Some things, some of which are overly specific and maybe annoying

[suddenleap]

i.It is rainin' in California. I am holed up in my room, sitting in bed (the only place to sit in my little room, but also a very warm and nice place). In a grand departure from my usual habits, I have opened my blinds so that I can look out at the gross rainy street and watch all the damp people with umbrellas walk by*. This isn't fun, per se,

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[newredshoes]

I so totally approve of Cheez-Its for breakfast it's not even funny.

[suddenleap]

We got a box of them, and I have been slowly depleting it over the last week, almost always at times when it means wrecking my appetite for real meals.

YUM YUM.

[part_irish]

I had cheez-its for "dinner" during my break at work today.
I can't keep boxes of them in the house, because I will devour them too quickly.

[emamio]

Hey maaan you can use Opera as your backup browser, or there's even Safari for windows. Assuming you're using windows, which you must be, or you'd have installed IE on mac or linux, and since you hate IE to such a degree, this seems improbable.

There is still plenty wrong with IE that has to do with CSS rendering though. AND you cant actually uninstall it on XP without going through a lot of pain because Windows uses lots of pieces of IE to make unrelated things work.

[joaniechachi]

Actually, old Macs did come with IE for Mac. It was its own special hell, because it had all the sucktacularness of IE without actually sharing some crucial behaviors, which meant it couldn't even be used to check if IE broke your webpage code. (It pretty much always did, but not the same way that PC IE broke it. Sometimes the only way to fix one would cause breakage in the other.)

[retro_andi]

I would like to point out for the record that cafe was my cafe (aren't I possessive) and I totally love that song for the refrain alone.

for the record, Pink Martini is nifty (on a scale of lame to OMG)and their later albums ditch the Piaf/Jacques Brel sound for something more their own. Also, I didn't think her pronunciation was that horrendous; for something truly painful, just listen to Jean Seaberg in Breathless . Ow!

p.s. you should check out Les Sans Culottes and ...Nous Non Plus

[suddenleap]

It was your cafe, and remains pretty much my favorite cafe ever.

Also, my mom got Raph a PM CD for Christmas and it sounds really good from what I've heard of it, so I don't mean to make broad statements condemning them. In fact, in terms of Sympathique, it's the fact that most of her pronunciation is very good that makes the few syllables she doesn't nail stick out to me. I'm tempted to say I'd prefer if it was all mediocre, but I feel like that may only be true in my head. Regardless, I still do like it, just not as much as I thought I did.

I feel like I've heard something by Les SC, but I don't remember what. I'll look them up, though.