29 April 00
Random update of the minute:
UF’s DHNet is very reliable and usually works. UF’s connection to the world, however, has recently been as reliable as a monkey with a sore throats shouting data across a highway to a monkey with hearing problems.
This story was listed on slashdot: Apparently a programmer for the Sims was tired of people playing the Sims all day and then playing with their guinea pigs. So he added in a special guinea pig to the Sims add-in website. This guinea pig can’t sing the national anthem or defeat barbarian hordes. It is special because it carries a virus that can spread to all nearby sims and do what bad viruses do. Some people thought that was in bad taste. I think it’s really funny. A definite upside to a game that otherwise seems completely paint-by-numbers.
I have decided that the more you pay for orange juice in the orange juice section at Publix, the worse it tastes. The name brand stuff is half as good as the generic brand OJ. I have no idea why.
I just spent the last hour reading all sorts of news articles about people who I think are greedy morons. People are making laws that make it illegal for you to give a computer game to a friend (the original copy) once you don’t want it anymore. People are making it illegal to listen to your music remotely. People are making it illegal for the infamous (spawn of satan, destroyer of all that is holy, I suppose) Kevin M hacker guy to even go around and talk about computers. They don’t care that he served his five years in prison. They don’t care that the terms of his parole require him to move to the exact center of the Sahara desert and stick his fingers in his ears while screaming ‘la la la la’ to avoid technology. And it’s illegal to mix sounds from the Wazzap Budweiser commercial with AP pictures of the Elian Gonzales situation solely for the purpose of being funny. Why doesn’t somebody make it illegal for people to act like complete dorks and go out of their way to smash down others who don’t have shiny happy lawyers?
[The following is hypothetical, yet completely possible.]
Dear ____ : You gave me back the wrong change! That means you’re a thief! Instead of just telling you, I’m going to sue you, prove to the world that you’re evil, set fire to your house, and curse your family for generations. Not because I’m a big dork, but because that’s the American way. I abuse the law to the furthest extent that it can benefit me. I suppose I could grow some humanity, but there’s no Humanity for Dummies book, so I wouldn’t understand that. Please send me the eight cents you cheated me along with signed copies of the attached form(s). You’ll never get away with this, [expletive deleted]! [Expletive deleted] you! I’ll [expletive deleted] see you in [expletive deleted]-ing court, [expletive deleted]! I [expletive deleted]-ING OWN YOU!
/rant
Hmm. Wonder where that came from? I am sleepy.