Whistling in the Dark

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• 10:52 My hatred is a palpable thing, full of all that is hate. It is a tasty hatred. #
• 11:20 There is very little in my life that could not be solved by simply acquiring 19.4 billion dollars. I suppose I would have to get nice shoes. #
• 11:25 Travelocity is the devil. That dumbass lawn gnome? Actually Belial in a form designed to cause children to approach him without fear. #
• 20:44 The 'joy' of IT in a school. When you have an outage, students all over the school use it as an excuse, giving you tons of false reports. #
• 22:27 and now I go home. And once home... I do the plethora of things I had to do *before* being called into work. And then up before 8 to drive. #
• 22:28 Man, do I piss and moan or *what?* #

Set the wayback machine to 1987, Boston, Massachusetts, Sherman. Got it? Good.

Ladies and gentlemen: Matthew DeForrest.

Thank you.

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• 11:51 I drink coffee and try to work out how to cope with the things that need coping. So far, no luck. I am low on cope. #
• 11:53 Mostly, I want it to be Sunday. On Sunday, she will be here. Everything gets better when she is here. It's like waiting for Christmas x 1000 #
• 12:54 And how bad can any day be when it involves free freshmade chimichangas? I ask you. #

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• 15:21 @ sometimes the meetings eat my brain. #
• 15:46 And then I just got sick of it. All of it. In one brief, shining moment I had absolutely no affection left in my soul, save for Weds. #

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• 15:48 Hm. At what point of sickness do you decide a cat needs the Vet vs. needing rest and care? #
• 21:18 Cat is better! #
• 21:18 City of Villains, where Delusion of Reference is just an excuse for a mission string! #
• 22:52 And now, this just in from City of Villains -- *FIFTY!* HAH! So... um. Hm. I guess that's it, then. #

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• 09:26 I am awake. I am ambulatory. All else is optional. #

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• 10:24 Major flooding reported in my hometown... and *Wednesday's* hometown. Coincidence? #
• 10:29 ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hUSAqRniLQgPSda1TEcBYrFJbKpwD90CM27O0 for the story of Floodgate 2008 #
• 10:47 They have also evacuated UMFK and sent the students to UMPI. Um... UMFK's on a *hill.* Like, out of Flood Plain level hill. #
• 19:07 I am full of delicious Korean food! Meat is good! And it was free! Who knew? #

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• 00:23 Mmmm... plans coming together.... #
• 15:16 My new GPS apparently claims to know the difference between Korean food and Chinese food. And Thai and Vietnamese for that matter. We'll see #

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• 12:00 That was about the weirdest dream I've had in years. And it involved Crown Royal. Which I am now craving. I've never even had it! #
• 15:41 My new indy rock band will be named "End Buffing Fae." Thanks, City of Heroes! #

So, I'd recently gotten into The Next Food Network Star. I hadn't seen season 3, and they'd started rebroadcasting it on Fine Living Network. (Fine Living Network -- what Food Network looks down on.) So, cool. I set my season pass, and each week another "new to me" hour of cooking and pathos showed up.

Well. I watched last night's episode... and it was a terrible episode. Everything was breakneck speed, nothing was being developed, things were just being sprung left and right. And then they moved to elimination... nineteen minutes in.

Clearly, the rebroadcasts aren't doing well, so they'd decided to edit them to half an hour and get them over with.

And so, it went from one of the best reality type shows on television to one of the worst half hours on television period.

I went to iTunes. It's not available for sale.

I went to Amazon Unbox. It's not available for sale.

I looked for DVDs. They're not available for sale.

I checked the website. No episodes available for watching.

This right here? This is why people fucking pirate television, idiots. It's not that we're evil. It's not that we're cheap. It's that we actually want to watch your shows and you either don't make them available, or you fuck them up when you do, and you don't give us options to spend money on the legitimate outlets for them. I don't know if I'll bother actually trying to find a torrent of them or anything (I'd need to actually get torrenting software first, and I'm not sure I can be bothered), but I promise you that I'm way lazy enough to spend money on them if you'd fucking let me.

Or, you know, you could actually show the full episodes the way you started to do, idiots. Then I'd watch them on your fucking network in the first place.

(Do I seem disproportionately angry? That's because I hate fucking stupidity. And I'm a dork.)

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• 09:49 I open with coffee for $200, Art. Otherwise, it's all a matter of getting my brain to work. Hopefully via writing. #
• 16:16 ....City of Heroes... Gamemaster... instincts... risssiiiing... #

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• 01:33 Luna di Luna Merlot/Cabernet is way better than any wine I bought sheerly because I thought the bottle was cool has any right to be. #
• 19:49 Who else wants to see Les "Survivorman" Stroud beat Bear "Man V. Wild" Grylls unconscious with a weapon made from driftwood and a otter? #

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• 01:36 Heading for bed, my neck muscles locking with weird tension. Time for Canadian Aspirin. I will miss Canadian Aspirin. #
• 14:55 Holy crap -- there was a Sad Sack webcomic? sadsack.org/SSwebcomic.htm #
• 22:41 No context conversation quote: "Dude -- everyone giggles at 'titmouse.' It's one of the gifts the British gave us." #

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• 01:01 Mrph. How can I be this tired and incapable of sleep? #
• 10:21 Okay, that's officially a headache. Sigh. #
• 16:53 It never fails to surprise me how hardwired we all are to equate "I disagree with your opinion" to mean "you are BAD!" Myself included. #
• 18:39 Every meal is an exciting adventure. Will I succeed at my "safely consume food" roll, or blow it. This time? Bad roll, marginal failure. #
• 22:40 Green tea, dragonwell extra special ( tinyurl.com/6y69l5 ) -- a perfect evening ritual tea. #

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Sometimes, you just can't get rid of a bomb!

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• 01:04 Bleh. woke up with bad headache. Clearly, I need an air purifier in here, stat. Got the windows open and the A/C on as a stopgap. #
• 09:26 Mmm. After A/C and pseudoephedrine, I slept well. I dread the day they take pseudoephedrine away from us. #
• 09:32 I dreamed of being in a prison yard last night, though it wasn't so bad. Mostly it was about scrounging for basic foodstuffs for our cook. #
• 11:58 Hee! tinyurl.com/3r6sfh -- it's not that Blizzard dissed Uwe Boll, it's that Uwe Boll *announced* that Blizzard dissed him. #
• 14:02 Websnark post on the Interview: tinyurl.com/3g7n3c #
• 14:43 Off to the store, in hopes of getting an air purifier. Damnable spring. #
• 15:44 I now own an air purifier. I feel so grown up. #
• 16:38 Sugar free dried meringue cookies are one of the joys of a low glycemic life. #
• 22:08 Well, 'yay.' tinyurl.com/6xdva4 -- Wizards is (apparently) going for the jugular. #
• 23:23 You know... when Weds lives here, if we go to 'necessities and only rare perks' level and sock money away... we can live pretty cheaply. #