life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

Yesterday the bus station had a small choir singing carols (also Amazing Grace, which everyone always seems to sing in a gospel style—choirboy would be a nice change). Today they had a string quartet. What's tomorrow, an orchestra?

I do not like having the options split up like this. And I'm not keen on the chirpy 'enter a subject' and careful explanations of public and private. Also, the entry box doesn't stand out from the page background enough. And I don't want two link to that stupid userpic thumbnails view, it takes for ever to load on dial-up.

Well, wouldn't you know. The one update that I would actually have chosen, a drop-down list of previously used tags, isn't there.

Where's the lj_design entry so that I can complain?

The other change that has annoyed me: I usually use Rimmel Hydrasense concealer; it's the only thing I wear every day appear from lip balm. I went to Boots today and it has been replaced by something called 'Recover' that's about a pound more expensive. *sigh* I'm very fair, and I use concealer mostly for eye circles; any recommendations?

Gakked from cynthia_black, the insulting Myers-Briggs test:

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Can't move these days without falling over Christmas decorations. This week at work everyone brought out the tinsel and mini trees that had been getting in everyone's way in the stationary store for the past 11 months. I have silver tipped tinsel over my monitor (it looks like a festive caterpillar), and have changed the colours of my telnet application that we use the most to green red and white.

The popular garden decoration at the minute seems to be glow-in-the-dark inflatable Santas, which knock 'Santa stop here' signs out of the top spot for seasonal tackiness. People waste the world's resources making these hideous things, ugh.

Smudge has a new nickname: MudCat. Yesterday he came in so wet and spiky that where he sat down, he left a little muddy circle, complete with texture.

Muffin weighs 13 lb and is addressed as 'How fat is my cat'.

My reaction to this post on Making Light:

Turkey friers? People actually fry turkey?

Ok, you can stop calling fried haggis weird now, kthanxbye.

Okay, I'm sure that 8787 other people have come up with this before me, but what if

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I took a look in Forbidden Planet and there were this couple with a small baby in a buggy. Daddy (who had a ponytail halfway down his back) was holding his very small daughter up to a rack of comics. Carefully imprinting her, like a baby bird...

Hey, does anyone know why slemslempike is gone?

Well, I installed Firefox 2. Not only are my bookmarks and history still there, but so are all the search engines I had before :) The tabs look a little strange, but I expect I'll soon get used to that.

Firefox has reset itself to some sort of minimalistic version—all the preferences have reset themselves, though oddly the bookmarks and extensions are still there, and, exceedingly annoyingly, the search bar has no engines to choose from, and when I go to the add engines page it doesn't work. I've already tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, and using System Restore. Nothing brings them back.

I would install Firefox 2, which I haven't bothered to do yet, but what if I do, and the search engines are still AWOL?

Seen on a wall at the back of M&S:
You don't hit your weaker wife because your stronger boss hit you. I considered adding 'Who says she's weaker? but was scuppered by lack of spraypaint.

The farming newspaper reported: Mr A won the conventional ploughing competion and Mr B won the reversible ploughing competition. Technically, they mean Mr B won the competition of ploughing using a reversible plough :D