Needs to show me the author and category of posts in list view (and for that matter — anywhere at all). Or else.
That’s right.
Or else.
Isn’t there any decent RSS reader out there?
This is not a rhetorical question.
And I mean, for Windows.
Fuck Windows. Bah.
I am apparently a C-cup. 34C, to be exact. Well, I didn’t. This whole time, I thought I was a 36B. Well now, don’t I feel stupid. Actually, no. Not really. They’re almost but not quite the same thing, except one makes me feel better about myself, because we all know that nobody cares about anything having to do with women aside from their breast sizes.
I hate taking the bus even more than I hate taxis.
I hate that every time I take a bus I’ve never taken before to somewhere I’ve never been before, the speaker and display that are supposed to let me know where the hell I am are both broken. Not my favourite kind of guessing game. You can never see the street signs from whatever awkward position you’re stuck in, and can’t anyone in this godforsaken city put the numbers on their buildings somewhere visible? Not that when I don’t know where I am there are ever even any buildings facing the street I’m going down, so it wouldn’t help, anyway. I don’t care if I’m at 800 E something-or-other. What is the actual name of this something-or-other street, and how far north is it? Suck suck suck. Oh, well. What it really comes down to is this: broken busses (shut up, spellcheck, I like to spell busses with two esses, and your bullshit squiggly lines aren’t going to change my mind) cost me a whole five minutes of precious time today, and I am livid. The end.
I prefer to stay in one place all the time, so I don’t have to deal with any sort of conveyance.
NYC Cabbies May Strike Over GPS Devices – Gizmodo
The GPS devices will only end up “broken”… just like the card readers in every cab in the entire city of Chicago are “broken”. Goddamn, I hate taxis. (Here’s a tip, though — ask if the driver accepts credit cards before getting into the cab. He will say yes. When he then insists that the reader is broken, without even checking it, when you get to wherever you’re going… tell him to go fuck himself. Free ride! Well, if you don’t value your bodily integrity etc. etc.)
Look… I can understand someone spelling my name wrong if they’ve never seen it written down. Maybe even if they have seen it a few times, if it’s not right in front of their face, and I’ve never corrected them before. But there really isn’t any excuse to spell it wrong if they’re looking right at it. If you’re writing me an e-mail — my name is in my e-mail address. If you’re quoting a message of mine, it’s in there, too. If we’re in a chat room together, my frakkin’ name is before everything I say. If it’s a reply to some shit on a message board, wells, I almost always use my real name as my username. By spelling my name wrong in any of these situations, you’re proving to me that you’re an idiot, and not worth my time. Unless there actually is someone named Candace following me around on the internet that I’m somehow not aware of.
This sounds ridiculous. I don’t care how much your boring leather handbag cost (though, if you’re the type that goes around “wearing” yours, it was probably more than my last car — which is pretty silly, because your bag is boring and probably brown but definitely not special enough looking to justify the price, especially considering it was probably also sewn by children in a country you can’t find on a map, you twit). I will be forced to hurt you (emotionally by e-mail — I’m a recluse) if you don’t stop using this phrase. Well, at least… I’ll sit on my ass in front of the TV and hope as hard as I can that you get mugged.
So, would somebody like to tell me what it is?
The internet has just told me that the most common romanization system for Chinese is Hanyu Pinyin. Apparently, the Wade Giles system is also kinda sorta still around. I didn’t know which system the spelling of “feng shui” came from, but this conversion table has informed me that both syllables are the same in both systems. So, it shouldn’t matter, and I’m assuming (I could be wrong… reading takes effort) that “feng shui” is a correct rendering using the Hanyu Pinyin system. And, according to Wikipedia:
In its final form Hanyu Pinyin:
- was used to indicate pronunciation only
- was exclusively based on the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect
- included tone marks
- embodied the traditional “initial sound”, “final sound”, and “suprasegmental tone” model
- was written in the Latin alphabet
So, why the crap is “feng shui” pronounced “fung shway”? Especially considering the first point.
I require answers. How useful is a system that is meant to indicate pronunciation when the words aren’t pronounced the way they’re spelled in English at all? I realize there are rules for how all of the junk in the system are meant to be pronounced. But why should I memorize those, when instead of having to remember that e is more like u, they could just use a freakin’ u? Is it because u is already used for oo? So why can’t they use oo instead of u? I’m not seeing the logic.
Meh. Okay, okay. Wikipedia explains this thusly:
By letting Roman characters refer to specific Chinese sounds, pinyin produces a compact and accurate romanization, which is convenient for native Chinese speakers and scholars. However, it also means that a person who has not studied Chinese or the pinyin system is likely to severely mispronounce words, which is a less serious problem with some earlier romanization systems such as Wade-Giles.
But that doesn’t lessen my confusion. “Feng shui”, which is still “feng shui” using Wade-Giles, which should make mispronouncing words less of a problem, is still not properly pronounced “feng shui”, and I don’t approve.
I mean, really, I’m sure there is a good reason, right?
Yeah. Answers. Immediately.
(P.S. for you uptight asstards reading this that are going to proceed to tell me what that good reason is… you take me too seriously, and I am issuing you a preemptive STFU. I realize that it is not simple to translate one language into the entirely different written form of a second language that does not contain the same phonemes. Go boil your head.)
(You’re the same asstards that get bet out of shape when people say this shit the way it’s spelled. I dunno, I guess most people probably see the purpose of translating Chinese words into the Roman alphabet is to help guide one in saying the crap.)
(For the record, I don’t pronounce it “fung shway”, because I don’t pronounce it at all. Feng shui is for crazies.)
“With au jus”???
If you ever say this, please stop. You sound retarded.
Ugh. It’s not a complicated joke, guys. Read:
53-54. BUS Adam is driving.
ADAM: Hey, I got a joke. Who wants to hear a
joke? Come on Bernie. It’s so funny, you’ll laugh
so hard your lashes will curl up by themselves.BERNADETTE: Do tell us your HILARIOUS joke.
ADAM: Well, many moons ago there was this very
famous bunch of indians called the Fuckawei Tribe.
And one day the son of the great indian Chief says
to his father, “Dad, why is my friend Little Hawk
called Little Hawk?” And his father says.TICK & BERNADETTE: Why do you ask, Two dogs
Fucking?ADAM: That’s not the end of the joke. So anyway,
Back to me. SHIT!TICK: What’s happening?
ADAM: I don’t know.
The bus grinds to a halt and then silence.
BERNADETTE: Oh My god…
55. NEXT MORNING They all stand at the stairs of
the bus.BERNADETTE: Oh Felicia… Where the Fuckawei?
I dunno. It’s obvious to me that Bernadette says Fukawi, but everyone else (including IMDB — I’ve sent a correction), seems to think it’s “where the fuck are we?” Except, that’s not funny, now is it. So everyone else is obviously wrong. I only found two results for this quote (with various spellings of Fukawi) on Google, and one of them was the script I quoted above. Ahem. Idjits.
I’ve been thinking about finally redesigning, so I figured I might as well install IE7 so that I would be able to test the site. As soon as I rebooted my computer for the first time everything set to run at startup that accesses the internet in anyway crashed. Tried to run Firefox. It crashed immediately. Tried to run IE7. It crashed immediately. I read that some people were having problems like this if they had Google Desktop installed. I uninstalled Google Desktop and rebooted. The problem was still there. I reset my computer to a recovery point made earlier today. And nowww… Windows Explorer will not run. I’m having to do without a task bar until I solve this problem.
Microsoft, I hate you.
The Comcast guy didn’t show up to fix our cable today. This is the second time someone has been scheduled. The cable line coming into our apartment is old/bad, and needs to be replaced, but I guess it’s never going to happen. So, I’ve pulled as much of the line as I can up through our floor, and taped it to the wall in such a way that the signal seems as strong as possible. Meaning that certain channels on our non cable-box having TV are snowy, but at least no longer snowy AND in black and white. And that my Internet connection still sucks ass, but at least no longer cuts out every 15 seconds (I’ve managed to get it down to every 5 minutes or so).
I figure we’ll probably move out of here before I manage to get a tech guy out… even if we don’t wind up moving out in the next month or two like Sean wants to. Because I think I misheard the time span I was given on the phone. I don’t think they said between 10 and 12 AM. I think they might really have said between 2010 and 2012.
Anyway, I’m posting this mostly to point out that I’m not (necessarily) ignoring anyone’s e-mails or IMs etc… It’s just such a pain in the ass to have to press send 87 times to get anything to work. Packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss.