Archive for the ‘ Argh! ’ Category
CNN.com announces that Mitt Romney will be suspending his campaign following a disappointing showing on Super Tuesday. To announce this news, CNN.com places a banner at the top of their page. Click here to see the banner as it appeared at 12:45pm EST. Mercifully, it was only up for about 7 minutes, and has now been replaced with a headline that contains neither apostrophes nor plurals.
I know you are all waiting with bated breath for my exciting new substantive post. Or at least, it amuses me to imagine so. But the Evil Cartoon Bird has struck again. So instead of our previously scheduled programming, we present more ranting about the evils of cable companies. So Wednesday evening there was a storm. Internets go out. Which is dumb, because cable lines are buried. Oddly enough, the TV didn’t go out. I wait a few hours. I call the cable company. I sit on hold for another two hours. At the 1’45″ mark, the Internets come back. I stay on the line until [ . . . ]
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The Roadrunner decided it was afraid of a little (really, quite minor) thunderstorm and quit on me for several hours. Which is to say, the Internets were on hiatus and I didn’t notice ’cause the TV didn’t go out. Very confusing. Cable sucks. See my post, The Road to Ruin. Ended up that the WordPress couldn’t save all of my big huge long substantive post I had planned for you this evening, and I lost a big chunk of it. I’ve re-written most of it, but it’s only about three quarters finished and I have to go to bed. I’ll finish it up tomorrow. In the [ . . . ]
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Wednesdays suck. That is all. PS: substantive post coming soon!
I was looking forward to watching Cars this evening. I was excited about it all day. I worked extra hard to make sure I got all my reading done for classes tomorrow. I got home and found an exciting red envelope in the mailbox. Yippee. I set up on the couch, got something to eat, a cold drink, set up the TV and got out the disc. Cracked. Oh the despair! Weep with woe and regret! The agony! Now I must wait until Thursday to see Cars. How depressing. I should get an extra two days on my free trial. All in all, not a great first impression, Netflix. Or Post [ . . . ]
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