I’m not looking for suggestions per se, although I am open to them. But Spotify insists on suggesting stuff, and it’s wrong! It’s annoying, stupidly, WTF are you thinking wrong! I get excited thinking they will have something awesome but nooooo! I didn’t even get notified when they had the new Transplants song, and they know I play them at least weekly and lately every day. Gah!
Also, Pandora is not available in Australia. I mean, I can, if I VPN like I do for Hulu and a few other things, but I mostly do Spotify on my mobile. Last.fm charges now. Even stuff on Spotify is not totally available (but I can VPN from home if I must.)
This triggers my other mini-rant, the one about how I am ready, willing and able to pay for music and movies which I know are digitally available elsewhere but not here. Grrrr…
Hey hey hey… mine includes Loquillo, so of course it proposes Loquillo y los Trogloditas; it includes Joaquín Sabina, so it proposes both Joaquin Sabina (no tilde) and every single collaboration he’s done - dude has whole records of collaborations, every single song in them is listed as if the artist was, for example, “Joaquín Sabina y Ana Belén” rather than having them listed both under “Joaquín Sabina” and under “Ana Belén”. I realize it’s amazing, but the “Loquillo” in both names happens to be the same guy; all those Sabinas are also the same feller (although not the same as the Loquillo dude). It also has a problem with repeating names: apparently there are two different groups called Ilegales, and it mixes information and songs from both. I’m reasonably sure that, while a 1980s Spanish group born as a college prank and a 2010s Dominican group have many things in common, they are not quite the same (also, the Dominican ones are Los Ilegales; yes, the article matters). There’s also several Alaskas, one of which has fronted two bands whose name included her own.
Anyway, I’ve switched it off now. Apparently it’s one of those programs that draw stuff behind whatever you have on top of it - the load on the graphic card was actually noticeable in my laptop, so if I’m going to do anything heavier than write, no Spotify for me
Ah, neighbors the bane of existence in suburbia/urbia. I’m almost wishing I had the dogs shitting in my yard back over the current screaming kid. I know it was asked in another thread, but why must kids scream so damn much?!
Can we please, in the name of Jesus, stop refering to female college students as “co-eds”? Please, dammit? We’re in the year 2013, women actually outnumber men in college, and the vast majority of schools admit both sexes. Which means “co-ed” is about as outdated as “negro” and is as unnecessary as casually referring to a physician who happens to be a woman as a “female doctor”.
(And maybe it’s just me being my overly sensitive feminist self, but “co-ed” carries with it a mildly condenscing connation to me. When I think of “co-ed”, I don’t think of a serious student trying to learn and earn a degree. I think of a Smurfette type. A girl who is invited to attend school with men, but is not really viewed as one of them because of her gender. And also wears her hair in a ponytail. Am I the only who thinks this?)
In summary, can yall please speak like you’re in the same century as the rest of the planet? I know this request will go unheeded, but I’m gonna put it out there anyway. Thanks.
Daughter home from preschool because a tree landed on the roof and the power is out, along with about a gazillion stoplights throughout the city. Check.
Half a tree on my deck from the storms. Check.
Key operational person resigning from company, effective Sunday (said person was key in the running of a project I’m implementing). Check.
Finding out that said key operational person had just chosen not to do their job but was just telling me what I wanted to hear so I’d stop asking. Check.
Being royally fucked at work just before a Very Important Deadline. Check.
As a bonus, we get more thunderstorms today and possibly a tornado or two. And I can’t get the fucking tree off my deck yet and just have to hope it doesn’t blow out a goddamn window tonight (it’s at a really weird angle).
Don’t sweat it. You’re not missing anything. Pandora sucks royal.
And when I tried their Punk station, it kept running emo crap, classic rock, country, and etc. Even after I started rating stuff, it kept up that shit. That’s actually PLAYING those songs, not just suggesting you might like to try them.
To get it to actually work you apparently have to spend weeks fanatically clicking for each song and eventually, theoretically, it gets better. That’s what they claim, at any rate.
And someone I play EVE Online with was just urging me to give up buying music I actually like and going with one of these streaming music empires … Why would I give up playing my ipod loaded with 6.9 days of music I like on its little dock with speakers to go with something streaming music I dislike and have to play clicky wars with to get to play stuff I actually like?
I will listen to anything someone suggests, and buy it if I like it. <wanders away pondering her tinyc ollection of Romanian, Dutch and Norwegian dubstep and rap>
Holy shit, Jim Cramer’s an obnoxious sack 'o shit. My husband loves the guy, but watching him is like watching Side Show Bob, only much more annoying. Fuck, make it stop.
I’ve been noticing for a bit that I haven’t been getting much mail. To be sure, I only check it about twice a week. But I checked it on Thursday, and there was only one piece of junkmail in my box.
I never got my colonoscopy instructions. Had to call them and get them verbally. Thought I had simply misplaced my CC bill, due in 2 days. Figured I’d be paying it on-line tomorrow.
Today I go check my mail. The box is stuffed.
There’s my colonoscopy instructions, mailed over a month ago.
And that CC bill.
And three weeks of pay stubs.
Several other bills fortunately not due yet.
And a fuck load of junk mail.
Remember when I said there was only one piece of junk mail there on Thursday?
Ok, so what the motherfucking hell happened to my mail that a month of important shit just vanished and only showed up now???
Oh, and I had this post 90% written the first time and then my computer blue-screened.
I dunno, maybe it’s that all this time I’ve spent working on my negativity is paying off, but man, I am so tired of fan negativity. Read the Hobbit, Iron Man 3, Star Trek and Doctor Who threads on this or any other board. They’re all one long festival of shitting all over their respective subjects.
I liked The Hobbit. I’ve seen it twice and will be buying the Extended Edition this fall. I saw Iron Man 3, Star Trek 2 and ‘The Name of the Doctor’ all in one day yesterday and enjoyed all three.
What the fuck is wrong with people that they’re just utterly incapable of enjoying anything? I know back in my ‘Really fucking angry with the entire Universe’ days, I probably would have been right there with them, shitting on the parts I hated. But I hesitate to ascribe that illness to everyone who complains.
And it makes me sad, because I can’t really read threads about movies I enjoy anymore, because they’re so fucking loaded down with the shitfest.
Neighbours. {Spits} The ones across the street have a kid who if he is outside, he’s screeching. The ones next to them park beside our house all the time, and like to throw snow over our newly-shovelled sidewalks in winter and have a very nice crop of dandelions coming up. The ones next to us have an illegal garage business in their back yard, and way too many cars on the street. The ones behind us like to walk their dog off-leash regularly, and let it bellow from the deck so we can all hear it.
Oh yeah, then there’s the people down the street who have the world’s most sensitive car alarm. And the douchebags with the incredibly loud ATV who like to run it up and down the street at midnight. And the douchebags who come home on their incredibly loud motorcycles in the middle of the night.
A screen might help with that problem. If your window frame isn’t set up for the sort of screens I’m used to, you could probably rig something up with wood, screen and staples. It might not look pretty, but it would stop the bugs.
I think I hurt Missy Mouth yesterday. She loves to play with the feather on the string toy, leaping high into the air to snatch it. She doesn’t always land on her feets, because they are engaged with the lure. I didn’t think about that and was playing with her in the rescue room…that has tiled floors.
Today, she doesn’t want to jump or sit on my lap. I has a because I didn’t mean to hurt her, I just didn’t think. Poor kitteh, I’m sorry.
What gets me is how many people don’t say “I wish they’d done [this bit] different” or “aww, they left out my favorite bit” - no, it’s Hell and Damnation on the head of the whole team, from producer to cleaning lady, because OhMyZeus! They dared [kill the Joker / let The Love Interest survive for once / whatever].
I’ll admit to doing that with the gender stuff in Starship Troopers, but hello, one, I simply haven’t watched the movie since the gender stuff is what had me in stitches about the book, and second, I do it with my tongue stuck so far into my cheek it’s gonna give me a piercing any day! (<— we need a tongue-in-cheek smiley)
I’m with you. And why can’t British windows have screens? I know they don’t have the mosquito problem that most places I’ve lived have, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any freaking bugs here!
And hopefully you’ll have more luck than I do - every summer our mail disappears.
We complain, get told our regular postie is on vacation and there’s nothing they can do.
Apparently, Canada Post hires folks who can’t read numbers OR letters fill in for regular routes over the summer…
I just got the envelope of notepad refills that I ordered. I also last week got another envelope with three other notepad refills. I think I’m set now. Maybe when I next run out I’ll know where I can get them in person without having to rely on a shopping site that makes my antivirus throw mad fits.
(<— we need a tongue-in-cheek smiley)