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Sep. 20th, 2004 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaACK HATE GRRR KILL. My DSL was fading in and out yesterday, but now it's just gone--I'm downstairs on my parents' computer, which will do in a pinch, except... you know. I mean, I have most of my bookmarks stored on Yahoo, but... it's not my room with my stuff and... I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the sites I visit, but you might not want your family to realize that you spend a lot of time on a site populated by stick figures. Also? No Semagic. No IM to talk to Vladimir. Damn thing takes 10 minutes to pull up my email, and it's got a cable connection, for chrissakes.
(Cable? DSL? What? I know, I know. You won't believe this, but by the time we priced routers and networks and whatevers, it turned out that it would cost a hell of a lot more to bust through the walls and install a cable connection in my room OR hook up all the computers in the house to a DSL network connection than it would be to just let me have DSL and my parents add, like, a dollar [for serious!] to the digital cable bill for downstairs. And one or the other is always going out, so we have the added benefit of being able to run whining to the other connection.)
So I'm ticked. I can't even run the IntelliMover software on my new computer until I have an internet connection. Fnarrr. I have been moving things from CD-RWs, however, although half of them have decided to pretend that they're completely blank, EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THEY'RE NOT, GIMME BACK MY FILES, HORS!
(Does anyone know how to retrieve documents off a misbehaving CD?)
Meanwhile, I'm down here searching the OED for a three-page close-reading paper on two lines from Milton's Comus:
Next this marble venom'd seat
Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat
that... well, a noble's virgin daughter is trapped on that seat. Yeah. Ew. So, basically, imagine having to look up every single word in the OED just to be sure there isn't some wildly divergent meaning or development in the history of the word, and then think of something scintillating to say about it. Yeah. If y'all are interested, I'll post it when I'm done.
(Also, I'll explain the Peter Pan thing from yesterday in plain English as soon as I have a moment. It's not going to happen until the new year at the very earliest, but I wanted to know if there would be any interest.)
AH GOD WHERE IS MY INTERNET STAB.
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Date: 2004-09-20 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 02:49 pm (UTC)LOL, female excitement.
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Date: 2004-09-21 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-20 02:44 pm (UTC)Sounds like you need to install some special software so that the computer will understand how to read the CDRWs in the first place. Not sure why the computer can read some of them and not others (unless the CDRWs were burned using different programs or something), but you can try installing this Adaptec ASPI Driver (http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&filekey=aspi_v470.exe). Yes, I know the link ends in '.exe', but not will start downloading until you click on the download button. You'll just have to trust me on that...
One last thing... You install this at your own risk, and I cannot be held liable for damages or any of that. Blah blah blah... It shouldn't give your computer any problems though. :)
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Date: 2004-09-20 02:45 pm (UTC)Yes! Milton translated!
Mayhap your DSL is bein' savaged by a pride of purple packet panthers, who feast upon TCP/IP data as it swims through the ether. Or something. Must..put..down..crack pipe.
Hope it's fixed soonish.
Yarha, Like Souls Thronging Thick as Leaves in Vallombrosa
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Date: 2004-09-20 05:40 pm (UTC)Vladimir Update: I think I narrowly averted being scalped over on my LJ for saying that AOTC ain't all bad after all, nor is ROTK all peachy. What else. Visited some publishers, had a lovely Mexican meal with Domagoj, attended some Algoritam evening gala somewhere. Read a bit of a friend's novel, which happens to be q. good and can't find a publisher. All in all, not bad for a Monday. Overdue with two ultrashort reviews for the local Total Film, mostly because they are ultrashort and I'll, like, write them in no time, right?
Well, at least Milton sounds like no porn we've ever seen.
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Date: 2004-09-21 06:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-22 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 05:48 pm (UTC)Eck, gumms of glutenous heat makes me think of the second thing there. Gluttony, heat, gumms. ... semen, if you would :P
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Date: 2004-09-21 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 09:03 pm (UTC)The only computer in the house is in my parents' room, I feel your pain. My parents are the type who flinch at the word 'hell', so they nearly have heart attacks when they read TWoP re-caps over my shoulder. I don't think they've realized that I hear 10 times worse at school. Yay, middle school!
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Date: 2004-09-21 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 09:15 pm (UTC)i just used the word 'scintillating' this evening. or, actually, i was going to use it, but then i realised that i didn't know how to pronounce it. so i asked about pronunciation and then i utilised it in conversation. i love big words [ and yes, i am a nerdy wanna-be writer with no life ]. :D
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Date: 2004-09-20 09:28 pm (UTC)WHOOT THE GRIM GROTTO COMES OUT TODAY *is impatient for school to end*
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Date: 2004-09-20 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-20 11:17 pm (UTC)*gets sudden nasty flashback from first year poetry class*
*brain goes into convulsions and starts churning out random showtunes to block out the memory*
Geebuz. You have my sympathies. Do post the results when you're done with them!
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Date: 2004-09-20 11:32 pm (UTC).... I think I know what that line's talking about.
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Date: 2004-09-21 03:33 pm (UTC)