Earlier tonight, a fire broke out in a house two doors down. Fire trucks blocked off our entire street while they were putting it out, and now the entire neighborhood smells like smoke. Luckily, the family that lived there is all right, and I'm glad for their safety, but also sad for their situation. They are some of the nicest people on my block (and that's saying something with some of the fucking assholes that live around here), and they just seem to have the worst things happen to them. A tree branch knocked over their fence during the freak windstorm back in September, and now their entire house has been destroyed. It just doesn't seem right... 
I keep getting message after message in my email from my friends urging me to sign up for Facebook. I will not submit! 
I also learned about this today:
Angel star Andy Hallett dies of heart failure
So sad. I never knew he suffered from heart disease. And he was only a year older than me. Poor Lorne. He's gone to that swingin' karaoke bar in the sky. I'll have a Seabreeze in honor of you, buddy.
Numfar, do the dance of mourning!
I also learned about this today:
Angel star Andy Hallett dies of heart failure
So sad. I never knew he suffered from heart disease. And he was only a year older than me. Poor Lorne. He's gone to that swingin' karaoke bar in the sky. I'll have a Seabreeze in honor of you, buddy.
Numfar, do the dance of mourning!
I'm not having much luck with soup lately. Yesterday I spilled clam chowder all over my keyboard and computer desk, and today during lunch at work, I spilled chicken & dumplings on my black dress shirt. I think the universe is trying to tell me something.
The Netflix Silverlight viewer sucks ass!
I used to love Netflix, and I loved them even more when instant streaming became available. The Windows Media-based viewer had an almost-perfect picture quality that was just as good as DVD, without waiting for the discs to arrive. Just recently, I tried to watch something on instant streaming, and instead of playing the video like normal, a new screen popped up suggesting I download the "NEW AND IMPROVED SILVERLIGHT VIEWER!" I thought "Wow, a viewer that's even better than this one? Sign me up!" So I installed the new viewer, and was all excited to see how "new and improved" it was, but after a few minutes of "determining video quality" and another long 10 minutes of "buffering" I started to think I had been swindled. Sure enough, when the video finally came up, it looked TERRIBLE. Seriously, I've seen better quality on Youtube and home videos I made with my father's VHS camcorder. I then went online to read other opinions about the new player, and found this lovely fact: Those who download the new player will have it tied to their account, and they can never go back to the old player, on any computer they try to use.
What the hell, Netflix? You make a new player that's slower with worse video quality than the previous one, and then you force us to keep it without the option of going back to the older player? Again, what the hell? Are you trying to lose customers? In fact, I am seriously considering cancelling my account due to this. I rarely ever rent the physical discs anymore, so my monthly fee goes entirely toward the streaming portion of the site, and now they fucked that up. Good going, Netflix, you fucking morons.
I used to love Netflix, and I loved them even more when instant streaming became available. The Windows Media-based viewer had an almost-perfect picture quality that was just as good as DVD, without waiting for the discs to arrive. Just recently, I tried to watch something on instant streaming, and instead of playing the video like normal, a new screen popped up suggesting I download the "NEW AND IMPROVED SILVERLIGHT VIEWER!" I thought "Wow, a viewer that's even better than this one? Sign me up!" So I installed the new viewer, and was all excited to see how "new and improved" it was, but after a few minutes of "determining video quality" and another long 10 minutes of "buffering" I started to think I had been swindled. Sure enough, when the video finally came up, it looked TERRIBLE. Seriously, I've seen better quality on Youtube and home videos I made with my father's VHS camcorder. I then went online to read other opinions about the new player, and found this lovely fact: Those who download the new player will have it tied to their account, and they can never go back to the old player, on any computer they try to use.
What the hell, Netflix? You make a new player that's slower with worse video quality than the previous one, and then you force us to keep it without the option of going back to the older player? Again, what the hell? Are you trying to lose customers? In fact, I am seriously considering cancelling my account due to this. I rarely ever rent the physical discs anymore, so my monthly fee goes entirely toward the streaming portion of the site, and now they fucked that up. Good going, Netflix, you fucking morons.
I must have a very powerful crotch. Every pair of pants I own, the crotch seems to wear out before anything else.
Take from that what you will...
Take from that what you will...
