2 posts tagged “internet”
My mom has been trying to learn to internet for a while now. She is improving... she can load her own ipod now and use google, sure. She figured out Skype while I was in Spain last time and called me rather regularly with it.
Anyway, I am glad she is improving but she still makes me crazy. Today, we were talking about browsers and she kept saying Godzilla instead of Firefox, which was hilarious. She also finally called to cancel the dial-up (FINALLY because I installed DSL at her house months ago) and they managed to convince her to pay $20 a year to keep her MSN email address. I pointed out that most sites have free email and she goes, "but theirs has spam-blocker stuff."
This was followed by her showing me some website that is basically a pyramind scheme to get your friends to sign up for accounts, for which you receive a micropayment for referring them. I again pointed out that this does NOT qualify as 'working online' as they claim and steered her towards zooomr or flickr instead. "But these guys say they have backups stored in granite vaults in the rocky mountains and also they have a digital developer that you can get if you work hard enough." Digital developer, for the record, is a $20 card reader from best buy.
Oi. It's no WONDER our parents can't trust the internet. Everyone out there sees them as a target. It will be like our grandmothers with telephone solicitation scams.
Bitches.
So. In case you hadn't noticed, LiveJournal has been down for oh... 15 hours or something now. People will complain, but secretly, I know that they love the chance to ressurect their Great LJ Outage of 2004 icons. (Or was it 2003? I can never remember.) I would also like to start the rumor that sixapart is doing it on purpose to get everyone to try Vox, but I mean that in a very non-malicious way. I wish all my LJers would come to vox. They are the only reason I stay there. :)
It's odd when things like that happen to me, though, because I suddenly realize (with a big, giant thud) what a serious journaling habit I have. I realized this morning that I have no secrets. At some point, I have written everything I known down somewhere. There is nothing about me that someone else doesn't already know. If the world would team up, they could easily replicate my every habit and preference. You could reconstruct me from childhood on up and probably do a decent job from the literature. I guess that means the pressure is on to do something worthy enough to make it worth that bother, ha.
So, in an effort to have a complete history up somewhere, in case you ever want to write that sitcom about my life, here is today, so far:
- I firmly decided to never smoke another cigarette for at least two months. This plan relied heavily on me not having transportation at the moment to go buy them, and would be something of a forced withdrawal. Then, I got up and my mother had 'done me a favor' and bought me three packs this morning, which is enough to keep me smoking for another six weeks. It's a sign. It's time to move.
- I had an epiphany regarding the kind of men I date and why. THAT was an eye opener and will have me wondering about everything for at least a few weeks. I'm not sure I'm ready to share that one yet.
