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Jan. 3rd, 2005 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickHappy Monday.
There's an article on how to speed up Firefox that applies to broadband users, so if you're a broadband user of Firefox, you might go take a look at that. I plan to give it a whirl when I get to the office.
I also saw an article on the odds of marriage for smart chicks relative to those for smart men. Interesting question: Why are smart guys and smart chicks making different decisions on the marriage thing? (If I weren't reading this crap on the laptop, I'd be hefting the text across the room in a fit of pique. It's easy to tell which books I don't like -- they're the ones that look like they've logged a lot of air miles.)
If you're in the market for a very bad movie that still manages to be amusing, you might try Drop Dead Gorgeous which is a (very) politically-incorrect mockumentary about a teen beauty pageant. I watched it at Joe and Stacey's on the way home from NYE festivities and it was cringeworthy on several fronts. It's worth a rental if you haven't got any better ideas.
Finally, my nephew Duncan is quite fond of Thomas the Tank Engine. Thomas is a train. He has other train engine friends like Gordon and Percy and James (not a complete list). There are rather a lot of trains in the Thomas universe, all available as toy trains for use with train tracks (sold seperately) and action figures (like Sir Topham Hat, bloated capitalist owner of the railroad). I can't keep the trains straight, but Duncan can even though he couldn't tell me which one went to Hogwarts when I asked.
Duncan has a Thomas the Tank Engine train set with tracks and bridges and scenery and trains and cars and whatnot. It fills the better part of what used to be the library at Joe and Stacey's house before they had kids. While the train engines are legit, most of the track is knockoff Thomas-compatible track that's about a third of the price of the real stuff. Duncan is three and can't tell legit track from knockoff track. Also, the Thomas-compatible track works nicely with the official track, so they might as well buy the cheaper stuff and have three times as much track. I'm pretty sure Duncan would vote for three times as much track even if it meant buying knockoff. Anyway. The Thomas the Tank Engine marketing conglomerate, which is terrifying in its sprawl and scope, has also produced Thomas books (which suck ass -- I've read a few to Duncan) and Thomas the Tank Engine videos, some of which we watched before getting to Drop Dead Gorgeous. The Thomas videos are vignette-sized, short enough for a three year old attention span. Duncan appears to enjoy them. Some of the videos are kind of cute -- the one with the chinese New Year dragon in it was particularly good. For me, though, the most entertaining facet of the Thomas the Tank Engine videos was that they were very capably narrated by George Carlin.
There's an article on how to speed up Firefox that applies to broadband users, so if you're a broadband user of Firefox, you might go take a look at that. I plan to give it a whirl when I get to the office.
I also saw an article on the odds of marriage for smart chicks relative to those for smart men. Interesting question: Why are smart guys and smart chicks making different decisions on the marriage thing? (If I weren't reading this crap on the laptop, I'd be hefting the text across the room in a fit of pique. It's easy to tell which books I don't like -- they're the ones that look like they've logged a lot of air miles.)
If you're in the market for a very bad movie that still manages to be amusing, you might try Drop Dead Gorgeous which is a (very) politically-incorrect mockumentary about a teen beauty pageant. I watched it at Joe and Stacey's on the way home from NYE festivities and it was cringeworthy on several fronts. It's worth a rental if you haven't got any better ideas.
Finally, my nephew Duncan is quite fond of Thomas the Tank Engine. Thomas is a train. He has other train engine friends like Gordon and Percy and James (not a complete list). There are rather a lot of trains in the Thomas universe, all available as toy trains for use with train tracks (sold seperately) and action figures (like Sir Topham Hat, bloated capitalist owner of the railroad). I can't keep the trains straight, but Duncan can even though he couldn't tell me which one went to Hogwarts when I asked.
Duncan has a Thomas the Tank Engine train set with tracks and bridges and scenery and trains and cars and whatnot. It fills the better part of what used to be the library at Joe and Stacey's house before they had kids. While the train engines are legit, most of the track is knockoff Thomas-compatible track that's about a third of the price of the real stuff. Duncan is three and can't tell legit track from knockoff track. Also, the Thomas-compatible track works nicely with the official track, so they might as well buy the cheaper stuff and have three times as much track. I'm pretty sure Duncan would vote for three times as much track even if it meant buying knockoff. Anyway. The Thomas the Tank Engine marketing conglomerate, which is terrifying in its sprawl and scope, has also produced Thomas books (which suck ass -- I've read a few to Duncan) and Thomas the Tank Engine videos, some of which we watched before getting to Drop Dead Gorgeous. The Thomas videos are vignette-sized, short enough for a three year old attention span. Duncan appears to enjoy them. Some of the videos are kind of cute -- the one with the chinese New Year dragon in it was particularly good. For me, though, the most entertaining facet of the Thomas the Tank Engine videos was that they were very capably narrated by George Carlin.
