June 29, 2008
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GAAAAAAAH!
I am so frustrated I could spit fire. I have just spent the last three hours trying to get a php board uploaded so Wit can set up a message thingie and play with it as a project. GAAAAH! I’ve been on live chats, to so many help pages and tutorials that my eyes are bugging out, and have installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, and more. WHY is this so hard? GAAAAH! So, I’ve quit. It is beyond my meager computer skills to figure out why the cache is empty and how to reconfigure the configure page. Rant, rant, rant, grumble, grumble, rant.
Last night TGD and I watched the worst Big-Name-Movie ever. It was even worse than Elizabethtown, which was my former worst Big-Name-MoiveEver. To what hideous waste of $4.23 at Blockbuster do I refer? Jumper! It was such an excellent premise: a guy who can jump through space in an instant. But, someone had to write a good script and to act well in it. Someone did not do either. About halfway through the movie, we said, “I wonder if this is getting close to being done. There seems to be no plot, so it is hard to tell.” And the winning dialogue: “You can make this go swifter.” I’ve never encoded a murkier plot–truly. Or so many characters that I categorically disliked. (That would be every character in the movie. It was not redeemed by Kristen Stewart, the future Bella Swan, opening the door at the end of the movie. Perhaps if the whole Cullen family had made a cameo, it could have saved this wretched flick.)
We kept trying to figure out who the target audience might be. TGD finally surmised, “I think it is aimed at 15 year old boys, none of whom we know.” (Not that we don’t know many 15 year old boys, just not any who would fall into the target audience.)
I thought perhaps writing a Xanga would be cathartic. It was a bit. But I’m still frustrated. I’ll have to sort socks or something. Grrrr…
Oh, for two really nifty stories (with a gruesome picture), check out TGD’s latest entry HERE.
Comments (27)
awww you didn’t like it??? I mean, it wasn’t a favorite movie or anything, although I thought Jumper was pretty entertaining! I wish the ending had a little more closure, but besides that it wasn’t so bad…ah well, different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Technology…such a blessing and a pain all at once! Good luck with trying to figure out that program…that is, if you resume attempting to figure it out!!
I help with web stuff, you know…
Hop on IM or email questions, and I’ll try to help.
just droppin by to say hi!
When I saw the previews for Jumper, I thought it was Mace Windu’s revenge for Anakin chopping off his arm in Star Wars.
Well, one of the kids in the musical who is really into acting and whatnot (but really just one of your regular guys), saw it in theaters and thought it was terrible. I remember something of the same looked-like-it-was-going-to-be-great-but-was-awful premise in his complaints. But then, he was 18. Maybe three years too old?
I feel your pain!
I love you Mary, but you really do have bad taste in movies.
Heh, I refuse to see Jumper because anything with what’s his name in it is going to be terrible.
And hey, I like Elizabethtown.
Hahahaha. I actually liked the movie a teeny bit, but we were very disappointed that the concept didn’t get explored like it could have. My husband went out and bought the book and it turns out to be WAY different than the movie. I haven’t read it yet…there’s a lot about abusive parents in the novel and I’m not in the mood for all that.
Thanks for the heads-up on Elizabethtown. I keep meaning ot watch it, but keep putting it down because it doesn’t seem like I would like it. (It’s my best friend’s favorite movie, but my gut says I won’t like it.)
Burn a singleton sock…the fire might evaporate the frustration and Murphy says you’ll never find the lost one anyway. (or have a brownie if you don’t like fire, hehe) Sorting can’t be all that head-clearing an act!
1st paragraph – about Jumper in case my quick bedtime comment made no sense
We also thought the movie was wierd, but liked the idea and bought the book, thinking the movie just boffed it. Not the case. I am completely impressed you could do all that installing and uninstalling. You are ahead of me in computer skills.
You didn’t like Elizabethtown? I think I watched it 3 times.
Sometimes computers just make no sense. Sorry you had such troubles.
Hope the sock sorting helped!
Hey, Teach. Josh or I can help you out with the PHP thing! I have AIM and email too!
i am positive that nothing can make you madder than your computer. !!! so sorry.
sorry you didn’t like Jumper. i liked the idea behind the story, but the movie itself wasn’t that great. i wonder what got edited out. i think it could have been better. the idea was very interesting though. i will have to read the novel. (i didn’t realize there was one!)
hope today is better!
books are always better
BTDT! I know your frustration well. (((Mary))) there’s a hug–do you feel better now?
Does sorting socks really relieve frustration?
Gracious. Sounds like a good book and some hot tea are called for!! (smile)
I hate movies that get all the way to the end- and your still wondering whats going on! I’d much rather sit and read a book.
Have a great, frustration-free day!!
As Mamaglop said, we we bought the book, I read 2 chapters and threw it away.
Computers can be the most irksome, tear-inducing, rage-inducing things ever. Once I just about wasted an entire printerfull of paper trying to print out a writing assignment. The stack of crumpled papers on the floor beside me was becoming a mountain. Then there was that awful time that I very immaturely… uh… ahem… er… threw the keyboard down in a fit of frustration and all the little letter keys popped out and scattered across the desk and onto the floor. Oops.
While I was home visiting my folks the only movie Rob rented was Jumper…maybe the target audience is short-term, twenty something bachelors?
Our downstairs desktop never had a strong connection to the DSL splitter thing so our friend Flip put some kind of card to make it work better and it worked UNTIL he left town for the military. Now it gets absolutely NO signal. The laptop works gets the DSL signal just fine which is weird b/c it’s about 5 feet to the right of the desktop. Last night the upstairs printer belt broke. It was kind of a junky one anyway but I still had one more ink cartridge to use.
Never heard of Jumper but admitedly we don’t see many movies. Saw The Bee Movie for the first time at Marth U.M. movie night on Friday. It was uh okay. I enjoyed the free popcorn and surprisingly BlueEyes wasn’t too crazy – she just roamed around bumming popcorn from people. Hope you get your computer issues figured out. I’m hoping Bookman becomes a WesJanson type computer guru and be our inhouse IT department.
Hi friend,
I didn’t understand your first paragraph at all~any surprise? But, I did laugh at the rest of your entry!
No, we haven’t sold our van yet, in fact, we took it in to have it MOT’d, and it didn’t pass. So, 800 pounds later, we hope to get it back tomorrow or Wednesday. We hope to at least break even on the vehicle! No, we hope to be able to do a bit more than that~so pray for us. We have one potential buyer.
four more days and counting~
Lisa
p.s. We went to Nando’s for Jim’s birthday! Yes, we did. We almost went to the pub in honor of you, but chose Nando’s instead (still in honor of you, of course)
We too wish you could come with us!
bein a jumper is totally cool, but the movie isnt lol. so yeah, i totally agree with yah!
I thought the book was terrible, amoral and disgusting. The movie was better.
I agree with the person above who said “I am positive that nothing can make you madder than your computer.” The only time I actually went into the bathroom and cried last year at my teaching/secretary job was about a computer frustration. One of the 7th grade girls saw me crying in the bathroom and brought me some of those little chocolate mint squares of Andes candy.