So what genius over at M$ decided to move the “Send and Receive All” keyboard shortcut from F5 to F9? Don’t they know that F5 ALWAYS means “Do that thing I always want you to do”? VS.NET compiles on F5, QBasic ran on F5, Word launches Find and Replace on F5, Excel launches Go To on F5, Access toggles to Form View on F5, and IE/Firefox refresh on F5!
Argh!
Well boys, it’s Thanksgiving. And that means nostalgia…and, watching Spiderman.
So, this all gets me thinking: When we talk to our kids about drop-dead gorgeous movie/TV stars for our time, who will we mention? I really doubt your run-of-the-mill sluts will not stand the test of time. Neither will run-of-the-mill celebrities. They need to be big-time (this unfortunately rules out Amanda Bynes :P). We have to bring character in here as well as fame. Anyway, here’s the list I can make (note that this is not a girls-I-think-are-hot list):
- Kirsten Dunst
- Helen Hunt
- Alicia Keyes
- Jodie Foster (on the bubble, IMHO)
- Whitney Houston (marrying Bobby Brown is like two strikes on this one)
- Julia Roberts
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Madonna
...Just Kidding!
Ladies who should be on the list but F’ed it up one way or another, or are waiting for more stardom before they can make it:
- Leelee Sobieski
- Alyssa Milano (can you say, F’ed it up big time?)
- Amanda Bynes
- Alyson Hannigan
Too young to call:
- Hilary Duff
- Demi Moore
...Just Kidding!
And, for my own sadistic pleasure, the ones that will never make it:
- Madonna
- Angelina Jolie
- Drew Barrymore
Uhhh… Can you say…. Copyright infringement? Check out the “Go!” button.
RoboDump
That’s some sick s***. Literally.
A little poetry, a la Britney Spears.
Honeymoon Poem
11.10.2004
A honeymoon at last, to get away from it all
My assistant Fe gave me the call.
I remember it well, as she was smilin’
She said it was called Turtle Island.
I packed my bags light and quick,
Then grabbed my pink dress & favorite lipstick.
We hopped on a plane and took our flight
I slept really well, all through the night.
As we arrive, I turn and look out the door,
People are greeting us right at the shore.
A meal, a shower and some ice cream
Then I threw my man down, you know what I mean!
Magical nights filled with stars
Silence is golden, no running cars.
Private dinners, romantic fires
Little piece of heaven, whatever your heart desires.
Friendly “hellos” and never goodbyes
When you’re having fun, oh, how time flies!
As we sit and prepare to make our part
I thank you, Turtle Island, with all my heart!
~ Britney
I was about to write, “This makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty, herpes-infected dipstick.” But, you know, it doesn’t. I’m totally numb to this kind of depraved b&%$s^&* by now. And you know what did it? VH1, baby. V-H-fricking-1.
I think The Best Week Ever is to blame for my insanity. Why do I care about Mo Rocca’s opinion about anything? Now, a little exercise in corporate monopolism: Viacom owns VH1, MTV, and CMT. I JUST SAW MO ROCCA IN A RHINESTONE-STUDDED VEST ON CMT COMMENTING ON COUNTRY MUSIC. I see Mo Rocca everywhere. He’s making snide remarks on MTV, then – oh no! – he’s on CMT. Oh, now he’s on I Love the 80s. Now, the 90s. So fun! Oh, he’s on The Daily Show now. Another Viacom station! Yea!
WTF?
By the way, I had a professor say that The Daily Show was the most accurate news source on television today. I raised the point that the guest balance was severely skewed. He edited his comment to be “the first 10 minutes of The Daily Show is” blah blah blah. Whatever. Sidenote. I think the average between CNN and FNC is the accurate representation.
I’m just going to watch Frasier.
Not to be a Mac-basher or a U2-basher (bashing either feels to me like making fun of the profoundly retarded), but has anyone else noticed that Bono counts off “Vertigo” on the iPod commercial as follows:
Uno, Dos, Tres, Catorce
One, Two, Three, Fourteen? This must have something to do with the one-button mouse phenomenon. Possibly, the Irish should not speak Spanish. I know I was meant to speak German, but I guess I’m enough of a mutt to be a decent student of Spanish.
Ugh.
Post “tres” for tonight. Moving toward “catorce” (I’m not a retard: read the post below if you haven’t yet).
Syndication, biznitches! If you’re using Firefox 1.0 (and if you’re not by now you better be soon) or even Thunderbird 0.8, you can “subscribe” to my site feed.
How ‘bout that?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York officials were red-faced on Friday after they discovered that clothing ads on city buses that appeared to promote reading suggested a love of books could be rewarded with oral sex.
The advertisements that ran on about 200 buses across the city in recent months carried posters displaying a suggestively posed woman in hot pants kneeling among a pile of books beside the snappy slogan “Read Books, Get Brain.”
What unhip, unsuspecting local transportation officials did not know was that “get brain” is street slang for oral sex.
The ads—from hip-hop clothing maker Akademiks, which intended the double-entendre—was stripped off New York buses on Friday after transportation officials discovered the street slang meaning.
Metropolitan Transit Authority spokesman Tom Kelly condemned the “vulgar street phrases” in the racy ads he said were “demeaning women.”
“To me and I believe to everyone else, while it was done by a clothing line, it would give the impression that it was also promoting reading and literacy,” Kelly told Reuters.
“It’s easy enough to understand how that would get by based upon someone not knowing the expression.”
A spokesman for the New York-based clothing maker noted the ad campaign had run since September and “we hadn’t had any complaints at all.”
New York officials may not be the only ones caught out.
Akademiks also placed the ads on buses and bus shelters in Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, San Francisco and Philadelphia, the company spokesman said.
Kelly, who said he was his 60s, said that after he was tipped to the hidden meaning of the phrase on Thursday he ran a test among some young MTA workers.
“I went downstairs to the mailroom and showed some of the young guys a copy of the ad,” he said. “I was watching their faces and they all start smirking.
“Apparently it’s on all the music, in music that’s how they refer to it,” Kelly said. “I didn’t know anything about it and I’m sure the people that approved the ad didn’t.”
Kelly said it was sad that “you can’t take things at face value any longer,” adding, “We’ll have to learn from experience before we accept ads.”
Two days to Firefox 1.0. One day to GMAT. Crap.
A&M is currently capitalizing on every weakness I have seen in OU’s game this year.