me: ˙dn pǝ*ɟ sı ʇɐɥɔƃ/lıɐɯƃ ʎɯ
caveman: holy crap
me: ˙ʇıɥs pɹıǝʍ ƃuıop sdǝǝʞ ʇı
caveman: how'd you do that?
me: ¿
caveman: hahah
how are you doing that?
me: ¿
caveman: i hate you
me: ¿ʇɐɥʍ ƃuıop
caveman: writing upside down
me: ¿uɐǝɯ noʎ op ʇɐɥʍ
caveman: nevermind
it must be me
me: ʞo
caveman: how is your gmail/gchat doing weird shit?
me: ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ʞool ʇıɥs ɹnoʎ ƃuıʞɐɯ s,ʇı
caveman: HAHA
fucker
me: ˙uʍop ǝpısdn pɐǝɹ oʇ ǝlqɐ ƃuıǝq sı sʇuǝlɐʇ ʎuɐɯ ʎɯ ɟo ǝuo 'ʎlıʞɔnl
caveman: mine too
Friday, February 20, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Jack & Kate: Always succeeding to make Lost suck
I hate that I love this show.
Also, I love that I hate this show.
Anyway, here are two things that I learned in watching tonight's show.
1) Jack and Kate are the only people on this planet that make two beautiful people going in for a romantic make-up kiss look utterly disgusting and unforgivably unappealing. And then they did it some more! I am now an asexual.
2) I have noticed that since last season, not a single episode ends without it being capped off by everyone in the room exerting a symphony of groans and "H-H-H-Whaaaaaat!?!?!?"s.
Also, I love that I hate this show.
Anyway, here are two things that I learned in watching tonight's show.
1) Jack and Kate are the only people on this planet that make two beautiful people going in for a romantic make-up kiss look utterly disgusting and unforgivably unappealing. And then they did it some more! I am now an asexual.
2) I have noticed that since last season, not a single episode ends without it being capped off by everyone in the room exerting a symphony of groans and "H-H-H-Whaaaaaat!?!?!?"s.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Things I Suck at #4
DVR.
I just got DVR - welcome to the late first decade of the 2000s, me! Yeah, not only did I just get DVR, but I also just got HD. I've had my kickass Samsung 40inch HD-envy inducing TV for over a year but it took me this long to get it set up really right. Somehow, I misunderstood and heard that for HD I'd have to pay an extra $12 or something ridiculous like that, and DVR would have been an extra $17 so I was looking at an extra $30 per month. This was last year. Anyway, someone was also selling a lifetime "TIVO" for $1,300 so I couldn't decide if I should do that or get the DVR, so I resorted to what I always do when I am wracked with indecision which is dump it into an excel spreadsheet and run a cashflow comparison. I think the breakeven was something like 3 years and 2 months, and luckyvespa pointed out that it would suck if the "TIVO" broke within those 3 years, which panicked me, but then told me that the chances that it would happen were low, so I felt better, but then he said, but yah, you know, it could break, so that left me confused. And in the end, I didn't do anything. For a year.
Anyway, so my mom was looking at her bill the other day and was wondering what all these random weird charges were, so I called up RCN to ask them, and then managed to get her some awesome deal called the Double Play package where by she got to keep everything she had (cable + HBO) AND upgrade the internet from 7MG to 10MG AND get an HD box AND get DVR, for $30 less than what she was paying!! So I called back, but this time as myself because apparently you can't ask about your cable if you're anyone else but the person on the bill, and got that whole thing for myself too, minus the HBO and $30 from my bill. I love it when you get MORE for paying LESS.
My friends made fun of me for the longest time for not having DVR and promised that it would change my life and that the quality of my TV would drastically improve. Nonsense, I said, I would only end up watching more TV, plus anything I miss I just watch on the internet. After all, it is the late first decade of the 2000s. But it's a mortal sin to pass up deals like this, and plus it's a recession and the iron was hot so I struck it. So, my bro graciously picked up my cable box and hooked it up for me because I was too busy being out of town and surfing some major Colorado pow, and I came back super excited to record everything in sight and check out all of Hollywood's wrinkles.
Talk about getting value - I finally get to use every button that's on this remote control. After fumbling around with it and recording a bunch of shows that I already watch on the Internet, I got impatient because there was nothing in my queue. So I started recording a bunch of random stuff like Giant Spiders on Discovery channel and If the Hoover Dam Were Built Today on History channel. Speaking of history, it dictates that if I have the opportunity to hoard stuff I will, and also I will never use it. By day 2, I had a cornucopia of CSI shows, some Daily Show and Colbert Report reruns, and Alton Brown episodes on butter, peas, and brussel sprouts. Good schtuff. By the way, if you're recording re-runs, then what gets recorded if you select "First run & repeats"? And if you select "All showings" on which airtimes to record, does the DVR know that it's already recorded the same episode of Bones - the one where they find the skeleton in the closet - twice? But the trickiest thing about DVR is mastering the fast forward. That is, when I do even realize I'm at a commercial that I am supposed to be fast forwarding.
You can fast forward it at 3 different speeds, and of course me being the uber impatient person that I am, I like cranking it at ludicrous speed level 3. Which means that invariably, I will go over the end of the commercial and into the show. But the thoughtful folks over at Waste My Life Away Technologies anticipated this, and when you hit play again it will actually rewind back a few steps. Except, ludicrous speed level 3 goes so fast, that it actually dumps you back too far, like 2 commercials too far. So then I have to fast forward it again, and it's like this back and forth and back and forth and by the time I get it right I've pretty much wasted time more time than if I had let the commercial run on its own, at which point, I have major high blood pressure.
Here's another thing I've noticed - on my friends' remotes who have Time Warner cable, their "A" "B" and "C" buttons are all in the same colors and shapes that correspond to the choices on the DVR menu; namely, a yellow triangle, blue square, and red circle. On mine, they're all little grey ovals! Hey RCN, cognitive psych called. It wants its visual pattern recognition notes back, because apparently you have no use for them, thanks a lot. Anyway, so yes, DVR has certainly changed my life, by showing me one more thing I suck at, and helping me drain my precious time faster and more efficiently.
I just got DVR - welcome to the late first decade of the 2000s, me! Yeah, not only did I just get DVR, but I also just got HD. I've had my kickass Samsung 40inch HD-envy inducing TV for over a year but it took me this long to get it set up really right. Somehow, I misunderstood and heard that for HD I'd have to pay an extra $12 or something ridiculous like that, and DVR would have been an extra $17 so I was looking at an extra $30 per month. This was last year. Anyway, someone was also selling a lifetime "TIVO" for $1,300 so I couldn't decide if I should do that or get the DVR, so I resorted to what I always do when I am wracked with indecision which is dump it into an excel spreadsheet and run a cashflow comparison. I think the breakeven was something like 3 years and 2 months, and luckyvespa pointed out that it would suck if the "TIVO" broke within those 3 years, which panicked me, but then told me that the chances that it would happen were low, so I felt better, but then he said, but yah, you know, it could break, so that left me confused. And in the end, I didn't do anything. For a year.
Anyway, so my mom was looking at her bill the other day and was wondering what all these random weird charges were, so I called up RCN to ask them, and then managed to get her some awesome deal called the Double Play package where by she got to keep everything she had (cable + HBO) AND upgrade the internet from 7MG to 10MG AND get an HD box AND get DVR, for $30 less than what she was paying!! So I called back, but this time as myself because apparently you can't ask about your cable if you're anyone else but the person on the bill, and got that whole thing for myself too, minus the HBO and $30 from my bill. I love it when you get MORE for paying LESS.
My friends made fun of me for the longest time for not having DVR and promised that it would change my life and that the quality of my TV would drastically improve. Nonsense, I said, I would only end up watching more TV, plus anything I miss I just watch on the internet. After all, it is the late first decade of the 2000s. But it's a mortal sin to pass up deals like this, and plus it's a recession and the iron was hot so I struck it. So, my bro graciously picked up my cable box and hooked it up for me because I was too busy being out of town and surfing some major Colorado pow, and I came back super excited to record everything in sight and check out all of Hollywood's wrinkles.
Talk about getting value - I finally get to use every button that's on this remote control. After fumbling around with it and recording a bunch of shows that I already watch on the Internet, I got impatient because there was nothing in my queue. So I started recording a bunch of random stuff like Giant Spiders on Discovery channel and If the Hoover Dam Were Built Today on History channel. Speaking of history, it dictates that if I have the opportunity to hoard stuff I will, and also I will never use it. By day 2, I had a cornucopia of CSI shows, some Daily Show and Colbert Report reruns, and Alton Brown episodes on butter, peas, and brussel sprouts. Good schtuff. By the way, if you're recording re-runs, then what gets recorded if you select "First run & repeats"? And if you select "All showings" on which airtimes to record, does the DVR know that it's already recorded the same episode of Bones - the one where they find the skeleton in the closet - twice? But the trickiest thing about DVR is mastering the fast forward. That is, when I do even realize I'm at a commercial that I am supposed to be fast forwarding.
You can fast forward it at 3 different speeds, and of course me being the uber impatient person that I am, I like cranking it at ludicrous speed level 3. Which means that invariably, I will go over the end of the commercial and into the show. But the thoughtful folks over at Waste My Life Away Technologies anticipated this, and when you hit play again it will actually rewind back a few steps. Except, ludicrous speed level 3 goes so fast, that it actually dumps you back too far, like 2 commercials too far. So then I have to fast forward it again, and it's like this back and forth and back and forth and by the time I get it right I've pretty much wasted time more time than if I had let the commercial run on its own, at which point, I have major high blood pressure.
Here's another thing I've noticed - on my friends' remotes who have Time Warner cable, their "A" "B" and "C" buttons are all in the same colors and shapes that correspond to the choices on the DVR menu; namely, a yellow triangle, blue square, and red circle. On mine, they're all little grey ovals! Hey RCN, cognitive psych called. It wants its visual pattern recognition notes back, because apparently you have no use for them, thanks a lot. Anyway, so yes, DVR has certainly changed my life, by showing me one more thing I suck at, and helping me drain my precious time faster and more efficiently.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Would you rather...
Smell like kimchee forever?
-or-
Have two flies circling your head and not be able to explain it?
-or-
Have two flies circling your head and not be able to explain it?
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