Fat Tuesday
Feb. 24th, 2004 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aberrantangelsLife is what happens while you're making other plans.
— John Lennon
Well, I was expecting to be away from the computer this afternoon. I had it all planned out: we were going to a mall nearby, let kindly gray-haired mother shop in the nearby organic food store, dinner after at the T.G.I. Friday's. All this because Mardi Gras happened to fall the day before my birthday.
See the quote from Saint Jock at the top of this entry? That should've warned me. I woke up this morning and it was snowing. It's expected to snow until late into the afternoon, well past the time we'd be leaving.
So I push it back to my actual birthday, like Dame Nature and Jack Frost clearly want, and hope I don't get caught in the crowds for the feel-good movie of the winter. (You know the one; somebody's probably spammed your journal with off-topic comments praising it.)
And, in the spirit of the day, a personal mutation of the meme that started it all. Pass it on?
She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those carts, which simply will not go in the direction you push it, and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn't know.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless. Except I couldn't actually use that because, as far as I'm concerned, the Hitchhiker's Trilogy ended with So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. To admit that Bop Ad was capable of writing such a monumental "Fuck you" to Hitchhiker's fans would be equivalent to pissing on his grave, and so those of us who care about the series must reluctantly put Mostly Harmless down the same memory hole as Highlander II and Batman and Robin. Or else write fanfics that give the cast a happy ending instead of that pig's ear we got. And so I went with Bonnie Jock Lennon saying the same thing, much more concisely besides.
EDIT 1:12p to add the code used to create the code used to create it.
<center><table width="50%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="purple"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="green"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="yellow"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="purple"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="green"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="yellow"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" align="center"><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/aberranteyes/">It's Carnival time, and everybody's having fun.</a></td></tr></table></center>
— John Lennon
Well, I was expecting to be away from the computer this afternoon. I had it all planned out: we were going to a mall nearby, let kindly gray-haired mother shop in the nearby organic food store, dinner after at the T.G.I. Friday's. All this because Mardi Gras happened to fall the day before my birthday.
See the quote from Saint Jock at the top of this entry? That should've warned me. I woke up this morning and it was snowing. It's expected to snow until late into the afternoon, well past the time we'd be leaving.
So I push it back to my actual birthday, like Dame Nature and Jack Frost clearly want, and hope I don't get caught in the crowds for the feel-good movie of the winter. (You know the one; somebody's probably spammed your journal with off-topic comments praising it.)
And, in the spirit of the day, a personal mutation of the meme that started it all. Pass it on?
| It's Carnival time, and everybody's having fun. | |||||
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless. Except I couldn't actually use that because, as far as I'm concerned, the Hitchhiker's Trilogy ended with So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. To admit that Bop Ad was capable of writing such a monumental "Fuck you" to Hitchhiker's fans would be equivalent to pissing on his grave, and so those of us who care about the series must reluctantly put Mostly Harmless down the same memory hole as Highlander II and Batman and Robin. Or else write fanfics that give the cast a happy ending instead of that pig's ear we got. And so I went with Bonnie Jock Lennon saying the same thing, much more concisely besides.
EDIT 1:12p to add the code used to create the code used to create it.
<center><table width="50%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="purple"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="green"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="yellow"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="purple"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="green"> </td><td width="16.67%" bgcolor="yellow"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" align="center"><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/aberranteyes/">It's Carnival time, and everybody's having fun.</a></td></tr></table></center>
Re: amused? that's o.k. sometimes, but don't go overboard :) Professor Longhair, "Go to the Mardi
Date: 2004-02-25 02:28 pm (UTC)Well, that fills me with hope that this was written by an actual human and not some evil computer program spawned when someone handed Hugo Weaving a jar and a tube of Astroglide.
Kyle? Kyle Williams? Is that you? Or just someone as completely mother-damned God-fucking thumb-headed as your columns prove you to be?
What I think is that InterNic is fucked. It couldn't tell me what 217.125.45.61 (or the "via" 80.58.40.172) translated to. So I'm just going to have to baleete your shit Passionspam and turn off anonymous commenting until further notice. Thank you for playing, and we hope you enjoy our home game.