24.1.05

apple iPoo »

so earlier this year i was thinking of getting an ipod. and when i mentioned it to my friend, she exclaimed, "oh, i want one too! i want to be cute and have little white earbuds in my ears!"

all i could say was, "uhn..."

and that's when i realized that i hate apple. and in particular, i hate the ipod. and even more, i hate the ipod shuffle.

apple hasn't built its customer base on what's innovative or useful. rather, it relies on design and desire. and while i'm generally a big fan of design, you honestly need more than a pretty white surface. cuz once you boot up that minimalist mac, all you get is a non-intuitive interface with a crappy-ass mouse. plus it's all housed in a cheap-ass plastic case.

but my beef is not really with mac computers. while i don't enjoy them at all, i understand why people would gravitate towards them for design-type applications. i do not, however, understand why people choose macs "because they're pretty." you do not compute because of pretty computer cases. a sleek white exterior does not help anything in terms of writing papers or essays. shitty keyboards and mice really don't add anything to the overall package either.

mac computers, despite the fact that i clearly get my hackles in a twist about them, are not the number one item on my most hated list. the ipod is. i acknowledge that ipod has one of the better menus out there. but it's not the only option! and when i raised the possibility of buying another player with 3 times the memory, people shot it down almost immediately, based on the image alone, or more disgustingly, those fucking white earbuds.

let it be known that i would walk around without music before i would wear those shitty, tinny earbuds.

and besides those crappy earbuds, let's look at the backside of the ipod. it's mirror-like. which is nice enough for things that you don't touch. but when it's on a consumer item that you carry around with you, can you say, bad idea? just ask my friend, who bought an ipod, and within 2 days of having it, had dropped it and acquired nasty, unrepairable scratches on its back. and then within a week, she'd dropped it again and it died. so she had to spend $250 to repair it. that's ... nice. sounds like great packaging, if you ask me.

and then the ipod shuffle? what the hell is up with that. apple now sells a screen-less stick with virtually no features other than shuffle, and everyone loves it. and one of the first things they tout about it is the fact that you can wear it on an ugly-ass white lanyard around your neck? so everyone can see that you, too, belong to the apple cult? i guess apple can do no wrong, as long as they continue making small white products. sign me up.

so, the core reason that i hate apple is because of their popularity. people have embraced this decent product as if it were the second coming of the messiah because of earbuds and shiny white surfaces. and that's what i find most disgusting of all.

22.1.05

a haiku »

finals are over
the ground is covered in white
it's time to get crunked

21.1.05

my name is lynndie england »

and i am white trash.


here are some people who aspire to be me.



here's some with a wuffly snuffly pug.



not legal yet? use a pen.



doin' the lynndie with some drunk woman.



the same woman, in 30 years.



they're even doin' the lynndie in disneyland!

as you can see, they have the cigarette and the thumbs down pat, but they'll never quite humiliate the good ol' US of A like i did. and that's why i'm lynndie england. [badgas via screenhead]

20.1.05

what i learn from "studying" »

so it's finals period here at the ivory tower, and recently someone emailed our dorm open list about this software that lets you speed up videos while you watch them.

anyways, this software came in superhandy because being me, i skip about 95% of my lectures. so i was reviewing a lecture at double speed, and i realized that you can also slow down the video to 0.3x the normal speed. so i did. and this professor, well, she talks kind of spastically, throwing in lots of ums and uhs. so when i watched it at the slowest setting, she sounded like a complete moron who had issues speaking. it was hilarious. i highly recommend it, especially if you want to feel superior to your professors.

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17.1.05

north american international auto snark »

so detroit recently hosted the north american international auto show. north american and international? make up your minds, people.

anyways, here's a sampling of the ugliness that you, too, may soon be able drive home.


the aston martin chrysler firepower concept



the smooshed, stretched, and otherwise hideous mini infiniti kuraza (say what?) concept



the bloated pt cruiser chevy hhr



the ugliest-ass car on earth subaru b9 tribeca



the volkswagen crushed bug ragster



the saab trailblazer 9-7x



the lexus celica LF-A concept



the jaguar advanced lightweight coupe concept, which wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have the headlights of a chevy cavalier


and one non-snarky comment...

never mind, i couldn't find it in my heart to not be snarky. i just couldn't.

16.1.05

fun ways to get to my blog »

not only can you type the url in your address bar, you can also search for boobs and pusey. or try fuck america eminem turban.

people are really friggin weird. who does that??

my guess is, the same kind of people who buy ashlee simpson cds: complete morons.

14.1.05

actually i'm just lazy »

finals have been impeding the updateability of my blog. yeah. that's why i've had no time to post anything.

but amazingly i still have time to download and watch desperate housewives and alias. i was good and didn't watch this week's lost yet. but its killing meee. who gives a crap about molecular bio when you can be watching the antics of incestuous obnoxious teens and murderous kate beckinsale-look-alikes (did they have to name her kate??)?

alias is recovering nicely from the stumble known as season three. already they've redeemed themselves by recruiting weiss (weiss is awesome. if i were a woman, i'd marry him.)! and desperate housewives -- the scene with tom staring at full house gia, i mean, lucy hatcher, err, claire's naked tushy was great. yay, television. how do i love thee, let me count the ways.

8.1.05

i didn't know the palestinians care about 70s pop »

there's a headline on some newspaper:
Hamas hopes Abbas will win small

i am so unconnected to the world. and i'm also a dork.

6.1.05

liberals must really hate america »

they're apparently leading an attempt to boycott and harm american companies.

Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America.

On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.

During "Not One Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases. Not one damn dime for nothing for 24 hours. On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Walmart, KMart and Target. Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter).

For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.

what a great idea!! tired of the war in iraq? shut down the us economy! want to get a message across to the president? don't buy american products from american companies.

um, ok. great logic.

p.s. hi grace.