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  • 11Nov 05

    RIP Arrested Development

    Why, America? Why? Why didn't you watch it? Why did you let another good show die? Fox, why didn't you advertise it well? Why didn't you give it a good time slot?

    @#&%!
  • 7Nov 05

    Arrested Development is back tonight!

    8 pm, Fox, TWO new episodes.

    I'm reminding you, just in case you forget. Since I refuse to believe that anyone, anywhere would not want to watch Arrested Development, naturally the reason it's getting such low rating is because everyone is forgetting. So don't forget!
    • Posted Nov 7, 2005 12:31 pm PT
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  • 2Nov 05

    Paris is burning

    Well, certain Paris suburbs to be exact. Including where my boyfriend lives, Bobigny. I'm going to call him in a few hours to make sure his car didn't mysteriously catch fire. Today is Eid, so I don't think he has work.

    I'm so pissed off at France right now. The best way to represent how I feel is with this emoticon: Granted, I'm usually pissed at France because the way they treat immigrants just sickens me, but this is out of control. Tear gas in a mosque during the last days of Ramadan? That's just too much.
    Someday when I'm feeling more articulate I'll write a long-winded rant about France's xenophobia/Islamophobia.

    Oh, and I realize that it's cheap to say "..and I'll justify my crazy opinions later!", but this is my blog and I'll do what I damn well please!
  • 11Oct 05

    RE: My Suspension

    I was recently suspended from TV.com for 5 days. I won’t say that I didn't deserve it; quite honestly, I think I had it coming. The post I was suspended for wasn't very offensive, but I've been building up my -ness over a number of weeks and I guess it finally caught up with me. From now on I'll have to try extra hard to keep my flaming subtle and well above the level where the flamee would notice.

    Anyway, I’m not too bothered by my suspension. I’m also really touched by the fact that people actually noticed I was gone and seemed to miss me. Thanks, everybody! Having internet friends is now 75% as good as having real friends!

    I may not have been able to browse the TV.com forums over the past 5 days, but in a way my suspension was a good thing. I got so much work done, I'm actually ahead in some of my classes! My attention span actually increased.

    See, for someone who typically spends an abnormal amount of time on a website devoted to TV, I very rarely ever actually watch TV. That’s because, thanks to the internet, my attention span is so low that I actually can't stand to sit still for a whole half-hour.

    I've made a graph chronicling the inverse relationship between severity of internet addiction and attention span.



    Point A is where I was prior to my suspension, point B where I am now: above the bare minimum attention span required to watch TV. Eventually I hope to move my way back up to point C, where I will be able to read books again (for fun, not for school work), but I don’t see that happening any time soon.

    Of course, I'm rapidly moving back down the scale, now that I'm back. Oh well.
  • 27Sep 05

    you should of learned you're grammer

    If reading that title doesn't hurt your eyes, you need to work on your grammar.

    Lately, I've taken it upon myself to fix grammatical errors whenever I see them in episode descriptions, allusions, trivia, notes, etc. Usually my edits are accepted, because hey, I'm right. But lately, a lot of them from a particular show have been rejected. Personally, I thought the grammatical errors in question were so obviously wrong that they didn't really need explanation, but that was my mistake. When I have time, I will resubmit them with a full and complete explanation, complete with sources from Dr. Grammaticians and whatnot. Here are some examples of what I tried to change, except using entirely made up stuff instead of the stuff I actually tried to change. I think I'm right (as always), but I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me if I'm actually wrong (but say it nicely!):

    1: The words "mom" and "dad" should be capitalized when used as names, but left in lower case in other instances:
    Julie: Ben, Mom said not to eat the cookies!
    Julie: My boyfriend's dad tried to kill me with a shovel.


    2: Words like "wanna" and "gonna" should be changed to "want to" and "going to". Yes, I know that when we speak it often sounds more like "wanna" than "want to", but spelling should never be based on pronunciation unless there is a very compelling reason. Writing "wanna" instead of "want to" is no different than writing "should of" instead of "should have" (and God help you if you don't know why "should of" is wrong!). I say "Warshington" when I speak, but I don't write it that way. In my mind, "wanna" and "gonna" are in the same category.

    3: The first letter of a word after a comma should not be capitalized.
    WRONG: Julie: Oh Ben, Are you eating those cookies?
    RIGHT: Julie: Oh Ben, are you eating those cookies?

    Very annoying, no?

    4:
    Your vs. You're
    There vs. Their vs. They're
    Hear vs. Here
    Than vs. Then
    To vs. Too vs. Two
    By vs. Bye vs. Buy


    You were supposed to have learned this stuff in sixth grade English class! This is just not rocket science, people! Learn how to use the freakin' English language!

    Ok, I'm getting bored with this blog entry, so I'm going to wrap it up and maybe do more later. Or maybe not. Meh.
  • 16Sep 05

    I won a Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD

    I just got this PM:

    TV_Contest wrote:

    Hi there,

    You have been randomly selected to win a Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD from the Bones and House Giveway you entered.

    Please respond with your e-mail address, home address and phone number for shipment.

    Thanks for entering!

    -Your friends at TV.com


    So that's pretty cool. I've never actually seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wonder if I will like it. Mostly I wonder if they will actually send it to me. I like winning stuff, it makes me feel special.
  • 11Sep 05

    Crazy Virginia Laws

    I started my mythic quest for crazy Virginia laws at this website, which lists the legal age of consent for heterosexual and homosexual relationships in pretty much every country. I wasn't actually looking for crazy Virginia laws at the time, just crazy sex laws all over the world. But of course, it's much more fun to look at crazy sex laws when they actually apply to you, as opposed to, say, Iranians.

    I find it pretty odd that a lot of countries allow heterosexual sex at a certain age but don't allow homosexual sex until later. In Serbia, for example, you can have heterosexual or lesbian sex at 14, but not gay man-sex until 18. Are gay teenage girls more responsible than gay teenage boys? I guess they must be, since surely no country would base their laws on anything but hard scientific fact.

    Next on my quest, I found the age of consent laws for my very own "proud" home of Virginia. Don't worry, I'm not one of those Virginians. I'm a Northern Virginian, and please be sure to note the distinction. We're different, and we don't appreciate being associated with other Virginians. I'm not sure this website is entirely up to date because I recall a recent Supreme Court ruling.. something about homosexual something or other.. nope, it's gone.. don't remember.

    Finally I actually and looked up the notorious Code of Virginia. Boy, it sure sounds official, doesn't it. Let's explore:

    Virginia wrote:
    § 18.2-345. Lewd and lascivious cohabitation.

    If any persons, not married to each other, lewdly and lasciviously associate and cohabit together, or, whether married or not, be guilty of open and gross lewdness and lasciviousness, each of them shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor; and upon a repetition of the offense, and conviction thereof, each of them shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.


    If you'll note, there's no actual definition of what lewdly living together actually entails. Not here, not anywhere else in The Code. Luckily they don't enforce these laws, because they're pretty imprecise. So remember: don't live together before marriage. It will get you jail for six months or a $1000 fine.

    Virginia wrote:
    § 18.2-344. Fornication.

    Any person, not being married, who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any other person, shall be guilty of fornication, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.


    Also, remember not to have sex before marriage. That's a $250 fine.

    Virginia wrote:
    § 18.2-361. Crimes against nature; penalty.

    A. If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony, except as provided in subsection B.


    Oral sex is a Class 6 felony. That's jail for at least one year and no less than five. I'm not sure I understand why oral sex is so much worse than plain old sinful unmarried sex or adultery, but I guess that's why I'm not in the state legislature writing all these important laws.

    That's all for now, perhaps I shall find more later. Until then, remember not to have oral sex in Virginia.
    • Posted Sep 11, 2005 10:45 pm PT
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  • 25Aug 05

    Ignorant people make my head explode

    Bango_Berryrush wrote:
    Mohammed claimed God gave him the true revelation, hence why we now have the Islam religion. Mohammed is given the glory, amongst their "Allah". That's correct, I didn't use God, because in truth, once you cut into the deep surface, the true God isn't the god from the Islam religion.


    I hate, hate, hate people who know absolutely nothing about Islam yet talk about it as if they know everything about it. Generally I try to be peaceful and not hate people, even people who are jerks to me (and there are quite a few), but this is going too far.

    Allah is God, God is Allah. That's all there is to it. You don't need to be a Muslim to understand this simple fact. Even Arab Christians (and there are plenty of them, especially in America) use the word "Allah" to talk about God. Even 19th century Christian orientalist writers understand that the God that Muslims worship is the same God that Christians worship. Do Spanish people actually worship a different God because they call Him "Dios"? Do French people worship a different God because they call Him "Dieu"? Of course not.

    Christians, Muslims, and Jews all believe that there is only one God, that God created the universe and everything in it, that we will all be judged by God on Judgment day, that there is heaven and hell, that God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. We even all believe in the exact same prophets, with the exception of Jesus and Muhammad. Why, why, why do so many Christians not want to understand that we worship the same God?
  • 22Aug 05

    I'm awesome.. but stupid

    It was pointed out to me that the reason my banner wasn't showing up for me was because I had titled it "banner", and Norton blocks things called "banner" because they are usually advertisements. I have since remedied the problem by creatively renaming the file "blarg". Who ever would have thought!
    • Posted Aug 22, 2005 7:51 pm PT
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  • 21Aug 05

    I am SO awesome

    I posted a joke thread in the Off-Topic forum called "Ask me what it's like to be so awesome".

    Some people got the joke and thought it was funny. Some people got the joke and didn't think it was funny. Most people, however, didn't get the joke and didn't think it was funny. So I reckon I've gotten myself quite a few enemies just for proclaiming my awesomeness, but I don't mind. I guess the world (or at least the Off-Topic forum) just isn't ready for my kind of awesomeness quite yet.
    • Posted Aug 21, 2005 1:07 am PT
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  • 20Aug 05

    I got a job!

    I've been meaning to get a job for a while now. School starts back up next week, and quite frankly, I need money. The problem, for those of you who don't know me (which is everyone) is that I have crippling social anxiety which prevents me from doing a lot of things. I won't go into detail about how I used to go weeks without talking to anyone and a record three days without eating because I couldn't work up the courage to go to the grocery store, but suffice to say thing are better now. Better, but not perfect. Walking up to someone and asking for a job application and then sitting through a job interview is still extremely difficult for me. How many times have I just wished that someone would just walk up to me and offer me a job!

    Well, somehow that happened today. I went out to lunch with my family, as is our Saturday routine, and the hostess who was seating us at the restaurant complimented me on my smile and asked me if I wanted a job. I filled out the application and turned it in to the manager after we had finished eating. She sat me down, briefly looked at the application, and announced "you're hired!"

    I guess they must be really desperate for hostesses. It can't be common practice to ask customers if they want a job, and then hire people who have no customer service experience at all. Somehow it feels like a scam, though that could just be the unnatural suspicion I have of everyone who tries to be nice to me. I hope it works out. I don't know anything about being a hostess but I'm willing to work hard and give it a shot.

    So anyway, I'm very proud of myself, even if I didn't actually do much. Any success is a step, though, that's all that counts.
    • Posted Aug 20, 2005 9:06 pm PT
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  • 17Aug 05

    You reading my blog is making me nervous

    I don't know why, but knowing that someone will read the crap I write here is making me nervous. It's like I feel the need to write something interesting or socially relevant. Of course, the problem is that I have nothing interesting to say, and I can't think of the last time I've said something relevant. Nor do I have anything interesting to do, in fact, but that's my own problem.

    I've submitted so many quotes and other stuff to Arrested Development, but practically nothing has gone through. 68 pending, 27 accepted, 5 denied. I have plenty more, but I've completely forgotten what I've already submitted. Maybe eventually the queue will get caught up, but I've pretty much lost hope.

    I've also discovered, by googling myself, that all my blog entries and forum posts are easily available to the public. I didn't expect it to be private, obviously, but on all the other forums I've ever posted on (one), you couldn't find all of a user's posts by googling. It only bothers me because eatcacti is the same moniker I've used since 2000, and quite honestly I don't want people to know I'm spending my time posting on a forum populated for the most part by pre-teens and, well.. idiots.

    (No offense intended to any pre-teens or idiots who happen to be reading this)

    I also still can't see my own banner. Maybe when I'm feeling less lazy I'll take a look at it with Internet Explorer and see if it works that way.
    • Posted Aug 17, 2005 9:48 pm PT
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  • 15Aug 05

    Curse you, Imageshack!

    I spent fifteen whole minutes on that banner. Fifteen minutes of my life. Fifteen minutes that are gone forever, I will never get them back. And you don't even have the common decency to show my banner? I am very close to switching over to another free image hosting service, let me tell you! If you don't want to risk losing the honor of hosting my dog pictures and stolen GIS pictures, you'd better shape up!

    My idle threat of the day.
    • Posted Aug 15, 2005 7:40 pm PT
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  • 14Aug 05

    You dance like a man who lives like a woman.

    I have made myself a banner.

    It took all my talent in many areas: MS Paint, copy-paste, and pressing F5 at the appropriate moments to grab screenshots. But it is finally here, and I like it.

    I hope it's not violating TOS.. but you won't tell on me, will you? mwaha
    • Posted Aug 14, 2005 9:18 pm PT
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  • 9Aug 05

    Just FYI

    Here's a warning to anyone who is unlucky enough to have as little common sense as I do: don't stick a safety pin in the USB port of your computer. Your computer will turn off, and you will lose everything you're working on and possibly break your computer.
    • Posted Aug 9, 2005 10:41 pm PT
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  • 7Aug 05

    Signatures are stupid

    dalejrfan3-8 :
    if you think you have a cool signature post here.

    mine is the best

    for all the latest news in the world of NASCAR VISIT MY PROFILE here is a part of a story go to my profile to see the rest SPEEDWAY, Ind. (AP) -- Elliott Sadler avoided the wiggles, wobbles and technical problems that plagued other drivers qualifying for The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. The changing track conditions didn't slow him down, either. Sadler used a clean run and perfectly-timed cloud cover to his advantage Saturday, posting a fast lap of 184.116 mph for his second pole of the NASCAR season. go to my profile to see the rest


    eatcacti :
    I think my signature is the coolest of all.


    dalejrfan3-8 :
    u aint have a sig


    eatcacti :
    Well I guess that joke was lost on you.


    dalejrfan3-8 :
    what?
    • Posted Aug 7, 2005 2:18 pm PT
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  • 5Aug 05

    Somebody read by blog

    Yes, it's true, somebody actually read something I wrote. Someone apparently sent me a message about it, too, on July 27th, about the Arrested Development season 2 DVD. That it's 369 minutes total, not of extras. I figured that later, the person who told me about it must have been stupid. Oh well. If I knew people were reading this I would have been more careful.. now I'll have to be careful...
    • Posted Aug 5, 2005 1:26 pm PT
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  • 4Aug 05

    The Simpsons

    I'm a little annoyed by the reviews of The Simpsons on this site. Of course, they're user reviews, and I don't think they're screened at all, so it's not a surprise that some people write idiotic things just because they can. Anyway, the reason they annoy me is that a lot of them rate the show really low yet give it a gleaming review, talking about how great it used to be, even if it isn't anymore.

    The Simpsons is one of the finest shows ever to hit television. This may not be the majority opinion of everyone in the entire world, but a lot of people on this site at least agree with me. They also agree with me that it has been going downhill in the past few years. It used to be the funniest, freshest show on TV, and now it's just getting worse and worse. But is that a reason to give it a bad rating? I don't think so.

    Ideally, ratings should reflect a show's entire career, not just one or two seasons. Especially for a show like The Simpsons, which is in its 17th season. At least twelve of those seasons were excellent and two or three more were good. The last two I don't care too much for, but that's just the last two out of sixteen!
    • Posted Aug 4, 2005 2:54 pm PT
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  • 3Aug 05

    TV.com Message Boards

    I wonder if it's ok to post something negative about TV.com or if they'll kick me out if I do? Well, I'll go for it anyway. Here it is:

    The message boards here are stupid. Yes, stupid. I have not in my life seen stupider message boards (but in all fairness, I don't spend too much of my time looking at stupid message boards). You gain levels by posting, among other things, and it's pretty obvious to anyone who isn't blind that most people are just posting to raise their level.

    Here's an example in the General Discussion forum:
    Subject: "old nick stuff". It's not a bad subject, it's a perfect subject in fact. But what is the content of the first post? "like the 80s-90s post if you like"

    WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!? There is no content there. There is absolutely nothing! If it said: "I really like shows from 80s/90s Nickelodeon, let's discuss them," or something like that, I would see how it would be acceptable. But just "old nick stuff" is no better than just "hey here's a thread let's boost our post counts together!" Geez.

    Well, let's see what the replies are so far. There are two:
    1. Idon't remember much.. but I always had a liken for salute your shorts and Legends of Thee Hidden Temple. You?
    2. hey arnold

    Ok, number 1 is at least a moderately intelligent 12 year old. S/he posted his/her favorite shows, that's ok. Number 2 is an idiot, but sadly no more idiot than the rest of the idiots. "hey arnold", what does that mean? Did you like it, did you hate it? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!?

    Honestly, I'm just annoyed. I like this site, it's very useful for TV information and for actually discussing TV shows. But it really needs to be moderated better. Perhaps rules like "Don't make posts about nothing" would be in order. If I ran it, in any case.
    • Posted Aug 3, 2005 7:49 am PT
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  • 28Jul 05

    Family Guy Movie

    Show News: Family Guy
    'Family Guy:' Coup D'Stew

    "The highly anticipated, uncensored 'Family Guy' movie doesn't come out on DVD until September, but some Internet whiz-kids are already trading full-length, pirated copies of 'Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story' online."

    It's funny because it's not just a few "internet whiz-kids" who have downloaded the movie, it's actually everyone who has the internet and wants to see it. It has literally saturated downloading sites. I don't feel bad about downloading it because I know I'm going to buy it anyway. I enjoyed it.
    • Posted Jul 28, 2005 2:01 pm PT
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