No Duh

There are as many examples of positive portrayals as there are negative. You might say it is "wide-ranging," but instead you have come to "it is a horrible place."

And this is to let you know that any judgement of a place or people as all of anything is moronic.

I've had enough.

I immediately got rude e-mail (that was also posted to the list) from someone who seemingly has picked me as the enemy. I have no idea where this attitude came from, but she's two-for-two in that department so far. She seemed to think that my disgust with the whole discussion was based on being a "Hollywood insider" -- her words, not mine -- rather than on being a rational, thinking human being. Oh well.

But I'm not really worried about having her as a friend anyhow. It's cool that people have begun thinking I'm a "Hollywood insider" though; if only I could get Hollywood to think so.

I've spent a great deal of today trying to catch up with some of my other duties, such as posting reviews to the diary-crit list (which were both ridiculous, because I liked both of the journals -- what am I going to say, Please do even better?) and figuring out this week's stats for the diary-crit list -- there will be no slackers among us.

I also broke the key disk encryption on one of my favorite word processing applications, Final Draft. You can't use Final Draft without installing it, and you get two installations. If your disk crashes...you've just lost an installation. If you lose both installations, you have to send the key disk back to the company, and they send you a new one.

To hell with that.

Hey, I bought the damn program, I don't want to have to stick the key disk in every time I use it, and I don't want to keep track of my two precious installations. And I'm clearly not the only person out there who suffers from this kind of annoyance; turns out there's an entire industry devoted to cracking this type of encryption.

I know there's a lot of problems with software piracy. Software costs a lot. The people who write the software cost a lot of money, and the software companies have to pay them somehow. Thank goodness. I enjoy being able to try a program out, to see if I like it -- the testers and crippled programs that are close to the final thing but not quite are a great help in choosing products.

It's back to the copyright thing again: just because it's easy to copy a thing, be it my writing on this page or a program on someone else's disk, doesn't mean it's free. Duh.

I've been saying that most obscene and confrontational of human utterances, duh, an awful lot recently. I've got to stop that.

Darin reminds me of an Israeli co-worker of his who decided "Duh" was the epitome of American slang. Only she always says it "Dah," which is possibly even more dismissive. She asked for help with the pronounciation. "Dah." "No, duh." "That's what I said! Dah!"

"I always knew it would come to this" dept.: I discovered, courtesy of alt.showbiz.gossip, a new game entitled Gay or eurotrash. You, too, can test your gaydar. Scarily, I scored 8 out of 9. I don't want to know what this means.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Non-Paperwork pages: ehhh...not much. The day is still young. Well, youngish.

Miles: none so far. Maybe I'd better not post this until I've gone running.