Ugh... No software glitches, s'il-vous plait

[matrixrefugee]

Had a hellish moment with the MxO software: for some wierd reason, I couldn't get the desktop shortcut to connect to the launcher. This after I'd tried tweaking the software after I couldn't get my guns to free-fire. At least someone else had the same gun glitch later in the same night, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Anyway... it was like the system just ate the file for the launcher. Scary as hell. This after a hellish day at work. But I managed to pull my wits together enough to run a System Restore. But then I was spooked so bad, I ended up having to tap someone for moral support on X-fire when I tried jacking in again.

Maybe this is the Old Scratch trying to throw me a beating for what I'm planning to do tomorrow:

I'm doing a "Sister Michael". For those of you who haven't heard of her, she's a British nun who unwittingly made international entertainment headlines for quietly sitting and praying the Rosary every day for 12 days outside one of the locations where the Damned Movie was being shot. I'll quietly show up at the movie theatre in Lowell tomorrow, when it opens, sit in a corner and quietly pray all 20 decades of the rosary (the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries as well as Pope John Paul II's Luminous Mysteries), then quietly leave. There's people organizing big protest rallies in other places, but that's not me.

Oh, and Puck, I've found something that topped both the DaVinci Tarot Deck and the DaVinci organic pasta: One of the tabloid-style women's magazines in the check out had a headline. "The DaVinci Code Diet".

Me: ::Internal, quoting my father:: "'I've seen all things'..."

Flood: ::In my headspace:: "Well, what does it entail? Eating the bloody felching book? That would certainly mess up your insides and make it impossible for you eat anything ever again."

I didn't get a chance to, but I am gonna have to see what it entails....

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[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

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*cries*

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I know, the DaVinci craze has reached its nadir, as far as I'm concerned. I'm wondering if the diet-thing is a vegetarian diet, since Leonardo was a vegetarian, since he considered it healthier. But considering those women's rags magagzine diets are all about looking good in a bikini, Leonardo would probably be disgusted... or maybe amused.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, considering Leonardo was also gay, I doubt he could care less how they looked in a bikini, lol...

~Ruby

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Am thinking about borrowing a copy of the book from the library, since I found some quotes from it. "Chocolate for the ears"? "Symbology"? Mad, albino, non-Lutheran monks?

It's like so much glorious bad-crack in one happy package.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, as a piece of writing -- and theological/hagiographical arguments aside -- it's one of those things that is so bad, it's funny to read. It reads like a bad Bible fanfic just about, complete with not just a Mary Sue, but *TWO* Gary Stus. It dawned me as I was riding to the cinema on the bus that the assassin-monk is the other Gary Stu, since he's got the whole TWAGIC PAST thing and he's also an amelanistic albino (ie. white hair, white skin, pink eyes) who somehow magically doesn't have the bad eyesight that people with that form of albinism generally have.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Bad writing amuses me, as evidenced by all the times when I've asked people for links when they mention insanely stupid fanfic. Masochism is such an interesting experience.

Besides, "symbologism"!

On a random note about your icon, I only know what it's about because you mentioned it when you made it.