Stupid People

I saw the dumbest story on the channel 7 noon news today. Somewhere in the Miami Valley, a duplex caught fire this morning. It damaged both sides of the duplex, so two families are currently out of a home, the Red Cross is involved, and so on. Well, the reason why it caught fire just really makes you wonder about some people... what happened was, a man on an oxygen tank was smoking, and he dropped the cigarette on the tubes connecting to the tank! Is it just me, or are there several things wrong with that story?

Time Warner Cable, ugh

Well, I was trying to think of something to blog about, and it just hit me. My internet has been so slow all day today. I have Time Warner Cable Roadrunner out here, I thought it was supposed to be fast. Well, you might say that it's shared between other users, that's true but I live out in the country, outside of Greenville. It's not really that heavily populated out here, so what's the problem? Some days it's blazing fast, other times it's crawling... today is just one of those bad days. But we're pretty much stuck with it, as DSL is our only other option, and as far as I know thats even slower. Great.

Facebook

So I've been using my new facebook more and more, so far I only have a few friends on there, but I am slightly annoyed by the chat. Don't get me wrong, I like talking to my friends, but there's one person who IMs me a lot and we never have anything to say and she gets mad at me for not talking. It's a long story. (none of you guys, don't worry, lol) I have a dilemma though, if I block this said person, they will probably find out from another friend. Facebook, it's such a drama maker. :/

Does anyone know if it is possible to only include select friends in the chat list? I know, it sounds so mean.

Drupal

This is a good news blog. Today I was working on my drupal site, and even though I still have a long way to go to make it look right, I now have:
A blog
A forum
An image uploader
And... an image gallery

I'm very happy with what I have so far, and if you want to check it out, it's located here:
http://amazingart.heatheronline.us

Voice

There was a huge difference in reading the essay, and watching it being read on the "Late Show with David Letterman" clip. In reading the essay, it was harder to tell the tone, even though you knew it was humorous, it was much funnier watching the clip, where Sedakis was able to show the full emotion of the essay. I do think the laughter of the audience was what kept him going, in an effort to appear even more humorous.

Vooks

I just read the first article for this week's assignments. I am bothered by the whole idea of vooks, and other electronic items such as the Kindle, for two reasons.

One: I like to read, I always have. I'm the type of person who goes to the library once every 3 weeks and comes home with a gigantic pile of books. Every night, when I'm done watching some late night comedy, I stay up until 1:30-2am reading a book. Vooks would ruin that for me.

Two: I spend enough time throughout the day on the computer, getting headaches from looking at the screen... I wouldn't want to spend more time looking at a small screen reading a book.

It might be nice to have videos in addition to the book, but to have it be necessary, or the means of reading the book, isn't a good idea to me.