J. Random Updates

[vakkotaur]

The hard drive I ordered arrived yesterday. I now have an unusual, for me, situation: I have a huge hdd but the box it goes in isn't here yet. Wal-Mart still only says "scheduled for delivery on March 20" and nothing like whether it even shipped or where it is sitting now.

Had a sample of Spring yesterday as the temperature climbed to 52 F. Today the high will only be in the 30s, and then it'll warm up again. Yep, it's March. At least this temperature swing isn't too bad. I'm hoping the ice on Hall Lake stays long enough for me to get a few pictures of it as it melts.

Weight control is not going so well. The good part is that I'm still under 220 lbs. The bad news is that I'm still over 215 lbs. Hopefully that can be taken care of this month. Current target: Get under 215 lbs, stay under 215 lbs.

The treadmill is nice, but TV isn't. So far the best thing one has been Storm Stories on the Weather channel, but that repeats after a while and how many tornadoes can you watch before they all seem the same? NOVA can be good, but that's only weekly. Maybe I need to find something to tape for treadmill time. Ideally it'd be about one hour long and commercial-free. However, watchable and an hour long are the important things. There's fast forward and mute for commercials.

The "Freedom Fries" thing? Remarkably silly, yes. What's even more amusing is watching the reaction to it. Where was this reaction when other inanities of Political Correctness were being committed? Oh, wait, I shouldn't mention things like that, it's okkay when one group renames things in inane ways, but not okkay if another group does. Uh huh. I'm laughing at both sides on this one. You just can't make this stuff up. Either side. Reality is terribly funny and funnily terrible all at once. I'm also amused (and bewildered) by how UN-related things are counted. Evidently 18 and 2 are the same number there - and these are supposedly well-educated folks?

Team leader at work didn't get a speakerphone right away but uses such. He got asked if color mattered. He said he didn't care. So they got him a cheap (75% off) speakerphone. Why cheap? Not many want a red phone. Not red, red. Bat-phone red. No, he doesn't keep it under a clear cover.

Comments

[shelbystripes.livejournal.com]

On the political correctness thing, it works both ways... I've been in an argument on LJ debate with someone who seems to be a crusader against the rather inane form of political correctness regarding racism, but will go out of his way in rather silly attempts to deny the Freedom Fries thing actually is PCness in action.

Me? I think both are stupid and PC things. But the problem is that people on either side often won't admit when things on their side fit the definition of what they're often crusading against. And it happens far too often on both sides. It's sad, really.

Also, I'm not familiar with the 18-and-2 reference. Where's that from?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

The so-called "second resolution" on Iraq would be the one after the last one.. which was the seventeenth.

[pharwarner.livejournal.com]

I'm now the possessor of a speakerphone. In fact, I have the newest phone in the whole office. It tells the time, how long I've been on the phone, and a number of other things that I don't know about. It even displays the number that you've just dialed on a little LCD screen that it has. Now you can tell that you've dialed the wrong number just before the party on the other end picks up.

One positive thing about it is that it's black. I'm sick of the white "Touchfones" that we had to endure all throughout the 90s. They only came in white, and it seems everyone had the same one. But it's not all good news, as this phone is not shiny black, but matte black. Matte to the point of being raspy and unpleasant. I'm to the point where I avoid using it because the feel of the handset sends shivers up my spine.