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palfrey ([personal profile] palfrey) wrote2006-01-13 09:58 pm
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Guilty Pleasures Meme

(If only in part to stop [livejournal.com profile] need_fire from bugging me...)
The first player of this game starts with the topic of "5 Guilty Pleasures" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule clearly. In the end you need to choose 5 people to be tagged and list their names.
  1. Gilmore Girls - they're kooky (and I'm not using that word lightly), and they live in this bizarro-world combination of small town america + rich family (acting as a ongoing deus ex machina for every problem). But it's so addictive.....

  2. Will and Grace - the HMV card from the sane grandmother went on the 3rd series of this. I now actually, physically own the 1st 3 series of this... and then I watch several episodes in a row, gorging myself on pop culture references ("What's your damage Heather?"), endless jokes on gay society, and pondering if Will can actually be counted as fat (given Jack's endless insults on the topic).

  3. Pointless web browsing - or, why I need to build an RSS reader that I like, if only to automate my reading of Slashdot, The Register, my LJ friends list, Planet Debian, Planet Gnome, OS News, etc, etc...

  4. OK Cupid - smart dating site. Source of the recent querying here. Sadly most of the interesting prospects are umpteen thousands of miles away, otherwise I'd probably be a lot less incel than right now. I've so far answered 562 assorted questions, plus a long list of assorted "tests".

  5. Windows - not a pleasure thing, but defiantly up there under guilt. My desktop machine is *still* running W2K. 95% of everything that's running on it is either runnable on Linux (Firefox, Thunderbird, Azureus, VLC, Gaim, Gvim, Python) or have good alternates (Semagic -> Drivel, Winamp -> XMMS/Rhythmbox), but I wouldn't then be able to play all the games and all the other little random new stuff that I so enjoy. Maybe I'll be able to get away finally with the aid of Xen eventually.....

Tag yourselves folks...
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[identity profile] cath-er-ine.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, liking your music!
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[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I was actually considering something along the lines of "music I should be ashamed of" as I could add a Christina Aguilera track, as well as some Busta Rhymes, Avril Lavigne, Sugababes, Spin Doctors, Bangles, Haddaway, etc, etc... but I couldn't really think of a decent title for it all.

[identity profile] cath-er-ine.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
don't feel guilty about cheesy music, it's great :)

Spelling Bee...lzebub!!11!!eleven1!!!!

[identity profile] raspberrysalmon.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
because it's one of my pet peeves... well, and one of [livejournal.com profile] mirli's, and because she's just sitting next to me....:

if you're going to misspell "definitely", can't you at least add a funny dimension and use "defiantly"? :p
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Re: Spelling Bee...lzebub!!11!!eleven1!!!!

[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Fixed (to defiantly, just for the heck of it...)

*GRIN*

[identity profile] raspberrysalmon.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
that just prompted a laugh and a thumbs-up from me and a "fangirl-squee" (her words) from [livejournal.com profile] mirli...
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Re: *GRIN*

[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to be of service m'dears.

Evil

[identity profile] dorward.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Games are the evil spawn of the Devil. Drive them out! Use Linux.

Then buy an Xbox to play games on.

Then install Linux on it to be ironic and have a nifty media centre for your telly.
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Re: Evil

[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I did actually buy a second-hand Xbox just before coming back here (mostly because they've just gone down in price due to the 360, and they'd released sequels to both my favourite games - Halo and MechAssault - since I last owned one). Hadn't gotten around to posting about it, despite having figured out the point of the break in Burnout (not for slowing down, but for doing crazy skids around 90 degree corners when going at 160mph).

I'd make it into a media centre, but the DVD drive sucks ass. Somehow they tweaked it so it doesn't accept most burned CDRs, and I'd like to be able to play all the media on those (without doing some crazy USB adaptor+external drive hack). So, having given up on ever getting the blasted Mac Mini to do TV Out or wireless properly under Linux, I'm planning on selling it off and buying the Mini-itx box I wanted all that time ago...
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Re: Evil

[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
s/break/brake/

I appear to be having a bad spelling day.

aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[identity profile] raspberrysalmon.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...i only just noticed the "gulity", too...

...will you rip my head off if i want to pat yours for that? ;p
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Re: aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/me resolves to put down the keyboard and stop typing (after this comment)
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Re: aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
And, no. I wouldn't want to rip your head off. You may lose the hand however.

Re: aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[identity profile] raspberrysalmon.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
well, if you're going to keep that resolve just like you kept the one from 10:30, i guess i'm safe....

*grin*

Re: Evil

[identity profile] dorward.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The DVD drive is very cheap and nasty. I solve the problem through the power of ethernet (and a PC with a nice hard disk in another room).
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Re: Evil

[identity profile] palfrey.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Well in my case, I'm going to have to go wireless anyways (due to the lack of ethernet on the ground floor, and difficulty of changing that), and I've got a perfectly good little Linksys USB 2.0 wifi thing sitting here. However, the USB ports on the Xbox are only 1.1, so I'd have to buy a wireless<->ethernet bridge as well...

Short version: I can do a vast collection of hacky crap to the Xbox to make it vaguely resemble a decent system that can do wireless, and have a non-sucky DVD drive, *or* I can just build the Mini-itx system and have a lot less stress (plus a quieter system for movies, which is more important than for games, which are in general quite noisy).

[identity profile] need-fire.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*finally!* (just kidding....you are the only one I tagged who actually did it)

gilmore girls is pretty fantastic. i wish i had her as a mother growing up. then again, maybe not.

and i am also addicted to okcupid, but you know that already. i keep hoping some new fabulous person will sign up and be 5 miles away. but like you said, my huge matches are usually in a different country. ah well....that just reinforces my view that i am not, in fact, an american.

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