Here’s a token of my openness, of my need to not disappear
I’m pretty sure the A/C adapter on my laptop is going bye-bye, and in an effort to not have it take my laptop with it, I’ve unplugged it. My mom lent me a Mac which is simply awesome and is making me think of giving up Ubuntu.
Oh, wait, I think I meant kinda like a plastic toy with fewer keyboard shortcuts, but, still, THANKS MOM!
Diss diss diss Mac Mac Mac. I know, I know. Here it is in two sentences: “Everything the designers thought you should do is trivially easy. Everything they didn’t want you to do is completely fucking impossible.” If it’s a choice between “makes the easy stuff easy, the hard stuff impossible, and everything uniformly pretty” and “makes the easy stuff possible, the hard stuff possible, and every UI look like a different mongrel dog”, please sign me up for the latter. Except — most of the easy stuff is easy now in Ubuntu, and it’s getting more handsome.
Anyway — I may not respond quickly to your attempts at contact. But I love you anyway. Some of you. You know who you are.
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August 31st, 2009 at 04h10
No Way <3 Favorite album ever.
August 31st, 2009 at 19h41
Yes, it’s a bad A/C adapter, and the computer store wants $40 to replace it. Also, Karina is not aphasic, she was concisely and correctly identifying that the post title is a reference to the song No Way by the band Pearl Jam on the album Yield, and that she loves that album to the degree that she considers it her favorite of all time.
Join the fun, there is almost always a more-or-less obscure reference in every blog post — frequently in the title, the URL, or both — and it’s a wacky-cool game for the whole family to identify them! W00t! Hint: If you don’t get it, it’s probably one of “Pearl Jam”, “Eddie Izzard”, or “Henry David Thoreau”.
September 1st, 2009 at 03h51
she was concisely and correctly identifying that the post title is a reference to the song No Way by the band Pearl Jam on the album Yield, and that she loves that album to the degree that she considers it her favorite of all time.
Indeed. And I’ve got the tattoo to prove it.. (lame, I know haha)
I usually only get PJ references…if any.
September 1st, 2009 at 07h19
And I’ve got the tattoo to prove it
The traffic sign? Or something else?
(lame, I know haha)
Then we’re both lame. I’ve been planning to get the bird part when I figure out where:
September 1st, 2009 at 15h16
Yep. A yield sign in black ink on my wrist. With a few lyrics from “Given To Fly” to come fairly soon.
And I’d never seen that bird before.
September 1st, 2009 at 16h05
A yield sign in black ink on my wrist.
Inside, outside, or really creepy that I’m asking about your tattoos?
With a few lyrics from “Given To Fly” to come fairly soon.
To the uninitiated, she is talking about a rock song describing a character whose arc stretches from
to
That last word is “saved-rescued”, not “saved-reserved”.
Frequently I really wish people could understand Ed’s lyrics while he sings them. He wishes he “was a messenger and all the news was good“: he’s is a messenger, all the news is profoundly not good, and messengers need to enunciate clearly.
September 1st, 2009 at 16h11
Also, Ed, come on, subjunctive, OK? “Were” would scan as well as “was”.
September 1st, 2009 at 16h48
[...] berated Ed Vedder for not using the subjunctive in the song Wishlist. But every time I get self-righteous about [...]
September 1st, 2009 at 19h27
Inside, facing me. The questionnaire is not really that creepy…yet. Anyway, the only thing that delays my lyric-inking actions is the fact that my mother and/or future children might find “fuckers” offensive/embarrassing.
DUDE, you think too much. Hell, he’s always drunk, half the time you can’t even understand what he says when he’s talking, let alone singing. No one would notice if the songs were grammatically correct anyway…well, except you, of course. :p
Ugh. Grammar was never my forte, as you’ve probably noticed. But hey, I have an excuse, I’m foreign. ahaha
September 1st, 2009 at 20h26
DUDE, you think too much.
No one’s ever told me that before!
Oh wait yes they have.
September 1st, 2009 at 20h33
Oh, and of course “fuckers” got past every radio station I’ve ever heard, so you could replace it with something like mblklrers in your tattoo, and not be too far far from the canonical lyrics.
Previously: Songs edited for broadcast. That is also an overthought post, but I must insist that you comment either on that one or the grammar one — as penance for something (?). And yes, I’m using “must” modally.