In which apparently I am too busy.
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] check my website daily to see if anything’s happening. I think some part of me seriously expects to find brilliant posts that I haven’t written enjoying all kinds of comments and traffic.
In lieu of content, this:
In which this shit really happens.
“But it worked yesterday!”
The fact that something works today does not guarantee it will work tomorrow.
Have you ever had an appliance that quit working? Computers are like that. One day it works, the next day it blows up. Shit happens.
“But everything else works fine.”
This is exactly like telling your mechanic that you can’t have a bad water pump because your electric windows still work.
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In which I bitch about my good fortune!
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] spent two years unemployed. It was — after blocking out the stress and fear of being only moderately employable during a very deep recession — freakin’ wonderful.
I didn’t have to get up five mornings a week and get my ass to work. I could avoid leaving the house for days if the weather was bad. There was no rigid schedule. I could eat whenever I wanted, sleep whenever I wanted, stay up all night if I wanted, sleep all day if I wanted (sleeping is so cool it gets mentioned twice), go for a coffee whenever I wanted. I was nearly always caught up on my household duties because I could do them whenever.
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In which Gingerbread broke my camera app. And there’s a question for you to answer!
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] take the majority of my photographs with my cell phone. They’re spontaneous pictures and don’t have to be high quality, but on the other hand, they do need to not actively suck.
My phone is an LG Optimus S. In the beginning, it took acceptable pictures even though it has always sucked in low-light conditions. It worked for my needs. It’s a fucking phone, after all.
But since the update to Gingerbread, it takes pictures like this:
That picture was taken in broad daylight, in bright sunlight. It was not taken at dusk. It was taken at ten o’clock in the morning on a sunny day. But see how dark it is? And how blue everything is?
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In which each regulation begets a new one, aimed at shoring up its own failures.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his site is going dark on the 18th in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Yes, people should be paid for their work. Yes, pirates are jerks. No, I’m not going to give up my civil liberties in pursuit of what is essentially a personal problem for an industry I don’t really spend that much time worrying about.
In which I have one.
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] caught a winter cold a couple of weeks ago. Missed a day of work, even. Now just suffering residual snot.
This post is stupid. I love the Internet.
In which it’s not jargon if that’s what it’s called.
Circular explanations are circular:
Customer: Connection slower than usual
Me: What speed are you connecting at?
Customer: I don’t know….SLOW
Me: Hold your mouse over the dialer icon in the system tray. It will show you what speed you’re currently connected at.
Customer: What is the dialer icon?
Me: It’s the icon that represents your dialup connection.
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In which there’s a little video Emilio shot last night.
Here’s a Billy Preston cover for you. You’re welcome.
In other news, Move, our latest album, recently received 9 of 10 stars at Blues Revue.
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4 random books from my Library!
