Dear Microsoft...

...when an application freezes, I use CTRL-ALT-DEL to open the Task Manager. I do this precisely because the application has frozen, and is not responding. If it were responding, I would use its close button to close it. Because it is not responding, I did not do this. Instead, I opened the Task Manager and pressed the button clearly labeled "End Task".

I KNOW THAT THE GODDAMN THING IS NOT RESPONDING JUST END THE FUCKING TASK DON'T GIVE ME A SECOND FUCKING WINDOW TO TELL ME THAT THE PROGRAM IS NOT RESPONDING I KNOW THAT

The Wild Card

Today's random idea for a DC character: the Joker.

Back to Ragging on Commercials

Okay, I just can't believe that there are two separate ad campaigns for two separate fast-food chains forcing me to say it, but please, please, CEASE REFERRING TO MY "KISSER". I do not call my mouth a "kisser", particularly when the activity being referred to is eating, not kissing; my friends do not call it a "kisser"; my parent's generation does not call it a "kisser", NOBODY HAS CALLED IT A FUCKING "KISSER" SINCE THE HONEYMOONERS WENT OFF THE AIR.

More specifically, I simply do not ever want to hear your growly middle-aged-to-elderly-sounding male announcer purring juicily about anyone's "kisser", especially not when he's also slobbering out syllables describing the mouth as "a round hole" or...hhhh...talking about "loading the tubes" to "fire a tasty torpedo" toward it -- why do I even have to tell you people this? You're selling sandwiches, not blowjobs; moreover, even if you were selling blowjobs, it should be very basic marketing wisdom that the customer base involved will (for the most part) not only wish to keep "gravelly-voiced older man and/or Denis Leary impersonator" out of the mental imagery, but will want also to be positioned as the party in this transaction whose mouth is not full.

Woo!

It's ready to go! There are some pages launching without content, but they've at least got menus and headers on 'em, and the really important parts -- Galleries and Articles -- are all prepared. The new Devil's Virtue should be up and running online within the next 48 hours! Squee!

The site is currently visible at http://www.sanguinus.org/devilsvirtue/Home%20-%20TDV.html until the address www.devilsvirtue.com is redirected to it. Hope you like it!

This Just In

All right, it's 7 AM and I haven't got all the Galleries ready to go yet. 8 out of 14 ain't too bad, though, and now that I've got the process down smoothly the remainder should be relatively easy. But the sun is coming up and I'm fried. Will continue tomorrow, or technically, later today.

Update Update

Note from future me:  this post and several around it relate to the previous version of TDV before I moved it all over to Blogger, in a tradeoff of fine detail control for convenience.

Spoiler: Snape is Tyler Durden

Got an unexpected invitation to a midnight showing of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", at the Alamo, naturally (are there any other theaters worth speaking of?). Just returned from that, so this is a quick initial-reaction dump, hopefully soon to be revised into an actual review. Caution, contains some spoilers for a wildly popular story published four years ago.