I feel oddly disappointed that it's not spelt "photobukkit"

[active_apathy]

...or even "fotobukkit", though 'ph' and 'f' generally don't substitute for one another as well as some might expect.

Still! I can has icon:





In other news, I saw possibly one of the more disturbing things ever a few days back: a fellow victim passenger of public transport armed with a film novelisation edition of Eragon. I'd like to say it was in the hands of someone who should've known better, but (a) I'm not going to start telling people what they can and can't read, and (b) there's always the possibility of morbid curiosity unmoderated by self-preservation.

Still, for the benefit of everyone who reads this, I've helpfully graphed a few select elements of my declining faith in humanity.



As you can see, there's still a little of it left; I'm convinced that it can only ever approach zero, and that an absolute lack of faith in humanity is, in fact, the limit. That, or negative faith in humanity scores are, in fact, positive crazy cat lady scores, and then require all manner of complicated doublethink to make up ridiculously elaborate conspiracy theories.

(Theories about, say, how all those young people these days are illegally coming into the front lawn to take jobs away from the hard-working terrorists with their devil music. Whose devil music? All of them, that's who, them with their lack of respect and why I'm sure that one of them flicked water at Mr Fluffykins III Esq. when he was having his morning nap on the windowsill and that just upset him all day.)



In other news, I have a stunning lack of actual, substantive content, but then you probably already noticed that.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Geez, my faith in humanity is still up at 75%, even with the crazification factor hypothesis. 2004 U.S. presidential election was definitely a blow, though.

(Howard got reelected? Bummer.)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

To be fair, my faith in humanity can usually be fixed with (a) humour, (b) puppies, or (c) a room full of amusing cynics.

The good news is, there's a pretty good chance of him losing Bennelong (which is his own seat) this year. And that would make me happy.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Where does this atrocity by Angus and Robertson factor in?
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009263.html

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Buh.

BUH.

SHUN.

I mean, I already buy pretty much exclusively from Dymocks, but that is disgusting.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

"We're not making money off you, so obviously you're not making money either. Therefore, give us more money that you don't have."

Your icon - I must have it!

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

*kicks A&R*

The icon is gankable. I made it with my amazingly wonderful Photoshop skills.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

:|

The reply letter gives me hope.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

True that, but overall it has to cost some net points.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Icon squee.

Graph squee.

The bright side is that Robert Jordan has said that the next Wheel of Time book will be the last. This is good because I have to reread the whole series each time a book comes out to remind myself what happened before.

[mmaster.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I'd never looked it up, but I thought he'd decided there were going to be thirteen (not twelve). (Or has one been published while I wasn't looking?)

Certainly, reading book 11 gave the impression it'd take at least two books to tie up most of the loose ends (Especially since book 10 went basically nowhere: "OMG! There's this big important thing happening somewhere! Let's do five hundred pages of 'meanwhiles' as people say "WTF is that?"!")

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Last I heard he was doing one last book and making it as big as it had to be to finish the story.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Yay!

And... ha! I disbelieve. *rolls save vs. spells*

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

I can't help it that I like WoT. I suppose I did get into it fairly early on, though, when there were decidedly fewer books than there are now.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I meant more that I disbelieve Robert Jordan; I've nothing against people liking WoT, just Robert Jordan's endless "O HAY NEW BOOK *BEARDSTROKE*" thing.

On the other hand, it did inspire Garth Nix to write this, so it can't be all bad. :)

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Well, he is very ill, and if I had a life expectancy of roughly four years, I'd be closely examining my priorities too.

Though the Nixian wit makes me snicker.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Lolz, your posts are always high-quality amusement. XD