poli … something; and nonwireless laptop, Christmas

Friday, 5 November, 2004 at 3:26 pm

“Kerry may have been too much identified with the Hollywood left and I think that hurt him,” said Republican political analyst Allen Hoffenblum.

“Clinton could get away with it because voters already knew who he was and they just saw him as being starry-eyed. They never perceived him as being a left-winger.

“But when Kerry surrounded himself with Whoopi Goldberg and Barbra Streisand and Bruce Springsteen and Michael Moore, many voters concluded ‘well, this guy must be a real liberal,”‘ Hoffenblum said.
–http://news.yahoo.com/news…

That’s too bad. Hm. Oh well. I think Michael Moore is a bit of an idiot. :b Barbra Streisand? I think I’m far too influenced by the South Park guys concerning her. haha

Anyway. Other news. I forget what I’ve said here and what I haven’t. But that’s not news. Uh. I found out that my laptop starts up slow because of my wireless network adaptor card thingie. Or at least I hope that’s it, because I’ve updated the network driver and everything else associated with connections, so if the new card that Daddy ordered doesn’t work … then it means I’m stuck with this cable/LAN connection which is really sensitive and disconnects with the slightest movement. And it only goes as far as … Hidek’s desk, Daddy’s nightstand (which is right inside his room), and the living room almost directly below the catwalk. Which is entirely too public an area for me. ^_^;;

The new card was supposed to come today … that’s what the shipping company said online. But it didn’t. So I won’t be able to get it until next weekend. :(

I read another article today! It’s not really a news article. Just something. Read about Steve Lopez’s switch to the conservative side. (Psst, BugMeNot.com for a login) If anyone was curious, I don’t agree with him on everything in that article. Nyeh. :b

And no, this isn’t becoming a political commentary journal or anything …

Bush/Kerry masks

Saturday, 30 October, 2004 at 4:21 pm

Reflecting national opinion polls, the sale of Bush and Kerry masks is evenly divided.

“It’s a tie, hard to say who is ahead,” Peterson [store manager] said.

But a costume company that has tracked national sales of candidates’ masks in previous election has Bush leading Kerry 54 to 46 percent.

The company, www.Buycostumes.com, tracked the sales of 12 stores and five mask makers in the United States.

In 2000, Bush masks led Democratic vice president Al Gore’s masks 57 to 43 percent. Four years earlier, President Bill Clinton masks outsold those of Republican Bob Dole 56 to 44 percent. Ronald Reagan masks were ahead of then president Jimmy Carter masks in the 1980 election.

–http://news.yahoo.com/…

Darn. :b And Sylvia Browne keeps saying Bush is going to win, although she hopes she’s wrong (because she’s human and therefore not perfect … about the wrong part, not about the hoping Bush doesn’t win part).

.NET Passport / cookies

Tuesday, 26 October, 2004 at 9:00 pm

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Dur. I hate strongly dislike you. I can’t sign into my Hotmail account or on MSN messenger. Why? Because I prefer to turn off an option that allows a tracking device to be saved onto my own computer. I’m also too lazy to regularly weed through all my cookies and/or run SpyBot.

Nyeh.

we’re the north pole

Monday, 18 October, 2004 at 6:21 pm

Tadash: “We only have the Kings a little south of us.”
Me: “South?”
Tadash: “Yeah, they’re in Anaheim.”
Me: “Anaheim is south of us?”
Tadash: “Yeah, it’s in Orange County.”
Me: “Orange County is south?”
Tadash: “Yeah.” *weird look*
Me: “I used to think everything was north.”
Tadash: “There’s nothing north of us! It’s just boring flat farms.”

I have very bad directional skills. :b I just learned like a year or two ago that San Diego was south of us … and today I learn that Anaheim is south too! Ehehe … Well at least I’m sure that Mexico is still south of us.

I guess Torrance is south too. And … I forget what the names of those cities were. Mum and Daddy and I went to a Lowe’s there. (I only went so they’d go to Best Buy and get me the Garden State soundtrack, but Best Buy didn’t have it. -.-)

slooooow laptop

Friday, 15 October, 2004 at 7:07 pm

Things that slow down system bootup

My laptop took an hour and a half to start up today. *waves tiny flag*

You have 850 fonts installed. If you can survive without all those fonts, try removing 600-700 of them to see if that makes a difference.

Gee. What am I supposed to do? (I have 300-something.) It’s not like my life depends on them, but it’d be like trying to take some car products from Mickey, or a fast computer prcessor from Hidek. (Oh wait, Hidek doesn’t have that. :b)

Your network drivers (LAN, Dial-up Networking) take too long to load—try disabling them to see if it makes a difference.

“Aw hell no!” :( Without my internet connection my laptop is pointless. (Yet any other connection, without my files, is pointless as well. :b)

Too many programs are being loaded at startup—check your Startup folder and eliminate any unneeded shortcuts.

Boo. All those programs are needed. (Last night I tried to trim the startup list on the study comp, but all those files were required. o.O;;;;) There aren’t any new ones from before this slow startup time anyway.

I had a thought today, though. Maybe I turned off something that was required. O.o But there’s no way to turn it back on, because it’s not listed. Er. I’m not into editting registries either. I don’t even know how to find out what program I turned off that’s needed.

Grr. Grr. Stupid computers. Maybe I really will get a Mac. My Intro to Graphics on a Mac prof was saying to another student that Mac used to be more graphically advanced than PCs, but that now PCs have closed the gap lately. But I heard somewhere else … I forget where … that Macs show colors more true to what is printed than PCs. Hm. I dunno. My cousin uses a Mac at work. But she has a PC at home. Which she rarely uses. :b

… *no good way to end entry* … *braindead*