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captainsblogAnd I don't mean the comedy club.
We think we know what's wrong with the dog.
Tapeworms. Yum. Which means fleas. Yummier.
We call the vet in a few minutes for meds and bugbombs.
She still hasn't eaten, but she's drinking out of her water bowl, which is an improvement.
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Then I awoke to discover the Mets had been on Letterman last night. Yay! A show I might have gone to if I'd been there yesterday. Boo!
CBS, of course, is on YouTube's no-no list, so the only place you can see it is on the Late Show website.
Firefox told me I needed a plugin to see it. Guess who CBS whored themselves out to for THAT?
Realplayer. Only the singly most annoying and invasive purveyor of content on the Internet not currently trying to sell me Viagra or get me to play online poker. At least not yet.
It loaded and told me to close the browser. I dutifully did so. Then, it became clear, this thing isn't just a plugin but the full-boat current Player they try to annoy me into installing every time I play one of my two useless .ram files.
And as usual, I had to go through The Game. I do not want you to change all my audio-video applications for you to play. I do not want you to put your crapads icons on my desktop, in my traybar and under my lampshade. I do not want you to sign me up for your premium package even though it's "recommended!" You need an email addy for me to install a fucking plug in? Fine. Here's a spambob one I use, I live in Khazistan, and my postal code is BORAT. Got it?
You know what's coming after all that, right? I reopened Firefox, returned to the site, saw David Wright's happy face while it buffered,.... and got to watch a Mazda ad. And ONLY a Mazda ad.
As Carnac would have said, may a diseased yak sit on your bandwidth.
We think we know what's wrong with the dog.
Tapeworms. Yum. Which means fleas. Yummier.
We call the vet in a few minutes for meds and bugbombs.
She still hasn't eaten, but she's drinking out of her water bowl, which is an improvement.
----
Then I awoke to discover the Mets had been on Letterman last night. Yay! A show I might have gone to if I'd been there yesterday. Boo!
CBS, of course, is on YouTube's no-no list, so the only place you can see it is on the Late Show website.
Firefox told me I needed a plugin to see it. Guess who CBS whored themselves out to for THAT?
Realplayer. Only the singly most annoying and invasive purveyor of content on the Internet not currently trying to sell me Viagra or get me to play online poker. At least not yet.
It loaded and told me to close the browser. I dutifully did so. Then, it became clear, this thing isn't just a plugin but the full-boat current Player they try to annoy me into installing every time I play one of my two useless .ram files.
And as usual, I had to go through The Game. I do not want you to change all my audio-video applications for you to play. I do not want you to put your crap
You know what's coming after all that, right? I reopened Firefox, returned to the site, saw David Wright's happy face while it buffered,.... and got to watch a Mazda ad. And ONLY a Mazda ad.
As Carnac would have said, may a diseased yak sit on your bandwidth.
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Date: 2007-07-27 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-27 01:50 pm (UTC)( although I must admit the biologist in me wanted to go "'oohh tapeworms... cool....", sorry parasites are infinitely fascinating...)
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Date: 2007-07-28 01:04 am (UTC)Glad you found out what was wrong with Tasha. May she feel better soon.