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June 30, 2006
I $%@#! hate my laptop screen.
Category: Miscellany

And not because of the stupid dead pixel thingy, which I've gotten pretty good at working around and not noticing. No, I despise this LCD screen because when I happen to be awake in the mornings when the darkness flees, Mister Sunshine illuminates every single tiny spot and smudge and speck of dust and lint on the goddamned thing, which moves me to commence shrieking followed by ninety-minute sessions of wiping and buffing and wiping and buffing and wiping and buffing and wiping and buffing and wiping and buffing and wiping and buffing in order to remove these horrible blemishes from my sight -- a neverending series of futile gestures because even as I continue to wipe and buff and wipe and buff and wipe and buff and wipe and buff buff buff buff buff the screen continues to acquire additional smudges (hence the repeated buffing) and collect even more tiny particles due to its irredeemably evil static field that somehow manages to attract every single vicious speck of dust or lint within a thirty-foot radius. I swear, someday this laptop is going to drive me to the edge of insanity and then send me soaring over the edge and into the distance just like Charlie Brown would have kicked that football if Lucy hadn't kept being a total bitch and moving the damned thing. Argh.

Your mission, junior inventors -- should you choose to accept it -- is to create a smudge-proof LCD screen that generates a reverse static field that actually repels dust and lint particles. Your Nobel Prize awaits.

-posted by Wes | 8:42 am | Comments (2)
June 16, 2006
aljdaskdlkjfasd annoyance
Category: Miscellany

Every fucking month, Windows XP bugs me with an update for some built-in malicious software removal tool thingy. Then, after I comply and say I don't want to reboot until later, it interrupts whatever I'm doing to nag nag nag me EVERY FIFTEEN GODDAMNED MINUTES until I finally agree to restart the computer. Windows 2000 never did this. Hell, even Suuupa Xtreme Blue Screen Enhanced Windows 98 never went this far. I seriously think Windows XP is going out of its way to drive me irreversibly insane.

If this malicious software removal tool program actually did what it purports to do, I would have no fucking operating system. 👿

-posted by Wes | 4:51 pm | Comments (2)
June 15, 2006
LJ Recycling II!
Category: Miscellany

Here's another recycled LJ picture meme for the masses. This one entailed me allowing commenters to request one (or two) photographs they wanted to see of me, my environment, etc. -- frex, Greg asked me to post a picture of my front door. And then at the end I tacked on a few extra photos just because. It was kinda fun, so if there's anything you especially want to see, do let me know in the comments. Anyway, here are the pics from that meme along with the attendant explanations. (more...)

-posted by Wes | 6:40 am | Comments (2)
June 13, 2006
LJ Recycling!
Category: Miscellany

Okay, so since occasionally I post memes and games and such to my otherwise neglected LiveJournal, last week I did a thingy in which I posted miscellaneous non-DVD screencaps and asked readers to guess what media the images were from or make up their own humorous titles a la the faux answers people come up with at trivia nights. Naturally, the real answers proved terribly elusive (one person did get the Japanese Dark Water and another had some pretty funny joke answers), but that was expected. 🙂 Anyway, I'm reposting the screencaps and answers here for fun. How many would you have gotten? Read on to find out! (more...)

-posted by Wes | 10:00 am | Comments (2)
June 9, 2006
For the record...
Category: Miscellany

ECW -- Extreme Championship Wrestling -- is not science fucking fiction.

-posted by Wes | 10:06 pm | Comments (3)