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~ as bill clinton fashionably describes his post-presidency as ‘decompression’, the angry red planet has spent the day following graduate school with ‘heat’ comfortably watched on dvd, coffee lazily and abundantly consumed on pico boulevard, platelets painfully but quickly donated in santa monica, and the realization that the price of clump-ease is not inversely related to it’s quality over tidy cat - half the price does not indicate twice the absorbency nor odor-control.
tagged mundanities, personal
~ ‘we don’t anyone to mind us, so…’
~ with our body partially rested, mind partially addled, and stomach fully loaded with butterflies and black russian bagels, we sit out the remaining five hours…
tagged misanthropy, quote, snacks
~ the third reason why the angry red planet discourages all from purchasing epson printers and products:
epson: could i have your model number?
the angry red planet: epson 777
epson: that’s a good printer you have there
the a.r.p.: that’s what i was told the last time i called for service
epson: have you called about this issue before?
the a.r.p.: yes, earlier today
epson: what seems to be the problem now?
the a.r.p.: well, earlier, i would get a warning every time i sent a job. i turned the printer off, and now i turn it on, but the lights never stop flashing.
epson: there is fresh ink and paper installed?
the a.r.p.: yes, i just added ink
epson: could you hold, please?
the a.r.p.: yes
[holding until return]
epson: ok, what we can do is send you a new model?
the a.r.p.: a new model?
epson: yes
the a.r.p.: just like that, because i called and told you the red light is on….you’re going to replace the whole printer?
epson: yes
the a.r.p.: there’s nothing you can tell me to try here? i kind of need this printer right away; there are some things i need to print out for this weekend.
epson: well, it should ship out next business day, and you will have it the following day.
the a.r.p.: this is cutting it pretty close; in 3 days, i have this thesis-
epson: it is too late to ship out today. you should have the day after tomorrow.
the a.r.p.: that is unfortunate; by then i will have printed out someplace else….on something other than a 777.
epson: i’m sorry, this is as quickly as we can get it to you.
the a.r.p.: maybe this would have been easier if i had bought an hp?
conversation dwindles into threats that we need to return the unusable printer within seven days, or face a $100 penalty. this is exactly the type of disruption needed in thesis week; perhaps the lowest point has not been reached after all…
tagged computer, mundanities
~ thesis is already hard enough for some of us. do we really need the extra worry that a homophobic conferderate apologist is going to take the position of u.s. attorney general? oppose ashcroft: [w]
~ thesis quote: ‘i think it’s a mistake, but it’s your work.’
tagged quote
~ this is already hard enough for some of us. do we need to have feeble dogs sniffing our bags, sing alongs with don henley, scooters on the trailer floor, and cell phone calls shouted into the public atmosphere? i don’t see how this helps.
~ today’s quotes were not pulled from the background banter; they were all directed to our attention!
~ thesis diversion quote: ‘you don’t not piss because you think the toilets are dirty.’
~ thesis environmental quote: ‘you are the first person who has not been sympathetic.’
~ thesis tangential quote: ‘i don’t want to die soon.’
tagged mundanities, quote
~ though it is still to early to make a definitive declaration, the possibly lowest point of the final week of thesis may have been achieved. after days of abuse, our fuel-processing system has risen in protest. revenge having been exacted upon us for our implementation of a harsh regimen of raisins, seaweed, and coffee, we were forced to spend the evening in the mazda, curled into a ball of pain focused around the angry red intestines.
~ it is safe to say, however, that nothing can happen in the remainder of the week that will contest tonight’s breakage of the 1,400 mp3 barrier as the high point of the last few days of thesis.
~ some links added…
tagged misanthropy, mundanities, site-work
~ so clinton’s last hours are spent nobly pardoning his drug-peddling brother roger, while ignoring political prisoner leonard peltier [w]… what a jackass.
~ inauguration quote: ‘blonde, shoot this piece of shit, will ya?’ -joe cabot, ‘reservoir dogs’
tagged assholes, politics, quote
~ why is it that 6 hours of ‘working’ ends up with 30 minutes worth of work produced?
~ why does an application allow us to create a 3d model that the same application can not render, even on a dual-processor, 512mb g4? weak.
~ the thesis-victory viewing of a new dvd - ’stargate’, ‘id4′, or ‘das boot: director’s’ cut’ - is in jeopardy due to the disproportionate ratio of available funds to the unrealistic prices of a used dvd. those who would like to contribute to the angry red planet dvd coffers are welcome to make a safe, secure donation via paypal….
~ even more depressing and enraging than the possibility of church+state john ashcroft becoming u.s. attorney general, are the statistics on the ‘death row roll call’ at the nation [w]. when, of the 688 to-date executions in the u.s. occurring since the 1976 reinstatement, 240 have been in one state - texas - something is royally (?) fucked up. make the ‘roll call’ site a weekly visit, and click the names to drop a message to the respective state governors demanding that the executions are stayed - or abolished, as in first world nations.
~ quasi thesis quote: ‘only subordinate fucks shave before thesis presentation.’
tagged politics, quote, sci-arc, thesis
~ site update: despite the dwindling of our hopes of completing any work remotely related to a graduate architectural thesis, we managed to find the time to restore the angry red playlist, which has unfortunately been offline since the reinstallation of our hard disks.
~ are we to infer from the last 2 pages of the latest fantastic four that benjamin j. grimm now has the ability to consciously mutate his physical form from ‘human’ to ‘fantastic’ and back again? the thing’s nobility is derived from his ability to overcome the angst and self-loathing that his monstrous form makes him suffer. if he can revert at will to his - equally hideous - human form, he might be able finally to get his sex on with alicia masters, but he will lose his edge in the good fight. now he’ll never be able to take down the hulk.
~ quasi thesis quote: ‘you seem lonely, and alienated, but you also say a lot of things that lead me to believe you don’t want/need people in your life’
tagged comic-books, quote, site-work
~ happy martin luther king, jr day! eleven more days until the final review. then its time to see if there is more to los angeles than dozing off…at 4am…behind the wheel…on the 10…at 80 miles per hour…to the sounds of ego trip.
~ more of the same old spider-man movie news, but this article at entertainment weekly [w] contains an almost worthless photo of tobey maguire in the suit.
~ thesis quote: ‘i haven’t had a tv in four years….i’d rather read proust.’
tagged mundanities, spider-man
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