movies and bugs

The Bourne Supremacy (2004): This is the 2nd movie in the Jason Bourne series; I watched and mostly liked the 1st movie. After seeing several good reviews of The Bourne Ultimatum, I decided I'd better catch up before watching the 3rd movie. Shaky-cam fight scenes aside, it's a great movie. It's a shame that the fight scenes weren't filmed as well as the INSANE car chase in Moscow was. Against all reason, I like Karl Urban, and he was fun to watch. Storylines appeal to me where the government has bad guys who do arrogantly try to do "the right thing" through all the wrong methods, and put themselves above the law. Brian Cox was very good in this role, almost managing to inject believability into lines which were all too clearly pure exposition.

With reference to the recent mite problem: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bug Bomb Explosions

Claim:   Insect-infested house is destroyed when too many "bug bombs" set by owner are ignited.
Status:   True.
Origins:   In December 2003, an overly determined householder in San Diego, California, took on the bugs and lost her home in the process.

In other news, it's good to see people are still idiots: Raid Insect Bombs - Johnson Wax - "directions don't say prouduct is harmful to pets."

et tu, last.fm?

Pandora blocked non-US IP Addresses (except Canada and the UK); I briefly got it back with TOR, an IP spoofer.

Then TOR "upgraded" and I've not been able to get it to work since then.

Last.fm told me today that it needed to "upgrade," so I did that and now it won't play music, only track my played CDs. And it's in Japanese, with no clear way to put it back to English UI. And when I say "clear" I mean that the Options (preferences) doesn't show it in any tab, as well as no language directories in the application itself. That's the method for overriding local language settings in iTunes or Nvu or Inkscape - go in and find the language directories, then change the name of Japanese's directory so it defaults back to English. HIGH TECH! GAH!

I WILL NEVER UPGRADE ANYTHING AGAIN. fuck this futchar.

my hungry children

I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don’t like it
What’s with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don’t like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
- SKULLCRUSHER MOUNTAIN - Jonathan Coulton