Her KaZaA is on overload, but who cares?
May. 26th, 2003 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteCLAMP'S GOT TOO MANY IDEAS FOR ITS OWN GOOD...?!
Bonnie just revealed to me today that Clamp (of Magic Knight Rayearth, X/1999, and Cardcaptor Sakura fame) has its hands full; its two newest manga, "XXXholic" and "Tsubasa" actually just alternate realities of the Cardcaptor Sakura line. So far, both mangas appear similar, but they appear in different magazine, and the art style seems to differ. But you can tell it's CCS-- the main heroine is "Sakura," a princess of a foriegn country known as "Clow," and her brother, the King Touya, has a strong irritation with Sakura's childhood "friend," Shaoran (Syaoran). Hah. I just can't wait to see what they do with Kero.
CHEAP LABOR DOES NOT EQUAL QUALITY LABOR
Finally, after an hour and a half, my pizza's here. Yesterday I didn't even want Pizza, but my mood (and my appetite) have been swingy lately, so I wasn't going to disagree with mom willing to pay for pizza. Besides, after the wait, it ended up being free. Apparently the delivery guy (who couldn't speak/read very good English it seemed; his accent was thick, and he didn't know the difference between 719 and 721!) came TWICE, had 4 other deliveries to make... anyway, after an hour, I called the pizza place, they told me to wait 10 minutes and call back. Did that, and then they said that when the guy came, to tell him that the pizza was free, because the wait was too long. The poor delivery guy looked confused and everything, but I tried to explain everything to him as clearly and simply as possible; I don't think I was mean. I just told him that his supervisor told me to tell him to call, and not charge for the pizza, as the wait had been longer than estimated.
It wasn't all that cold, just sort of soggy. Still good stuff though... so maybe I should stop typing and eat it, ne? But for the record, if you want to hire cheap labor, hire them for what doesn't need to have contact with customers-- I hate it when I call a place and they don't speak English, or when the delivery guy majorly messes up the order. QUALITY OVER QUANTITY!
SPAMMERS ARE STUPID, BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE RICH
There are many things to be annoyed at on the Internet. Pop-ups, pop-unders... SPAM! Now even companies you thought you could trust are selling your personal information out to the highest bidder, especially when they're merging or going out of business. Worse, when you sign up for something simple, like membership on a board, or access to a store site, such as Amazon.com, you get spammed up the wazoo! Not only is spam annoying simply because it takes up inbox space, but it's also annoying because it often has nothing to do with what you want from the source. Spammers go for mailing lists and boards too, littering them with idiotic advertisements about breast-enhancement pills, the "new" herbal "Viagara" along with everything else between here and Kentucky.
But hey, they're rich. Not all spammers are bots, even though most are. You can tell which ones are the bots because they have technical or gibberish sounding emails, like SYNTAX . ERROR @ yahoo.com or sfgmuityrqn@hotmail.com. Oh, and even if their subject lines *seem* genuine, they will have something strange in them-- spaces after words (when there's no words following) a strand of numbers (45653), or your own name in them (This is what you wanted, Meredith!).
BUT-- above all else (to me) there is nothing more annoying than the people that try to REPLY to spammers. NEWSFLASH: It doesn't do ANY good! Worse, if you're on something like an ML (you can tell where this is coming from, right? I'm on an ML that gets spammed ALL THE FRIGGIN' TIME!) then not only do you get spammed with useless, off-topic crap, but someone young and brainless tries to reply back with some equally stupid flame or one-liner, both of which irritate the living bejeezus out of me. I am SO tempted to tell this girl that insulting a bot isn't going to help her. The spammer won't "buzz" off because you told him so! The damn group moderator does piddly about this kind of thing-- and why won't I just unsubscribe? Well, because when the group actually HAS discussions or posts fanfics, it's pretty damn good. But the group moderator just doesn't do anything, so that makes me think power-trippy thoughts and wish I were a mod of all the groups I'm on, especially the Peach Girl ones, which tend to be the most spammed. *sigh* One day...
UGH
I hate stomachaches. I honestly think I jinxed myself by agreeing that if I never had a truly rotten headache/fever thing going on again, then I would take all the stomachaches The Powers That Be could throw at me. And now look at me-- I've gone through such stomachaches as food poisoning (I almost thought it was TSS-- you remember that, way back in the day?) and Dog knows what else. (Yes, I know I wrote Dog.) Is there any illness that DOESN'T suck to have though? Let me tell you something though-- never make any sort of trade-off deals like that. Deals with the devil they are, and if you've studied Economics, you'd know the Opportunity Cost is NOT worth it!
ARGH
FFIX is getting more and more irritating by the second. I'm stuck wandering around the world map; twice I've made it into Gilzamaluke's Grotto, and twice I've died in this battle with this worm-type chick that casts 'Entice' and screws with all the members of my party. I try to escape, but since Zidane's the only one with that ability (how stupid!) if he gets Enticed, it's either beat her or die-- and obviously, I haven't beaten her yet. I've come close, but she keeps upping her attack power, casting Cure on herself, and attacking when it isn't "her turn." *growl* This isn't fair! I think I'm going to have to resort to reading FFIX FAQs online or something.
I FEEL...
-Like photoshopping
-Like telepathically typing out my Macbeth final essay
-Like casting some sort of spell to find my Pride and Prejudice book
-Like making some black mages to burn all the s*!t in my room away
-Like growing wings so I can fly to Japan
-Like smacking Some Certain People upside the head
-Like glomping other Certain People
-Like going into the Star Trek universe and getting myself a dermal regenerator so I never have to deal with zits or burns ever ever ever ever again
-Like speeding up time so Fanime will just get here =}
-Like making my cape
-Like figuring out what the heck I missed on Angel the past several weeks, and what happened in the season finale
-Like cooking for someone besides my mom for once
-Like playing DDR
-Like writing fanfiction
-Like taking a long, hot shower
-Like finishing up all my work in one fell swoop
-Like going to see another movie with a friend
-Like spending money on buying all the books, videos, fines, IOUs, and other stuff I need to spend money on
-Like figuring out why the hell my printer has stopped printing in color
-Like taking that damned Japanese course and getting it over with; I WANT IN TO SFSU!
Bonnie just revealed to me today that Clamp (of Magic Knight Rayearth, X/1999, and Cardcaptor Sakura fame) has its hands full; its two newest manga, "XXXholic" and "Tsubasa" actually just alternate realities of the Cardcaptor Sakura line. So far, both mangas appear similar, but they appear in different magazine, and the art style seems to differ. But you can tell it's CCS-- the main heroine is "Sakura," a princess of a foriegn country known as "Clow," and her brother, the King Touya, has a strong irritation with Sakura's childhood "friend," Shaoran (Syaoran). Hah. I just can't wait to see what they do with Kero.
CHEAP LABOR DOES NOT EQUAL QUALITY LABOR
Finally, after an hour and a half, my pizza's here. Yesterday I didn't even want Pizza, but my mood (and my appetite) have been swingy lately, so I wasn't going to disagree with mom willing to pay for pizza. Besides, after the wait, it ended up being free. Apparently the delivery guy (who couldn't speak/read very good English it seemed; his accent was thick, and he didn't know the difference between 719 and 721!) came TWICE, had 4 other deliveries to make... anyway, after an hour, I called the pizza place, they told me to wait 10 minutes and call back. Did that, and then they said that when the guy came, to tell him that the pizza was free, because the wait was too long. The poor delivery guy looked confused and everything, but I tried to explain everything to him as clearly and simply as possible; I don't think I was mean. I just told him that his supervisor told me to tell him to call, and not charge for the pizza, as the wait had been longer than estimated.
It wasn't all that cold, just sort of soggy. Still good stuff though... so maybe I should stop typing and eat it, ne? But for the record, if you want to hire cheap labor, hire them for what doesn't need to have contact with customers-- I hate it when I call a place and they don't speak English, or when the delivery guy majorly messes up the order. QUALITY OVER QUANTITY!
SPAMMERS ARE STUPID, BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE RICH
There are many things to be annoyed at on the Internet. Pop-ups, pop-unders... SPAM! Now even companies you thought you could trust are selling your personal information out to the highest bidder, especially when they're merging or going out of business. Worse, when you sign up for something simple, like membership on a board, or access to a store site, such as Amazon.com, you get spammed up the wazoo! Not only is spam annoying simply because it takes up inbox space, but it's also annoying because it often has nothing to do with what you want from the source. Spammers go for mailing lists and boards too, littering them with idiotic advertisements about breast-enhancement pills, the "new" herbal "Viagara" along with everything else between here and Kentucky.
But hey, they're rich. Not all spammers are bots, even though most are. You can tell which ones are the bots because they have technical or gibberish sounding emails, like SYNTAX . ERROR @ yahoo.com or sfgmuityrqn@hotmail.com. Oh, and even if their subject lines *seem* genuine, they will have something strange in them-- spaces after words (when there's no words following) a strand of numbers (45653), or your own name in them (This is what you wanted, Meredith!).
BUT-- above all else (to me) there is nothing more annoying than the people that try to REPLY to spammers. NEWSFLASH: It doesn't do ANY good! Worse, if you're on something like an ML (you can tell where this is coming from, right? I'm on an ML that gets spammed ALL THE FRIGGIN' TIME!) then not only do you get spammed with useless, off-topic crap, but someone young and brainless tries to reply back with some equally stupid flame or one-liner, both of which irritate the living bejeezus out of me. I am SO tempted to tell this girl that insulting a bot isn't going to help her. The spammer won't "buzz" off because you told him so! The damn group moderator does piddly about this kind of thing-- and why won't I just unsubscribe? Well, because when the group actually HAS discussions or posts fanfics, it's pretty damn good. But the group moderator just doesn't do anything, so that makes me think power-trippy thoughts and wish I were a mod of all the groups I'm on, especially the Peach Girl ones, which tend to be the most spammed. *sigh* One day...
UGH
I hate stomachaches. I honestly think I jinxed myself by agreeing that if I never had a truly rotten headache/fever thing going on again, then I would take all the stomachaches The Powers That Be could throw at me. And now look at me-- I've gone through such stomachaches as food poisoning (I almost thought it was TSS-- you remember that, way back in the day?) and Dog knows what else. (Yes, I know I wrote Dog.) Is there any illness that DOESN'T suck to have though? Let me tell you something though-- never make any sort of trade-off deals like that. Deals with the devil they are, and if you've studied Economics, you'd know the Opportunity Cost is NOT worth it!
ARGH
FFIX is getting more and more irritating by the second. I'm stuck wandering around the world map; twice I've made it into Gilzamaluke's Grotto, and twice I've died in this battle with this worm-type chick that casts 'Entice' and screws with all the members of my party. I try to escape, but since Zidane's the only one with that ability (how stupid!) if he gets Enticed, it's either beat her or die-- and obviously, I haven't beaten her yet. I've come close, but she keeps upping her attack power, casting Cure on herself, and attacking when it isn't "her turn." *growl* This isn't fair! I think I'm going to have to resort to reading FFIX FAQs online or something.
I FEEL...
-Like photoshopping
-Like telepathically typing out my Macbeth final essay
-Like casting some sort of spell to find my Pride and Prejudice book
-Like making some black mages to burn all the s*!t in my room away
-Like growing wings so I can fly to Japan
-Like smacking Some Certain People upside the head
-Like glomping other Certain People
-Like going into the Star Trek universe and getting myself a dermal regenerator so I never have to deal with zits or burns ever ever ever ever again
-Like speeding up time so Fanime will just get here =}
-Like making my cape
-Like figuring out what the heck I missed on Angel the past several weeks, and what happened in the season finale
-Like cooking for someone besides my mom for once
-Like playing DDR
-Like writing fanfiction
-Like taking a long, hot shower
-Like finishing up all my work in one fell swoop
-Like going to see another movie with a friend
-Like spending money on buying all the books, videos, fines, IOUs, and other stuff I need to spend money on
-Like figuring out why the hell my printer has stopped printing in color
-Like taking that damned Japanese course and getting it over with; I WANT IN TO SFSU!
