Saturday, August 8, 2009
Internet!
I was just reading my last post, and realized I had to put a new one up here. We have fast internet!!! I'm so excited! Though I still won't be looking up the Burger King anytime soon. :) I'm too busy going on Hulu to watch Ghost Hunters and House anyway.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The King Should Be Dethroned!
Okay, Burger King's site for their transformers game really sucks. Not because it's lame, or not flashy enough; quite the opposite. The damn thing won't load!
I have incredibly slow internet. It's not dial-up, but not much faster. And I'm finding it increasingly difficult nowadays to get anything done, mainly because the world at large seems to think that everyone has high-speed interent. The Transformers game site (bktransformers.com) wouldn't load past the "enter your birthdate" thing in Firefox or Internet Exploder (oops, explorer, though the number of times that "explorer" seems to get lost makes me think he really needs an internet map). I finally had to do it in Opera, which it worked in, strangely enough.
But once I got to the site, it took about ten to fifteen minutes for each code I entered, just to load its stupid video of the tranformer-king smashing through a Burger King store and throwing an armored car at the screen (or whatever he was doing, it was hard to tell from the choppy animation that my slow internet created). And all that was, of course, just to tell me I hadn't won, please try again. I didn't really expect to win. I just wanted to enter the codes for the hell of it, seeing as I'm due for some good luck after dislocating my shoulder yesterday. But I don't think I'll be entering again, even if I do get more codes, just because it nearly crashed my computer just to load their stupid flash player thing (note: it was also impossible to load their basic site bk.com).
Note to Burger King: if you pay more attention to your lowly peasants, and maybe include a low-intensive feature so those of us with slow internet can actually load your site, you may be able to stave off a recreation of the French Revolution. As for me, I'm off to sharpen my guillotine. . . .
(CYA: None of this is meant as a threat to Burger King stores, its affiliates, associates, or management. It is only for the Burger King himself, him and his creepy smile.)
I have incredibly slow internet. It's not dial-up, but not much faster. And I'm finding it increasingly difficult nowadays to get anything done, mainly because the world at large seems to think that everyone has high-speed interent. The Transformers game site (bktransformers.com) wouldn't load past the "enter your birthdate" thing in Firefox or Internet Exploder (oops, explorer, though the number of times that "explorer" seems to get lost makes me think he really needs an internet map). I finally had to do it in Opera, which it worked in, strangely enough.
But once I got to the site, it took about ten to fifteen minutes for each code I entered, just to load its stupid video of the tranformer-king smashing through a Burger King store and throwing an armored car at the screen (or whatever he was doing, it was hard to tell from the choppy animation that my slow internet created). And all that was, of course, just to tell me I hadn't won, please try again. I didn't really expect to win. I just wanted to enter the codes for the hell of it, seeing as I'm due for some good luck after dislocating my shoulder yesterday. But I don't think I'll be entering again, even if I do get more codes, just because it nearly crashed my computer just to load their stupid flash player thing (note: it was also impossible to load their basic site bk.com).
Note to Burger King: if you pay more attention to your lowly peasants, and maybe include a low-intensive feature so those of us with slow internet can actually load your site, you may be able to stave off a recreation of the French Revolution. As for me, I'm off to sharpen my guillotine. . . .
(CYA: None of this is meant as a threat to Burger King stores, its affiliates, associates, or management. It is only for the Burger King himself, him and his creepy smile.)
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Sticking an update in here
I just updated 13 days on my other blog after avoiding it forever. All I had to do was upload the pictures to photobucket (a daunting task with my slow internet), then stick them up on blogger and narrate them. Not so bad. However, now I have 36 days to fully update, meaning find all the pictures I took (scattered among three computers), choose the ones I want for each day, bring them up in Paint Shop Pro and size them down to 400 pixels wide, save them with new names in my folder for the month, upload them, then put them in blogger. Ugh. I hate my process, but my ocd won't let it be any different. Oh well.
So since I haven't written in this blog for a long while, I figured I would stick something up here while avoiding everything I have to do for the other blog. Nothing much has happened lately; I still don't have a job, because no one is hiring with the down economy, and so I haven't being doing all that much. Writing-wise, I finally updated my fanfic after eight months (embarrassing), and I just sent in a collection of ten poems for the Utah Arts Council annual writing competition. The first prize is 300 dollars, so here's hoping!
My main laptop still won't charge, so all I have for writing is my little netbook my dad got me. But I did get a new camera recently, which has really good zoom and focus and lots of capabilities, so that's good. And last week I went ghost hunting two days in a row with my family, which was very fun. I got some great shots too, big bright orbs, so I'm very happy with that.
And my sister bought Wii fit recently, so I've actually been exercising somewhat. Apparently I've got good balance. :) But it's kind of hard for me to do it properly, because being a 40DDD it keeps claiming my center of balance needs to be further forward, but if I lean forward as far as it wants, I risk falling over! Bah.
Random post, but at least it's up here.
So since I haven't written in this blog for a long while, I figured I would stick something up here while avoiding everything I have to do for the other blog. Nothing much has happened lately; I still don't have a job, because no one is hiring with the down economy, and so I haven't being doing all that much. Writing-wise, I finally updated my fanfic after eight months (embarrassing), and I just sent in a collection of ten poems for the Utah Arts Council annual writing competition. The first prize is 300 dollars, so here's hoping!
My main laptop still won't charge, so all I have for writing is my little netbook my dad got me. But I did get a new camera recently, which has really good zoom and focus and lots of capabilities, so that's good. And last week I went ghost hunting two days in a row with my family, which was very fun. I got some great shots too, big bright orbs, so I'm very happy with that.
And my sister bought Wii fit recently, so I've actually been exercising somewhat. Apparently I've got good balance. :) But it's kind of hard for me to do it properly, because being a 40DDD it keeps claiming my center of balance needs to be further forward, but if I lean forward as far as it wants, I risk falling over! Bah.
Random post, but at least it's up here.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Avoiding the other blog!
Well I suck with this whole take a picture every day thing. Actually, mostly just with updating. I have a week and a half to put online now, though I first have to track down all the pictures I took for each day. Not an easy task when I realize the camera time and date is messed up so they all say there were taken in 2005. Yep. Bleh. And I still haven't finished my shirt I've been making. Or written anything much. However, I did do a bit of free sketching with pen at the convention I went to the last weekend, which I found to be very freeing, to work with every line rather than erasing and trying to make it perfect. So I'm liking that. Now let's hope my inner critic can stay away from this and not ruin it for me.
So anyway, I'm only updating this because I'm avoiding updating my other blog. :) I haven't really done much of interest, although I did go to Idaho last Thursday and hung out at hot springs for hours. That was pretty great. Plus we got up to 118 mph on the way there. . . I didn't even notice they were trying for a new speed record. Yep. I'm oblivious. I think I was more focused on there being four people in the back of a rather small car than anything else. And the box of wheat thins I had in my hand. :D
So anyway, I'm only updating this because I'm avoiding updating my other blog. :) I haven't really done much of interest, although I did go to Idaho last Thursday and hung out at hot springs for hours. That was pretty great. Plus we got up to 118 mph on the way there. . . I didn't even notice they were trying for a new speed record. Yep. I'm oblivious. I think I was more focused on there being four people in the back of a rather small car than anything else. And the box of wheat thins I had in my hand. :D
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Creative Cycles
I think I've mentioned before that I'm too dang creative in too many directions. I've decided that the way my brain has decided to deal with this is making my creativity come in cycles. Back in January it was poetry: I wrote over 40 poems. I also took over 128 pictures, but that was because of my blog. This month I've only written about five poems, but I've crocheted a blanket, a bag, two stuffed animals, and most of a shirt. I think December was a drawing month, but I want another one of those to come around so I can work on my webcomic. I haven't had a writing month since November and NaNoWriMo :( sorry to all my fanfic followers. Bleh, so anyway, I hadn't posted to this blog for a while, so I thought I'd put something up here. I really wish these cycles could be daily or something, so I could get more variety. :P
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