this operator is not amused.

1) I have not been online for 8 hours and yet you have managed to kill my flist with 80+ new posts that my nifty add-on is incapable of opening for me. Whoa.

2) The big squee posts are snooker, not Who related. That makes me smile smugly.

3) OMG HE WON! HE WON! I can't believe it... Okay, I can, but still. ALI CARTER vs RONNIE O'SULLIVAN, people. That is like, the third-best finale one could think of. (Obviously, the best would have had either Ronnie beat Ebdon 18-0, or John Higgins play Matthew Stevens and call it a draw at 17-17 and make out on the table.)

( Ronnie/Stephen )

C'MON ALI! *waves pom-poms*

YES! Ah, snooker is magnificent today. Now if he'd only win the next six frames, too...

Dear Ali Carter,
this is not pool, kthnx,
Kat
PS: love your head!snookertable

OMG the situation I was writing in my fic one hour ago is just happening in real snooker life. XD (Just the situation, though, not the characters.)

LET'S RECAP, OKAY?

[Ali Carter CAN'T lose to Perry, pleeeeeease. :(:(]
Of course he won't. He didn't come this far and single-handedly "saved" snooker (...) only to lose in the semi. He's playing very well, and he won decisively. (...) Ali just needs to get a leg (or ball) in, and he'll finish the session with a lead.

[5-5]
Now if he'd only win the next six frames, too...
(Okay, but it was close!)

(If you don't care about snooker (WHY?), don't worry, it's only one more week.)

Oh my isn't it fantastic how Ali is stealing the frame from Ebdon? I swear that Plan B is in action again.
(Will edit as match progresses.)

No really, DID I MENTION how much I love Ali stealing Ebdon's frames? BECAUSE I DO. And he's potting everything, even when Ebdon thinks he's played a good safety. Nice safety with the white there against the cushion - NOT.
OH HE'S ANGRY. Angry!Ebdon is scary.

Argh. It's like he's sucking the life out of the match. I hope Neil can wake Ali up a bit inbetween frames.
That was my magic mind powers, I swear.
Should Ebdon lose this, it will All Be The Table's Fault.

(I think the people watching the Handry/Day match have more fun.:( )

DAMNIT. D:

Dear Peter Ebdon,
I never said this to anyone, ever, and I doubt I will ever say it again, so this is my one time offence:

Please go and die quietly in a corner somewhere. Please. For the good of snooker, and free TV, and puppies. Please.

So, um, whatever Ali Carter is doing to Neil when they're alone - IT'S WORKING. Luck by osmosis?

Ronnie did it! XDDD 147!

Things snooker players need: Ronnie: HAIR GEL, Mark J.: Stuff to put on his finrernails so he stops chewing on them, Neil: A HUG.

Okay, either these tables are really bad or the players are A LOT worse than I remember them from, what, 24 hours? ago. I actually switched over to see Neil get his arse whipped just to escape the tragedy that is Ronnie's long pot statistic.

Oh Jesus, Neil. The world can be such a cruel, cruel place.

The thingology meme that's going around.

( yaseanneology? )

Also, I will watch The Sontaran Stratagem tomorrow, and worry for a whole week. I won't (I can't) do the same for the Moffat two-parter (Library/Unicorn) - I don't think it'd do the episode justice.

Found a site that collects the livestream links:

myp2p.

(I love that Scottish Accent. I LOVE IT.)

( Carter-Murphy match )

( Neil-Stephen and Hendry-Ding )

Did anyone notice that the World Snooker Live Scoring is about a minute ahead of the Eurosport Stream? I don't know what you're watching, but keeping an eye on both makes for a weird experience.

Hahaha I think I'm a bit in love with Ali Carter. Smooth. :D

And Ronnie - damn, the first frame is already nerve-wrecking.

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

ganked from emma_tennant

... well, it's not like this will help or anything, but fine, here you go. And may I just say that at least in my country, random people aren't allowed to flaunt their guns, and no one is comfortable seeing someone carry a gun.


Quick check whether you're still alive.

You are now, aren't you?

So, we know that filesharing sites (yousendit, mihd, megaupload, etc.) use "captchas", images of letters and numbers you have to enter into a text field - in order to keep the bots out. Some sites think that this isn't enough and blur the letters, or twist them out of shape, which is uneccessary and only makes the users angry as some letters/numbers are simply unrecognizable. Was that a 1, or an I? G or C? 2 or Z?

Rapidshare takes the cake. A few weeks ago they started decorating their captchas with cute little kittens. All right: unusual, but points for style. Four letters with kittens, and you're asked to enter those four letters.
Now, though, they changed it yet again, and this is the new message:



It was so bizarre I actually e-mailed them. This is response:

Kindly note that even though there now are more than 4 letters in one captcha
you still only have to type 4 letters in the box. Every captcha letter is with
animal pictures and you only have to use the 4 letters with the cats.
The sitting animal is the cat.
The standing animal is the dog.

What? no, really, WHAT??
Don't they have anything better to do?

Planet of the Ood review
( HERE BE SPOILERS )

1. List your top ten favourite men/footballers/celebrities/fictional characters.
-> here: men, women, snooker players and comedians :P
2. Answer all the questions listed.
3. Make a post!
4. Whoever comments has to do the meme! Spreading the fun all around!

( meme )

eta: Obviously you don't have to do it.

Anyone speak Korean?

... No, this is not a joke.

Edit: Never mind, I give up.

Recipe for bad dreams: spend most of the day calling various insurance agencies. Work your way through Agrippa's Fourth and Fifth Book on Astrology and Geomancy. (Damn you, Umberto Eco.) Follow up with a dose of contemporary Regardie: Talismans. Then decide to read a little Hellblazer (HI THERE, JOHN CONSTANTINE!) before bed.
Guarantees vivid dreams, and not of the good kind.

Me: Hey mom, you've got all these regional channels, right?
Mom: Sure.
Me: So you could tape- er, "save" The Great Dictator for me tomorrow?
Mom: WHAT? No way am I doing that for you. Get your own digital receiver.
Me: And you wonder why I my dl-quota is nearly 1 GB/day?

Music post tomorrow, if I'm back early from work.

Happy Birthday, wishfulaces! :D

And I'm kinda tied up right now trying to find a place (yayapprenticeshipyay) and trying to figure out who has to be notified, like, DSS office? I wouldn't have known that... Not to mention that when my aunt called and asked what I had and what I needed for the new place, I forgot all about the things in the attic and said "I have a pan". To which she replied: "Well, then you'll need a stove."

No matter how much you want to ignore the fact that people can be batshit insane - they will never let you forget.

ETA: Doctor Who fandom, YOU'RE NEXT!

Happy Birthday, lincolnimp! *squishes you*

Remember that crazy apprenticeship test that was really a personality test and all? Well, I got an invitation to a "second, 30-minute, test" which turned out to be an interview with practical tests and whatnot (and I was so grossly unprepared I honestly thought "why not say 'this obviously won't work' and walk out?") which was followed up by a third letter telling me I got the job.

So, cause for celebration, etc. The "school" is close, the city's cheap, the company is big and well-known, the money's good, everyone's happy.

Until today, when I was surfing and came upon a website listing Scientology-supporting companies. No, they're not on it. But, just for fun, haha, I did a google search on the company's name, the company's owner's name (which is the name on my contract) and Scientology. And it's WORSE.

Sure, almost every old german company has made business with the Nazis. But they haven't lied about it for sixty years and called themselves victims.

German links:
Die Gesellschafter discussion: Bertelsmann owns political parties
nachdenkseiten: Bertelsmann owns multiple companies, is international, but pays almost no taxes, AND controls the country
menschlichkeit-quo-vadis.de: (pseudo-)journalists

Basically this is what they're saying: The company is paying almost no taxes (as they're owned to 75% by a nonprofit organization which has no votes, the other25% reside in the hands of the Mohn family), but controls the nation's media (by themselves, or through contacts with the Springer company) and politics. How they're doing that is not that clear: apparently they're working closely with political foundations. And whenever the government is no longer financier of welfare institutions (especially health care), it (and Bertelsmann) "moderates" the competition between various private companies.

So... are the bad guys still the bad guys if you work for them? :/

I got tagged by emma_tennant for two memes:

( 20 questions x2 )

And stolen from pretty much EVERYONE:

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favourite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

Oh, I dare you.

So A: I don't want the promotion etc, thanks - things are bound to get even more chaotic, and the pay is just not good enough to deal with that amount of stress, sorry. I'll have twice the work soon, as we're joining two teams together, but I really wouldn't want to be responsible for any of this.

B: Due to freak weather and advanced globalization, I will have strawberries in the snow today.

And C: ( cut for Doctor Who and Torchwood spoilers )

Happy Birthday, beckaboosh!
Have fun today, hon! :D

Yesterday my boss's boss called and told me to get in contact with my boss to tell an potential employee that they won't have to come to work again. (Yes, crazy, but my boss is the only one who has that employee's number.) And also let it slip that if my boss is not there on Wednesday (she wasn't there last time either), I will have to be the interim boss. And since this kind of thing has happened before - my boss is dissatisfied, a little pissed off with her boss, plus there's chaos because three new people have started last week - it won't be interim for long.
I mean, I get it - she's not been responding to calls since last week, she's a bit insecure, but really, but it's hardly her fault that things aren't running smoothly when her boss insists on making all the decisions.

The funny thing is, I've only been there for what, five weeks? Gee thanks. I don't think I want that job. :/