Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
On a CSUN journalism student’s blog (on the school newspaper’s website), I found this post criticizing a letter PETA sent to Ben & Jerry’s. I don’t like PETA. However, I am baffled as to why this future “journalist” couldn’t be bothered to check his facts before posting his opinion on the matter. I posted the following comment, which is awaiting moderation and probably won’t be approved because, unlike the other 1 comment, I criticized his post. I should have posted my URL with my comment, I don’t know why I was too chicken to do it.
I hate PETA with a passion for reasons I won’t get into, and I’m a vegetarian, not a vegan. What they were trying to do, though, in their own patently extremist way, is to make a point. Breast milk is for human babies, cow’s milk is for calves. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp.
If you’d like to find out why vegans are so vehemently against dairy products, do a little research. Google it, for crying out loud. In fact, if you knew how to check your facts, you could EASILY have found out what PETA’s point was at their own website, posted a WEEK before you posted this. Check it out: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/09/breast_is_best.php
Dear Mr. SUV Man/Ms. SUV Woman,
I was just thinking about you. Remember me from last night? I was the little red car driving in front of you. I was driving down the curvy highway at night, which I haven’t driven on enough times to have memorized all the curves. I know you don’t care how poor my night vision is, or how smudged my windshield was from shitty glass wipes. I was driving the speed limit, but that seemed to make you really unhappy. Why is that? Are you just an angry person in general? Is it because you purchased a gas-guzzling monster of a vehicle, only for gas prices to skyrocket shortly after? If so, don’t take it out on me.
Did you purchase your SUV because you like to intimidate people in smaller cars? I’ll bet you are also one of those people who likes to pull out so far that the person in the car next to you cannot see oncoming traffic to make their turn. Even though you can clearly see over their little car. But I digress.
I was writing because I have a question for you. Exactly what is it that makes you think that by following me too closely with your brights on, I will go faster? Has it not occurred to you that blinding the person in front of you only makes them go slower because they can no longer see the lines or where the curves are? I was having enough trouble before you came along. I was going to get over as soon as there was a passing lane so you could get around me. In fact, I did. Remember? But I wasn’t going to pull over onto the shoulder so your sorry ass could be a speed demon. My apologies. I will see you again tomorrow night, or someone just like you.
Sincerely,
Compact Car Lady
Okay, our society is pretty screwed up. The majority of Americans are overweight, but I keep seeing these commercials on TV for various weight loss products and diet pills. I remember, when I was a kid, the testimonials on these types of ads would be from women saying “I went from a size 16 to a 10!” Now it’s “I went from a size 8 to a size 2!” What is wrong with people? I don’t understand the necessity to lose that much weight, it’s not necessary and likely not even healthy!
I’ve been trying to lose some weight myself, but that’s mostly because my family has a tendency to carry their weight around the middle, so even though I don’t wear a large size, my waist measurement is borderline on being a health risk. I’m trying to get healthier and no longer be teetering on the edge of having higher health risks (diabetes and heart disease already run in my family.) So it’s kind of nice to see that there are still sites that have honest reviews of diet pill scams like extreme acai berry, which leech off of people that are trying desperately to lose weight, be it for health reasons or body image issues.
Here’s the thing. I feel like I can’t really write anything terribly personal here because I do some paid blogging. And I really need the extra money from that, so I can’t really stop.
I really want to go back to my old domain. However, I don’t really feel like I can go back to blogging there because I don’t particularly want my ex-husband cyber-stalking me and keeping tabs on what I’ve been up to in the years since we’ve been divorced. However, I don’t really feel all that intimidated because, last I heard, he lived in another state. The thought of him reading it still just seems a little creepy and weird though. But I think he’s finally moved on because he finally stopped with the e-mails/voicemails after we’d been divorced for a year.
Why the obsession with my other domain? My dad got it for me as a Christmas present when I was sixteen..10 years ago, back when domains and hosting were still actually pretty expensive. So yes, my parents could read whatever on there if they wanted to, but they never really did. I talked about skipping school when I was 17 and they never said anything about it, because they never read it. I said, “please don’t read this section of my site” and they didn’t (I have some cool parents, huh?). Zack already told me he doesn’t read my blog. He doesn’t “get” blogging. He knows I tell him everything anyway, so what is the point of reading what you already heard that day, that you were there for anyway.
And yeah, I could just get another new domain or use my livejournal or something for the more personal posts. But dammit, it’s just not the same. That was where I shared my most intimate thoughts with strangers for 8 years. I’ve tried livejournal, and this, and it’s just not the same.
Anyway, don’t mind me. I’m just venting. That’s what blogs are for, right?
This morning, I got an e-mail from Dreamhost stating that I owed them $119.40, which had been past due since 2008-11-20. Umm..yeah. Well, before I hit “send” on my reply to that, I thought to check their status blog, because for some reason they seem to like posting stuff there rather than e-mailing everyone. They had billed everyone for December 31, 2008. It doesn’t appear that my card was charged, and they say they’re refunding everyone’s money, but what?! They can’t double-check their stuff before billing all their customers, for a total of 7.5 million dollars?! “Oops” indeed.
I didn’t realize it was so late. I’ve been playing Soul Calibur III, and I’m getting extremely mad at this game. I know it’s not supposed to be easy, but it’s just ridiculous when you can’t seem to block anything, but your opponent can block almost everything. I’m playing as Zasalamel, and fighting versus myself right now. I probably would have ended up missing posting today altogether, but I needed a little break from this frustration. Playing versus the same character you’re playing sucks when you don’t really know how to do their special moves, and that’s all they do. Maybe I should go back to playing Star Ocean 2 (my all-time favorite video game), but now I’m so mad at this game that I just want to keep playing until I manage to beat this guy. 
- Wordpress. - I need to come up with something different. I was looking into iWeb, since it came preinstalled on my much-loved new MacBook Pro, but I don’t think I like being stuck with Apple’s templates.
- Physics - How did I get 9/10 on the first lab and 10/10 on the second, and on the third one I get 7/10 and the instructor e-mails me to tell me that I need to either a.) have a one-on-one chat with him or b.) go to CSUN and talk to his assistant tomorrow. I live about an hour and a half away. I hate going to Northridge. That is why I am taking the class online. So I guess I need to look at it again and see if I can figure out what I did wrong, and set up a chat with the professor.
- My back. - My back is jacked. It hurts so bad and I didn’t do anything to it. Stupid scoliosis.
- Ice cream - Ben & Jerry’s is evil. Today I discovered Oatmeal Cookie Chunk, which may well be the best flavor ever. That is just not something I needed to know.
