Pin The Tail

I come in peace, proclaiming that I will not really be blogging much for about a month. NaNoWriMo is upon us, and I shall have little enough time as it is.

I bring a hilarious picture to pacify you.

Have a good month!

There Is Not

A new theme anymore.

It cut off my pictures.

I don’t like it now.

America?

http://drop.io/publick/asset/meaning-mp3

WordPress won’t let me upload audio. Sorry… Just visit that link.

9/4/09 Rant; Clothed At Last

Sorry I didn’t post this before now. Quicktime troubles. Apple, fix Quicktime’s interactions with Youtube, please.

Rant 9/3/09; ‘Red Sexy’

The second of two, at least.

I Was Bored; What Can I Say

The first of many?

Sticks Of A Different Sort

This morning I had a thought, sparked by a discussion yesterday with my dad in the car and Chris Faulkner’s recent tweet.

The conversation went something like this:

Dad: Oh, look.

Me: What?

Dad: Sixteen gigs for thirty-five bucks. Seems like a good deal to me.

Silence for a while.

Me: Wait, no. One-forty… one eighty… Thirty-five… I saw a Lacie drive… Five hundred gigs for around one eighty. That doesn’t add up.

Dad: Well, yeah, but I assume the cost is so high, relatively, because it’s portable. You’re paying for the convenience.

Essentially, my reply tweet summed my thought up well. Do we really need to make that distinction? Is it that much more convenient? I’ll take a bigger drive for less, I think. Any file I’m going to need a flash drive for is going to be small, anyway, so I’ll stick with my little 1 GB sticks (That luckily enough, I got for free.).

Thoughts?

Edit: Apparently they don’t even manufacture 1 GB models anymore. I have an antique.

… Sweet.

Apologies!

I haven’t been here in AGES. This time, however, I do have a good excuse.

My house was pretty much underwater when we came back from Connecticut. It was rather disgusting, but they’ve got it dried out almost all the way now.

Anyway, I can’t stay long, what with work and other occupations – so I’d just like to say apologies for the long absence, and it may be more than a month until I am reliably back to posting normally.

These, in the meantime, are a couple of choice images:

Hiatus

Blogging has become a chore for me. It’s sad that I can’t express my thoughts on something that originally simply started out as a “web log” – a log of one’s life. If anything, I think that this says that I don’t understand myself that well as a person. I hope this can be a tool to reverse that.

Perfectionism is another big problem. I worry so much about how what I post here will be received that nothing ever actually finds its way onto the internet.

Ergo these three changes I’ve decided upon: to care less about what I write, to write about things that are more personal, and to update weekly at the very least. Hopefully from there I can work my way up.

In short, my hiatus was caused by laziness, perfectionism, and the beginning of the school year. All of these are manageable and I really have no excuses – so here goes.

My First Foray Into Politics

… Rather unnerving.

Anyway, I’m sorry I haven’t been writing. No excuses, I know, but here are mine: My dad found out he had appendicitis, which you may have heard about through the twitterverse, and I went on vacation (then he had an abscess, scared the hell out of me getting out of the car by nearly crying, and is spending the night in the emergency room). For all you worriers: He’s… okay (I can’t stand to see him in that much pain, it’s horrible). I’m fairly sure he’ll pull out just fine.

Instead of wallowing further, I’m going to try to write this post now before it gets too late early (oops, too late early to hope for that).

So, what caught my eye was a tweet from Gary Stager. Being the misinformed sadly uneducated liberal I [think I] am, I followed the link, expecting juicy gossip to spread. Okay, true, there was juicy gossip, but I’m not spreading it in the way I thought I would.

The gist of the article: McCain recently gave a speech concerning the current Georgia situation, and used some words, phrases, sentences, and/or paragraphs remarkably like those on the Wikipedia article for the country. What they’re trying to say is that he plagiarized, and it looks as if that’s true, but the comments tell the real story.

The comments say two things to me:

1. That Obama supporters in general OR just the supporters that ended up following that story are extremely aggressive
2. That McCain supporters are actually quite good at refuting accusations.

I’m not going to say any more because I’ve probably already damned myself to a lifetime of criticism by even attempting to intelligently discuss politics, but see for yourself. Actually quite interesting.