the luminous outset became the interminable middle

These Best Buy Ads that are dominating the screen on LJ are really pissing me off. Ads that take over your screen are the most annoying for me; and I can't say how effective they are. Well, wait they are effective in getting me to remember most of them, like I remember being really peeved at The Dead Weather for a while because every time I went on the Daily Swarm, their faces would pop up and I'd have to press the X before I could read the rest of the article.

The same thing with Best Buy: these ads aren't making me want to shop at Best Buy any more than I already do; and if this were another company (like radio shack or circuit city), it still wouldn't make me want to shop there anymore.

This isn't an attack on all internet advertising, because I understand that someone has to pay for it and I like being able to be on the web; but I don't believe that obstructive as possible is always good. I like Google's ads the best: a subtle link that is usually related to what I'm currently reading/searching. I've clicked on some google links from my e-mail before.

I don't mind suggestions. If I'm looking up a musician, I kind of like those 'If You Buy This, You may Like That' links. I check them out rather often on Amazon.

Maybe the aim is to bother me enough to get me to purchase a paid account. It's almost working, except I can barely afford a month now of paid time and if I had the bliss of no ads on LJ for a month and then went back, well, it may end up being the winter of my discontent.

Approximately 2 hours ago, my laptop staged a coup and waved the flag of blue screen of death in my face ;( I don't talk about it here, but I have been playing Russian roulette with my crappy HP for about a year now.

What this means--I can keep up with the f-list, just probably not as prompt as I would like. The posts will keep on coming, except they may not be as media heavy as I like or there will be less daily spamming on this journal.

*I have snagged a day to rec on  polyfandomrecs (5/29)! Of course the top ten will feature bandom--*

Okay I keep on reading fic and then tagging it with fictotag on my delicious. This is an entirely passive aggressive way to force me to start commenting on all the great stories I have been reading. This has only resulted in me having a growing list (30+---ouch!) of fic that will still need to be retagged and organized and commented on. From here on out, I have cut myself off of fic.

For every five fic I comment on and retag, I will read a new fic that I desperately want to read. (thanks bandslashmania for being so awesome)

Moral of this post-- Fighting yourself is a guaranteed loss for you.....unless you're Lady Une.