The internet works in mysterious ways.

I give up. This computer hates me. Or it hates the SGA ep 'The Game'.

First it installed updates that were *crucial*, just of life-and-death importance, when I was about three-quarters of the way through saving this ep.

Then the server was reset because of an incoming call- LIAR. Who the hell calls at 1:30 am?! NO ONE. It was a stupid excuse to screw with me.

On my third try, it didn't bother getting creative with the excuses, it goes with the time-honored favorite, you know, 'internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost'. What do you mean IF I was doing something? MIGHT be lost? What a pathetic apology- like there's the possibility that there was no inconvenience because people log onto the internet for no reason other than to leave it running with no purpose at all so when random shut-downs happen, they have nothing to complain about because they were sitting there in the middle of doing *nothing* on the internet other than contributing massively to their carbon footprint.

What I find really amusing is that I logged on *again*, - then just when I'm checking my mail and wondering whether I can cope with another attempt to get this ep, because I'm a glutton for punishment, this lovely pop-up appears...'Link to Bigpond failed. Reconnect pending...' I hadn't even started the d/l yet, I was just thinking about it! And it cursed me anyway. Ugh.

OMFG. I know this is a sign, but what could it possibly mean? [Other than I really need to kick the dren out of this laptop.] Don't bother d/l eps with little Sparky in it? I'm allowed to like an ep even if the Sh/Weir interaction is non-existent, aren't I? I just love the scene where she's pounding some sense into Zelenka and Lorne. *sniffles* 

Damn laptop.

On the offensive

I just posted my second entry about how much techology sucks. Then I looked down my friends page and there are at least three other people also making complaints about being screwed over by tech. 

And it made me wonder...is this how the revolution begins? Do the machines fight back sneakily? First they demoralize us by inexplicably failing to work, then they drop the covertness and go out on full attack?* 

It's brilliant, really. People are hooked on their laptops and tvs and everything that runs on electricity. Deprive us of that and it basically deprives us of our very *being*, our spirit, our character. We'd be easy pickings for those mechanical monsters then. 

Dear god, how do we fight back?

*[This is what happens when you're sleep deprived. I spout theories of madness and insanity. On Monday, I didn't sleep til 7:30 Tuesday morning, at which point I caught up on four hours sleep. On Tuesday, I didn't sleep that night or the next morning at all. On Wednesday, I didn't sleep til 6 am Thursday morning and had five hours sleep. On Thursday...well, it's 3 am Friday now, so...according to Year 12 Psych, I should working my way through a list of symptoms, like being irate, grumpy, fatigued, hostile, aggressive, paranoid, suspicious...perhaps violent...]

Am I unreasonable or are other people intolerant?

So, it's going on 7am and I never did make it to bed. Damn GW. I ended up spending an hour trying to draft a response in the Stargate Beauties thread [ended up with a near essay].

I thought this thread was a great chance to share photos and see who scores the best. Weir's second in place, miles ahead of other candidates, just behind Carter. And yet I'm not really that happy. Because instead of just accepting the results, people have been saying crap like 'No honest person would ever say that Torri Higginson looks better than Morena Baccarin. I'm not calling her ugly - I'm just saying that's an undeniable fact.' [Shan Bruce Lee] and 'Do you honestly think that the majority of posts for Weir are sincere? (and Carter to a lesser extent). No chance, it's just different factions in competition...' [Jenks].

All the other people saying their choices are prettier and more deserving than Weir sound like sore losers. Just because their favorite isn't near the top, they need to drag her down. Just because more people voted for Weir than the person they picked, there is something wrong with the poll, they challenge the *integrity* of the poll. It just gets me that they think there has to be a mass conspiracy for Weir to have so many votes, no one can believe she justly earned them because she is a beautiful woman.

If Keller were winning, no one would care less, but because it's Weir, there is obviously a conspiracy. I was just so furious that they're all saying Weir isn't that pretty, that people shouldn't be voting for her, that it's just her personality or the Pro-Weir faction helping her win [and you know what? Who cares if it is? What kind of stupid poll is this where people who love and support Weir are apparently not allowed to vote for her because of 'collusion' or something against the regs? How freakin' STUPID does that sound?!]s

Why have a poll if people aren't prepared to stand by its results? We could have ten different polls, with each rigged to provide a certain result so the people who post there know that their favorite will win and then they won't feel like losers and pick on other people's favorites to feel better about themselves. I understand if they don't think Weir is pretty but to make sweeping statements that the majority of people wouldn't notice her against all the other women like Larrin [9 votes], Adria [35 vote], etc. etc. is just utter crap when she received 80 votes. Obviously more people thought she was pretty than those other women, yet still these people make comments that most people don't think she's attractive and there's no way she should have placed second and the poll is rigged and OH, of course THEIR choice is so much prettier and more deserving than Weir and their pick is obviously the correct one and we're all dumb-asses for not recognizing their wisdom and bettering ourselves by rejecting Weir.

I want to bash their heads against the wall for being so stupid.