| Saturday, October 27th, 2007 |
| 1:50 am |
I hate when you're really excited to play with some toy and as you plug it in you see that bright flash of light, hear the little sizzle, and then smell that acrid smoke of a friode giving it's life.... Shocked you look down and realize that apparently though they are in the same product line that you've just plugged the 12V 1Amp transformer into the the 5V 400mA device. Damn. Remember when they used to fuse things so you could do stupid shit like that...? |
| Monday, August 20th, 2007 |
| 4:34 pm |
To the General Populace of the US, Some of you seem a little slow to pick up on things so allow me to pass along a couple of clues you haven't seemed to pick up on yet. First, I heard someone on the radio yesterday bitching about how the party doesn't have an appropriate representation of different cultural backgrounds. There aren't enough black people in positions of influence. There aren't enough hispanics in positions of power. Ok, here's the deal. I don't give a fat rats ass about the representational characteristics of the party. It's all about the message. I'd vote for the fuckin' Black Panther Party if I thought they had a viable shot, a viable plan, and that they'd actually stick to it. Why? Because actions are more important than what a person looks like. This is the point which the Democrats keep forgetting. Think about it for a moment. The Republican party has been the party of rich white men for decades and they win elections. Why? THEY HAVE A MESSAGE AND THEY STICK TO IT. For fucks sake pay attention. Second, and this one pissed me off even more, was another radio commentary. This one was some "expert" talking about how the Chinese aren't to blame for all the problems lately. He specifically was speaking of the toy recalls. He expounded on how wherever the toys are made there are always issues with product recalls. When toys were made here in the US there were recalls. YES BUT NOT FOR LEAD PAINT! Sure, every once in a while some lunatic will gain access to a product and poison it. You'll get a couple hundred bottles of poisoned aspirin or water. However you don't get MANUFACTURERS PUTTING ETHYLENE GLYCOL IN THE TOOTHPASTE! Why? Because we have rules that are enforced here. We have a society that won't tolerate it. Rules are a little different over there. Now I should add in that I applaud Mattel for their open admission of the problems with their products and hope that they don't suffer from being so open about it. |
| Saturday, May 19th, 2007 |
| 11:58 am |
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| Thursday, April 5th, 2007 |
| 9:41 pm |
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| Friday, March 23rd, 2007 |
| 10:20 pm |
I am ashamed .....
I am not smarter than a 5th grader. < sigh > I was willing to give myself a pass on not knowing which president was on the nickel because < phllllt! > who cares but sadly I thought michigan just narrowly touched Indiana. |
| Monday, February 19th, 2007 |
| 12:29 am |
RIP: Shower light bulb
I was shocked. The light bulb in my bathroom shower actually died. Now I know you're saying, "So what? It's a stupid light bulb." But it was more than a light bulb. It's been there since I moved in to the house in '97. Every other bulb in the place has been changed a half dozen times. Heck, half the fixtures are different. When I converted the house to compact fluorescents I actually tried to disassemble the fixture but found that the gasket seal had actually kind of fused with the glass and just gave up. Today I flipped on the light to clean my shower as a final salute it went super-nova as it's final act on this plane of existance. I am saddened. RIP: Phillips 60W Longer Life bulb ???( < 1997-11-21 ) --- 2007-02-17 |
| Thursday, February 8th, 2007 |
| 10:17 pm |
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| Friday, January 5th, 2007 |
| 12:39 am |
Wierd ...
I love when you have dreams that are so vivid and yet so completely deranged that you wonder just what the fuck your brain is doing while you're asleep. Last night I: drove my car around what appeared to be an elementary school but which was outfitted more like a combination home depot/kmart hybrid, had a very strange conversation about some display that HollyPete was setting up but that the Koreans (yes I somehow knew they were Koreans and it was significant for some reason ) kept doing wrong, accosted some creepy guy lurking in the young girls underwear department ( which was right next to to the electronics department where I was browsing ). beat said creepy guy with the pool cues I've been carrying around the entire dream, then broke in to creepy guys home with I'm ashamed to say Paris Hilton, her dog, and my dog, found out creepy guy had printed out bumperstickers for several porno sites which I then threw all over the room. I can't remember the rest but it made no more sense than the rest of it..... I swear I think somebody slipped me some acid or something.... Oh, the creepy guy was some minor actor or something. He had one famous movie or something that was like Blackhole ( look it up, it's bad ) but worse. He looked like the guy from Happy Gilmore with the nail in his head crossed with someone else I can't remember. And he kept telling me who he was and what show he'd been the star of. Rats, what was his name . . . . Eric Bielski. Yeah. Gotta go look that up on Imdb. Oh yeah, and they had just mopped the Home Depot because my traction control like kept coming on and I was enjoying playing with it. The whole time I was driving around there were people there and they didn't seem remotely interested in the fact that I was doing donuts and crap either. Oh yeah, and the best part, part of my dream was that I woke up and tried to LiveJournal the whole thing. I finally _actually_ woke up and was really confused for a second. |
| Friday, November 24th, 2006 |
| 9:29 pm |
Server farms
Mark my words, three years from now Google will have the worlds largest server farm on the bottom of the Pacific ocean just off shore from California. |
| Sunday, November 5th, 2006 |
| 7:53 pm |
Spam
Ok, I don't feel bad that my little P2-400 w/128M of ram had trouble keeping up with the spam load. We signed that client up for a service to take care of it ( MailRoute.net for those that are interested ) and they sent our first set of statistics. Last month in 21 days we had 2.8 million messages "delivered" to our domain. Of those 2.08 million were to fictitious names. Keep in mind that number averages out to 1.5/second 24x7 and that's _after_ they filter out the zombies and such.... |
| Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 |
| 12:01 am |
Vonage
I know that in the past I have been an advocate for Vonage. I had good experiences with them and their service until I made the mistake of trying to switch to a new vendor. Now I have to classify them as a huge scam. In the shortest terms possible I ported to a new company on the 13th of July and they billed me for the next month on the 17th. I was told that my service would automatically be cancelled when the port went through ( because they no longer have a phone number for me to bill to ). I called in on the 26th wondering why I got billed on the 17th and they said because my account hadn't been cancelled. Fine, close my account and credit me the last bill. The request goes in and I never hear anything. I call back on the August 8th and ask for the credit again. This time I get an email saying that a request has gone in but never heard anything back. On the 21st of September I call back and ask them what the hell they're doing and the guy tells me that he's putting it on my credit card right now and apologizes for the inconvenience. Last night I call because I _STILL_ don't have my credit. Now they're saying: A) they don't owe me because I cancelled after the new billing cycle B) Even if it had cancelled on the 13th it wouldn't have mattered because they require cancellations to be in writing 10 days before the new billing cycle. Basically if you try and cancel you pay them for a month for the priviledge. That wasn't in my TOS when I signed on but ... On the bright side I'm with ViaTalk now and I'm very happy with them. |
| Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 |
| 3:01 pm |
I love VoIP
Some idiot real estate company is trying to fax my voiceline. Well, WAS, trying to fax my voiceline. Anyway, I called them and politely asked them to find out who was doing this and beat them to death. Well, my pleas fell on deaf ears and I received three more calls ( fax machines try 10 times by default before giving up ). Ok, enough of this, I logged in to my ViaTalk webpage and forwarded calls from that number to their front desk line. Now they can call me as often as they like and in fact I encourage them to do so as it will only irritate their secretary who will hopefully find this nitwit and actually beat him/her to death. Bwahahahahahahahahahah! |
| Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 |
| 1:05 pm |
Telecomm companies suck
I love telecomm companies. In no other field is their _SO_ much choice and yet they're all just as fucked up. Last night XO decided to turn off a DS3 for a company I do work for. They apparently misplaced a payment and just < blip > turned it off. It's not like it's a big deal or anything.... Turning off DSL because of a missed payment is understandable because people are deadbeats. Turning off a T1 because of a missed payment is stupid since it's probably an accounting mistake and knowing telecom companies it's probably on their end. Now turning off a DS3 because of a missed payment is just moronic. Some company is willing to drop roughly $10k/month on internet service it's obviously important. They're either an ISP, a _BIG_ freakin' company, or insanely rich. In every one of those cases it's LAWSUIT time... Idiots. Congratulations XO you've just surpassed Ameritech, I mean SBC, I mean AT&T, I mean whatever they're called today as the worst run telecom company in my book. Even AT&T hasn't done that to me..... |
| Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 |
| 7:06 pm |
Dear sir: If you make a right turn in to the left lane and then decide you really meant the right lane it hardly gives you the right to tell _me_ how to learn to drive. I obviously already know. As proof of this I put forth that a) I turned in to the lane I meant to, b) I used my signals to do so whereas you only used yours once in four lane changes, and perhaps most importantly c) you fucking missed me when you tried to kill me. Douchebag. |
| Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 |
| 12:43 pm |
Quote of the day
"After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true." |
| Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 |
| 2:00 am |
Long day ....
Holy God it's been a long ass day. On the bright side, I'm still laughing at the 85 year old little old lady that flipped me off last night which was hysterically funny. On the down side, blergh. Life sux0rs. Current Mood:  blahCurrent Music: The worlds tinyest violin |
| Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 |
| 10:39 pm |
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| Monday, May 15th, 2006 |
| 1:46 pm |
I hate working on laptops. The stupid panel you need to remove to replace the hard drive is held in place by a 1.5mm metal plate which is inserted in to a slot that's inverted when you try to attach the panel. Needless to say the frelling plate is too loose in its slot so at the point at which you try to put the screw in it falls out and goes under the motherboard. It was a half an hour and two thread needles to get the damn thing out the first time. I'm glad to say I'm down to 5 minutes now. I was never any good at Operation. And those were bigger pieces! Finally managed to wedge a piece of paper behind it to hold it in frelling place long enough to put the frelling screw in. Naturally I popped off the battery door in the process and the screw is a smidge too tight now but I really don't care. Current Mood:  aggravated |
| Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 |
| 2:47 pm |
In the original Star Trek was an episode where there's a planet being destroyed and people are being evacuated by viewing historic discs and going back in time to the point recorded. You never see the librarians name so I'm not totally embarrased that I didn't connect this sooner. The librarian is named Atoz (AY-tawz). A-to-Z. Because he's a librarian. Somehow this has evaded me for the better part of 30 years.... I saw "A to Z" in an ad today and just finally put it together. |
| Sunday, April 16th, 2006 |
| 10:52 pm |
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