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Can someone in Hollywood get with the fucking program?

I've been waiting to watch season 3 of Battlestar Galactica for.. well.. a long time.  It's been over and done with on TV for a year.  I've been waiting to get the DVDs for months.  I finally hear they're releasing ... on March 25th.  What the hell, guys?  I want to buy your show, I want to pay money for this, and you're making it really fucking hard.

Instead I'll be forced to download it and pre-order the discs if I want to see it in time for season 4.  Whatever, I don't care.  I *want* to pay for it *now* and you won't let me, and I'm not going to try recording it on my DVR anymore.  It's such a crippled piece of shit (thanks Comcast, and in turn the media conglomerates who wave pitchforks at you if you dare provide quality services and hardware with features I want) that it is useless to try.

I even looked on XBL to see if the show was up -- get with it NBC, jesus.  I was ready to buy this in MULTIPLE WAYS before downloading it.  I still bought it, but can you at least pretend to try to keep up with consumer demand?

Life's Little Challenges

(simon) i thought he would have grown up in the six years since i last spoke to him
(simon) as everyone else has
(wd) except for me.
(wd) let's be fair here
(simon) you've melowed!
(wd) I am still a petulent fourteen year old
(wd) the fuck I have
(wd) that sounds like a challenge

...

“The Republicans understand that, one, tax cuts are important and, two, fighting this war on terror is important,” [Bush] said. “I think these two issues are going to be the defining issues in who can best lead this country in a complicated world.”

I don't even know where to start with this... ludicrous on its face.

Mother is a bitch, gets publicity

This article about a mother selling her kid's car because she found alcohol in it really set me off.  The mother ran an ad talking up her being a "mean mom" and selling the car because she found alcohol.  Now she's getting praised heaped on her for doing it.

It sets me off not because kids should have alcohol in their car, but because the mother is being such a retarded self-aggrandizing bitch about the whole thing. Two things about her story bother me:

1) She believes that it wasn't the kid's booze but still sold his wheels:

The only critic is her son, who Hambleton says is "very, very unhappy" with the ad and claims the alcohol was left by a passenger.

Hambleton believes her son but has decided mercy isn't the best policy in this case. She says she set two rules when she bought the car at Thanksgiving: No booze, and always keep it locked.

So he loses his car because he didn't clean it properly (in her view, not mine, I bet he's full of it)?  That's ludicrous.  She's basically punishing him for what someone else was doing and his lack of cleanliness or paranoia.  What?  What if the kid was driving a friend home from a party so he didn't drive himself while intoxicated?  Let's see some details here.

Even so that wouldn't be a big deal and I don't think I would care except for...

2) She's keeping this ad up so she can get more supportive calls.

The car has been sold, but Hambleton says she will continue the ad for another week -- just for the feedback.

In that last sentence replace the word "feedback" with the word "praise" to get the true meaning of what's happening here.  She wants people to tell her how awesome she is, so she's continuing to run the ad.  Like I said, self-aggrandizing bitch.

Disease (sucks)

There's some sort of scourge going around, slaying all that get in its way.  Turns out I picked it up at some point while in Chicago.  If you have it or had it you know what I mean.  If you haven't gotten it yet pray to your deities that you do not.  It starts out mild, just a little fever/achiness, and then you feel better the next day -- is it possible for viruses to actually taunt you?  Because then you wake up rampantly sick, on your birthday (okay maybe not but I did) and are miserable for two or three days.  Then you might feel better again for a day, but go to bed and cough so hard and so much that you can't fall asleep in spite of all your most fervent wishes.  Then you feel better again after sleeping in until 2pm.

I fully expect this thing to come back and knee me in the balls tomorrow.  It seems too much to hope for that I might be mostly better by the weekend.  Seriously, can viruses taunt you?  Is there a Borg collective/hive mind thing going on?  Because it feels like.

I Moved

To this new fancy typepad blog.  LiveJournal is now owned by "Foreign Interests" and... I dunno, the whole thing feels kind of shady so I'm just going to not use that site/blog anymore.  For posteriority it remains here: http://doubleyewdee.livejournal.com/

I've got an upcoming post blurb about holidays and the Lego Death Star.  First I should do some real work though.