<inpheaux> is this decade over yet?
<inpheaux> no seriously, this decade has fucking sucked. [01.01.05@14:24]

dear nationwide cable news agencies, i understand the earthquake and the tsunami were a large event, but you guys have this problem. you don't like actually looking for things to report on. you just don't. so when something large occurs, you feel it is perfectly a-ok to cover it and nothing but it 24 hours a day for weeks. you've done this before, i've seen you do it before, and it's pissed me off then just like it's pissing me off now. this time is slightly different though, as ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW HAS OCCURED.

it's been a whole week now, and granted, you've had your third-string lackeys running the show for this period of time, but seriously. you have reported ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW since last sunday apart from the updated death toll and the updated amount of cash dubya has decided to throw in the direction of southeast asia. for the past week you've been regurgitating the same stories about some little kid who's starting his own unofficial and completely unaccountable internet relief fund. i know you both mean well on that story, but shit, by even mentioning it you legitamize thousands of scam artists willing to make a buck off this event. you shouldn't be encouraging this behavior, you shouldn't even be reporting on it, if people want to donate you should be sending them to the red cross not little billy's sewper interweb fund.

last time we had one of these events that the news media would refuse to stop talking about, i came up with my theory for how i would do it. 48 hrs of initial coverage. past that, move on. after that you are only allowed one hour of daily coverage to recap the story and explain any new information. soon as you run out of new information you get to stop reporting on it. and no, sending new people there to say the SAME DAMN THING does NOT count as "new information".

this way, news would actually stay NEWS. because of this shit, i haven't heard ANYTHING about what else is happening in the world for the past week, and that bothers me. so it needs to stop. [01.02.05@15:28]

hello. this is me being paranoid.

as some of you know, i have an ipod. i got it when my rio karma died. i got it because i knew i could get accessories for it, and that it wouldn't suck too bad. i knew going in that it had Issues with shuffle, with it eating power like candy, with it not being real shuffle, etc. i like shuffle, too. i was kinda sad, but i didn't worry about it, if something isn't random enough for me i hit next a few more tiems.

lately it's gotten worse. just last friday i had it play five tracks from siamese dream back to back. they were the ONLY tracks from siamese dream i had on my playlist. and they were IN ORDER. today i had it play four radiohead tracks in a row. and then three tracks in a row from mc chris. it is starting to displease me.

today apple announced their flash based ipod, as expected. it is the ipod shuffle. it is completely based around being randomized.

fuck you, apple. fuck you for releasing products that are inherently flawed so new products can be released and hype up features we should ALREADY FUCKING HAVE, and could theoretically be ADDED BACK VIA SOFTWARE.

now, rio, please hurry up and release the karma 2 so i can sell my 4g ipod. [01.11.05@16:42]

oh boy! just in time for my scheduled lack-of-things-to-read period, we have the imminent release of shadow of the giant. guess my current schedule gets to change, then. finish the system of the world within the next few days, then work on going postal and have it finished up in a week or so. then over the course of late january and all of february work my way through ender's game and the entire shadow series, wrapping up in time to catch . . well . . the end of all things? if the shadow series is set to mirror ender's, then this is It. or at least, that's how it was planned. though, i can't seem to find anything to back up this claim at the moment. [01.13.05@06:39]

dear ad companies, please stop making ads featuring people with huge heads. like this guy. seriously. stop. i'm especially talking to you, mcdonalds ad wizards. as far as i can tell, you people started this, so i'm holding you responsible. so stop. [01.13.05@10:05]

dear history channel,

you are the HISTORY channel, this means your report on real things, real historical things. this means that when a publication is put forth as fiction, you don't have to report on it! so why do you currently have a special on about the davinci code? i don't care how many times you say "LOLZ DIS IZ ONLY LEGAND!" or "LAWL ONLY ALLEDGEDLY!!". guess what chucklefucks, if the davinci code ACCEPTS that it is fiction, it doesn't alledge ANYTHING, because it is not attempting to claim any of it is true.

now shut up and stop this retarded bullshit. [01.17.05@12:00]

i hear that the enemy's gate is down. confirm / deny. [01.19.05@00:40]

my ipod's shuffle function is REALLY starting to bother me. seriously. it just played - back to back - the mc chris track "hijack" followed by the zoomzip remix of said track. also: i was displeased to find from an interview that his favourite kind of nut is not a macadamian. [01.21.05@08:31]