Mortaine’s Blog

I think I figured it all out. Like, just about everything about the island and the weird shit that happens.

Which is kind of sad, and I hope I’m wrong because I’d like to continue to be surprised.

Oh, and I’ve probably figured out nothing more than what others have speculated, but I don’t know, having not read what others have conjectured.

When you see this meme on your friends page, ignore everything related to Serenity and Firefly because, geeze, can we say manipulative viral marketing, anyone?

I hate Windows.

So, my PC here at work is b0rked– I think it’s the motherboard. Ever notice how “motherboard” and “motherfuckin’” are really just a root word away from each other?

Since the IT department took the PC away, I do not have my software programs or files to work on today. So…. now what. I feel like I ought to call it a day early, because I can get nothing productive done.

Then, while I was typing a response to my sister, I held down the “Shift” key too long and got a little “accessibility” option turned on which locked my computer into Caps-lock mode and wouldn’t let me turn it off (holding the shift key didn’t even force lower-case– I could not get lower case letters at all). Better still, logging out didn’t solve the problem, so my computer thought my password was wrong. After attempting to login with that password a few times, I rebooted and tried to login again. This time, I was locked out because I’d failed to successfully enter a password that wasn’t composed entirely of capital letters.

I was ready to throw something at that point and went and got help from IT. Again. Now, I like the guys in the IT department, but I hardly know their names, nobody has a name badge on their cubes, and I don’t like bothering them for things that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Anyway, after they unlocked my account, I was fine, but man, I am PISSED. You know how we all say stuff like “hey, his capslock is broken!” and stuff? Yeah, well– apparently, that’s really easy to do in Windows XP. What a great prank to pull on some unsuspecting boob.

This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please.

Note: Many of these books also have full reviews available in the book review podcast (RSS).
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This is not a cat in a sink.