Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Saturday, June 06, 2009
evening
Our birds live in an analog world
Our birds watch PBS daily, but they watch it off an antenna. On June 12, our tvs are going digital and our birds are getting the family dvd player, I guess. I just applied for converter coupons today, as we’ve really had other things on our minds - our coupons won’t be mailed until June 12, so it looks like we’ll be experimenting with the dvd player in the bird room. Gee, I hope the birds like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Sports Night”, and various Xmas cartoons until we get them a converter. If you’ve procrastinated and haven’t ordered a $40 digital converter coupon or two, go to https://www.dtv2009.gov/ and order them now. The converter boxes are supposed to be $40 - $70.
Update 6/13/08: We got our converter box coupons in the mail already, and we’ve found a place that sells them for a penny less than the amount that the coupon covers, so the birds will be watching their PBS shows again very soon. The birds are very happy - I was happy to get a brief respite from “Dragon Tales, Dragon Tales, stupid effin’ dragon tales, let’s eat them all up, yum!” Some of those lyrics may not be absolutely accurate, but perhaps they were just burned into my skull incorrectly. The birds and I will both be happy for them to get their Sesame Street shows back.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
evening
If you’d like to help out Wee Paws Animal Sanctuary…
this is an easy way to do it. It’ll make money for our rescues & and it’ll allow us to rescue more pets and give us time to foster them until they’re ready to find a good home, and all you have to do is do your search engine searches through Good Search. Wait, I’ll let them write it up: Here’s a new easy way to raise money for your favorite cause. Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they’ll donate a penny to your favorite cause every time you do a search! In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 900 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to the charity or school of your choice. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to your cause! Here’s the web site — http://www.goodsearch.com. You can also read about GoodSearch in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.
Friday, March 06, 2009
early evening
Blogrolling.com finally came back…and now I hate it!
WARNING: Incredibly boring rant about a blogroll ahead. Don’t read it if you don’t use Blogrolling.com, because it’ll put you to sleep.
It used to be a nice simple way to keep a blogroll. Now, I can’t get the blogs back into alphabetical order (I changed the default setting to alpha, yet…nothing), I can’t get a question posted in their support “forum” (it just kept hanging, unposted), I can’t get my blogroll to load on their site to edit it, and now they’re using a redirect through their own url to get to my blogrolled sites. As far as I can tell, that means that suddenly hundreds of thousands of blogs are no longer passing on PR, except back to blogrolling.com. I’ve wanted to fix my blogroll for months because some of the blogs are no longer active and I’ve wanted to add a few, so I waited patiently for Blogrolling.com to come back. I can’t believe I waited all this time and I’m going to have to change to the ExpressionEngine blogroll anyway. I liked the ease of using Blogrolling, but I hate the redirect, in addition to not being able to do a damned thing with my blogroll even though they’re supposedly back. It’s as useless as it was while they were down, but adding on the redirected urls and non-alphabetical listing of my blogs. Dammit!
Updated: Finally, the changing to alphabetical stuck. I’m still not happy about the redirects though. At all.
Even More Updated: I just figured out what those redirects are, even though they’re not working. They’re ads. At the top of each blog in my blogroll that anyone goes to. I suppose I probably have something in my browser settings (I use IE7Pro because I like some of the extras it has) that’s turned them off. It costs $20/year to turn them off, and while I appreciate that they need to make money to run the service, I don’t like surprises. At all. Ever. I also hate anything that messes with a url, so I’ll be taking down this blogroll soon and setting up the ExpressionEngine one. Initially, it’ll suck because I have to enter all of the urls individually, but I’m not willing to have my links redirect. Farewell, Blogrolling.com. It was good while it lasted, but because I wasn’t told about the ads, I’m annoyed enough to do a little work on my blog. Plus, $20 will buy us 3.5 pizzas from Little Caesar’s, so I’ll consider that my payment to set up my new Blogroll. It’s stupid that I waited this long with my outdated blogroll just to change it now. Oh well. Damn, I’m tired, and I think my headache is on its way back. I had to take caffeine to get rid of it, but it’s made me jumpy when I should be asleep. I can tell that this is going really mess up my schedule for few days - I kind of look like a corpse from not going to bed while running on empty. I’ll go pick up my meds and underpads for Cricket (CVS brand of extra large & super absorbent underpads is excellent for puppy pads - way better than what they sell at pet stores. Bigger & cheaper too) and then crash. Boom. What a dull entry this is. I think I’ll put a warning at the top of it. Fueled by 8 hour old caffeine and boring as hell. Sorry, I just wanted to rant about my blogroll.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
evening
What “tomorrow” brought
Well, it’s official now, my desktop computer is dead. Leigh-Ann thinks it’s probably the power supply. At least that’s cheap to fix, if you don’t buy the power supply from Dell or Dell’s approved vendors. I haven’t seen my email since the wee hours of Monday morning because I can’t remember my passwords. I’m sure there’s more bad news in there, so I’m thinking of just never looking at my email again. Frankly, I don’t think I should touch anything that has any sort of power supply - we seem to be killing off everything electric, slowly but surely. Last week, the pool motors finally died, so we’ll soon have a mosquito pit in the yard. Our microwave started its death throes a couple of weeks ago when it decided to turn ON when the door was opened while it was plugged in. We can still use it, but we have to unplug it when we open the door. However, it’s started making a burning smell, so it will die completely soon, I’m sure.
For something fun, here’s part of the Justin Timberlake/Beyonce “Single Ladies” video parody from SNL. Unfortunately, NBC has made YouTube remove the skit videos, while at the same time NOT making the clip available on their website. Stupid. Annoying. Nonetheless, I loved the skit and I can’t get the song out of my head, nor Justin Timberlake lisping, “We’re the dancers.” I’ve never been a big Justin Timberlake fan, but every time I see him on SNL, he wins me over again with his talent. He’s a funny guy.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
mid-morning
Does Your Cat Have Any Favorite Browser Folders?
Bunny likes to walk on my keyboard and type things. Who knows, maybe she’s writing to her other cat friends. Anyway, one day she not only managed to add a favorite link to the browser, she added a favorite folder. Right now, it’s empty, but I’m sure she has big plans for it…when I’m not looking. Her usual computer time is around 4am.
She enjoys being in all sorts of places where Bunny(s) shouldn’t be, not just on my keyboard.
