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. 👿

...click here for my best attempt to reproduce a song I overheard in a dream last night, or at least what I can remember of it. (The recording is less than 20 seconds long, so hopefully you won't find it to be too painful.) I'm thinking of trying to flesh it out and turn it into something for Crayon Poetry Corner.

Other things that happened in the dream -- I was in one of my old high school classrooms at the end of the day with two fellow students, neither of whom I have thought about in years and one of whom I couldn't and can't even remember by name (so to make up for it in the dream, I constantly referred to the other one by name). The nameless one was trying to give me these two heaping styrofoam containers of french fries and marinated shrimp and egg fried rice she said she'd acquired for me from fancy restaurants, but seeing as how the fries had the words "Burger King" written on them (which is weird, because I've never seen a fry from Burger King or anywhere else that had the restaurant name somehow burned onto its surface) I had my doubts about their origin. In any case, I couldn't carry both containers, so I was trying to get out of there with only one -- the fried rice container -- which made her incredibly sad because she wanted me to have both so I had to try to convince her that I wasn't trying to insult her by taking only one of them. (more...)

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...)

I happened to find an old PC microphone lying around, so here's an audio post I recorded last night. Admittedly it took me several tries to get this down as I don't have any terribly capable recording software on the laptop yet and therefore ended up using the default Sound Recorder program in Windows with its bloody 60-second limit. If you've got any suggestions, I'm all ears -- I'm not looking to really pay for anything and I don't need the program to do much more than record my voice (though amplification, noise reduction, the ability to cut and paste, and other such features would be nice), so freeware programs are preferred. Thanks! (more...)

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...)