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iambarr — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:26:54 +0000

Woke up 35 times tonight, thank you, little larva – dripping, drooling, leaking, crying, aching pain in my ass and I just got to sleep, but there’s no turning back from a thing like this and I’ve only got to wait another 17 ¾ years before you get the hell out of my house, my life, my mind… but for now I’ll warm up milk and I’ll walk down the hall and I’ll change your diaper and I’ll warm up your milk, I’ll wake up this time and next time and every other time you need to piss or shit or vomit and the next time any vile, puckered orifice leaks out onto the bed through three layers of diapers and blankets and stuffed toy zebras and you will never have any idea how much of a diseased mess creatures like you really are because if there’s one thing I’ll teach you it will be to never have something like you, something that saps life and denies all attempts at sleep, don’t perpetuate the cycle, don’t bring another dribbling puking mass of human tissue into this world and don’t ever expect it from some poor sucker you trick into marrying you, and don’t beg and beg and cry until you get your way, until someone finally says “enough!” and just give in because, really, how long can 18 years really last? it’s over half your life, but so far that’s blown right by and you can’t imagine the hell it will be- your whole life on hold remember the time you wanted to be a ballerina an astronaut a writer a movie star? Stop imagining that because it will not happen it will never happen and when you’re Christing 55 years old or whenever the hell you finally get that parasite out of your house, then you can sit back and wait for retirement, for old age, for the end of your miserable and useless life and then you can wonder what might have been and what really shouldn’t ever be, then you’ll have some idea of how wrong you ever were about 18 years and about bringing another disgusting and begging mouth into the world to feed off you like a leech. Then. Then….

The efficacy of automated functions is in question.

iambarr — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:25:58 +0000

I just put two and two together and realized that computers are pissing me off.

WordPress/browser issue:

In the WordPress visual editor, this line is italicized. In the HTML editor, it is emphasized. In Firefox, it is neither. In Explorer, it is italicized. For some reason, Chrome isn’t working on this computer, so I can’t try that route.

This line, in the HTML editor, is italicized, an option not offered in the visual editor.

Well, this is christingly annoying. I just discovered that if I italicize a line in the HTML editor, by giving it the proper tags, then switch back to the visual editor, the tags are automatically changed to tags. This is a pain in the ass. I’ve looked it up and the standard for italicized text is not , therefore the default in an HTML editor should seemingly be italics, not emphasis. Regardless of which it selects as the default, I don’t see why it would keep trying to change my italics to emphasis. Sweet zombiechrist this is getting to be a headache. I’m lashing out at this computer with asperity.

On to the next frustration. I’ve discovered that BibMe doesn’t properly format CMS bibliographical entries. Actually, it doesn’t seem to properly format MLA entries, either.

MLA format according to BibMe:

Shea, Robert, and Robert Anton Wilson. The Illuminatus! Trilogy . New York, N.Y.: Dell Pub. Co., 19841975. Print.

True MLA stlye:

Shea, Robert, and Robert Anton Wilson. The Illuminatus! Trilogy. New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1984. Print.

CMS format according to BibMe:

Shea, Robert, and Robert Anton Wilson. The Illuminatus! Trilogy . New York, N.Y.: Dell Pub. Co., 19841975

True CMS format:

Shea, Robert, and Robert Anton Wilson. The Illuminatus Trilogy. New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1984.

Perhaps these seem like minor details, but they count in the eyes of professors. It even matters whether or not the periods are italicized, despite that, when printed, it’s often impossible to tell. It irks me that a site designed to provide accurate citations can get away with producing such inaccurate results.

I’m done bitching here. Time to caterwaul to coworkers about the injustices of the digital world.

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