what is and is not on the innernets

Every time I go to the New York Times website to read an article, I'm presented with a flash ad by the Parents, The Anti-Drug people beseeching mommies and daddies to be aware of what their kids are looking at/doing online. The ad shows a kid wandering through a cartoon mall with stores labelled "XXX," "Candy," "Sports," and "Marijuana."

The ad is a total ripoff of a great sketch fromChapelle's Show, except that the people who made the anti-drug spot seem to have never used the internet before. First of all, if the internet is a mall, then there needs to be like 987263743 more stores that say "XXX." Then there's the marijuana store. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the innernets do not have marijuana. If there were a "cannibis" section of Amazon, god knows, they'd be doing a pretty good business, but it isn't there. I'VE LOOKED. Ebay also has a distinct lack of marijuana for sale or auction. Maybe if you live in Amsterdam you can place your order on the web, but I kind of doubt it.

Let's review what we've learned:

The innernet has: porn
The innernet does not have: marijuana

This WILL be on your final exam.

paula vs. winston

From Bravotv.com, an entertaining game wherein one tries to determine if a comment was made by Paula Abdul or Winston Churchill. Not as easy as you'd think.

Lifted from Defamer.

computer geek advice needed

I might as well rename my blog "So I'm moving...", since that seems to be the impetus for 3 out of every 4 blogs these days (the impetus for the other 1 seems to be "hilarious videos from 15 years ago").

So I'm moving, and one of the special challenges is figuring out what to do with my computer files. Dick and I recently bought a shiny new Mac, which will be our computer for home and mine for school. I've still got my 1999 Compaq desktop, and there are many files I wish to keep on my Dell laptop from work, including all of the digital photos related to my future grad school work. The Compaq and all the trimmings is going to the highest bidder ($15? Anyone? Anyone?) once I've cleaned off the hard drive, and the Dell, natch, will reclaimed by Southern Private University when I cease to be their employee.

Thus, I need to transfer all the files I want to keep from the computers I will no longer have to the computer I do have. I have a thumb drive, which could do the trick, but I'm also starting to think I may want to take this opportunity to create a more permanent backup/storage solution for the stuff that, if lost, would cause a great wailing and gnashing of teeth. It's likely that in school I'll be doing digital photo and video stuff, meaning I'll need a pretty hefty storage limit. I'm also kind of poor.

I was thinking online backup/storage, but that shit is too expensive (unless you know of something cheaper, dear reader). Now I'm leaning toward the external hard drive solution, but I haven't a clue what to get. I want something for around $50 that is smallish but not so small I'll lose it, durable, 80ish gigs or so, and cheap. Did I mention cheap?

the beantown mixtape

The move to beantown necessitates a mix of songs about/from Boston, and the playlist has just gotten a "New Editon" (ahhh, I crack myself up). But there are so many hits to choose from:

"If It Isn't Love"


"Candy Girl"


"Popcorn Love"


"Cool it now"

arcade fire: it's not just the music that's whiny

Arcade Fire will steal your basketball. Another reason to hate them. Like you needed another one.

Shamelessly lifted from Can't Stop The Bleeding.