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While dicking off during my lunch break, I stumbled across the wonderful keyword capabilities of Firefox and am now thusly setting up many so my lazy ass no longer has to scroll through keywords. I simply type in "unfaithful bastard" and the Geass comm comes right up. It's nifty. My other highlight of the work involved me with a cup of chocolate. See, every production day, the kind ladies from type-setting provide us with an assortment of goodies, usually chocolate. Once in a great while, they also provide fruit. Today was strawberries, and my "oooooh what does this button do" mentally led me to believe that if I melted several chocolate bars, I could have chocolate strawberries. The effort was mostly a success.
I also came across an article on the use of "retard." Now I am sure it makes me a bit of a hypocrite to say that while I snarl at the use of "Special Olympics" as an insult, I see no problem with using the word as it was intended. 1. to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede. Therefore to call something retarded implies that it is hindered or otherwise troublesome. It is not a derogatory reference to an individual who has diminished mental capabilities. Now calling someone a "retard" is an entirely different matter, as is "are you retarded?" But addressing something as "retarded," I think people are being slightly too PC to find fault with that. Whereas, the corruption of the word "gay" has ever been a thorn in my side. Gay is etymologically linked with "happy" so to use "gay" in place of "stupid" is derogatory in every sense, and I will readily correct anyone who refers to something as "gay." Because it is just a way of insulting people.
My last topic of the day involves the telephone. I am not fond of using it because it monopolizes my attention. I know this makes me sound bitchy, and I guess I am. But my home time is my home time, and I wish to spend it doing numerous things at once. The Bluetooth thing hurts my ear so it is not an option, meaning that whenever I'm on the phone, it is the only thing I can do. Conversations of an hour or more make me antsy because I'm not multi-tasking. Maybe I'm just too addicted to the Net, but that's the way it is.
In RP news, I had something akin to relaxed confidence the other day, and that made me happy.Oh
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