Reading The Ethical Slut, which Edward recommended-- I love this paragraph:

Some people base their sense of ethics on what God, or their church, or their parents, or their culture, considers okay or not okay. They believe that being good consists of obedience to laws set down by a power greater than themselves. Dossie remembers explaining to some family friends that she had left the church she was raised in because she didn't believe a just God would punish her aunt for getting a (much justified) divorce. The family friends were pretty conservative people, and of an older generation. One of them asked, "Well, if you dont believe God will punish you, why dont you just go around murdering people?" Dossie explained that she doesn't murder people because her internal sense of ethics, her empathy with others, and her desire to feel good about herself, all tell her that to harm another person would be a terrible thing for her to do.

Current Mood: cheerful

Tequilaaaa!

Current Mood: ecstatic

So...it's done.
I hope one day we speak again.
I'm here when you're ready, if you ever are.

Current Mood: contemplative

Downloaded Semagic ... it's been a while since I've had an LJ client! Pretty long since I've actually used LJ, now that I think about it, but as you see I've been using it for a while again. So who out there still exists, reads their friendslists and has me added? I should probably do some 'spring cleaning' since I'm sure I'm not the only one who's lapsed in usage. :)

Current Mood: exhausted

Wheeee.

I have just enough quarters to do one load of washing, no drying. Hopefully my clothing will all dry by tomorrow morning 4AM!

Current Mood: amused

I haven't posted enough here. Perhaps I shall start again.

I'm not very eloquent this morning, however... just wish I didn't have to get up at 4 fucking AM.

I suppose I should comb my hair... and get rest of the way dressed...

Current Mood: exhausted

1. cuddles
2. friends (esp with cuddles)
3. duckies
4. twolumps
5. kittens
6. music
7. canada!
8. winter
9. rain
10. thunderstorms

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mayhaps to be continued...

Current Mood: contemplative

Uh.
Am I the only special snowflake wherein LJ's update thinger has no formatting on the page? :\

http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/

This is hilarious. Read it!

So, Hulu Desktop is pretty sweet. Set it on high quality, subscribe to things... fullscreen that *works* with two monitors without having it on low-quality pop-out and maximized. w00t w00t.

So the TV tuner in my computer that I never use? It has a use!! There is a radio in port on it, so I hooked up this antenna we got with a free stereo that doesn't work to it... went to start search, typed in 'radio' and crossed my fingers-- and yep! Up comes the radio program for the tuner!

Sweeeeet. It's silly-lookin though. See:

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I find it amusing that my phone cannot spell "Aww" but instead tries to spell "Byzantine" for me. WTF? In what situation would I need to use Byzantine over text?

So, I was talking to a stranger on Omegle, and after inadvertently telling him that he had lost the game, we discussed the following:

You: I lose the game all the time. Or at least I keep being told so. :\
Stranger: Yeah... Same with me.
Stranger: Though, if you think about it...
Stranger: There is no game.
You: Nope.
Stranger: Because there is no Rule 34 of the game.
You: ....
You: I don't know.
Stranger: Thus is said, if there is no Rule 34 of something, it does not exist.
You: There might be.
You: Although...
You: Huh.
You: I guess that is a very valid point.
Stranger: It's a boggler, huh?

THERE IS NO GAME. There is no rule 34 of the game, so there is no game. Amazing.

Current Mood: amused

I really, sincerely hope I do not continue getting sick. I can't afford the attendance points if I lose my voice again, which I normally do with chest colds. I've currently got a cough and when I do cough, my throat hurts like it does when I'm on the downswing. Fantastic.

Absolutely brilliant. Sigh.

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=6958 Take a look at those opinions!

We start out with:

"I just wanted to know how everyone else views the XP operating system? Ive used it alot in my business and I hate it. It seems slow and sluggish. It is not very secure either I understand? ..." What? Slow and sluggish? Not secure? Hating it? Sounds familiar.

"I have 20o0 pro and it works fine." Right... and some people now have XP pro and that works fine, too.

"It has crap for compatibility with older programs (example, those created to run on 9x)
It's not secure at all. Forget about hackers breaking in,  (try doing a search in your local intranet zone, or viewing a movie on Windows Media player 7.0 or greater - or heck, getting a microbrain DVD decoder)" 

"You're right, it ISN'T secure. Microsoft released it with huge gaping holes in it, so if you want to run it, get used to clicking the "critical updates" icon a lot and running a firewall. " 

"Windows XP blows. I reinstalled Win 98 SE" Windows Vista blows...I reinstalled XP.

"Windows XP is a terrible operating system, even by Microsoft's standards. "

"Compatibility is the worst i've seen in Windows (except for NT 4 or lower). "

"My experiance with XP compatibility was not good at all. I frequently encountered those pleasant "Your program crashed, but Microsoft wants to help! So send this bug report!" dialogs. "

"XP is not the most secure system built by microsoft. I'm not sure where you heard that. It's obvious you haven't gone to Gibson Research Corporation's website. Go to www.grc.com. I suggest you read everything throughly, especially the part where Steve Gibson speaks with Microcrap's security guy! Even he admits it's the least secure OS microcrap ever put out! Go figure!" More about security here.

"Don't have it, never will." Never upgrading...hmmmmm... sounds familiar :)

"Anyone who has XP and the system is sluggish, it is because you must have AT LEAST 256 MBs of RAM to run it... 512 would be better. Otherwise you better start removing programs from your system tray and disabling some background proggies." ONOEZ VISTA REQUIRES AT LEAST 512MB OF RAM AND IS HAPPIER WITH 2GB THIS IS SO NEW.

"<$.02>Everyone who said that XP Pro kicks ass, I agree with completely. I've also heard countless stories of it being "unstable" or "slow as hell," "piece of shit OS," etc...
Point is, I've been using XP Pro since the final build was released (always gotta have the pre-release, I mean, why wait?) and it's done a world of good for my PC...and it's DAMN STABLE too! I don't care what anyone else says, as far as I'm concerned, if it's unstable, or slow, then it's either your hardware, software settings, or lack of proper maintenence for your PC. " Sounds awful familiar... Oh everyone said Vista sucked and is slow and unstable and a POS but I've never had any problems and I think it's better!!1

And on another site: (http://carthage.cementhorizon.com/archives/000149.html)

"i harbour a seep total burning hatred for XP too the lowest darkest essence of my being, ME might of been a little spiteful biatch but at least it was willing to run my programs on it."

"XP SUCKS or for that matter every version has sucked. .... WORK GROUPS 3.1 RAN BETTER. "

" XP is a virus, Microsoft (as of 1981) is a virus."

"I won't recognize my video card (Nvidia 5), it won't let me load any other OS. i have tried so hard to live w/o windows but everything (all the programs I own) are for windows (95-me)."

"media player no longer runss, yahoo messenger is buggered up, internet explorer is throwing tantrums, im now into that stage between thinking about taking a sledge hammer to the computer and other things just to get back at it, and actually doing it, but i cant blame my hardware, its xp, xp! XP!!!!!!!"

"XP/Microshit blows. I've never seen a more unstable OS, I mean this piece of shit crashes on nearly everything. I've talked to Microshit and everytime they're answers are CONFLICTING DRIVERS. These freezes happen on nearly three totally different system configurations, its not fucking conflicting drivers. Fuck Microshit."

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/peepls/157/windows-xp-sucks - A flash thingy about how much XP sucks



Sigh. So, those of you who think that the Vista launch was a nightmare and that the XP launch was full of roses and happy times, please...remember! Just because it's been several years longer than normal between OS launches doesn't mean that Vista had a particularly bad launch. It's just been too long for most of us to remember it.

I got to see Mayme today, wheee. I missed her! Good to hear how everyone's doing and swap girl-talk... we went to Abhiruchi for lunch, which was marvelous as always.

Somewhat belatedly: OMGZ SNOW!!1

So who has Twitter?

I rickrolled a customer today.

That is all.