Another expense... :-(

The frame of my futon-couch broke tonight. I thought it was just one of the slats, but when I examined it after Fay left, iyt was the frame piece across the front.

Argh. Still got to fix two computers, and no trace of my back SSI.

At least it's semi usable still. Things just sag in the middle.

Word search

While visiting Lin & Kermit, I referred to something as a "whatchamadinger". Which led to Ln saying that she needed to remember it. Seems that she and Kermit refer to random objects as "thingies" a lot and her mother has been getting annoyed by it.

It occurs to me that the good folks reading this LJ can probably come up with a *lot* more such words for both varying her vocabuilary and (likely) annoying her mom less (or more, it's a toss up)

Somebody suing a movie company for copyright violation.

Seems that the artist who did a tattoo on Mike Tyson, owns the copyright and is suing Warner Brothers for copyright violation for using a repro of oit on an actor in a movie about Tyson.

WB is (naturally) complaining that he never said anything about the previous movie they did and that filing the injunction days beforee the movie is to be released will be devastating.

Me, I think it's great that for once it's a *major* movie company on the receiving end of a copyright suit.

Alas for them, unlike trademarks, the fact that the copyright owner let them get away with it *last* time doesn't mean they get a free pass this time. And if it costs them tons of money, maybe they'll be a bit less arrogant in the future.

Given the MPAA's attitude, this is an excellent case of "what goes around, comes around" (aka, vastly accelerated karma)