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[grindmonkeh]

Books read thus far this year...
Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Wolves of Odin - Grant Gould (graphic novel)
Dark Tower: The Long Road Home - Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth, and Richard Isanove (graphic novel)
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) - Phillip K. Dick
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration - Allen Steele
Year's Best SF 10, 2005 - David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1 - Robert Silverburg
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Got Fight? - Forrest Griffin
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
Neuromancer - William Gibson

I may have to put Johnny Mnemonic and the other two books of the Sprawl trilogy on my to-read list now, but I have too many books already queued up as it is.

My cat is an asshole and he knows it. I'm looking for a door for my theater room to keep his territorial butt out of it. I have a leather recliner ruined by his urine...since Chewie decided he liked to lie on it, Monkeybutt decided to piss on it. I'd strangle the little shit if I wasn't the only person in the world he actually liked.

I just had someone bring me their computer "per recommendation" and ask me to fix it. It should be easy money. He had someone "repair it" previously by installing the two ($50) software bundles that he brought along. Norton Bloatware and Webroot Spy Sweeper running on Vista...with 1 GiggleByte of RAM...and the malware is obviously not in check. I like to see just how exactly people make their systems so FUBAR, so I check out their browsing histories with a couple of tools. I left my usb-drive with those tools at home, so I decided to just open the browser. This is what I saw when I launched Internet Exploder.




It was acting squirrely as hell and bounced before I got a screenshot of the history. Pornhub was a likely culprit, but pop-ups had convoluted the history with the worst of the internet. And he had to have given the okey-dokey to at least half of those goddamn toolbars.

Comments

[rissa333.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, that's a lot of toolbars. My eyes just went buggy for a second.

[xmoviebrainx.livejournal.com]

WOW

[gloomchen.livejournal.com]

LMAO oh dear. Reminds me of a recent support ticket at my client. Guy's internet was slow and he was whining about it. The tech's solution notes were, “removed MSN, Yahoo, Google, Ask, and [insert two other] toolbars. Internet now running smoothly.”

I don't know how these people can stand losing a third of their windowspace to that crap…

[traballenguas.livejournal.com]

Yuk.

Did you like Left Hand of Darkness? I remember thinking the glacier bit was pretty impressively written. Neuromancer was great. I read all three, but I can't remember them now. I'm old. Gah.

I will send you a link to my Goodreads page.

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhhhh no. That screenshot makes me a sad panda. :(

DIRECTIVE IS AS FOLLOWS

[highlearn.livejournal.com]

NUKE FROM ORBIT.



ONLY WAY TO BE SURE.


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Re: DIRECTIVE IS AS FOLLOWS

[traballenguas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that thing needs a fresh install...

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I really liked Left Hand of Darkness. I read it for a class, and we had to pick Blade Runner, Left Hand of Darkness, or Coyote to write a five-page essay about. I hadn't read Blade Runner yet, so I wrote an essay about LHoD and got pretty 'intimate' with the book.

I'll check out the goodreads site when I've got time...Thanks!

Re: DIRECTIVE IS AS FOLLOWS

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I had decided to call in a broken arrow before I even opened the browser...er, pardon me...THE INTERNET.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your tech restored peace and order to the internets.

Re: DIRECTIVE IS AS FOLLOWS

[traballenguas.livejournal.com]

...an infected series of tubes...