Friday, October 21, 2005

Ukraine: Comment Responses

I don't usually respond to comments on the page because it usually takes too f-ing long for pages to load while sitting in an internet cafe watching bought minutes quickly tick out, but something radical has happened in my life: internet at home!

Yes, that's right. My oh-so-hard Peace Corps life now includes internet access in my apartment. Through my pulse dial up connection where I can actually hear other people's conversations via crossed wires while my modem handshakes with Ukertelecom's I can now connect to the rest of the world. My highest connect speed so far is 34.6 kilobytes per second and the lowest is 16.4 kilobites per second. It's nostalga, really, remembering those days of college when 16 MB of RAM was extravagent, as was that 36.6 modem I stole from Best Buy by stuffing it into my wide leg Raver pants. Do you remember those days? Do you? When a single picture took minutes to load? Well I'm reliving their joyous splendor, basking in a technology that does TCP/IP, I believe, via carrier pigeon. Still, I can't complain: like college it's nearly 2 AM, I have work in the morning and I'm still on the web. I have time to actually wait for pages to load to respond to some comments, so here we go:

Happysam: I haven't heard about Yuchenko calling for or wanting more "Orange Revolutions", although considering the dissapointment currently felt about the last one, I think its a bad PR move to bring it up (and he is in serious need of some good PR). Probably he wants a "revolution" in the parlimentary elections, seeing many of his opponents in the Rada--the ones who blocked his new prime minister choice the first go around--replaced by friendlier faces. Other than that, I don't know!

Katie: Are "star jumps" what you weird British people call jumping jacks? Because otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about. If they're not, I'm going to assume you're being lewd.

So a lot of me not knowing, apparently. Perhaps I should have stuck with not responding. A fool and a wise man are the same person until they open their mouth, you know, and I think I've made it very clear which of the two I am.

I wonder how long it will take to download bisexual crossdressing midget fisting porn? I wonder how many people are going to end up seeing my site because those words are now here? Perverts. You and your strap-ons and your MMF and your star jumps.

And I think that's my cue to go to sleep.

ZZZZZZ...