Stupid begins

I just got to work, and already I’ve heard something so completely dumb that… augh.

“Hello Candace [not my name], The banner looked excellent, just make the text a little darker and that ought to be fine.” (This was followed by a giant animated smilie…)

Make the text darker than BLACK!?

Geez, well… I’ll try… I mean, I guess there’s superblack… It’s 25x blacker than regular black! But I don’t really have access to pigment like that at Kinko’s. I’m pretty much limited to HP ink. Anyway, you know what else this reminds me of…

Zaphod’s attention however was elsewhere. His attention was riveted on the ship standing next to Hotblack Desiato’s limo. His mouths hung open.

“That,” he said, “that…is really bad for the eyes…”

Ford looked. He too stood astonished.

It was a ship of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, twenty yards long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it.

“It’s so… black!” said Ford Prefect, “you can hardly make out its shape… light just seems to fall into it!”

Zaphod said nothing. He had simply fallen in love.

The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.

“Your eyes just slide off it…” said Ford in wonder. It was an emotional moment. He bit his lip.

[Edit]: Thrusdays? I never could get the hang of Thrusdays… Think I should fix peoples typos for them, in files they’ve provided to us themselves? Am I really that nice?[/Edit]

A stupid commercial? What are the odds?!

If I don’t complain about this now, I’m going to explode. I don’t know why I am so irritated, but every time I hear this commercial on the radio, I get increasingly more hateful towards the universe.

It’s the one where some girl answers the phone only to realize that a friend of hers has dialed her number accidentally from her purse. She spends the remainder of the ad yelling at her friend, trying to get her to realize her mistake, so that she can hang up the phone. The point of the commercial is supposed to be that US Cellular (I think that’s the company) offers free incoming calls, so that your friends can’t waste your minutes. Even if you’re too stupid to realize that it is in fact possible to disconnect a call from either end. Bitch in the commercial just needs to hang up. Problem solved. What. The. Crap.

links for 2006-02-23

I’ve been a nerd for a very long time

Seeing so many (er, well… okay — just two) interweb anniversaries this week makes me wish I knew when the hell I first started doing all of this nonsense. I didn’t sign up for Blogger until February 2000, but I was posting weblog entries by hand sometime in the fall of 1999. I wish those were still archived on the web somewhere. Okay, not really. I was 17. Nobody needs to read anything I wrote when I was 17, myself included. But I wish I had them on a disk that I could ignore for the rest of my life. Just to have them. Archive.org has some stuff that I don’t, but just a couple of pages from Coca-Coma (why the hell did I name my weblog that, anyway). I’ll get around to collecting it… one day. Anyway, I suppose that I’ve been doing this for sixish years by nowish. Happyish anniversaryish to me. Apathy set in oh… four years ago or so, and I’ve been flogging a dead horse since then. Let’s see how long I can keep it up. Maybe I should just finally kill this site, and do something else altogether. Or maybe I’ll get up the motivation to occasionally post something useful around here, and maybe that will encourage more than two people to visit. Or maybe I’ll just kill myself and put myself out of my misery. I hates the internet. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Grumble grumble grumble.