Website down! Does this mean I’m popular?

My website has crashed!  I have exceeded my bandwidth!  Does this mean that Complaining With Kay is really popular?  Or is it just cumulative?
Anyway, nothing I can do about it now…at least I still get my email…

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Sock-puppet troll is…sock-puppetty

Rather than get into an argument with the morphing commenter on the previous post (and yes, “asking questions” and “student” are the same person), I thought I’d write a post about it.   But first things first: What makes you a troll?
Here’s a few signs that you may be a troll:
- you change your handle in [...]

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Not as good as I think I am

You know how some people have a distorted body image?  They think they’re  horrifically overweight when they’re really just normal, or even thin?  I think I have a positively distorted body image.
A couple of years ago I saw a girl standing in front of the Drake, wearing a really cool skirt.  It had a short [...]

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Random things that annoy me

A couple of years ago I started a conversation with my friend Wendy by saying, “OK, can I bitch about something?”  She sort of sighed, slumped a bit, and said, “Sure.”
Wendy is a good friend and is prepared to put up with my negativity, but I don’t necessarily expect you to do so, so feel [...]

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Now I get it…sort of

After posting my fuming ebook post last night, I read this in Mother Jones today:
The Time of the Book
So apparently the publishing industry is imploding, though not as badly as the auto industry, of course.  Then I guess it makes sense that the publishers are charging as much as they possibly can for everything they [...]

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Ominous rumblings from the hard disk: Happy New Year!

This computer, a 2003 iMac which I inherited from my grandfather (well, no one else wanted it…), is starting to make ominous sounds and show signs of advanced age and senility.  For two days the only way I’ve been able to turn it off is to unplug it, which is, you’ll agree, not a good [...]

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Mysterious head bumps

I have a mysterious bump/scratch on my forehead:

OK, so it doesn’t look like much.  In fact, so mad are my photography skills that you can barely see it at all.  But take my word for it, it is a bump.  And it’s quite sore.  
How did I hit my head without noticing?  Weird.  Maybe I [...]

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Anyone know how to install Itunes on an EEE?

I’m leaving on tour on Monday and you know I can’t live without the latest episode of the Geologic podcast. I found some tutorials about everything from installing OSX (!) to “jailbreaking” your Ipod to allow it to be synced to Amarok, but – holy f*ck – they all had lines like “Unzip to SS834 [...]

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I’ve been plagiarized!!!!1!!!!1!!!?

Check it out at http://alternative.holisticmeds.info/2008/09/14/ah-crazy-people-everywhere/.  I don’t want to link to them and drive up their Googlefu in any way.
What’s kind of hilarious is that the site is called alternative.holisticmeds.info.  I assume it’s some kind of auto-generated spam blog, since my post was CLEARLY anti-alternative medicine – you know, when I referred to colloidal silver as [...]

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Time-wasting on the Internet: North America’s pastime

Do you remember when you used to watch TV?…
…No, I don’t either.
Vague memories of Buffy and the X-Files and the first season of Survivor.  That’s all I’ve got.
I’m off to tinker with my ragweed-only pesticide now.  If only I’d paid more attention in high school chemistry class!

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