lied. If I could choose a superpower it would still be the ability to control time or something more meaningful like that. But the ant-killing power is a good idea, though.
How about it, science?
(I have decided this is my new tag for anything I write, because I like the idea of taking any problem I have and making it the burden of the scientific community.)