persephone33

You know, you can say what you like about huge, megacorporations, but Google is pretty cool. At least you know they like to have fun.

I'm particularly fond of what they like to call, "Easter Eggs." They call them this presumably because when you find them they give you a little gift.

It's not a Reese's Peanut Butter Egg, Google. Just so you know. But it is cool.

And... P.S. The day that Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs start falling out of my laptop screen, I quit. Because I'll be too busy eating the peanut butter eggs. OBVIOUSLY.

Anyway, in the interest of being fun and clever, type the following into the Google search engine window. And you have to use Google, not Bing, or Ask, or God forbid, Yahoo. What do you people even have those for? Google is where it's at, obviously.

1. Type "askew." Tilt your head and reacquaint yourself with what it means.

2. Type "Do a barrel roll." Fun.

3. Type "tilt." Okay, yeah, that's just like askew. Whatever. Someone obviously spent some time writing the code, so do it.

4. My faves are the dorky grammar ones, "Recursion" and "Anagram." Google asks you if you meant something else. *dorky gigglesnort*

5. And for the holidays, type (separately) "Hanukkah" and "Let it snow." There are some festive stars of David and it actually snows, fogs up your computer screen, and then lets you have the option of defrosting the screen at once or drawing in the frost with your mouse. How. Adorable.

6. It's not there anymore, but a while back when you typed in "gravity," you'd get this. Good times.

I killed Aidan. I killed Aidan because I can't turn my head to the right.

Um... Hey, Carrie Leigh, want to explain?

Sure thing, y'all. I'll do my best.

Aidan is my super cute and sexy HP Pavillion laptop, for those of you who were considering calling 911 and reporting a murder.

So the story is that I woke up with a stabbing pain in my neck/back (Again, I say to you twenty somethings, ENJOY your youthful body. About 35 things start breaking). And so I plugged my heating pad into the same extension cord as Aidan and when I went to adjust said pad so that I wasn't in excruciating, stabbing OHMYGOSHTHISSTINKINGHURTS pain, Aidan took a swan dive and landed on the lovely, distressed and very hard hardwood floor of my bedroom.

*tragic wail*

He's with Matt the Computer Guy now, and in good hands. But I'm afraid, my friends, that he isn't going to pull through this one. He didn't look good at all. If a laptop could've been pale, he would have been.

After I took Aidan to the hospital, I went to the chiropractor, and he cracked stuff, I whimpered, stuck these electroshock thingies on me, I whimpered, and then sprayed Biofreeze in the general vicinity of my neck and back, and I howled. It currently feels as if my back is aflame. I want to go throw myself into the nearest snowbank and make it GO AWAY.

Instead I've got some ice and another appointment on Monday. And no laptop. *another tragic wail* So if I'm scarce, that's why.

Now I'm off to teach acting to the children of Amarillo. Have a better day than I have, everyone!

I've been looking online (Louis Icart - then Alberto Vargas) for prints to put in the master bath... and then had an idea to change the layout of my LJ. The other one was narcissistic, anyway. Do you like? Keeping in mind that I did it myself, you know. I'm computer disabled. :D I think I actually like the default icon better than the header pic I chose. Help decide! ( I dunno )

And the guy totally fixed my problem.  It wasn't even his company's product.And he was patient and kind, and his tone of voice never once sounded like, 'what an idiot,' concerning my questions.  Clearwire has the best customer service.  If you need a new wireless provider, go with them.  Excellent.

So I was reminded of a story last week.  "Persephone staples her hand to an Ottoman." 


Cute kid story to come.  And pics.  :)

Okay. So yes, I have internet. And no, I'm not having to go sit in the public library, or my husband's office, so I'm grateful. But this circa 1980 POS I dug out of the closet is the crappiest thing EVER, in my opinion.  I may set it on fire when something better comes along, just for the sheer, cathartic emotional value.  It takes a full minute to switch between windows, even after I dumped a bunch of the crap that was on it.  But it runs.  *waves hands feebly*   Yay...

It's this POS, or the old laptop, which doesn't have an 's' on the keyboard. *sigh*

So there's that.

Anyway, I'm not complaining.  I'm very grateful to  seegrim and jandjsalmonfor posting things for me while I was down!  (Even though Deans mad at Pansy for leaving him off the guest list!  Yikes!)

Also, I've received Christmas cards from rainpuddle13, caramelsilver, lyndsiefenele, and a rockin' CD from reenie1.

Also, thanks to whomever suggested Game 6 to watch on DVD.  rayneday?  reenie1?  I enjoyed it.  :)

I have the best f-list ever.  Thanks, girls.