I'm messing about on Goodreads, adding the books I've read this month, and after I finish my review of Rick Riordan's latest Heroes of Olympus book, The House of Hades, I started reading some of the other reviews, most of which are cute in the teenage girl squealing kind of way. And then I see this one:

Heard about some questionable aspects of the ( Read more... )

I was informed by a couple co-workers a little while ago that thousands of Comcast customers are without cable in my neck of the woods in both WV & Ohio because thieves stole something like a thousand (feet? yards? IDEK) of copper from the cable lines. Or something. I don't know if I'll have cable when I get home because I have a different cable ( Read more... )

Just saw a Blackberry commercial where everyone is ignoring everything that's going on around them in favor of texting, and then they have the balls to talk about "building relationships". You want to build a relationship? THEN PAY ATTENTION TO THE PERSON YOU'RE PHYSICALLY WITH, DUMB ASS!

I just saw yet another totally ridiculous 'labor saving' device on tv. You know how hard it is to pull your coffee maker toward you so you can fill it with water? I know I've pulled my back out any number of times hauling that OMG!HEAVY coffee maker forward a few inches on my counter. WELL, STRUGGLE NO MORE! For only $9.99 plus $4.99 S/H you can ( Read more... )

ETA: The culprit has now either flocked the post or made it private as when I clicked on it, I was "not authorized" to view it. I haven't received a reply to my comment as of the time of this update.

Thanks to a heads-up from bbuttercup, I was pointed to a thread discussing a fanfic "author", jdr1184, who apparently likes other peoples' stories so much, she uses ( Read more... )

From scifiwire: Amazon deletes 1984 from KindlesThis is one reason why I'm very leery about buying an electronic reader. I heard a report on WVPBS about publishers worrying about e-book "piracy". So what would be piracy? Sharing the file you bought and paid for with a friend? Is it piracy because it's an electronic file whereas I can take the book I ( Read more... )

I just love it (as in, I totally don't) when I tell someone, "we will do X for Y or Z reasons." And inevitably, the person I'm talking to will say, "But what about C reason?"

Urrrrgh! Is C "Y" or "Z"? No? Then no!

File this one under "People don't listen".

Now I just think he's an idiotSo, tell me, Mr. Poitier. How about we cap the bloated salaries of actors at $500,000? How about we cap the salaries of everybody, no matter what they produce, how they innovate, how many jobs they provide? How much money have you made over your career? Maybe you should send everything you made that exceeded $500,000 ( Read more... )

If you hear about a fanfic that you think may push one of your buttons, don't read it. Do not go out of your way to hunt the story down, read it, and then attempt to start a wank. Believe it or not, you are not the lj police. You are an individual who may or may not like any given story on any given day. That does not make your likes or dislikes ( Read more... )