Ugh. Where does everybody go during the week? Don’t you know it’s during the week that you’re supposed to fuck around on the internet the most…because who wants to actually work? One can only read Perez Hilton and I Can Has Cheezburger so many times in a day.
Other than completely exhausting my sources of entertainment on the interwebs, I have been preoccupying myself with Harry Potter. I finished Prisoner of Azkaban last night–and it was all kinds of wonderful goodness! I’ve discovered a few things while reading the Harry Potter books. First, I don’t know why I didn’t read them before; they’re totally up my ally. Second, I sure do have a shitterific memory. I didn’t remember crap from the movies while reading the books, which, I think is turning out to be a good thing. I didn’t remember at all about the time traveling! The whole time with Hermione, I couldn’t remember why she was able to go to all those classes.
I’ve been re-watching the movies after I finish the book. So this weekend I’ll watch the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. And now I’m reading the Goblet of Fire. Good times. I’ll be sad when I’m done with these books now! Andy says Prisoner of Azkaban is his favorite, and I can see why after finishing it. I like it the best so far. But we’ll see if it’s still my favorite after reading all seven.
In other news, I have no other news because I’m rather bored. I could be working on I Woke Up LA right now, but I don’t much feel like it. Eh, we’ll see.
Three cookies to who can spot the song with lyrics mentioned in this post’s title. The song reminds me of being 18 and driving around in my old red Acura doing incredibly stupid and bad 18 year-old things. Nine years ago! Insanity. Good times. Hint: Why don’t you get the fuck out of my face?! NOW!
Really, the only thing I did this weekend was play SimCity 4. The game has grown on me quite a bit. It’s a lot more challenging that the previous versions of the game–and perhaps that’s an understatement. Actually, it’s kind of funny, because there are several aspects of the game that are more like City Life. Such as how when you zone, the zones auto-fit themselves with streets. Which is nice and incredibly annoying at the same time. And due to the way I’ve always played SimCity 2000 and 3000, this provides me with a big challenge. I would always make zones of specific sizes with specific spaces between for parks and subway/bus stops; doing that with the way SimCity 4 zones is not practical.
Plus the monthly costs of everything is more like City Life. But that’s not so bad. The regional idea and making neighbor cities to fit in is interesting, but I rather like it. I’ve gotten a lot better since it’s all I’ve been doing recently. Though I’ve yet to make a successful city with awesome high-density yet. I’m working on it. Haha.
All night, while playing SimCity and doing laundry (grumble), I’ve been listening to the Once More, With Feeling Buffy episode soundtrack, which I purchased off Amazon at the same time I got SimCity 4 (so I could get free shipping–haha, brilliant). I actually downloaded it several years ago, but decided to buy it, and I’m glad I did. I don’t think that episode or the silly songs from it will ever get old. Of course, neither will the show. I’m not even usually one to ga-ga over musicals. But man, this one is just an over-abundance of guilty pleasures. And the CD came with a few bonuses at the end that I adore. Like the creepy suite from the Hush episode. Gah, Buffy really was a brilliant show. I miss it. Joss needs to get another show now. And it needs to not be on CW, Fox or UPN where it will get canceled. >:|
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The more time goes by, the more I hate IE 6. And the longer IE 7 has been out, the more I hate that people still use IE 6. Though, I guess in some circumstances, users can’t upgrade to IE 7. But damn it, they can use a different browser for the love of God!
I just finished going through and making my IE 6 style sheet to make my site not look ridiculous in that stupid out-dated POS browser that apparently half the population still uses. At first, I wasn’t going to accommodate IE 6 users, because I tried to tell myself that if they’re going to use crap, then they deserve to look at crap too. But, sigh, I caved in anyway and made a bunch of shitty GIF versions of little transparent PNGs.
At work, it doesn’t bother me quite as much to accommodate for ridiculously out of date browsers, but then, that’s a much different environment than the one I have for this little pleasure site here.
I think I’m just impatient. I’ve been having to deal with IE 6′s crap for so many years now…and now that IE 7 has been out a little while, I’m just ready for IE 6 to be gone. Even though I know that is truly a long, long time away from actually happening.
I wish somebody made a “virus” of sorts that infected only IE 6 or lower users, in that it inhibits them from viewing any website at all, except for those that link to downloads of modern browser alternatives. And if they don’t do it after a while, they get flooded with the goatse picture (don’t worry, it’s just a wiki article) for all eternity! Ha. I am obviously being ridiculous, but you know, that would totally make my year.
And I blame coming across a comic from xkcd for putting goatse in my head for the first time in years. This comic could not be more accurate for me and my college forum days, I kid you not. Though Andy pointed out that perhaps nostalgia is not the correct term in this case. I think I disagree; those days were pretty funny.
