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cleolindaFametracker, c'est mort. All the threads (except the ones I and other people saved) are gone, but my favorite line from the "Last One Out" thread was from Majael: "Man, reading this thread... not since the Allies swept into Germany have this many bridges been burned." It got crazy in there, as all the resentment that had been festering against the mods (particularly editor-in-chief Wing Chun) and the rampant misogyny in the female celeb threads (long story short: Jennifer Garner has dated three men in as many years and therefore is a dirty HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR) blew up. It was sort of hilarious and terrifying at the same time, given how the FT boards were famous for being orderly and well-spoken--it was fifteen pages of "I'm gonna miss you guys! Thanks for everything! *sob*," and then all of a sudden, shit done blowed up. The mods checked out on March 7, and it was a free-for-all after that. No more were posters restricted to celeb threads strictly titled in the first name/last name "Jennifer Garner" style (as opposed to "omg jeng arner is a dirty hooooooor"), and only about a restricted pool of figures (no politicians, no fictional characters, no random local "celebrities," etc.)--no, suddenly "Jesus" and "Hitler" and "Wing Chun" were all battling it out for most popular thread. They said the lights would go out on Monday, but it was getting so ugly that we all knew it wouldn't last that long, and sure enough, the forums went dark sometime this morning.
And meanwhile, the "Phantom of the Opera" and "Gerard Butler" threads remained oases of snarky love and light until the end. Bless.
Back in the real world... I feel floppy. I think it's a physical reaction to yesterday's stress--I slept in this morning and when I woke up, was too limp to go to class. Seriously. I couldn't interact with people, I hadn't been able to do more than stare at the class reading, and I was having a little trouble typing earlier today. And I'm telling you, there were no pills or drugs or booze involved or anything. I think that I literally got so mad that it eventually turned into some kind of adrenaline high. Hell, maybe I needed it, because I haven't felt this calm in months. I feel absolutely centered. Case in point: [Hometown] had a massive power outage yesterday morning. It didn't last long, but something like 10,000 people were without power for a couple of hours. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but when I put a DVD into my player today, it wouldn't load. I turned it on and off, tried again... "Disc loading... loading... loading... No disc." I have a bad habit of leaving the player turned on, and since I can't get any DVDs to work, I'm thinking the outage fried my player.
Am I upset? Well, why would I be upset? There are a couple of other players in the house I can use, even if it's not in the convenience of my own room. Yeah, I'm on a tight deadline. So? Might do me some good to see the movie once and not have it three feet away to constantly replay and pick at. Yeah, I'm gonna have to replace the machine, and that's gonna cost money. But I had been wanting a new player, maybe universal, with room for multiple discs. It's a business expense; maybe I'll splurge. Mmm, pizza for dinner tonight. Seriously, that's the level of my brain right now. It's like I got all my mad for the next six months out. I feel stoned, and it feels good.
(Hey! I can play DVDs on my nice new[er] Betsy 2 computer. That'll work.)
And meanwhile, the "Phantom of the Opera" and "Gerard Butler" threads remained oases of snarky love and light until the end. Bless.
Back in the real world... I feel floppy. I think it's a physical reaction to yesterday's stress--I slept in this morning and when I woke up, was too limp to go to class. Seriously. I couldn't interact with people, I hadn't been able to do more than stare at the class reading, and I was having a little trouble typing earlier today. And I'm telling you, there were no pills or drugs or booze involved or anything. I think that I literally got so mad that it eventually turned into some kind of adrenaline high. Hell, maybe I needed it, because I haven't felt this calm in months. I feel absolutely centered. Case in point: [Hometown] had a massive power outage yesterday morning. It didn't last long, but something like 10,000 people were without power for a couple of hours. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but when I put a DVD into my player today, it wouldn't load. I turned it on and off, tried again... "Disc loading... loading... loading... No disc." I have a bad habit of leaving the player turned on, and since I can't get any DVDs to work, I'm thinking the outage fried my player.
Am I upset? Well, why would I be upset? There are a couple of other players in the house I can use, even if it's not in the convenience of my own room. Yeah, I'm on a tight deadline. So? Might do me some good to see the movie once and not have it three feet away to constantly replay and pick at. Yeah, I'm gonna have to replace the machine, and that's gonna cost money. But I had been wanting a new player, maybe universal, with room for multiple discs. It's a business expense; maybe I'll splurge. Mmm, pizza for dinner tonight. Seriously, that's the level of my brain right now. It's like I got all my mad for the next six months out. I feel stoned, and it feels good.
(Hey! I can play DVDs on my nice new[er] Betsy 2 computer. That'll work.)
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-11 11:05 pm (UTC)getting highdrinking with Cleo... :)no subject
Date: 2005-03-12 12:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:07 pm (UTC)I already had the modem fried in a computer through the phone line, in spite of the surge protector for the power cords. Ack!
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:11 pm (UTC)Again... nothing constructive to say. I'm sorry I'm so uninteresting lately.
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-12 01:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:18 pm (UTC)(And yay for Betsy 2! She is finally becoming useful!)
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:21 pm (UTC)I was wondering, as I was reading your entry, how I could live in T-Town and not know there was a big ol' outage twenty minutes away. Then, I realized somebody DID tell me something about it, but I was reading TWOP's recap of "Carnivale" at the time and wasn't listening all that closely.
I hate it when that happens. I immediately begin wondering what else I tuned out. What if it was important? And how do you ask somebody to repeat what they said yesterday without admitting that you were ignoring them in favor of snark?
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-11 11:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-11 11:43 pm (UTC)Try three guys in as many months. *is shamed*
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Date: 2005-03-12 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-11 11:49 pm (UTC)Although it was getting a little crazy toward the end. I mean, Jesus? Gets his own thread? Psh. The only reason he's so "famous" is because of his dad. ;)
But I will miss it. FT is where I found out about "Movies in Fifteen Minutes" and for that, I am forever grateful.
*pours shovel full of dirt onto FT coffin*
Sorry about your DVD player....I cannot live without mine. Six disc changer, woohoo!
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:58 pm (UTC)There's a board for HP fan FT refugees here (http://fthp.hosted-forum.com/).
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Date: 2005-03-11 11:52 pm (UTC)That dosen't happen all the timeway to miss the point, Kevin
Date: 2005-03-12 12:06 am (UTC):P
Re: way to miss the point, Kevin
Date: 2005-03-12 08:47 am (UTC)#1, Noel from felicity. to whom she was married. and who many women, and some men, find very attractive.
#2 Michael Vartan. don't know how serious it was, but i;ve heard she broke his heart. he is very attractive, and so many women now wear blue ribbons, hating the evil maneater that broke his poor heart. (not my opinion, just how i think some people reacted)
#3 Ben Affleck, who, pre-Bennifer at least, was very popular with the ladies. and apparently, things are "serious" between them too.
so i really think the problem arises more from jealousy pertaining to the men she was dating, and the fact that all the relationships are / were supposedly serious is a bit reminiscent of another jennifer.
now compare that to, say, Angelina Jolie, who we all know enjoys an active sex life, probably with some of Hollywood's hottest actors / actresses (and, if tabloids are to be believed, broke up brad pitt and jennifer aniston) , and she isn't labeled a slut (at least that i know of). why? because she keeps her affairs private, and even if they were to be exposed, they probably won't be serious, so she isn't seen as keeping brad pitt / colin farell / jared leto / insert name here from being with the fifteen year old fangirl or middle aged soccer mom.
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Date: 2005-03-12 12:06 am (UTC)Hey,
Universal DVDS are of the good. I hope whomever invented Region-Specific discs is condemned to their own, one-Betamax copy of ISHTAR level of Hell...
Wirrrn!
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Date: 2005-03-12 01:39 am (UTC)I got a Cyberhome 300 from Amazon for under $40. There's a quick hack that involves pressing a few buttons on the remote, and you can set the region, including all-region.
I can get all those UK shows that aren't out in the US now. Whee!
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Date: 2005-03-12 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-12 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-12 12:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-12 12:17 am (UTC)Now I'm pissed I never checked out FT before, because the blowup sounds quite amusing. Also: I have no idea if you know the answer to this or not, but why did they call it quits?
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Date: 2005-03-12 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-12 12:45 am (UTC)The popular conspiracy theory was that Wing and Glark were sick of dealing with the Forums, and that the money thing was just an excuse. The primary evidence adduced to support this theory was that instead of posting a warning -- "hey guys, donations have fallen off and we're in the red again" -- they just said, "Donations aren't covering bandwidth, so we're done." No appeal, no second chance.
For the person who was missing the book threads from Publishing & Multimedia Talk: there's a new refugee board for all the P&MT at To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good (http://bibliophiles.hosted-forum.com/).
And Cleo? Sorry to hear about your DVD player. Andy Ihnatko did a column (http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy26.html) about a Philips one that is easily hacked to become region-free, plus it plays just about everything that's 5 inches and shiny, and can output to a VCR without that nasty Macrovision stuff. Amazon.com was sold out, but I found one at Target for the same price.
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Date: 2005-03-12 04:14 am (UTC)Just for fun
Date: 2005-03-12 12:55 am (UTC)Jem (http://www.livejournal.com/community/sages_of_chaos/344749.html) is posting on Sages of Chaos. [She finally dumped Rio!]
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Date: 2005-03-12 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-12 02:25 am (UTC)Wh-what? N-no. Nooooo! I had been so busy this week with the writing of several thousand papers and the deadlines and the packing and the traveling that they closed on me! My plans for this weekend were to save the Harry Potter thread before it closed and I didn't get a chance. CRAP!!
*goes to sulk*
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Date: 2005-03-12 04:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-12 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-12 03:03 am (UTC)~Roxy~
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