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Bad News/Good News

Jan

29

2008

I got a call from the folks at Apple about my computer today. The bad news is, because I have a matte screen on my MacBook Pro and will not even consider getting a glossy screen, they won’t have a part in until Feb 7th, and won’t have my computer back to me until Feb. ...

Inappropriate Historical Hilarity

Jan

28

2008

I saw this in a comment thread on Fark today, and I couldn’t stop laughing for about five minutes afterwards. I don’t know why I found this so goddamn funny, but it still makes me snicker when I look at it.

What Hath Transformers Wrought?

Jan

28

2008

It hath wrought the G.I. Joe movie. He-Man and She-ra, please call your agents.

Wow, There ARE Mountains Here! 2

Jan

27

2008

I was driving to meet a friend for brunch yesterday and saw a very unusual and rather breathtaking sight: The mountains behind Los Angeles, covered in snow, clear as a bell. Here’s an awesome picture of, basically, what I saw, (with a hat tip to LAist for pointing it out). Looks like that was taken ...

For A Guy With No Legs, He Kicks A Lot Of Ass

Jan

24

2008

An aside huzzah: I now have a replacement replacement computer. Let’s see if this one works for more than a day. I was catching up with Fark links for the last day when I came across a fascinating story about a man with no legs who surreptitiously took pictures of everyone who stared at him ...

If You Need Me, I’ll Be Moving To A Cave

Jan

23

2008

…Where there are no electronic things I can break or have crap out on me. The fucking hard drive on the laptop I rented while mine’s getting fixed up and died on me when I got back from work. I ran disk utility off my Leopard install disk (a way you can sometimes fix problems ...

When It Rains, It Pours

Jan

22

2008

I had put my MacBook Pro on that counter before, a thousand times before. I had no reason to think last night was any different. No reason until it came tumbling down, open, about 10pm last night. And that’s when today’s nightmare began. I thought it was fine at first: Everything was working properly, no ...

A Follow-Up To My Previous Post 1

Jan

20

2008

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is about as dumb as you’d think. parts of it are dumber, parts of it are not as dumb. Overall…about as dumb. I’m not quite at the point of demanding the filmmakers pay me for the 2 hours I spent watching it, but yet I still think I’d ...

Is This Because I’m A Lesbian?

Jan

19

2008

I strolled out to the mailbox today to retrieve my Netflix movies, the better to facilitate keeping my broke ass at home. I was expecting two movies, but when I opened up the mailbox, I saw three. Huh, I thought, they must have mailed me an extra copy of the Futurama movie, which I mailed ...

It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

Jan

17

2008

As word spreads over the interwebs that the DGA has cut a deal with the studios, I’ve already had several people ask me if this is going to end the Writer’s strike. Frankly, I doubt it, and I base that doubt on the following key analytical paragraph from this New York Times story about the ...