Thursday, March 4, 2004

Schism

These headphones I'm wearing aren't loud enough.

When I listen to music, I like to have it loud enough to where it drowns out everything else. I have this Mac here in Newspaper turned up to its full volume, and these headphones aren't drowing much out. Behind the music I can hear voices murmuring on and on. Their voices are all together, and I'm not focusing on any of them.

It was annoying. I decided I'd look for some Tool lyrics, since I was thinking of posting some here. So I go to Google, do my search, then open up the first page.

Now, if you haven't looked at lyrics pages much, then you're lucky. Half of them seem to make an entire plethora of pop-ups pop up when you go to the site, and when you click to go anywhere else on the site.

If there's anything more annoying than pop-ups, I have yet to find it. Today at least.

I don't even read the pop-ups when they pop up. I just click out of them, close them, and get them out of the way. I guess it shows how good advertising like that is.

I find advertising to be quite annoying. Commercials are decent, but I don't even pay attention to those either. And I don't even watch TV too much. But pop-ups. . .they're so annoying.

They just get in the way of anything you're doing on a computer. They pop up all over, and it's like a game of click-and-close repeated over and over again until you just want to shut off your computer in annoyance.

So yeah. At this site a decent number of pop-ups came up. That's all well. I closed them.

Then I find the lyrics on this site aren't accurate and there's misspellings. I find it's sad that I see this quite often on some lyrics sites. I mean, for crying out loud, the reason you're posting the lyrics is for accuracy--for people to be able to find a good source where they're written down just like you hear them when you're listening. Spelling included.

Not spelling correctly just makes you lose your credibility in this case.

Left that site. Went to the next one.

Even more pop-ups on this site. I don't even look at those, either.

Pop-ups themselves aren't annoying. It's not annoying that companies advertise. What's annoying is having the pop-up get in the way of what you're doing, especially when pop-up after pop-up fills your entire computer screen, and takes up RAM, and makes a big, annoying, frustrating mess for you to destroy by clicking the red little X, or pressing alt+F4 or apple+Q.

This site didn't seem to be better. Once I got all the pop-up windows closed, I found there was this very annoying ad.

I'm sure you've seen it. It's one of those ads that takes up almost the entire page. And it goes right in the freaking center of the page, and blocks off what you're looking at. Now that's annoying. Maybe even more than pop-ups.

Did I come to a page to have some pop-up block what I came to see and stare at this pretty pop-up standing in my way and looking at me, a man smiling, and a woman on it, him saying I should click here, click here and go to some site? No. I didn't. And when it's shoved in my face like that--that--that's just annoying. Annoying annoying annoying.

Or vexing, to use a different word.

Advetisers need to rework how they do things. When something's shoved in my face and impedes on my enjoyment of a site, it's going to annoy me. And because of this, I'm not even going to pay attention to the ad.

I left this site too. The ad there, right in the way of what I wanted to see, wouldn't do for me. I'll pass, thanks.

Last one I went to, ads popped up all over, endlessly, when I clicked the URL to the site. Pop-up after pop-up after pop-up, it seemed like an endless abundance of them, like they'd never end.

I felt like just restarting this computer then, and I decided to screw looking for lyrics. Half of the time you're bogged down because advertisers don't know what they're doing at all.

The main thing is, advertising is fine, when it doesn't get in my way and annoy me and make me impeded in something I'm trying to do.

For commercials, ads serve as a break in between what you're watching and allow you to digest. I don't have to pay attention to the commericals, and I most often don't.

It's the same online.

But online it's annoying. There's some ads that're at the top of a page or whatever, and those are fine. But pop-ups are an abomination. The things get in the way of whatever you're doing, take up RAM, cause your computer to lag, and cause you to get annoyed.

Especially ads that take up the whole page and scroll by, blocking everything you're looking at on a page. Ugh. Those are just ugly things. Whoever designed that kind of ad deserves to be shot repeatedly in the legs, then the arms, then the torso, then the head. And then once he's dead, take his heart from his dead prying body and squash it all bleeding in your hand.

Anyway, time for Geometry.

That was fun.
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