Vista has been plagued with problems since the start, and today I am reporting on another one.
February 20, 2008 (Computerworld) Responding to reports of endlessly rebooting PCs that flooded support newsgroups last week, on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. said it had pulled an update designed to prep Windows Vista for Service Pack 1.
Although the update — actually a pair of prerequisite files that modify Vista’s install components — has been temporarily pulled from Windows Update, Microsoft has not yet produced a fix for users whose machines either won’t boot or reboot constantly.
Shortly after the two prerequisites hit Windows Update last week, users began reporting problems on Microsoft’s support newsgroups. Most said that the update hung as the message “Configuring Updates Step 3 of 3 — 0% Complete” appeared on the screen. When users rebooted hoping to clear the error, their PCs went into an endless cycle of reboots. A smaller number of users said that their computers refused to boot normally.
Some users have been able to regain control by booting from a Vista install DVD and selecting the “Restore from a previous restore point” option.
But do you know who doesn’t have to worry about this problem? (In addition to the Mac fans) Me. Thats right. I upgraded to “a more familiar model”: XP. I’m sorry Vista, I gave you 6 months. No printer compatibility, slow processing, and limited USB function. The deal breaker was every time a window’s update installed or I restarted my computer my mouse stopped working and I had to system restore.
In what is likely her greatest role to date, Lindsay Lohan plays Marilyn Monroe between the sheets – literally – in the new spring fashion issue of New York magazine.
Recreating Monroe’s legendary 1962 final photo shoot for Bert Stern with the veteran lensman himself, Lohan posed for the spread on Feb. 5 at the Hotel Bel-Air.
Here is a link to the photos. The photos are gross. They are cheap, exploitative, and visually disturbing. She is a drug addict slut and is likely to suffer a Marilyn Monroe fate. So the accompanying articles references to Monroe (and Heath Ledger’s) untimely deaths make Lohan seem out of touch with reality (she talks about how that won’t happen to her). The camera man, Stern, is famous for the originals and the sexy depth they showed. These are cheap restagings that don’t deserve the media storm they are generating. Additionally, couldn’t someone airbrush the 40,000 freckles off her body.
At least she isn’t rail thin anymore. Now her extremely pale boobs are a reasonable size.
I have found a new guilty pleasure website. HotChicksWithDouchebags. The site has pictures (with commentary) of the dreaded, but common, club casualty: hot chicks with douchebags. Unbelieveably good looking women with swarmy, greasy men. Hair puffed up, shirt unbuttoned 30k millionaires, drunk frat guys throwing gang signs, and old men trying to score with young girls. Of particular interest is the Douchies, they give out awards for the douchiest of douches.
The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the “Icebox of the Nation.”
Not that Philly wasn’t at least a little chilly today.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had a “Code Blue” alert in effect, sending outreach crews to coax homeless people into shelters. Monday’s low was 10 above zero.
I never thought I would say this, but there is a Tyler Perry movie I am looking forward to. “Meet the Browns” looks like solid family movie, and Angela Bassett is always an amazing actress.
I’ve found a new band to adore. Vampire Weekend. Clever, cute, catchy music. They met at Columbia, sound a little like the Kinks, and have a song about grammar. You can check out their website, the songs Oxford Comma and M79 are available on it. They have another song Walcott which is insanely catchy and can I am sure my resourceful readers could find a way to obtain that song.
I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal (and by recently I mean I recently found my January 31 edition). The point of the article was women with larger breasts have increase risk of adult diabetes (more properly Type II since it is increasing occurring in children and adolescents). That is an of itself is not shocking nor news, since the biggest predictor is obesity and with big bodies often come big boobs. What I found crazy is that the increased risk of diabetes occurs when the study controlled for waist size and BMI. Although, as far as I know, they did not take into consider past size or BMI. Overweight and obese women may develop breasts earlier and to a greater extend due to increased estrogen levels, so larger breasts in some instances may correlate to a larger size person who has lost weight.
On a less serious note, let me explain the big women, big boobs phenomenon. Fat women have large breasts, very skinny women have small breasts. Now that doesn’t always hold, we all know lucky bitches who are skinny and have big boobs, and sadly we all know a couple unfortunate ladies who are big but small chested. But in general we understand, boobs are made of fat, fat people have fat, and therefore there is going to be a relationship. Now some may say this is merely the science of fat distribution, but I know the truth. It is proof there is some sort of just force or God governing the world. Most men are looking for a skinny woman, and that to them is more important than breast size. But there is also a chunk of self proclaimed “breast men”. The “breast men” will pursue larger women knowing there will be larger breasts. This is the mate distribution system. Otherwise only skinny women could ever find men. By giving overweight women bigger breasts the playing field is leveled.
After a less than Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney suspended his campaign. Most of you probably already saw the news. But I have been asked a couple times what suspended versus dropping out means. It means he still holds his delegates for a little while. He might be able to use them as bargaining chips. For the Republican party, the individual state parties reallocate their delegates, but I believe it is not until the Convention. Romney may well be hoping to be Vice-President Romney or to suggest a nominee. If it had been a Democrat, like Edwards, the delegates are not redistributed.
Today is Fat Tuesday and Super Tuesday, so it is officially Super Fat Tuesday. Its where you must be super nice to fat people. Tell a sexy big lady in your life, just how sexy they are. I suggest celebrating the holiday listening to Juvenile – Mama Got Ass (She Get It From Her Mama) while eating ice cream.
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