All I Want For Christmas Is The Head of Bill Gates On A Commemorative Platter

So Wednesday morning, just as I was turning on ye olde computer in the Batcave, lo and behold, Microsoft had Windows updates for me. Being a conscientious individual, I naively assumed that these updates were in fact beneficial. Shows what I know. At any rate, no immediate issues cropped up, so I was content. I went about my usual business, updating the current document, making changes and all that. Towards the end of the day, I decided to try converting my docs to .pdf format. This is where things got fubar'd. Suddenly, my table of contents no longer worked; in fact, every single link in the doc was no longer working. Furious, I decided to test an unrelated doc with links and such, and lo and behold, but they were not working either. Somehow, the conversion had stripped all link-making information from normal.dot. This had never happened to me before while doing the exact same process, so I deduced that the problem traced to the Microsoft updates. At any rate, by the time I had the links and everything resolved, it was time to go home. Yesterday, though, I decided to do something about it, and downloaded some updates for Acrobat, which combatted my problem. At any rate, why release updates that will only serve to fuck with your data? It makes no sense.

In other news, there was a light crew at the Satellite yesterday. However, the insane waitress (see previous posts) decided it was the time to flash us. Quite frankly, I was non-plussed by the whole thing. One of my co-workers was shocked that I was not turned on by this. I replied that I was more of a "full-package" guy. So he says "So you'd be turned on if she stripped naked?" Well, in all honesty, not if this particular woman stripped naked. I guess the point is that for me, simple nudity or breasts are not enough. I look for the form, shape, and proportion of the body as a whole. Does this make me something of an aesthete? I like to think it does. Does it make me something of an elitist? Quite probably. So what?

In other news, Tycho has a wicked criticism of Wikipedia over at PA, and it is well worth examining. I've been skeptical of Wikipedia the whole time, and this is precisely what I've said all along.