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Things That Bug the Fuck Out of George! (volume 2)

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Ok. This is a very big one. When I want something, I want something... And if I can't get it, the last thing that I want is a screen that tells me that the it's apologizing for the inconvenience. Liars! If they really were so concerned (and if they aren't, that's ok, too!) then they'd set up a back-up server so I can still access my stuff!

I'm petty sometimes. Especially when it involves technology robots that are useless to me!

It is both unfortunate and ill-timed that it is past 3 AM. I am not really ready to go to sleep. Yeah, I can sense that sleep could happen if I close my eyes for long enough... but I'm just not really into it for right now. My head's a bit of a jumble.

I thought that I'd be able to ramble it out on Livejournal, but I don't even think I can do that. I was hoping to.

Rarrgh, got too much.

It's time for another round of... Things That Bug the Fuck Out of George! Yaay!

- "Sp?"
Okay... For some reason it became incredibly popular to question one's spelling. It can be the most mizcumbahbulayted spelling of it, but as long as you put ("sp?"), you're cleared. Not that they want to be corrected; they just want you to know that even if they're right, they didn't feel like checking. But at least they warned you that they might be wrong.

My work e-mail is getting more and more SPAM... I have like six e-mail accounts that get forwarded to me (either intentionally or not)... Mostly I'm still getting shit for ___@homeofhappiness.com, which I think is an automatic redirect to info@_____, which is already a redirect to me at george@______...

It used to be all drugs, like "V1agra" and "Val_traxx" and so forth... Now, it's "slutty Latina Asian lesbian gangbang blowjob anal." That just sounds like a very complicated game of Twister.

A telemarketer goes on-and-on after I say "Hello," and by the time he's done telling me that I can get some suspicious not-free sounding free things that involves a trip to Atlantic City, he says "...You don't like Atlantic City?"

It was the mixture of disbelief and annoyance. Definitely a challenge.

"No, I don't." He didn't say anything after that and I hung up.

Found my keys.

Lost my keys.

Found them.

So. I don't understand what iTunes is... Or if I want it or what.

I bought my first song off of it. 99 cents. In theory, that shouldn't seem like a lot. And it's not. Separately, it is. If I were buying an album, $10-$15 wouldn't seem like a lot. But in sections, it is. I'm weird.

So, I got the edit of "Coin-Operated Boy" by the Dresden Dolls as my test subject. This edit is featured in their video, and sometimes I like the song a little less sound effects-y, so I figured, what a prime target.

So I get it. And it's not an mp3. It's not a wav. It's an m4p. And I have no idea what that is. I can play it, but not in WinAmp, only in the iTunes thing and that's stupid and annoying. So, I think I made my first and last purchase from them... It's like buying an 8-track when all I've got is a CD player.

Good concept, but I don't want to have to go searching for convertors for a three-and-a-half-minute song every time I get one.

Acquiring music legally will only be preferable if I get it on an actual disc.

Somebody needs to tell my SPAM-bitches that there is no Gordon in the Home of Happiness, and if they want to e-mail the non-existing entity, then they shouldn't be sending it to my work e-mail.

Thanks.