Anybody know if there's a way to get LJ to stop emailing me every single time I log in to say that there was a login from an "unknown location"?? I thought maybe it would figure it out after the first, oh, four or five times I logged in from the same home and work computers I've used for years, but apparently not. And I can't find a setting to ( Read more... )

My words up on attempting to reboot Idris (the six-week-old desktop) after she went Blue Screen of Death on me Friday evening, only to get a black screen with a lower-case j, followed by a blinking underscore cursor that didn't actually do anything, and NOTHING ELSE ( Read more... )

Very Large Ant dropped into my lap from my office ceiling. (And has been duly reported to Guy What Calls Pest Control.)

So, that's MY adrenaline rush for the day...

...of witnessing something Terribly Terribly Wrong, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

Normally I avoid anything about Britney Spears like the plague, on the logic that the last thing the woman needs is more media scrutiny, so I'm not going to support it. I'm not sure why I even clicked through to this article from a tweet, but I did ( Read more... )

So, brainiacfive recorded this week's Breakout Kings because the promos had Unexpected Christina Cole With Credible American Accent. (I really need to stop being surprised by pond-jumping actors. It's not like it's rare ( Read more... )

So, CNN took a poll, asking people to estimate how much of the federal budget goes to PBS and NPR.

The average of the estimates was 5%.

Yes. I said five percent. Of the ENTIRE FEDERAL BUDGET.

I know it's hard to have a sense of proportion about numbers that big, but... but... *boggle* And surely some poll respondents must have known better. So ( Read more... )

Such as, for example, Michael Flatley being a taste-impaired tool.

Many thanks to havocthecat for pointing me to this recap of Lord of the Dance 3D, which (a) is hilarious, and (b) confirms the impression I've been getting from the commercials that Celtic Tiger flopped (thus providing evidence for the existence of God), so he migrated all the HOLY MOTHER OF ( Read more... )

Just found out an attorney we used to use (not for several years, thank goodness) has been, long story short, disbarred for shady collection practices that damaged both debtors and clients.

Because, you know, this industry doesn't have a crappy enough reputation and isn't a generally icky one to work in ALREADY.

( Guided tour by Sinead )

So Mike Huckabee -- about whom I'd previously formed a sort of vaguely disapproving opinion -- catapulted himself into my mental DO NOT WANT enclosure when I happened yesterday to catch this charming sound bite I'd managed to miss a few days before.

( Cut for embedded video and pernicious idiocy )