RANTING AND RAVING!
If you’re returning to my page to check up on any recent updates, I pity you. But nevertheless, you’ve found some. After having an empty rant page, I have gathered enough strength to actually get my lazy butt into my chair and start typing. So here it is. My rants page. You can read it. If you want to read it, please continue. If you have no idea how the hell you got to my page, click “back” on your browser now. If you haven’t clicked “back” yet, it’s because you’re pathetic enough to actually care what I have to complain about. Either that or you’re running around the room screaming because your computer has locked up and my page is permanently stuck on your screen. If this is the case, unplug your computer. If you have Windows 95 or 98, you will probably do some permanent damage, or lose some files, most probably your 10-page term paper or your bank statements that you’ve been trying to figure out for the past 18 hours. Either way, I feel sorry for you. If you haven’t already picked up the fact that I hate computers, you’re very slow. Don’t get me wrong. Computers are fun and entertaining on a rainy day like today. Granted, they’re just as entertaining as a beautiful, sunny day like yesterday. But, I think we can all agree that computers have the ability to make our lives miserable. Let me tell you the most common problems my computer has.
1. It locks up when I am SO far in whatever I’m doing, and I haven’t gotten a chance to save yet.
2. It experiences an “illegal operation” every time I’m listening to Real Player and I go into a web site that automatically plays music.
3. It experiences an “illegal operation” every time I open Netscape and Explorer at the same time.
4. It never fully shuts down. If you have Windows 95 or 98, you know that you have to click on START, and shut it down “properly” or memory might be lost. Every time I do this, my computer is stuck on “Please wait while your computer shuts down” until I get so annoyed that I just turn the computer off manually. THEN when I want to start it up again, the computer tells me the I didn’t shut it down properly, so it has to run a ScanDisk which takes about an hour and doesn’t accomplish anything, anyway.
5. It messes up my folders. My house has 2 computers. They’re networked together with Roadrunner (which by the way, is very fast, but annoying as heck) so I can access the upstairs computer from downstairs and vice-versa. But when I access my file on the downstairs computer from upstairs, they’re all messed up and I can’t find anything.
6. It takes 20 minutes trying to download something before telling me that the link is dead.
7. It’s constantly asking me if I want to do something, like save my password. If I wanted to save my password so everyone else in my house could read all my private stuff, I would have clicked on the little box that says “save password.” For my convenience, I suppose, I can click on “do not show this message again.” But if I do, it will still come up for all my other accounts. And once I use a different account, it will come up for my first one again, even though I distinctly remember clicking the “DO NOT SHOW THIS MESSAGE AGAIN” box! Err!
Well, I’m done complaining about my computer for now. They keyboard is making my fingers hurt. I’ll probably have arthritis now. If you want to complain about your computer, please mail me at superkoopa@hotmail.com. I will be sure to put it up onto my page.
Have you ever noticed how we have all these commercials to give money to children in third world countries? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good cause and all. In fact, my family is supporting a 10-year old girl in Brazil and we have been for a few years. But think about it. How much does 120 seconds of air time on a local station on prime time cost? I know it’s not cheap! I’ll admit, I haven’t done the research, but I’ll use my bad estimating skills and say a few million. It also depends on what show it’s being broadcasted in. Okay, so we’re spending a few million dollars every time they show one of those commercials. Plus they have to pay the actors, directors, camera crew, advertising team, pay for insurance, taxes, grants, copyrights, editing, props, and the list goes on. For just ONE commercial, how many children could we feed?! You do the math. I’m too lazy.
Hypocrites. I hate hypocrites. I know that at times I am one, and complaining about how I hate hypocrites just makes me a bigger hypocrite. Which continues the deadly cycle. But anyway, I have run into many-a-hypocrite in my 15 years of living on this gorgeous-yet-utterly-screwed-up-world. For example, I wrote a rant. I will not put it up on my page because it will just result in more death threats clogging up my limited mail space. Which brings up another thing. I am a hotmail member. For those of you who don’t know, Hotmail is a free email service. It’s handy because I can check my mail no matter where I am. I just need my account name and password, and I can check it. But if I have too many emails (which happens often), Hotmail will automatically delete my messages so I don’t use up more memory than I’m allowed. But before they delete them, they will send me about 20 or so emails TELLING me that I am taking up too much space. And each message is about 5K. So, they’re using up more of my email space to tell me that I’m using up too much email space. Does that make sense? Anyway, back to my hypocrite bashing. So, I wrote this rant that was considered offensive to some, and they wrote me some ever-so-lovely replies. Most of them would have made sense if they didn’t go against many of my religious beliefs. But that’s besides the point. So, I have these people telling me that my way of thinking is completely wrong, but I should take into consideration how other people feel. That’s like me saying, “I don’t care what you say! But you have to care what I say!” And yet, I still write back to these people. Why do I waste my time, you may ask? Because I believe so strongly in everything in my rant that if others can’t see it, I feel it’s my duty to at least explain in greater detail WHY I feel that way. And then if they still continue to riticule me, I just read their emails, laugh to myself, and either delete it or reply yet again. Enough babble for now. I’m getting bored watching myself type. Yet I keep typing…. Why? Why? Why?
Has anyone out there seen the Blair Witch Project? Actually, most of you probably have. If you actually wasted your money on that pathetic excuse for a movie, I feel sorry for you. Did you know that it was being advertised as the “scariest movie ever made”? I don’t know about the rest of you, but my family and I laughed ourselves to sleep after seeing it. Fortunately, a friend of the family gets free copies of all the latest movies on tape because he works at some company that edits movies or something like that. So, we didn’t have to pay to see it, thank god! I would have demanded my money back. I move to go on a movie strike until they reimburse everyone who spent $8.50 or whatever to see that crap. Actually, no I don’t. I’m too lazy to do that too.
Has anyone seen The 6th Sense? Now THAT was a great movie! And I am not being sarcastic about it. If you managed to tuck your money away where the Blair Witch couldn’t get her hands on it, quickly run to your nearest theater and see The 6th Sense. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil the ending by telling you that the guy ends up getting hit by a car, and before going into heaven makes it so the kid can’t see dead people anymore. Oops… just kidding, that’s not what happens… hehe. The ending is MUCH better than that.
There's a new soap opera that started July 5th. It's called Passions. It's the saddest, most pathetic excuse for a soap opera I have ever seen. Every episode is exactly the same as the one before it. I can go a week at a time without seeing it, and still know exactly what's going on! Every character only has ONE problem, and it's the ONLY thing they EVER talk about! And there are WAY too many close calls. It's so unrealistic!
Guys suck. I have many reasons to say this, but I'm sure no one wants to hear them anyway. Let me just say that God was definetly having a bad day when he created man. Sure, us females need them, some are hot, and I've found that it IS possible to find a semi-decent guy. But besides those rare few, what good are they? Lifting heavy objects? That's what machines are for!
My family has crap-cable. This means that I have channels 2 through about 17. At this moment, channels 2, 7, 9, 14, 15, and 16 either don't work, or are being used for permanent advertisements. so, that gives me channels 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 17. But channels 6, 8, 10, 13 and 17 are local stations anyway! So, my family is paying money for channels 3, 4, 5, 11 and 12. That's 5 channels! WHY are we paying money for 5 extra channels that only show junk anyway?! I give up...
Okay, all guys don't suck anymore... just some.
