Tuesday, February 22, 2005

I get my advice from the advertising world.

Comment Commentary

Shin- They really are a good band. I can't think of a song on "Shake the Sheets," their most recent album, that I don't like. I haven't heard 100% of any one of their other albums, though. Yet.

Tony- Box social?

Mimmi- I know enough about it, heh. It does sound pretty cool.

Godel- But that's what makes IKEA so great. :/

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It's a good feeling when you're around a person and you don't have to be really doing anything to be entertained. For example, I was sitting around playing KOTOR today, and my friend came over with his Xbox and KOTOR II. We played them at the same time, laughing at various things (The spikey-headed dude's total uselessness when you get him, for example) and discussing Star Wars and whatever was brought up in conversation. It's more fun than I've had than actually doing something with this said person in quite some time. In fact, it was quite possibly the most carefree time I've spent with somebody outside of my immediate family in probably a year.

Question to the readers: When do you feel most carefree?

..Why did I do that? I really don't know, I'm just hoping for more fuel for the comment commentary. <_<

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I think one of the most frustrating things I have to deal with is other people's complete lack of knowledge when it comes to technology. My brother was working on a project today, and as usual, I had to handle all of the "computer stuff."

He's very, very, slow at typing. Painfully slow. When I watch him type, I wince. Even if I'm not asked to, I do the typing for him, just so I can get back on the computer. It's still a frustration, though.

Then I need to find a "good picture" for the cover page. I found a very nice one, but he didn't want to use it because of "the thing showing! :O".

So I got into Photoshop and went over it with the Clone Stamp tool. Somehow, he still had a prejudice against it. In the end, I printed it out anyway and told him to deal with it.

Then comes the bibliography. This time, my mom was gracious enough to make him actually write down the information he needed. I just needed to supply the bibliography generator site.

It baffles the mind how their collective brain power couldn't understand the workings of Easybib.com. It's EASYBIB. I had to show them how.

And then I had to show my mom how to CUT AND PASTE.

I've just learned to laugh at it behind their backs, and sometimes to ignore them.

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I had an odd spyware / virus scare today. It wasn't anything drastic, I suppose- I didn't lose any files, and the computer wasn't running slowly, but there was still something amiss. SBC Yahoo provides their users with a browser. It's basically a re-skinning of Internet Explorer with a streaming radio feature on the side, as far as I'm concerned, but apparently Yahoo mail requires Java to run properly. Normally that isn't a problem, but tonight the browser apparently wasn't reading Java. I didn't change any features, so I got all freaked out. I called my dad and lectured him about how he was supposed to call the Norton Antivirus people weeks ago, and his coworker told him that he would burn him a copy of his Norton stuff. Which I don't think is true. Even if it is, registry keys will probably keep it from working.

Fortunatey, all is well now. I really don't know what happened, but let's hope it doesn't happen again.

Closing Statement: It's a sad day when somebody on Counter-Strike boots you from a server when your ping is at moderate DSL level. That happened to me three times today.
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