Leaving Tomorrow

Posted on June 30, 2008

Going up to my step dad’s home town of Butte Nebraska for Pancake Days and Independence Days celebration. Because it’s a town of about 400 people, most of them elderly, in the middle of nowhere, I don’t expect much in the way of internets. Though I will be wardriving the little town. I might even buy some chalk. Realistically though, I’ll be lucky if I even get cell phone reception. We’ll see. (The town has a website, so there must be internet there somewhere, right? Unless they outsource their internets to O’Neill…)

And talk about timely, this just got posted today at Photojojo. Expect Pancake Days pictures upon my return.

Pet Peeves

Posted on June 28, 2008

I’m sure I’ve done this post before, and in a couple years I’ll probably damn well do it again, but there are things that bug me. And since I’m interminably locked in at work for the next seven hours. I have to fill my time with something, don’t I?

First of all, one thing that really bugs me is people that use songs as text message notifiers. It’s one thing to have to hear a shitty external mobile phone speaker blasting out a thirty second clip of “The Cupid Shuffle” or whatever your latest jam is whenever someone calls you. It’s an entirely different thing when it does that every time somebody sends you a text. If you, like the average teenager or twenty something, get 20 text messages a day (for some this may be a lot, but for a lot of people this may be low-balling it by quite a bit), that means your shitty music has been playing long enough to hear four to five full songs. A text message isn’t an opportunity to listen to some piece of shit song. All it should require is a simple chirp. That’s what my phone does, because I am a proper human being. One who doesn’t want to hear your crappy ringtone every three minutes.

Secondly, the word “definatly”. Or more appropriately, the non-word “definatly”, and its many and varied brothers, such as “definately”, “defanitely”, “defenatly”, and so forth. Not only can people not spell simple and common words, but I often find that people can’t even misspell them consistently. I’ve seen several instances of people using both “definately” and “definitaly” in the same paragraph. That’s a special kind of retarded.

Finally, Windows Installers that require a restart, but do not offer the option to shutdown. This is less and less of an annoyance for me, because I’ve pretty much all but abandoned Windows on any of my Macs. I don’t think I have a Windows VM on my MacBook, and I have no idea if I have one on the iMac. Who knows? But still, on the rare occasion when I do load into Windows, there’s always a hundred or so updates, bug fixes, and security updates to be installed. So I let it update, and meanwhile do what I need to do in Windows. And when I’m done, the updater says I have to restart. Okay, whatever. But there’s never an option to shut down. I’m done using Windows, I don’t want to restart, but since I’m not allowed, I have to reboot into Windows, wait for my Weatherbug and my Bonzai Buddy and Clippy and thirteen instant messengers to load up, just so I can hit Start -> Shut Down, because I didn’t want it open anyways. And usually there’s another update in the system tray, that just came out in the time it took for me to restart the VM. Annoying.

I’m done ranting now, I’m going to drink some warm milk and have a lie down.

Save Me Obi Ken Schimekobi, You’re My Only Hope!

Posted on June 4, 2008

Tornado sirens went off about half an hour ago. I was a bit confused because, outside of the twice weekly tests of the civil defense system. Because basically there’s not much threat of an air raid these days. Here’s a map of what’s happening right at this moment, I live right at the point of the blue arrow:

About 45 minutes ago, being as there was an apparent immediate threat of tornado, I naturally went outside with the camera, so as to show others exactly what this storm looked like. Here’s the first picture, facing south Lincoln:

I live right near Gateway Mall Westfield Gateway Shopping Town, for Lincoln folks. In the same minute I turned ninety degrees, facing east, and took this photo:

You can even see the reflection of the southern sunlight in the building’s glassy fascia. Pretty keen, huh? The joys of living in the Great Plains.

Back to Posting Soon

Posted on June 1, 2008

I think.

“ha’p’orth” is my new favorite word.

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