Hey -

If you've come here to read netlagd's QAF fanfic, you really want to go to netfics where my fanfic lives.

I've recently friended my entire flist over at netfics and have gone through a round of purging my flist.

The purpose of purging my flist was so I could reasonably keep up with my flist. So I'll be posting and commenting more regularly.

Most personal posts are public, so you really don't need to be friended here. However, if you were de-flisted and you would like to be flisted again, please leave me a comment. (I know *now* that a few of you that I de-flisted have changed your names; not knowing who you were I ended up removing you from my flist -- if I discovered who you are, I've re-flisted you -- mea culpa.)






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I guess the mourning period is over, Jon & Kate plus 8 is back to taking over the airwaves.

Of course, they're still milking the memory of Michael, but it's the same interviews and videos over and over again.

Current Mood: apathetic

Boy, did Al Sharpton get a stylist?
He's on CNN, and he looks very good.

So I'm up early to take someone to the airport and I'm surfing the channels and I see the same faces of the people who I've seen before - up in the night, unable to sleep or waking up after falling asleep on the couch.

( annoying rant behind cut )

Current Mood: annoyed

I really don't care if Kate's a bitch and Jon's been cheating on her.

What I find annoying about this whole thing is how the press condemns both of them, all the while getting as much mileage and advertising revenue out of it.

They spend hours repeating the same thing over and over again - what could have been covered in a 2 minute snippet on some entertainment news. Showing the same footage - perhaps because they don't have rights to any other footage. Interviewing someone's, father's, brother's, uncle's, mother's, daughter.

They have fifteen year old hills wannabe reporters entertainment news personalities high school interns blabbering on about how glamorous and extravagant a life Jon and Kate live.
Oooo! she had a tummy tuck (after 6 kids, she needed it)
Oooo! they had makeovers - bleached teeth, hairplugs, hair dye, wow! Who cares.
Oooo! they get $75,000 an episode (divide it by 10 and you get $7,500/person) Let's talk about what most actors get per episode on most TV shows. Union scale in 2008 was $759/day for a background day performer. I say go for it - if you're going to be hung out to dry by the press, you may as well get something out of the deal.
Oooo! they live in a 14 room mansion. Granted they live in a large house, but at least 6 of the 14 rooms have to be bedrooms. And I'm guessing at least 3 or 4 bathrooms, kitchen, living room, dining room. 14 rooms is not seeming like all that many rooms when there are 10 people (and god knows how many camera crews).

And all these psychologists who do armchair analysis of people they've never met. Oh yes, I'm sure she has multiple personality disorder and he suffers from feelings of inadequacy.

I find it all annoying.

And besides, WHO CARES?

And the biggest lie of all - we're worried about how this all is effecting the kids. Hmmmm, let's see, if you were really worried, you wouldn't be feeding the paparazzi frenzy by paying a quarter of a mil for a picture of the kids going to the supermarket (where, surprise, surprise, that's where they are plastered all over the tabloids).

If people didn't watch the show, read the tabloids, watch the entertainment news, true holliwood stories, and what ever else the tv programs that call themselves news, then they wouldn't get the $75,000/episode, there wouldn't be any episodes.

If the world was all that concerned about the people involved instead of the cheap thrills of voyeurism, then there wouldn't be a market and such shows would not exist.

Pass the popcorn... let's see what they are doing next week.

Current Mood: annoyed

You know, you always see dogs laying on the bed or a couch - but always laying.

At least dog sized dogs - I'm not talking about those dogs with short stubby legs that weigh like 3 pounds. I'm talking Labrador Retrievers and Great Danes and mutts that weight 60-70 pounds.

What you don't see them doing is getting up on that piece of furniture, pawing at the covers, circling around 3 time THEN lying down. And what you don't see is them standing over the person in the bed with them looking down at them thinking, there's got to be some way I can push this human off the bed and then it will be all mine.

http://www.geocities.com/patrick_farley/gayMarriageChart-large.png

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/12/tetris.anniversary.olympics/index.html

Don't laugh, as a 100% pick up by employees, and a zero cost to the company, it could be a win/win.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/pets/detail?entry_id=41153

the link to insurance reviews in the article has a typo, the link should be:
http://www.petinsurancereview.com/

prying eyes on the web

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06012009/business/prying_eyes_on_the_web_171895.htm

Current Mood: annoyed

There is a nifty bookmark add on feature for Firefox that let's you grab anything you read online and save it to read offline.

Think about all the times you would like to read something, but don't have the time. And, when you do have the time - like when you are on a plane or train and don't have access to the Internet, being able to read the day's blog postings or some majorly great fanfic?

The tool called "Read It Later" has the advantage of collecting what is in your tab, or window and adding it to a reading list. In other words, you can open up a bunch of tabs, with your friends journals and favorite fan communities and capture them to read off line later.

Yes, finally for all of you out there who want to your fic at the places that there is no internet connection, you can take it with you.

It integrates with standard book marking tools such as del.icio.us, digg, stumbleupon, etc or the bookmark feature in Firefox itself.

This also will allow you to save fic to pdf (print to pdf) or word processor (select all, cut and paste) at a later date for those things you absolutely must save to your harddrive.

To get this add on, first of all you need to be using Firefox - it can be downloaded from: http://mozilla.org

Once Firefox is installed, use the drop down menu for Bookmarks and click through on the link:
+ Get Bookmark Add-ons

Scroll down the list of add-ons about 3/4 of the way.
Click through on the link for:
Read It Later by Idea Shower

Once you add it to Firefox, there is a link to a two minute demonstration of how to use the add-on.
It's worth watching, but is probably PC, because I had to do a little fiddling around to get it to work on my mac.

You can set it up to save everything you tag with Read It Later to be available to be read off line.

You do need to toggle the Work Offline switch to read what you have saved to read off line. It's off of the File pull down menu.

Good luck, I hope others here find it as useful as I do.

Current Mood: bouncy

so I'm channel surfing and CSI is on.
they are at the crime scene - they have flashlights out inside the house/apartment
It's soooo annoying - turn on the damn lights!
The best part? the crime scene photographer is there with their camera trying to take a picture in the dark room.
*shakes head*

Oh yeah, I can see how they see that single hair in the carpet that is the lynchpin to convicting the murder under the light of the 25 watt bulb.

Current Mood: annoyed

my dogs have really soft fur

now back to your regularly scheduled Memorial Day activities and picnics

Current Mood: sleepy

This little quote was somewhere on the page I was viewing.
I like the quote.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Current Mood: thoughtful

you can always rediscover things from your past:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050323030023/http://members.aol.com/muffintush/Pages/Archives.html

Current Mood: chipper

Group:
Brian Kinney Is So Hot... I Could Just Shit Myself
Size:
155 members
Type:
Common Interest - Religion & Spirituality

Okay, let's be honest his name is Father Alberto Cutie

Really, what do they expect from Father Cutie - and yes he is cute

http://news.aol.com/article/priest-scandal/468553

Current Mood: amused

So I'm going through my flist and think to myself, "Gee, there are quite a few people on my flist that live in Australia."

But in the scheme of things there are far more people on my flist that live in the US, they just are sub-divided by the states that they live in - NJ, NY, OH, TX... etc.

So while it feels like there are more Aussies (or whatever you prefer to refer to yourself as) there are probably as many flist members from Australia as a whole as flist folks from CA, IL, or NC.

So it makes it silly for me to think that my Australian flist might actually know one another [personally or in person] and live near one another - after all it is a continent (the US shares North America with Canada and Mexico - and some islands in the Carribean) of 7,686,850 km2 (according to Wikipedia).

Current Mood: contemplative

So I'm watching Ballroom Challenge on PBS and they are doing the individual dances in the 2008 Professional American Smooth Championship.

One of the couples was dancing to a very interesting version of something I would never have pegged as "Get the Party Started". If Pink were dead I'm sure that she would be turning over in her grave.

Current Mood: amused