An Actual Phone Call I Made at 7:30pm on a Saturday Night Because I Am Just That Annoyed:

Woman: Hi, this is Channel 9. How can I help you?
Me: I’d like to make a complaint about one of your shows.
Her: I can take your complaint. What is it?
Me: It’s about your new show Fringe. I was really looking forward to seeing the show and I was glad it came out so soon here. I watched the show and really enjoyed it, so I was just reading about it online and discovered that there were several scenes that were MISSING in the version that was broadcast here. And I just think that if you’re going to heavily advertise that a show has been “fast-tracked straight from the US” because you don’t want people to download it off the Internet, then you shouldn’t give us a chopped up version! I mean, one of the scenes that was cut was the one that actually EXPLAINED THE TITLE OF THE SHOW.
Her: Thanks for that. I’ll pass it along.

I hope I enlivened her night, anyway. So how friggin’ annoying is that? I actually did enjoy the show, but there were some confusing plot gaps that I didn’t quite understand. I figured it was just because it was all X-Files-y. I mean, they didn’t even explain the title! And where did my sister get “astral projection” from anyway? (I mean, that’s clearly what they did with the LSD tank thing, but it was never mentioned by name.) So I decide to check out the TWOP recap and see if I missed anything… when I come across FOUR PARAGRAPHS that I don’t remember. “Huh, that’s odd.” So I go back to the TiFaux and play the episode again. Nope. Cuts right from Pacey saying “When do we leave?” to the door opening at the mental ward. ARGH. And now that I’m reading further, I’m finding more stuff. We also didn’t see Olivia get shot up with the drugs before she goes into the tank.

So thanks, Channel 9. I was actually getting excited about watching Heroes without having to download it, but you’ll probably cut bits out of that too. YOU SUCK.

Addendum: Kunaal has just pointed out that Heroes is on Channel 7. Whatever. I still don’t trust any of them now.

Apologies for the site problems yesterday. My database server crashed pretty hard. The guys at Quadrahosting were quick to respond though, and they seem to have it up and running now…

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Nat and Staci on the arrival of their daughter Margaret Jane Cunningham. Ooh, I’ll have to start looking through my knitting patterns!

Training over. That was fun for a bit… but man, eight conscious hours a day without Internet access is just too, too many.

When you’re sick, it’s really, really hard to resist the temptation to bake things like Cinnamon Bun Bread…

Michelle Obama blogs about equal pay and Lilly Ledbetter. Lilly worked at Goodyear for 20 years and was a plant supervisor. Someone sent her an anonymous letter with all the salaries of her male counterparts, all of whom were making way more than she did. She took the company to court. The Supreme Court ruled that, according to the law, Lilly only had 180 days to complain about the discrimination. So because the company had hid the truth for 20 years, she missed her chance. Now legislators are trying to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

“But this April, Republicans in the Senate blocked it. Now, Democrats in the Senate are working to bring Lilly’s bill back for another vote this fall. My husband is a proud supporter of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Senator McCain does not support it. In fact, Senator McCain said that what women really need is more education and training. But Lilly Ledbetter had plenty of training. What she doesn’t have is the right to fight for the pay she deserves.”

My Grandma worked in a tire plant for years and years. I wonder how much money she lost to discrimination. But I suppose she deserved it, on account of not having enough education and training, right?

“Jesus is My Friend” by Sonseed. Snookums sent me that link (which I think he got from Toast) presumably so I could laugh at the cheesy Jesus people. But little did he expect that his plan contained the seeds of his own marital downfall, because now I have to leave him for that AWESOME GUITAR PLAYER. (Also, that is a seriously catchy song.)

Apologies for the radio silence. I’m on Day 3 of my “Object-Oriented Design and Analysis using UML” course, and we don’t have computer access in the classroom. I’ll be done tomorrow…