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but I still do them….

Which OS are You?

Biella once asked something like “Yeah, but are you REALLY a geek?” To which my momentary hesitation to answer should have been enough to tell her that, “No, I am no Ubergeek.” And it’s primarily because I’m too much of a people person to ever wed myself to the world of geekiness.

I’m a geek though, so I do geeky things. For instance, the impetus for writing this entry was just to mention that a few minutes ago I opened my newly installed Kdevelop 3.0.2 application on my wonderful KDE 3.2.0 (K Desktop Environment 3.2.0) and screamed like a little girl when I clicked on the documentation tab and found programmer references for everything from Perl to STL. So exciting!

This is the kind of horrible world in which we live. Mr. Microsoft needs to do us a favor and catch his uncharismatic breath. Follow the movie links below, monkey boys and girls.

Breathe Breathe Breathe Breathe!

For god sakes BREATHE! GLORIA ESTEFAN AND STEVE BALLMER FO EVAH!

I couldn’t pass up showing everyone the mini christmas tree we have in our duplex. The first time I saw it, I laughed for about five minutes, for various good spirited reasons.

From http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/film.rings.mortensen.ap/:
“In Mortensen’s real-life love life, he once was married to Exene Cervenka, a singer with the rockabilly-punk band X; they divorced in 1997.”

Sounds to me like Aragorn is or once was a punk rocker. Weird. Aragorn is also
the name of a real person who may very well still be a punk rocker. Whoa! Double weird.

I don’t usually take quizzes like this, but I’m bed ridden in my sickly state and Krysta read off all the questions to me.

I didn’t think they’d do it, or do it so fast. But UPN50 responded, right away, and with some really condescending things to say. I’m considering sending their response to all their advertisers….

<response>
We have received your email message and thank you for your interest in “Star Trek: Enterprise.”

The number of Detroit Pistons games and Big Ten Basketball games we air are contracted and scheduled before the season starts and we must comply with our contracts. Unfortunately, we can not always pick and choose the games we would like to broadcast and some occasionally fall on Wednesday nights, much as we attempt to schedule around them. But of course, last night’s Pistons’ game was chosen specifically because it was the home opener and we have been carrying the Pistons games for over three decades.

We know it is disappointing when a favorite show does not air in pattern. But we are programming for the Total Audience. And there are many people in our viewing audience who are loyal sports fans. They rely on WKBD’s free, broadcast television sports coverage because not everyone has access to cable stations or wants satellite service.

This week “Star Trek: Enterprise” will air on Saturday, November 1 at 4pm. And again at its regularly scheduled time on Sunday, November 2 at 7pm. It will not be preempted again until November 26. And it is the only UPN program that we air twice a week for our viewers.

Regarding your comment about Fox Sports, we are not sure why you think it would be possible for us to switch any days with them. And we are not sure why you think that the Pistons would rather be on cable television on Wednesday nights, than on free broadcast television. The current Pistons schedule was achieved after many months of negotiations, made more difficult by the fact that Fox Sports is now carrying all of the Detroit Red Wings television games that used to air on WKBD. And a great deal of the Wings games happen to air on Wednesday nights on Fox Sports.

Also we are not sure why you think that our Detroit Pistons viewers, who far out number “Star Trek: Enterprise” viewers, would want more games airing on cable and less games available to them.
</response>
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<dork>
<letter>
Dear UPN50,

I enjoy watching Enterprise. UPN50 is the only channel that I get that shows Enterprise on Wednesday nights at 8 pm. But every year, it gets preempted by Pistons and Red Wings games. For instance, Pistons games look to be preempting pretty much every Enterprise for the rest of this year and more.

My suggestion: Please, switch sports on Wednesday to another day with Fox Sports. I rarely get to watch for Enterprise on Saturday. This is all I want for Christmas. Consider it an early present.

Thanks,
Adam Kramer
</letter>
I say end this rampant denial of our Right To Watch Enterprise! Do the same and give upn50.com a piece of your mind!
</dork>

If you’re a dork and you know me, you probably know that I like SCIFI. In my formative years as a teenybopper it was more apparent, and now that I’m old and brittle, harder to tell.

Imagine my disbelief when I stumbled upon a book website that professed we were pretty much alone in the Universe, currently. FOKE THAT! Rare earth posits that bacteria == common, animal == rare, in relative terms.

I must insist though, it is probably right. But the Universse is a pretty big place, and it’d be silly to think we could predict the physics of the whole thing just cos we think we can observe alot of it.

The best part was the mp3, ala John Lennon, entitled Imagine there’s No Spacemen. Truly dorknical.

The web enabled funniness to distribute itself far and wide. But Siegfried and Roy have completely blown my gourd! Presenting SARMOTI, the S & F approved theme song. Be amazed, and don’t forget, SARMOTI means “yearning” in German.

Sarmoti rocks!