ESC 2007

I just drained my writing powers a great deal by creating that long and angry rant on my German blog (apporopiately titled "Eurpoes' worst losers"), so just have a few notes:

- Amazing show, the intro (feat. Lordi, wolves, monsters and TONS of fire) was the coolest thing ever. I love Finland. Kiitos for that ^_~

- The level of music quality was rather high and there were surprisingly little acts relying on ass, boobs and naked skin O_o

- Serbia was awesome and fully deserved their victory. I voted for them, Twice. Such a fantatic voice and OMFG what a passionate song.

- I adored the little movies that were shown in between the performances. I think this is the first time some of them made me laugh. Lovely job <3

- Ukraine was funny even though they need to practise how to count in German XD

- Sorry, my precious friends from the UK, but there's bad songs and there's awful songs. Your entry was off the scale ;_;

- We don't need a change of rules. Serbia didn't win cuz the other Eastern Europen countries voted for them. They won cuz everyone voted for them. If you take the non-Western countries out of the equation, rank 1 and 2 stay the same.

- I despise this country and its media for bashing the contest, its rules and the winner like this. Just because we did badly. Shame on you.

(Bad) luck?

So, my H: drive is officially dead. It stopped recoginzing discs (both blank ones and ones that have data on them). Crappy thing *kicks it*

My I: drive is acting up in a rather peculiar way as well. It doesn't want the new DVD+Rs I bought. Which is a problem since I got 75 of them and doubt I'd be able to get my money back for such a reason. Updating both Nero (to the newest version 7.8.5.0) and the drive's firmware didn't help either.

But I decided to not get upset about it because it's not worth it anyway.

Ten minutes later, yamasagi arrived, asking me to give him the SIM card he's got lying around cuz his new phone has arrived (Whee~!). When I told him what's wrong, he said "I'll get you a new one. It'll be the same one I just bought for myself*. Tonight, you'll have a fresh DVD writer in your comp".

OMG O_O

* Samsung 18x LightScribe IDE writer =)

...
I still can't ruddy believe how one person alone can have such repeated, eternal bad luck with CD/DVD writers. Is this ever going to stop? =_=

Woohoo!

Stephen is the second most influential gay in Britain

[via Stephen Fry forum]

Cool, ne?

Also, my copy of Making History seems to have evaporated. The idiots at buecher.de said it'd take a few days to get it ready for shipping. That was on April 24. Since then, utter silence.
Well, at least I've got The Hippopotamus and The Liar to keep me company until then ;)
Also, that remidned me why the only two reasons to shop at buecher.de instead of amazon are:
- buecher.de sent me a gift certificate
- the thing I'm looking for isn't available at amazon
Well, this experience won't change anything about that policy =_=

ETA: After I've finished with the Fry novels, I'll probably tackle those. And then, it's Discworld.