Creature Comforts' most recent Chic for Cheap post confirms it. i can't afford to wear clothes. i'm coming to terms with the accepted definition of cheap: t-shirts at $16.50. shoes at $45. and my new phone plan (once i settle on one) won't be less that $50-$60/mo. maybe that seems normal to everyone else, but i used to get by spending less than $10 on clothing items and less than $30 on cell service and internet and my budget isn't designed to accomodate much more than that. how is it, as the economy slumps, the cost of living just keeps climbing out of my reach?
i am googling "recessionista." forget about "the other half" i want to know how my half lives, and how to look fabulous doing it.
*sigh* i think this next coat might do it.
the trusty brick phone is on its way out. it died for a whole 12 hours yesterday. wouldn't turn on or recharge or make any of its favorite you-have-messages tweety noises. since it's been about 5 years since buying the phone and signing a two-year contract, i think an upgrade is highly overdue. and since i frequently have problems with dropped calls and no signal, and i'm usually "roaming" when simply trying to chat in my own living room, i thought i'd check sprint's coverage before considering renewing with them. this is what i discovered: photographic (sort of) evidence that i live in sprint's who-cares-about-those-guys pocket.
i love how verizon feels the need to DEFINE text messaging like they provide service mainly to DINOSAURS. AND to charge 20 cents for messages coming AND going.Text Messaging
Fun, easy way to stay in touch. TXT Messaging is a two-way text messaging service. (!?!) Send and receive text messages of up to 160 characters, right on your two-way messaging-capable phone!!! $0.20 for messages received and $0.20 for messages sent. [emphatic punctuation added where appropriate.]
but they have pink phones. in the end, that may be all that matters.
within just 24 hours of posting my first lolcats, it got recaptioned by 4 COMPLETE STRANGERS!! that means 5 Lolz have been made from my picture! 5 LOLZ!!! maybe that's normal, but being a first-time lolcats momma, i think it is due to the exceptional genius of my child--i mean baby---i mean cat.
this one's my fav. thank you, clever people, for your pithy captions. now i'm off to make some Lolz out of other people's babies.
i'm just not looking forward to showering with it tomorrow. again.
shelteriffic posted this great pic a while ago. how would you like ham that stares back?
what a look he's giving you! i call it Instant Vegetarian.
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So,I've been meaning to post about this book for awhile, but the Fourth of July seems like the perfect opportunity to finally go for it, given the central commentary Little Brother makes about our country's conflicting obsessions with freedom and security. I don't say this lightly, but this is a book that everyone should pick up and read as a primer on current technologies, considerations of the predicted evolutions of "The War on Terror", and just as an entertaining story to boot.
In near-future San Francisco, Marcus Yallow and some of his friends get hauled in by the Department of Homeland Security for being at the wrong place and the wrong time when a terrorist attack destroys a bridge. Though not guilty of the terrorist attack, Marcus's interest in technology and cryptography makes him a primary suspect, which leads to harsh "questioning" by his captors. After he his finally released, he decides to turn the tables on the paranoid police state crackdown of his hometown by creating a stealth network, which ultimately propels the plot to an inevitable confrontation between the forces of security and the forces of privacy.
This is Orwell's 1984 for the next generation (as is obvious by the allusion in the title). Like its predecessor, Little Brother raises troubling questions about a government gone too far, which ultimately feels familiar to any modern American. If you're looking to do something really patriotic this Independence Day, it might be worth putting down the sparkler for a moment and picking up a copy of this book, even if only for future insight into the complicated times in which we all live now.
