Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Web site edition

140. All those stupid, loser-ass ads on the right margin of Facebook. I KNOW I'm single and lonely. I don't need your fucking "Jill and Stuart met and fell in love on Match.com" ad. I stalk my ex-bf on Fb as it is.
141. Lifehacker's new home page. It used to be where you could read the expanded or condensed version. Now that option's gone and the whole satisfying experience of being able to read long lists of tips is gone. For a site dedicated to solving problems, its Web site is a big one.
142. Posting an article comment on Lifehacker. I write a (well-informed voice of experience) post with five fairly original and useful tips for staying warm without turning up the heat. I spend half an hour crafting this. And the comment disappears into Comment Neverland.
143. DontDateHimGirl.com. I tried 3 times to post in detail (because they want you to post in detail) about how a certain ex totally jacks with women. And three times, this long, detailed, patiently written post fucking gets timed out or just disappears or joins my LifeHacker comments for drinks.
144. Bipolarworld Yahoo group. I have belonged. I have tried to speak the truth. And they cannot handle the truth. So I have left.
145."Sorority Life." A game that shows you how mean people really are, located on a timesucking site you cruise to get away from how mean people are?
146. The Fb app "Causes." Every day I log onto Fb because I want to tune out how inadequate I feel at work and how hurt I am from a breakup and the fact that I only have a fish to come home to, and there are these "X has joined Cause for Leukemia. Join X in supporting this effort," or "Help find Mary Lou's dog" or whatever messages in my inbox. You want to live and let live, but sometimes you finally have to write your evil good-doer relative to lay off.
147. Microsoft Outlook help. I kid you not, there is a circular reference on it about recovering your archived email files. It never actually tells you how to do it--just how to find out more about archiving. If I didn't have a vague memory of how to do it already, I would have been screwed. As in not being able to recover the emailed resume of the dwarf I had to interview 15 minutes later.
148. iTunes. What are you, Microsoft? Do you have to muscle in on every available processor timeslice and every kb of married-but-looking memory???
149. I'm gonna say it. Thisfish.com, the otherwise very entertaining blog. All these heartwarming stories about the author and her LIBF, the Dork Lord. And even with this huge "Dork Lord" in the tag cloud, I cannot zero in on their cute meet-up history. WTF? This is not "Lost."
150. Hulu. For the many of us who missed much of last week's first-run "House" episode due to MLB overtime, we couldn't hurry over to hulu and get our fix. They have to wait until the episode is at least a week old before posting it. Jesus, people. Don't stand between a junkie and her drug.
151. (Relevance: image search on Lifehacker's founder, who shall go unnamed as a rare display of respect.) Women with buzz cuts. If you're not Pema Chodron, quit with that pretentious I'm-not-into-my-looks crap. Is that why your image is all over the Internet with your horrible non-hair?
152. Windows 7 Launch Parties. I guess I won't be pictured tossing Jell-O shots with billionaires in Valleywag.
153. Amazon. Stop trying to read my mind and deepen my insecurities by suggesting more fruity self-help books like the ones I bought from you "privately" so I didn't have to face a Barnes & Noble cashier with those books and a name-bearing credit card. Do you also want to suggest brands and models of vibrators? Would that be your Valhalla? Bring it. And bring a box of tampons while you're at it.
154. Bing. Bing is even worse, if that is possible, than shopping.msn.com was. MS wields a broadsword to force people into the mindless collective. And they also don't know how to find the Coach bag I am all over the Internet for like a dachshund on a hot dog bun.
155. (Slight diversion: Web app.) Evernote. It's supposed to be this lifesaving organizer of data you find on the Web or whatever, and it's been on my favorites bar 3 weeks and I haven't found a single instance when it could do something that bookmarking or email can't.

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