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an after-effect of not actually watching awards shows means that you can spend the entirety of the next day watching clips of the best/worst bits and reading about the stupid/awesome things that went down on various news sites (WHEN SYNDICATION IS WORKING, LJ, OMG THIS IS WHY I HAD NO INTERNETS ALL WEEKEND IT WAS YOU YOU BASTARDS ARGH YOU HAVE MADE ME USE GOOGLE FOR SOMETHING I HATE YOU! ahem.) without the pain of all the boring bits. so, of course, the "VMAs in five minutes" is way better than the show could possibly have been. especially when Kanye West's jackhole made Taylor Swift CRY. Katy Perry was totally right, that is like stepping on a kitten. or, like alexandriabrown said, like stepping on "a kitten holding an otter holding a bunny!"
how can anyone be mean to Taylor Swift? srsly, wtf, diaf.
I have done two useful things today at work. no, three. the rest of the time has been spent downloading and installing Firefox onto my work laptop (the endless hangs and crashes in IE finally drove me over the edge, especially since I have a "new" laptop which sucks ass on so many different levels I cannot even compute them with the main irritant being the lack of any sort of speakers), and downloading driver/BIOS updates for my netbook. and reading said RSS feeds on my new Google reader which I don't exactly hate but really don't like all that much, either. too squished.
in re: the US Open, I am very happy Kim Clijsters won! congratulations to her on an exceptional performance all the way through the tournament, it's awesome to have an unseeded player take the trophy. I was rooting for Novak Djokovic to take the men's, but, can't have everything, and he did at least give Federer a challenging match, although the through-the-legs shot? yeah, he totally deserved to win. (LOOK ALEX I AM TALKING ABOUT SPORTS.)
ahahaha, I just realized I forgot to watch the new ep of "Supernatural" this weekend. oops. well, it'll be on tv on Wednesday, maybe I'll see it then.
oh! but in happy tech news, I got my new, six-cell battery for my netbook today! it's charging up, hopefully sometime this week I can take it on the road and give it a test-drive, to see how long it lasts. (supposed to be six hours-ish. probably less on wifi, but hopefully better than the 2+ hours I was getting on my original battery.)
I may go see "Inglourious Basterds" tomorrow at the show. I'm sort of obsessed with not paying full price for it, just in case I hate it. (I am still bitter I never got my eight bucks back for the craptastic "Gladiator.") that's only if I can skip out of here on time, though, since it starts at five.
crap, I have to call the other job and tell them I'm stupid and can't work when I said I could because I have to go to Toronto for my real job on the 26th. I really should not take calls when I don't have my calendar in front of me, it just leads to stupidity.
ahahaha, so I'm reading my email, and I'm thinking, "something looks different. . ." because I installed Adblock, which I've never used before. is it bizarro that I miss the ads? I mean, not all of them, obviously, but I do click on banner ads sometimes. I've gotten deals that way! free stuff and samples and coupons and things. this is very odd, not to have ads. and the ones on my flist, for shoes and stuff. I'd be happy to do away with spam scams (no, I don't really believe you're the treasurer of Nigeria, I'm not giving you my bank account info, and my penis is long eough, thanks), but I always wonder - if all of the ads go away, how do people think that the internet is going to continue to pay for itself? I mean, I shop tons online because of the convenience, so I know that the big retailers are fine, but I really never begrudge the small sites that give me information, recipes, or just entertainment the right to throw banner ads up, too. commerce has to have some place in the free enterprise, after all. and, businesses have to advertise themselves. they just have to - not to mention charities and non-profits and psas. so, you know, I'll look at the "ugly ads" on youtube if it lets me also watch the funny clips and music videos and movie trailers and everything else. I always think about the fact that so many magazines are shrinking and dying because they can't see enough ad pages, but also because so much information is online, now. (I used to buy 4-5 magazines a week, and I'm down to that a month, maybe.) "free free free" cannot sustain itself forever.
I may have to get rid of this Adblock, though. . .it's just too weird.
how can anyone be mean to Taylor Swift? srsly, wtf, diaf.
I have done two useful things today at work. no, three. the rest of the time has been spent downloading and installing Firefox onto my work laptop (the endless hangs and crashes in IE finally drove me over the edge, especially since I have a "new" laptop which sucks ass on so many different levels I cannot even compute them with the main irritant being the lack of any sort of speakers), and downloading driver/BIOS updates for my netbook. and reading said RSS feeds on my new Google reader which I don't exactly hate but really don't like all that much, either. too squished.
in re: the US Open, I am very happy Kim Clijsters won! congratulations to her on an exceptional performance all the way through the tournament, it's awesome to have an unseeded player take the trophy. I was rooting for Novak Djokovic to take the men's, but, can't have everything, and he did at least give Federer a challenging match, although the through-the-legs shot? yeah, he totally deserved to win. (LOOK ALEX I AM TALKING ABOUT SPORTS.)
ahahaha, I just realized I forgot to watch the new ep of "Supernatural" this weekend. oops. well, it'll be on tv on Wednesday, maybe I'll see it then.
oh! but in happy tech news, I got my new, six-cell battery for my netbook today! it's charging up, hopefully sometime this week I can take it on the road and give it a test-drive, to see how long it lasts. (supposed to be six hours-ish. probably less on wifi, but hopefully better than the 2+ hours I was getting on my original battery.)
I may go see "Inglourious Basterds" tomorrow at the show. I'm sort of obsessed with not paying full price for it, just in case I hate it. (I am still bitter I never got my eight bucks back for the craptastic "Gladiator.") that's only if I can skip out of here on time, though, since it starts at five.
crap, I have to call the other job and tell them I'm stupid and can't work when I said I could because I have to go to Toronto for my real job on the 26th. I really should not take calls when I don't have my calendar in front of me, it just leads to stupidity.
ahahaha, so I'm reading my email, and I'm thinking, "something looks different. . ." because I installed Adblock, which I've never used before. is it bizarro that I miss the ads? I mean, not all of them, obviously, but I do click on banner ads sometimes. I've gotten deals that way! free stuff and samples and coupons and things. this is very odd, not to have ads. and the ones on my flist, for shoes and stuff. I'd be happy to do away with spam scams (no, I don't really believe you're the treasurer of Nigeria, I'm not giving you my bank account info, and my penis is long eough, thanks), but I always wonder - if all of the ads go away, how do people think that the internet is going to continue to pay for itself? I mean, I shop tons online because of the convenience, so I know that the big retailers are fine, but I really never begrudge the small sites that give me information, recipes, or just entertainment the right to throw banner ads up, too. commerce has to have some place in the free enterprise, after all. and, businesses have to advertise themselves. they just have to - not to mention charities and non-profits and psas. so, you know, I'll look at the "ugly ads" on youtube if it lets me also watch the funny clips and music videos and movie trailers and everything else. I always think about the fact that so many magazines are shrinking and dying because they can't see enough ad pages, but also because so much information is online, now. (I used to buy 4-5 magazines a week, and I'm down to that a month, maybe.) "free free free" cannot sustain itself forever.
I may have to get rid of this Adblock, though. . .it's just too weird.