Friday, February 29, 2008

On girl-shoes

Have I bitched about
this before? It's possible:
my brain's like a sieve.

Oh, well: Women's Shoes...
I try you on in the store
and you're so comfy!

Then when worn to work
you make my tootsies cry out,
"Blisters: do not want!"

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Tech Support

Lexmark Tech Support
just stole three hours of my life
just to prove me right.

I had a network printer, that wouldn't print over the network. Worked fine on the USB port, but not the network port. You think that'd be easy to diagnose, right? So they spent three hours of my life (I had to be on the phone with them) doing stupid stuff like updating drivers, changing cables, and various other wastes. What did we determine in the end? I was right. Thank you, drive thru.

On the taskbar

Laughing, XP mocks.
As habitually I try
Drag-Dropping items

Maybe I've been using a tabbed browser too long, but I (and my pod-mates agree) would like the ability to move taskbar items around in windows. This seems like a simple enough thing, and I'm sure there's a crazy hack somewhere that lets me. But also I am lazy.

Ah, the beauty of documentation.... in 3 seperate places

Could we please all learn
Designs are only useful
When we can find them?

Mt Rushmore, here I come

Driving cross-country:
Fun for the first couple days
Then: South Dakota.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Coffee - Forcibly Black

big clumps of sugar,
cruelly blocking the pour-spout...
can't make coffee sweet.

It drives me nuts when huge sugar chunks keep the sugar from pouring out of those sugar jars they have and diners and starbucks and coffee stations. I have no conception of how sweet or bitter my drink is when i can't get a steady pour!

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

On Dumb TV

Reality shows -
I hate you SO much! So why
can't I look away?

Stupid TV. Stupid reality shows. Stupid Lisas being drawn in and staring transfixed at the screen while drooling copiously. I blame this on Mad Mad World, an old Sci-fi reality show that was basically "put a bunch of Normals in with a bunch of Alternate Lifestyle people and see what happens." It got me marginally amenable to the idea of reality TV and now I occasionally find myself unable to say no. Guh.