Crappy Christmas Present

I received some nice gifts this year for Christmas, jewellery, money and gift certificates, a book and lots of smelly stuff, but in amongst it all was the crappy present.

You all know what I’m talking about, every year there is one; hand towels from your aunt, chocolate from your cousin (when you’re lactose intolerant) and a card that reads “I owe you a Coke” from your brother. This year my crappy Christmas present came in the form of a key holder, but not just any old key holder, this one was special, it came with a stand. That way the keys lay on the table instead of hanging freely.

Crappy Present

Due to its crappyness, the fact I only have a few keys and me not being the owner of 10 cats who likes flowery key holders, I have decided to eBay the item off to the highest bidder.

Let’s hope eBay doesn’t pull it, and if they do, there’s always the screenshot. 😉

Banned Christmas Toys

Christmas is near and with Christmas comes toy sales or as they should be called evil sales, consisting of parents beating up each other for the last expensive toy that their child will break in under a minute and eventually enjoy the box more than the actual toy. Here are some of the toys that Santa and his world dominating elves (they are little and they sing, if Santa was not around to drug them into zombies they would be eating our brains gremlin style by now) would not allow in the Christmas toy evil sales…

Back yard drug lab
Includes:

  • Police scanner
  • Inflatable dodgy backyard shed
  • Equipment that could blow up any minute
  • Life like stoner dolls to do your biddings and test your drugs potency
  • Unmarked police car cut-out to place across the street

Make drugs for all your friends; speed, crack, ice and all your favourite illegal street drugs. Hours of psychedelic fun! Ambulance and Hospital cover not included.

Price: Current street value of one hit of heroin.

Hooker dress up set
Includes:

  • Stained dress
  • Tacky gold condoms
  • Panda eyes makeup kit
  • Guide to working the corner and giving head
  • Subscription to Workin’ Girl magazine

Pleasure the boys and see if you can get a tip or be kicked to the curb. Work the corner just like the big girls do. Will your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard? Fake drug money included, pimp sold separately.

Price: $69

Queer eye for the straight guy play kit
Includes:

  • Complicated book of recipes to give out
  • Shaving tips
  • Samples of expensive hair products
  • Samples of the latest couture that look like they came from a $2 bin, but really cost $1000 and a blowjob to get even get on the waiting list to buy them
  • ‘How to be bitchy like Carson’ phrase book

Be Kyan, Carson, Ted, Jai or… that other guy. Run up to your friend’s house all excited from too much hairspray and tell them how much their life sucks, then show off their porn collection, rummage through their belongings, bitch about their lack of hygiene and poor fashion – just like the real Fab 5.

Price: On sale, was $2000, now $2.95!

Paris Hilton the board game
Includes:

  • Blindly pink game board with annoying glitter that goes all over you
  • Small Paris shaped game pieces dressed in different bright pink designer clothes
  • That’s hot game cards
  • An annoying toy Tinkerbell dog that barks when you take too long to roll the die
  • A collection of Greek shipping heirs that you must become engaged to and break up with as soon as possible, and a variety of cars that you must get them to smash

You and your friends all get to be Paris and whoever is more overexposed wins. Make a porno film, have your own reality TV show, write a terrible book, release some perfume, put your name to various items, ™ a saying, use the phrase “that’s hot” to define every emotion. Who will you get Paris to sleep with? How will you make Paris pose? Can you name all the men she has fucked? And who will she become engaged to next and get bored of before she makes it down the isle? It’s all up to you in the Paris Hilton board game. IQ may drop for a short period while playing this board game, overuse may result in permanent damage.

Price: Like, one million dollars, sexy.

Professional blogger play set
Includes:

  • ‘How to Blog’ a guide to blogging
  • WP and MT
  • I’m blogging this shirt
  • Variety of web application sticker to cover the scratches on your laptop
  • Flickr Pro Account

Be a professional blogger, just like Kottke, beat credited media to a story and gain an audience of loyal followers. Try to increase you CPM, Technorati/Google rank and win a Bloggie or maybe a Webby before you burn out. Choice of WordPress or Movable Type blogware, five templates included. Code your own design at your own risk. Not suitable for children with poor grammar and spelling. Trolls and spam sold separately.

Price: Your soul.

Kitta TV

Nikita: Fucking piece of shit cables, why do you have to be so bloody cable like!
Danny: You know, you should have a TV show where you upgrade computers.
Nikita: And why is that?
Danny: Because it would be hilarious to see you swear at cables and components for half an hour time slot.
Nikita: Yeah, and in the season finale I would choke you with said cables and win a fucking Emmy Award.

Computer problems are still persisting even after installing a new mainboard, CPU and PSU. I have a few theories why…

  1. The old PSU was faulty and fried both the old and new mainboard’s and CPU’s.
  2. The memory has gone bad.
  3. It insists on being a fuckwit and continues to torment me because it enjoys infuriating humans.

At the moment I am leaning towards the memory, due to the fact that after I removed one stick of RAM and booted up it gave me a bad memory beep and POSTed. Beeping and POSTing is good, blank is bad, blank gives me no where to go apart from a hardware store to purchase a nice big hard hammer. 🙂

And so the great computer problem of 2005 trudges onwards…

POST This

Today I was going to blog about the Christmas party I organised last weekend or maybe a witty entry about banned Christmas toys, but alas, my mainboard decided to cease working today. Without warning, it suddenly announced “screw this” by rebooting, and then I sat there for ten minutes watching my POST screen for movement, alternating between calling it sweetie and telling it I will rip out it’s CPU if it doesn’t boot on the count of three. A dozen reboots and many swear words later, I unplugged all of the hardware and rebooted again in hopes that it was a hardware error, but it was not to be, it still refused to go past POST or even allow me into the bios.

So here I sit on my mothers computer, trackball mouse in one hand, typing with a prehistoric keyboard and thinking about how I want to burn that assrat of a mainboard for failing a few months out of warranty. It must have come with a built in timer that counts down 12 months till failure from the minute it’s installed.

Thankfully my hard drives are still working, but I can’t use them on this computer because it has different hardware (Windows, why can’t you be more like Linux?) and a friend has offered me his old mainboard. So if all goes to plan we will be back to regular posts about monkeys and people doing stupid things in public in no time.

While I’m jamming sharp objects into my mainboard to teach it a lesson tinkering, feel free to talk amongst yourselves and if you have a moment to spare, please nominate me in The 2006 Australian Blog Awards.

Now, where did I put that sledge hammer…

Update #1…

All systems are go. The mainboard my friend gave me worked a charm and the new Athlon64 3200+ CPU I purchased today is a big improvement. 🙂 I wasn’t sure if the hard drives would play nice with the new hardware, or even boot at all, but they did and after some driver updates everything is running nicely.

I also received a Logitech G7 mouse as a early Christmas present today. 😀

Update #2…

My old 350w PSU isn’t giving enough juice and is making booting up a terribly frustrating process. I hope to have a new 480w on Monday.

Random Five

Renee and Esther have infected me with the Random Five meme, where the infected victims must post five random facts about themselves in their blogs and then list the names of five people to infect next. Pathogenic meme’s are all the rage these days.

My Five Random Facts:

  1. My right leg is slightly longer than my left, because of this I bend my right knee slightly when standing to compensate.
  2. I enjoy watching really shockingly bad reality TV shows at night, such as Family Plots and Big Brother Up late.
  3. I am a closet Backstreet Boys fan and have been ever since high school when I used to hide my BSB CD’s in my Jebediah covers so my friends wouldn’t give me shit about owning their albums. I am planning on going to their Australian tour next year and making a sign that reads “I want to have the Two Chinese Boys babies”.
  4. The MRI I had a few months ago showed I have cysts on my ovaries, which could be contributing to some of the pain that I have been enduring over the past few months. I am waiting on more test results at this point. Woo-yay.
  5. I did all (let me repeat, ALL) of my Christmas shopping in November. Take that santa, you lazy ass. :p

Five People That I’m Infecting:

P.S.
Santa, I didn’t mean that lazy ass remark. You know me, I’m all sarcastic, but deep down I really am a sweet, nice and lovely girl. 🙂 Oh and by the way, have you had a chance to look at my Christmas wish list? 😉