| Day 7 |
[08 Nov 2009|12:26am] |
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It totally counts as Day 7/Saturday if I haven't yet gone to bed before writing this!
I am up late because I've been round Allegra and Dylan's for food, company, and a film which turned out odd but not as bad as we thought it was going to be. Even though it had Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Hurley, and surprise!naked Valentine Pelker (I know I've spelt that wrong, sorry) in it.
Tomorrow is going to be 'interesting', I have a significant amount of brought home work to do *and* one of the other things that happened this evening is that Dylan has installed Ubuntu on my laptop so I will be dual booting Windows and Ubuntu. Using Ubuntu as default and Windows for iTunes and Guild Wars. However this means that tomorrow will see a significant amount of research, negotiation, and outright pleading with the machine until I get Ubuntu and applications set up as I like. Things to do include, but are not limited to:
Set up the email fully, my main address is set up but I need to set up two others
Also to create folders and rules for the organising of said email
If I could get Windows to let me create a single .cvs file to import all the mail that would be great, otherwise I may just have to accept that if I need something in particular I'm just going to have to boot Windows to find it (yes, I know there's a way but I get an odd error message from Windows Mail when I try it) because while I've managed to export the mail to a folder it's all individual mails and there's around 5000 of them and if you think I'm importing them manually you've another think coming
Open Windows and then send an email to myself with the links for all the tabs I currently have open in Opera so I can reopen them in Opera in Ubuntu - that's my life in tabs there and I feel naked every time I open Opera in Ubuntu and they aren't there
Figure out what the hell the Opera that comes with Ubuntu has against Feeds and make it get over it (currently I don't even seem to have an option to *have* a feed reader, never mind being able to figure out how to import my feeds without also having to do the go to Windows and email the details to myself)
Find out whether Semagic is designed to work on Ubuntu and if so get that working, if not I have downloaded Logjam but Ubuntu terminology doesn't seem to allow for an .exe file so I need to start teaching myself Ubuntu-ese
Just generally poke around and get familiar and more settled with the feel of the system, possibly lower the sensitivity settings on the mouse which is significantly more sensitive on Ubuntu for some reason
Nevertheless the important things seem to be that a) it works and b) I have internet ... everything else is optional!
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| Guys I don't know how this happened... |
[06 Nov 2009|11:56pm] |
But I think I'm really getting into Smallville again. I'm totally shipping Oliver and Clark Kent and I'm getting plot bunnies where Zodd gets his powers and discovers Clark Kent and uses his powers to try and steal Clark from Oliver...you know stuff like that...I think it helps that the guy they cast for Zodd is HOT. :) And kind of evil but...could maybe pick another destiny. I also really love Tess. I'm even shipping Clark/Lois hardcore on the show. But truly, I think Clark/Oliver makes a lot more sense! they keep having heart to heart talks and wow does Oliver look great!
P.S. my original intention of my post was to ask for fic recs for Oliver/Clark or Clark/Zodd...I looked for archives yesterday but...I didn't have much luck. :(
http://amalthia.dreamwidth.org/587626.html#comments
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| Ft Hood |
[05 Nov 2009|02:31pm] |
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Please pray or otherwise send thoughts of love and light to those affected by the Fort Hood shootings.
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| Day 5 |
[05 Nov 2009|09:17pm] |
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Today I am lacking in topic again, but do not fear for tomorrow I am 75% likely to go to a Hip Hop Dance taster session at the gym and I'm sure that'll give me plenty of material to waffle. Incidentally I am so very much not hip hop material it's almost untrue, so it should be a bit of a surreal experience.
So - it's bonfire night. Huh. Had I been home I'd have seen some fireworks as I live less than 5 minutes from the town display but I'm not hugely fussed at having 'missed' them.
Aside from anything else I was walking home from the gym and texting Allegra (OK, often stopping to text as I have neither the coordination nor the spatial awareness to text and walk at the same time) with silly limericks and insulting Matt Di Angelo and stuff. She's part way up the M-something travelling back *up* from south of London having travelled *down* there today this morning. Funeral. Yeah.
Tomorrow is work colleague Lucy's partner's dad's funeral. And also the day they were meant to be picking up the keys to their first shared house. So that's a day of positives and negatives for her. I'm missing Lucy, she's been off this week and will be off next (because of preparing for the move and moving, organised before her partner's loss) and I need my partner in suffering and planning back. So much can be said with a shrug and an eye roll! Also when she comes back I don't have to log onto her computer to check things any more which means I don't have to type her password which is 'I love {partner's name}' which is good. Because I don't. I think that by and large he's a bit of an arse.)
Back to the fireworks. One of our cats doesn't like them. The other is completely unflustered by them and continues to sleep on Henry like a puppy or a baby, lying on his back with his paws in the air and a blissful expression on his face. This is the same cat I was muttering about on Twitter a few weeks ago who regularly falls out of my (upstairs) bedroom window. Silly thing.
The best firework display I ever saw was when I lived in Northampton where every August they had/have a balloon festival. You could go there 6am and 6pm and watch the balloons ascend (6am was amazing, because otherwise it was very quiet and still and just the roar of the {things that make hot air balloons go up that I can't think of the name of} and these huge multicoloured balloons rising into the sky. Anyway! - if you were there for the 6pm take off on the Saturday night if you stayed until 10pm (there were stalls and food and stuff of course) then there was also a fireworks display. So Henry and I found a quiet-ish spot and the summer evening and just lay on our backs on the grass and watched fireworks go off in the night sky. Beautiful.
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| Some election-related unfunny, of both varieties. |
[05 Nov 2009|10:30am] |
So this last Tuesday two states went to the polls to discuss gay rights: Maine voters were asked to uphold or reject the recently-signed law that would have made it the sixth state to recognize same-sex marriage (and the first to do so via legislation rather than judicial action), and Washington voters were asked to uphold or reject a recently-signed law that essentially gives same-gender domestic partnerships all the same rights as married couples without the 'marriage' word being attached to it.
Maine? They voted no. (The usual comment-fail rule applies, read at your own risk.)
Washington? The margin is fairly slim, but it looks like they voted YES.*
Maine might be a step back, but at least WA is proving to be a step forward. *busts out a bottle of beer in toast to the good folks of the PNW*
Both the articles are long so in the interests of keeping this post away from EPIC tl;dr territory I didn't c&p them -- if anyone would like me to, I will.
* Of course the religious right in WA is not accepting the fact that they just might have lost and is already planning another attempt to repeal the granted rights, but are we surprised? I'm not.
ETA: I did not realize when I wrote this how utterly insensitive it came out with regards to the bullshit that went down in Maine. As I can now access my internet again, I am apologizing because I sort of suck for making it sound like I was trivializing it. If anyone needs me, I'll be under my rock.
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| more marriage-tradition fail |
[04 Nov 2009|06:05pm] |
(was pointed to this by a member of my f-list on my LJ.)
So, a "study" says that 70% of Americans think a woman should take her husband's name after marriage, and of those 70%, half of them think it should be required by law. If that's not bad enough, their reasons are even more *headdesk*-inducing.
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/08/12/2009-08-12_70_percent_of_americans_.html
( Full text for the link-phobic )
(nb: since when did 815 people come to represent the entire country? How is a survey with 815 people surveyed reflective of "all Americans"?)
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| TeeeVeee |
[04 Nov 2009|05:54pm] |
V.- I found the pilot last night for the V reboot disappointing. It has potential and some characters I liked, but the script was very, very clunky. I'll give it a shot next week, see if it improves any.
Leverage.- I should learn to use DVR now that we got our new box, maybe see the show "live" for once. The first season was my happy place for a few days, as we zipped through the episodes. @nd season has been sometimes *meh*, but I so love Parker and Hardison. OK, and Eliot too.
I haven't seen a single episode of White Collar yet, which makes me a rare specimen in my flist. I will though! I just need to -um- figure out when it's on. This is why people use DVR, yes? I'm so used to downloading stuff, so now that I'm actually seeing my new(ish) shows with Mr. Logovo it means messing with an actual TV.
Last thing. Burn Notice? My husband likes it, I haven't been crazy about it, had seen some S2 episodes with him, but before my trip to Mexico I saw the pilot and a handful of S1 episodes. Wow, it feels like the same thing that happened to Burn Notice happened to Leverage in S2. Sort of losing some of it's kick, which means you (well, more like I) stay because a love of the characters, and sort of stick with it even if the writing is not as fresh. Lesson to self: Don't jump into a show in S2. Always go back.
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[04 Nov 2009|06:11pm] |
Just in time for Christmas, Blizzard has started selling World of Warcraft in-game items for real world money! That's right, you can get a Pandaren pet or mini version of the the terrible Kel'Thuzad. In addition to being adorable, they cost $10, and do absolutely nothing useful in game.
$5 from the sale of the Pandaren goes to charity, at least.
I know at least five people who have already bought them and I am ashamed for every one.
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| Day 4 |
[04 Nov 2009|08:38pm] |
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Sorry, this one's topic is probably just going to be 'me' and 'random' because I'm a little knackered and unable to think of an actual subject to pontificate about.
Today's work environment included me emailing Roses (who I am renaming Allegra, just so you know) with the simple sentence: 'do you think she'd notice if my head exploded?'. Normally I try not to be too bitchy about work and colleagues (except Management, who deserve it) because goodness only knows I am irritating to them too I'm sure. But one colleague in particular tries my patience something chronic. What's very very irritating is that she *can* be lovely, understanding and pleasant. Unfortunately what she normally is is selfish, childish and entitled. With a side order of martyred.
So that's that bitchiness.
Good things today - Talking to Allegra and Dylan, remembering to be a friend and ask how they were and not just expect them to tell me. Also - Curry. And triple chocolate chunk butter shortbread. And coming home from the gym to sausages (97% meat) and chips. I do have to say that the SlimFast drink which was my breakfast was not a highlight of the day, but the fact that I had that rather than something else is good.
I exercised. Went to my first step class in around 6 months, and my first one at the new gym I joined. (They have a steam room so hot your nails sweat! And it has eucalyptus oil in the steam which, though I can't smell it, means I can really really breathe after being in there. Aside from the sharp lack of breath caused by the post-steam room cold shower. Urgh!) I didn't fall off the step and could do everything and keep up. Next time I need to exercise harder (I'm a great one for conserving energy, even in exercise classes) and maybe take the step up one level/block/height.
But now I can't move much, even without factoring in the large ginger cat who's been asleep on my right arm for the entirety of this entry.
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[04 Nov 2009|10:36am] |
Some potentially good news:
Emma Thompson was confronted by a Shakesville reader about her signature on the appalling "free Polanski" petition, and she said she will remove her signature.
As Shakeville's Melissa McEwan comments, I'm reserving a large reaction until her name actually comes down, but just her reaction to the conversation is very heartening. Now if someone could only do the same with the many, many other artists I love who have signed...
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| From the wtf? files. |
[04 Nov 2009|10:26am] |
Guy buys lotto ticket that is a $1 million dollar winner. Not realizing this, goes to the store he bought it from and asks the clerk to scan it. Clever clerk does so, realizes this is the $1 million winner and tells the guy it's only worth a few bucks.
The clerk then goes to the lotto office and claims the prize, which came to about $750k after taxes. Then flees to Nepal. The Texas lotto, despite the fact that the guy who stole it has been indicted and is being sought on charges, has declared that the thief is the rightful winner.
What a mess.
( For the link phobic. )
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| Rifftrax |
[04 Nov 2009|10:32am] |
The next live Rifftrax show will be December 16, with an encore on the 17th. This time the theme is Christmas shorts! Tickets are already on sale at some theaters, but I guess the 13th is when they will be widely available.
...I love shorts! Also, this reminds me that I need to find my copy of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which is required Christmas viewing at my house now.
More here
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| Gah! |
[04 Nov 2009|11:37am] |
It seems odd to be peeved that someone's not going to stick needles in you, but I rang the blood donation people about my new drug, not wanting to waste the time going if they were going to nix it and was told that they don't want my blood because of my bipolar disorder.
Big question mark – I asked whether that meant that they generally wouldn't take blood from mad people and got a load of guffle in reply. But that's how it feels.
I'm pissed off. It may be unreasonable of me to be pissed off, but I am.
This entry was originally posted at http://lexin.dreamwidth.org/17109.html. You can comment here or there, it's up to you.
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| More Fail Game Promotion |
[03 Nov 2009|10:12pm] |
Modern Warfare 2 Ad Features, Condones Homophobic Slurs
( For those linkphobic )
After people started speaking out about the ad, Infinity Ward removed the ad. Robert Bowling, their community manager/PR, wrote on his Twitter, "I think the core gag is great, the end is a bit too far from the intent of the joke & can appreciate the concerns. Pulled."
As usual, Kotaku and Joystiq comments include a lot of people Not Getting It.
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| Update on failtastic Louisiana justice of the peace |
[03 Nov 2009|06:12pm] |
Original post here.
Remember the dick who refused to marry interracial couples "for the sake of the children omg!"?
Well, he's resigned.
I admit to being a little meh about this update. I'm glad he won't be refusing to perform marriages for interracial couples anymore or trying to claim to those he refuses that it's for the good of their potential children. But I wish he'd been kicked out, instead of allowed to resign. Then too, I wish he wasn't still trying to claim what he's done is right and good and just and for the best.
ETA from comments: Title fail from the AP. Lest we, y'know, make the mistake of thinking this matters or anything.
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