Like some great stinky unclean!

[reddragdiva]

• The Internet gives unparalleled opportunities to improve the minds of the masses. (courtesy kiraboo via ashbet)

• I was a 20-Something Phone Psychic.

• PZB on HST (courtesy arkady). Apparently very unwell indeed in his last months.

I think that last post sets a new record for comments per word.

Today has mostly been concerned with the wonderful world of plumbing. I got to bed around three last night after spending quite some time trying to unblock the toilet. Thankfully it only took several calls to the agent to get someone round to unblock the fucker (secret of success: a bigger plunger!) while all tried to make out it was our fault for using the toilet as a toilet ... never mind that the toilet was actually moved during the renovations prior to our moving in, and the plumber observed it failing to properly flush a single sheet of toilet paper the first time.

Phone interview this morning with HR droid. Also a followup to Friday's HR droid interview, where it looks like I'll miss a job they otherwise love me for because I can't do heavy lifting (i.e., putting stuff in racks). Never mind.

I am so ridiculously tired.

Saturday evening was the last night of Jerry Springer — The Opera, a marvellous production that actually makes Jerry Springer into a sympathetic character. redcountess actually made it out to play!

Sunday, Liz was too ill from Saturday, so arkady and I went for *pint*age at the Porterhouse, with attendees mjg59, hairyears, weds, damerell, kineticfactory, gmh and clanwilliam. (I fear all the goths had been taken out of the running by gothbabe and childeric's functions the night before.) I got pished and Nile got photos.

My birthday haul was Jerry Springer tickets from Liz, some drinking tumblers from Arkady and Xenu being made Featured Article of the Day on Wikipedia.

Comments

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

I fear that guy's customers.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Did Xenu get any interesting vandalism/attacks? Having difficulty accessing stuff atm.

[reddragdiva]

Not really - in fact, it was moderately improved by the exposure. There was one vandal who said "for the truth, go to the [[Roman Church]]", but most just added something along the lines of "you believe this shit?!"

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

forgive my ignorance - is Xenu being on the front page good because it helps to add exposure to the idiocy that is Scientology?

Or am I missing the point?

[reddragdiva]

That and sheer lunacy value in itself, of course. I mean, read the thing and you'll feel yourself getting stupider with each paragraph. Fully referenced!

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

yepyep, that's what I'd thought - I quite agree.

I hate the fuckers and find it hilarious that the net is so damaging to their tissue of scams.

:)

[reddragdiva]

We fucked 'em up long ago. The wonderful thing is getting an article like that to a quality acknowledged as in the top 0.1% of all Wikipedia articles. It's a form of intellectual exercise.

But then, we have Featured Articles like Holy Prepuce.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Wikipedia has just disappeared from DNS. Could the Clams have bought time on a Russian Mafiya zombienet specifically to knock it offline?

[reddragdiva]

That, or a switch in the colo died, taking out all servers including the DNS SOA, and they're frantically trying to fix it as we speak ;-)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

YOUR ATTEMPT TO QUELL MY PARANOIA HAS BEEN NOTED.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

That I read "HR droid" as "HR druid" does, I am sure, mean somethng. But I am not sure I'd like it.

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

OMg that phone psychic link made me laugh so much!!!!!