Is it bad if you get, on average, 1000 spam emails every day? Yes, I think it is. I’m going to track down whoever sold my email address…and force them to watch Catwoman, or some other horrible movie.
Randomosity at its randomest
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
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Lost clearly isn’t for everyone. Let’s face it: most people watch TV for mindless entertainment, which generally entails explosions, sex, or reality game shows (Survivor, anyone?). You don’t usually watch TV to think. But that’s what Lost is all about. It’s like reading a good mystery story. If you got all the info at first, there’d be no reason to read the rest of the book. Instead, it’s revealed bit after bit which makes you come back for more. That’s why I love Lost. At the end of every episode, I just have to sit and stare at the screen for a couple minutes, wondering what the hell just happened. I’ve got my own little theories about what’s going on and I keep on watching to see how much I got right.
While my hopes for Lost are high, I have to realize that in this day and age of shortening attention spans, any TV show that doesn’t feature singing, dancing, C-list celebrities, or lots of explosions isn’t going to last very long on network television. I’ve seen many good TV shows get axed (Threshold, Invasion) because the viewers didn’t want to take the time to wait and see how the show panned out before deciding it was “too complicated” or “too boring” for their liking. Ironically, the thing that made Lost big–the overarching plot linking all the episodes together–is probably the thing that will eventually kill it. Too many people want things nicely wrapped up each episode. They’re just not patient enough to see things out to the end. Their loss, isn’t it?
Kurt Vonnegut, the rather darkly humorous American author of such things as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle died today at the age of 84. I’m sure he won’t be forgotten.
So, you just got Windows Vista and you’re looking to trick it out as much as you can. If you’re a power user like me, this includes putting some shortcuts in the SendTo folder. In XP, this was easy. You went to Documents and Settings, your user profile folder, and the SendTo folder was right in there. Alas, it’s nowhere as easy as that in Vista. Yes, the folder exists, but it’s deeper in your User folder. Much deeper. But have no fear! I’ve got the perfect solution for you.
1. Make a shortcut by right-clicking on the program you want a shortcut to and selecting Create Shortcut. Rename it as you see fit.
2. Click the Start orb and click in the quick search box. Type in “shell:sendto” (without the quotes). Press enter.
3. Copy the shortcut made in step 1 to the folder that popped up in step 2 and you’re all done.
Now, if you want to send a file to this program (the program I did this for is Emacs), right click on the file, go to Send To, and select your program. How easy was that? (Don’t answer.)
Just minutes after finding out from CNN that Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole’s baby (and wondering if the madness was finally over), the next topic of the day/week/month that came up was Don Imus and his “racially charged rant” regarding the Rutgers women’s basketball team. I won’t deny that what he said about them was…less that flattering. But seriously, why do people care this much? It’s all over the news, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are protesting (when are they not?), and everyone’s demanding Imus be fired from his talk show. All because of what Imus himself called “an insensitive and ill-conceived remark.” The man even apologized quicker than I’ve ever seen anyone apologize.
So what’s the issue? Well, according to Sharpton and Jackson and the Rutgers basketball team, Imus is a racist. Shock! Horror! Uh, no. First off, while the majority of the team in question is indeed black, they are not all black. From the press conference photos I’ve seen, there are actually quite a few white girls on that team. Secondly, none of what Imus said was even concerned with race. He was calling them “rough girls,” which I think anyone can say about a women’s basketball team. Besides, as I said, he already apologized. What more do people want? Will firing everyone who ever makes a semi-offensive remark in jest make things all better? No, of course not.
People are too easily offended. Take the incidents involving Mel Gibson and Michael Richards. Both made racially insensitive remarks, but the first was drunk and the second was pissed off. Neither are racists; they just made errors in judgment. People do that sort of thing all the time. I just wish people would get over it so it doesn’t keep news channels from showing real news.
