{ last post, I swear. }

I sort of remembered what I wanted to say earlier. At first it was going to amount to APPLE ISN'T THE BOSS OF ME, but is now more like, look, we use the software we're comfortable with. I think Winamp/Windows Media Player are ASS but I also feel like a lot of that is because they don't do half the things that I need them to do. Or rather, that I find that making them do the things that I want them to do is a stressful, overly complicated process because I find iTunes seems to INSTINCTIVELY GET ME anticipate my needs better, and I'm more used to iTunes, even though I used WMP for years. (UM. I really hate trying to get WMP to cooperate. It's like pulling teeth.)

BUT. I know some of y'all prefer WMP et al, and that they, for you, anticipate your needs more effectively than iTunes (which, I'm told, at times eats people's music? Ugh). In that same vein, please, I love you all, but stop trying to sell me on Firefox. I'm sure its very many nifty add-ons are really great for you all, but - look, even though I use the internet A LOT, IE7 does everything I need it to do, and it does it very efficiently. It's not cluttered, it's not eating memory trying to do a hundred things at a time, it now has tabs and an in-built RSS feed reader that I appreciate. Everything else I need is catered to by Google. Yes, I know that Google may indeed be openly attempting to take over the entire world but it's successful because it ANTICIPATES and winningly MEETS my needs. More than adequately! So. Please.

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I am never going to understand why people have a separate journal for icons so as not to clutter their personal journal, and then make separate, individual entries to let their flist know that icons have been posted. I understand doing it now and then for new people on your flist, and I understand if the icons have been separated for some other reason, but surely anybody who gives a fuck is already friended to the other journal, and the notification posting isn't so much cross-posting as attention-seeking, not to mention missing the point of having a graphics journal? Or, if you want your flist to get a load of your icon-fu, why not just cross-post? I've seen plenty of people do the same with media; I don't know why icons are different.

ANOTHER icon gripe: I have a deep-seeded resentment for people who are secretive about their iconning methods. It's just plain stupid. I can understand not wanting someone to alter an icon you've made (my big ANTI-ZEN is when people take an icon that is pro-something-in-fandom and then alter it to make it anti-that-thing-in-fandom); that's just plain laziness, and it also can go against intention. But hiding your MAD SKILLZ. Oh, what-the-fuck ever.

Lastly, with regards to fandom, I will never, never, never understand people who openly identify themselves as BNFs. I don't know if it's that I'm uncomfortable with the audacity of such a statement, or if it's because I always figured BNF-status is something that's conferred by a community on a member of said community, and giving yourself that status breaks that sense by which the community has given you something because of what you gave to it. (It also assumes that what you gave was worth a positive return.) Also, whilst the idea is certainly something that I accept as a given, the acronym confounds me. Like, a lot.

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I wish more people (not necc. flisters, just people whose journals I'm reading/haunting from afar fairly regularly) would write rambly fandom posts. It would make me feel much less retarded.

Also, because of the strike/boldthroughs, some people whose journals I was haunting have now locked-up! Except... I'm a lurker, and I feel kind of WEIRD about now friending them. What the fuck is the etiquette here? UGH. (This is why I love rss feeds. Well, for unlocked journals. This still doesn't help the locked ones.) I, uh, actually do this a lot? Sometimes I read these people's flists and to be honest, I can't remember how I came across a couple of the ones I've been reading the longest. THIS IS REALLY SORT OF EMBARRASSING. I'm coming across stalkerish and creepy now, aren't I? EW.

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edit: snowpenguin545, that thing I said I'd do is going to have to wait because I have to shut the laptop down. It's burning a hole in my lap. I'm worried that if I leave it on over night it will overheat/SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST. So. Soon! It's all zipped and ready. Just. Not tonight. Sadface: sorry.

edit ii: LJ's spellfucker doesn't recognise 'combust'. UM. WHAT.

{ I sat down on the street, took a look at myself. }

GUYS. I AM SO SORRY ABOUT LAST NIGHT'S POSTING. ! There was a lot of it, apparently. I don't remember all of it? Yeah.

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The electricity keeps randomly cutting out. It's Very Frustrating. Gah.

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I love reading the comments on runwaym. People get really catty! It's like the comments on foto_decadent, except a little tamer. f_d people are hardcore bitches. Res-pec!

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Watched Saving Grace, finally. Again had to restrain the urge to cry LOTS AND LOTS. Some trauma going on there. I, uh, didn't really know what was going in the case, but I was impressed that Not-Ham-or-Butch got some showcasing. (Btw: Ham and Butch? WHAT? At least I know their names now. I can stop calling them Man One through Three.) And! More Hanadarkos, ooh. I want moooore.

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Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with me. I find I get Very Excited sometimes. I think I should post those Life icons.

{ celebrations! }

Happy Birthday general_jinjur! Hope you have a lovely day :)