Disjointed entry, but at least the new dosage is working

[cleolinda]

So. After two years of my printer sitting in the box--I bought it, along with my then-new PC Betsy 2.0, with the first half of my book advance in 2004--I have finally taken it out and set it up. And other than HP enclosing THE WRONG KIND OF CORD (hey! hey! USB cords! they don't have ROUND ENDS! you do this for a living! I would think you would know the difference!), it's lovely. My only problem with it so far is that I can't figure out how to set the printer options to draft/grayscale/print from last page as defaults. I mean, I see how to set them to those options; I just don't see a way to make it (semi-) permanent.

(I should stop here and say that this is one of my most persistent character traits: to yearn and yearn for things, finally acquire them, and then squirrel them away for... later. Sometime. Not everything, and not always--some things get devoured instantly--but this is why I have tons of books, DVDs, and mp3s that I've never actually read, watched, or listened to. The upside of this is that if you get bored one day, it's like instant Christmas! Whee!)

Also, I really want creme brulee now. (Yes, I know there are properly about three different accent marks employed in that dessert, but try telling the Food Network that.) Instead of that, we're having breakfast for dinner, most likely employing the new toaster, about which I am way too excited. The old toaster finally just died on us--you'd depress the lever even a teensy bit, you might just think about taking out some bread, and it'd go off like a game show buzzer. "What is NO TOAST FOR YOU!" So we got a new one that has one removable crumb tray, two levers, three settings, and four slots (ah ah ahhh!). It reheats! It defrosts! It... bagels? It bagels! Which is not even to mention the fact that it is trilingual. (It's a toaster! C'est un grille-pain! Es un tostador!) My toaster is smarter than I am and I love it.

Meanwhile, I am horribly behind on my NaNo--NaNoMeWoe, I suppose.

Sen. Allen concedes defeat in Virginia. God, finally.

Apparently the new Spider-Man 3 trailer will be on tonight at 10 pm ET--on CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Showtime, and VH1, among others, and then on iFilm.

Comics question the rise of Dane Cook. I love that the actual URL for this article is news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_en_ce/dane_cook_not_funny.

Comments

[deathwatchlove.livejournal.com]

The paragraph on the toaster had me rolling.

Also, first comment. ::dances:: That never happens to me.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

The old toaster finally just died on us--you'd depress the lever even a teensy bit, you might just think about taking out some bread, and it'd go off like a game show buzzer. "What is NO TOAST FOR YOU!" So we got a new one that has one removable crumb tray, two levers, three settings, and four slots (ah ah ahhh!). It reheats! It defrosts! It... bagels? It bagels! Which is not even to mention the fact that it is trilingual. (It's a toaster! C'est un grille-pain! Es un tostador!) My toaster is smarter than I am and I love it.

...See, this is why I read your journal. Because you make me laugh so, so very much.

[twilight-zen.livejournal.com]

I should stop here and say that this is one of my most persistent character traits: to yearn and yearn for things, finally acquire them, and then squirrel them away for... later. Sometime. Not everything, and not always--some things get devoured instantly--but this is why I have tons of books, DVDs, and mp3s that I've never actually read, watched, or listened to. The upside of this is that if you get bored one day, it's like instant Christmas! Whee!

You are my twin! I swear! I do this with so so so many things, especially dressy non-workout clothes, shoes, books, DVDs (still haven't watched 'In Her Shoes' since I bought it!).

As for the printer settings, I've always set them in the document I wanted to print because the document often determines how I need it printed (landscape/portrait, last page as default, etc.). Have you tried that?

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

Comics question the rise of Dane Cook. I love that the actual URL for this article is news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_en_ce/dane_cook_not_funny.

Hahahaha. I've never understood the appeal of Dane Cook myself.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Can I Metaquote the bit about the toaster?

[bubbly.livejournal.com]

I second the meta nom. :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, go for it.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Done! (http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5600600.html)

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

I prefer the quote in icon form. xD

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

My only problem with it so far is that I can't figure out how to set the printer options to draft/grayscale/print from last page as defaults.

I'm thinking you should ask the toaster. Hey, it knows, man.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

OMGJEALOUS. We were supposed to have breakfast for dinner (biscuits and homemade gravy), but my parents both went and ruined their appetites, and now say we can't have anything nice for dinner, and I'm too tired to argue, so I'm gonna go ruin my dinner too.

Have you heard Eddie Izzard's bit about how toasters lie to us? I think it's on Glorious.

[trash-addict.livejournal.com]

Which is not even to mention the fact that it is trilingual. (It's a toaster! C'est un grille-pain! Es un tostador!) My toaster is smarter than I am and I love it.

Hee! Sometimes you make me giggle far too loudly for someone sitting in a nice studious environment like the computer library. I'm so studious I'm sitting in here checking LJ....

[trash-addict.livejournal.com]

*what the heck is a computer library? I'm sure they exist, but I was talking about the university library...

[zrath.livejournal.com]

La crême brulée est dans mon grille-pain! Au secours!
The burnt pudding is in my toaster! Help!
El pudín quemado está en mi tostadora! Ayuda!

Toast is love.

I have a small collection of '50s chrome toaster. I use one of them to make toast.
I had neither bought nor seen a modern toaster until I started working here at Amp'd.
We have this wacky combination toaster-oven/toaster.
It's a toaster-oven with two toasting slots on the top-right side.
It's got a "cancel" button. This puzzled me greatly, until I tried to eject my toast
by jiggling the toasting lever, like you do on older toasters. Nothing happened!
I briefly panicked, then pushed the "cancel" button.
My toast popped out.
Wow.

Science!!!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, el tostador has a cancel button too--I was trying to figure out how long to toast a toaster pastry thing and panicked when I couldn't get it to pop back up.

[serizawa3000.livejournal.com]

My only thought about Dane Cook (having only heard of him, but not having seen or heard any of his material) was "What's he doing in a romantic comedy with Jessica Simpson?" Because that, um. Employee of the Month movie what was out a while back, if memory serves...

[edda.livejournal.com]

I laugh at Dane Cook and pretty much want to shag him. I have no idea where that puts his comedic credibility.

The hoarding mentality happens with me, too.

How odd to be glad a Reaganite won the Virginia Senate seat.

And: The old toaster finally just died on us--you'd depress the lever even a teensy bit, you might just think about taking out some bread, and it'd go off like a game show buzzer. "What is NO TOAST FOR YOU!"

*ded of appliance Funny*

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

My toaster had a buzzer too! My mom hated that toaster; it was super jarring if it was 6 AM and all you wanted was toast.

[canonball13.livejournal.com]

Breakfast for dinner is teh best.

Yay for Virginia -- I had visions of it being as drawn out as a certain race in 2000...

I thought we saw/heard of a trailer for SP3 -- was that one a teaser and this one the actual trailer?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think this is supposed to be a full trailer.

[nasus221.livejournal.com]

lol did someone set your funny to eleven today? Because you made me giggle several times when you were talking about your TOASTER. <3

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

aw. Dane Cook. I think he's funny. Maybe not the most brilliant comedian, but funny.

[ceasethestorm.livejournal.com]

I must say I like Dane Cook's act precisely because he's not "telling jokes." It reminds me of having a particularly funny quotidian conversation with my friends. Granted, I don't want all of my comics to have that kind of act, but I can easily identify with what he's talking about. I love his energy.

I don't know why I'm telling you all this, but hey, that's my two cents.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

I agree - I have had conversations with people in my group of friends that run like a Dane Cook skit, which may be partially why I think I like him. Not everything is funny, but for all these publications to ask, "Where are the jokes..?" seems absurd. If people are laughing then he's got the 'comic' bit down, I say.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

Apparently there are to be 7 Spider Man movies? Seriously way too many.

Lmao @ the toast bit. You are hilarious. :)

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

I don't hate Cook...I don't think he's that fantastic and it's odd that, up until Employee of the Month, he was the most famous stand-up comic simply on the basis of stand-up comedy. A lot of it probably does come from a his physicality, and being reasonably good looking. (At least until he started recently taking the appearance of a trout) And yeah, he steals jokes. But I've seen many comics suck up to bigger hacks who were merely famous for doing radio. Mediocrity has hardly served as a barrier to success in many mediums...though I guess it's the rabid fanbase thing that drives people nuts. He spent the decade cultivating a grassroots campaign, without the typical underground comic sensibilities.

[gsalinas.livejournal.com]

What about the people who were famous for the basis of their stand-up, then went on to be famous for other things? (Seinfeld, George Carlin, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor)

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

Right, but the "other things" are sort of the qualifier when I say "simply". Sitcoms, movies, those kinds of extracurricular activities, where you're introduced to large audience without doing a stand-up set. Cook had amassed a fan-base and established himself enough to get a hosting gig on SNL without starring in something other than a stand-up special. I think Sam Kinison was the last. So I do think (until last month of course) he was the most famous guy just for stand-up. (Then again, Seinfeld basically played a stand-up on his show, and has pretty much played himself since.)

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

I cannot agree more about Dane Cook. Maybe it's just my sentiment that comics shouldn't be hot until after they make you laugh.

[meiousei.livejournal.com]

*delurks*

What IS it with HP and their cords? I bought a printer from them 3 months ago and had to call them because they didn't include it in the package. Then they tried to claim that the printer didn't need a cable to connect to the computer, and that they'd have to charge extra for the USB cord. Even though it's not a wireless printer. Whatever, HP.

*lurks*

[alejandradd.livejournal.com]

USB printers just don't include the cord. That's why the store where I bought mine, sold me the cord at cost. *shrugs*

Hee.

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

"The old toaster finally just died on us--you'd depress the lever even a teensy bit, you might just think about taking out some bread, and it'd go off like a game show buzzer. "What is NO TOAST FOR YOU!" So we got a new one that has one removable crumb tray, two levers, three settings, and four slots (ah ah ahhh!). It reheats! It defrosts! It... bagels? It bagels! Which is not even to mention the fact that it is trilingual. (It's a toaster! C'est un grille-pain! Es un tostador!) My toaster is smarter than I am and I love it."

... As if I really needed even further confirmation as to why I haveyoupermanentlyonmytaskbarofFavorites read you. From time to time. *shifty eyes*

^_^

[andromeda-77.livejournal.com]

Ooo, you stick things away for later, too? I do that every Christmas with some of my gifts so that I can bust them out in say, mid-May or something and have an instant pick-me-up. Even better...we're building a house right now and I've been buying stuff to decorate it with over the last year and a half. I knew we'd move at some point so I kept getting things I knew I'd like and I've kept them boxed up in my husband's shop. So I'll get to move in and be like "ZOMG TONS OF NEW STUFF AND A NEW HOUSE TO BOOT!"

[gsalinas.livejournal.com]

My main problem with Dane Cook is that he steals other people's jokes and then makes them not funny.

Nothing much...

[supermom20.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to use this icon.

Re: Nothing much...

[supermom20.livejournal.com]

Not that you are, ya know.

Re: Nothing much...

[evilsimon.livejournal.com]

That is a fabulous icon.

Re: Nothing much...

[supermom20.livejournal.com]

Footsie made it over on Fandom Wank icons (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fwank_icons/172994.html), with several other SS characters and other sayings.

[alejandradd.livejournal.com]

Here from metaquotes, but I'm going to end up commenting on something else.

. My only problem with it so far is that I can't figure out how to set the printer options to draft/grayscale/print from last page as defaults. I mean, I see how to set them to those options; I just don't see a way to make it (semi-) permanent.

If you access the printer properties through Start > Printers and Faxes > [right-clicking on your printer's name and choosing properties], the changes you make there are supposed to stick.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank God. Thank you!

[verojecs-guard.livejournal.com]

Been a long time reader, big m15m fan, but first time commenter. I love reading your stuff! Your wit never ceases to make me laugh out loud and get the (annoyed) attention of my roommates. At which point I have to explain in speech what is more funny on the screen... Anyway, might not be making sense, but the toaster bit had me rolling. Maybe call the old one "Toast Nazi"?

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the head up on the Spiderman 3 trailer. I usually watch TV around that time, but ended up sitting in front of it for an additional 10 minutes or so to watch it. Oh man it was good....*runs to go watch it again on iFilm*

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

It reheats! It defrosts! It... bagels? It bagels! Which is not even to mention the fact that it is trilingual. (It's a toaster! C'est un grille-pain! Es un tostador!) My toaster is smarter than I am and I love it.

*is dead from funny*

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

It... bagels? It bagels! Which is not even to mention the fact that it is trilingual. (It's a toaster! C'est un grille-pain! Es un tostador!) My toaster is smarter than I am and I love it

Funny. So. Great.

Printer Settings

[promise19.livejournal.com]

You can also change your printer settings in Word (if that's what you use). Choose File, Page Setup. Click on the tab "Paper." Down at the bottom there's a button called "Print Options." You can change to Draft Output, Reverse Order Pages, etc. Click the OK button (not the X button to close the window as that won't save your choices). If you want it to be permanent, there's a "Default..." button that will change the settings permanently. Otherwise, it's just for that one document. :-)

[valkyrie79.livejournal.com]

Saw this today and it reminded me of your toaster traumas . . .http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/11/10/

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeee.