Really classy, boys.....

Three comcast contractors have been charged with spray-painting and torturing a kitten.  While this isn't as bad as two drag-racing vans seriously injuring a three year-old girl, it still does not bode well for a company's reputation when your employess regularly engage in conduxt that results in posssible felony charges, and/or multiple postings to consumerist, then perhaps you should really think twice about your current hiring proceures.....  Then again, usually when it's posted to the consumerist, something usually has already gone terribly wrong.

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It's a boy

Boss's cousin had a baby boy Wednesday.  NO name, yet.  Her and he husband already have a six and a two-year-old, and they both routinely bounce off the walls.  They're going to have their hands full.  Maybe I should get them his and her straitjackets for Christmas....

Another Day, Another Dollar

Another birth spasm. Well not really, as she's having a c-section. But my boss's cousin will be having a baby tomorrow. In fact, the talk is twins may be in the cards, but they're not sure. And the next in line will be my sister. Don't drink the water. You may end up knocked up as well....

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Making the switch

Since spring of last year, I've been using a Samsung T619 as my cell phone.  This was my first contract (as in a post-paid, sign your life away to T-Mobile, and sell your mother's soul to the devil) phone in many years.  My previous phones (a Nokia 6030 and a Nokia 3595 were prepaid).  It has given much good service, and I enjoyed my first 'flip' phone.  But it has its limits, and I wanted something that I could put .mp3s on from my computer (and use them as my ringtone, which I cannot do with my current phone).  Earlier this year, my boss acquired a surplus phone from one of his relatives, and offered it to me.  And I took it.  So my new(?) phone is a Motorola Motorizr Z3.  Compared to the old phone, it has a memory card slot, so I can dump a whole load of .mp3s on it (and I can now use the Lumberjack Song for my ringtone without having to buy it from T-zones.  Stick it to the Man!), the camera has a flash (a darn good one too.  Brighter than my flashlight), and I can use the gmail application without having to open my phone's browser (a must, since I almost use my gmail address exclusively...)

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So, what did you do today?

Today was my day off.  My one day off this week.  My one say to sleep in and do absolutely nothing.  And, what did I do?  Got up even earlier than normal.  And then I headed out.  My boss's cousin was having computer problems, and so I was asked to fix it.  Multiple virus infections, a couple of trojan horses, and a 'hot version' of windows that spat put annoying pop-ups every five minutes (thanks to The Anti-Christ).  It took me three hours to bring it under control (most of that was spent downloading an acceptable AV and lecturing Billie on the virtues of Shiny Side Out, and practicing safe hex).  After running an av scan (and tell him that his supposed AV program in an of itself was malware), I got his system locked down. 

Then off to his sister's house.  There, I secured the Wi-Fi (so they won't be providing free internet access to their neighbors). then added another computer to their home network.  In the past two weeks, I've 'Wi-Fi'ed three houses, deloused two computers, and nuked one computer from orbit.  And I still need to finish upgrading one computer's hardware.

When you call for tech support, your call is usually routed to India.  When an Indian has computer problems, he comes to me........

So, what did you do on your day off?

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What's on the Boob Tube?

I really don't have time to watch TV.  Between work and commuting to and from work, I really don't follow TV anymore (with the possible exceptions of Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs and Monday Night Football).  However, as a fovar to those of you who do watch TV, here's the list of shows that got canceled, and the list of shows that made it.

Murder Death Kill, Murder Death Kill...

Nothing really to report tonight. Other than I'm watching Demolition Man. Still entertaining after all these years.

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Do Not Panic

Ok. so you're sitting down to your computer, and you turn it on and nothing happens.  What do you do?  Aside from cursing at The Anti-Christ, and or installing Linux, here's 10 steps you can take.  I myself am partial to the recovery console option (in fact I have it installed as a boot option).  It's easy to put the recovery console on your hard drive.  Just put your windows xp cd in the drive (I'm assuming your cd drive is 'd:'). Then go to 'start', 'run' and type 'd:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons'.  Then the next time you boot your computer, you'll have the option of either booting into windows or into the recovery console.

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On the way home from work,

I'm on the bus going home from work. Generally, I keep to myself and ignore world around me. So this man sits near me and asks of not to snitch on him he he opens his bottle. I don't say anything, I just get up and go to another seat. I don't know what he had in his bottle, but judging by how the bus driver told him he can't have an open container on the bus and ordered him off, one can probably assume that it wasn't diet coke he was drinking.... (yes, Pierce Transit is dry).

Had he not asked me not to  snitch, he probably could've gotten away with it. This is one of those areas where I could really care less what you're doing, but asking me to cover-up is crossing the line.

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It's the first really hot day this year.

And I have to work on it. At least the boss fixed the air conditioning.

Edit: And I just happened to notice that the next forecast cloudy day will also be my next day off.  I must have all the luck.

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Breaking news

The birth spasm has occurred. My cousin had a baby girl (named Aryanna) at 1:49 this morning. Now, who's next?

The only other question I have is that I know her husband is a Pastafarian, and so where's the Full Pirate Regalia?  The Noodly Master has smiled upon them, and surely would smile more if The Chosen Attire was worn.....

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And I thought I owed the IRS a lot....

For the second year in a row, I had to pay when I filed my tax return.  Something I learned from my father (more importantly, his run-ins with the IRS) is to always square away your dealings with the IRS quickly.  It's never easy, but in the long run, it's the wisest move to toe the line when it comes to taxes.....

Having said that, Al Sharpton owes about $1.5 million...... I may have gotten into trouble in past with debt, but not that deep.

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How rude!

Since I'm going to be working on Mother's Day, I called my mom today. And she hung up on me! I wat doing my duty as a son and I got hung up on. Well, at least I remembered this year. And she did thank me. But still, I got hung up on....

Anyway, happy Mother's Day to all your mothers.

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Griffey.....

From somewhere in The New World Order (Mind-Control Division):  apparently Ken Griffey, Jr. wants to come back to Seattle.  Having been around to remember when he first left Seattle, I just want to say: 'Eat my shorts!"  Safeco Field was built pretty much just for you, and you still wanted to leave.  Better yet, let's take Griffey back.  And put him center field.  In a pillory.  Then supply all the fans with various and sundry rotting vegetation and let them on to the field.....

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Hello Tuesday

Cinco de May has come and gone.  For me, it was just another Monday.  I grew up on my Grandpa's dairy farm, and I grew up knowing that Cinco de Mayo was not a Mexican holiday, but the name of a holstien steer......

A new way to manage tabs

In firefox, I have been using the tab mix plus extension to manage my tabbed browsing (an extension like this is essential when viewing sites like Fark).  Before, I was using the tabbrowser extension, but it was never updated for Firefox 2 when it was released, so I had to switch.  Today, I went to the tabbroswer extension web-site and a new version has been published.  Not only is TBE now compatible with FIrefox 2, but it looks like it'll work with 3 as well.  The main change in this release is that instead of one extension, it is now four different extensions: Informational Tab, Multiple Tab Handler, Source Viewer Tab, and Tree Style Tab.  It actually makes sense to have this split into four extensions, given all that TBE was trying to originally do, and the complications that sometimes resulted (even the TBE website itself recommended that you do not use it (it was, and still is, created only for the author's personal convenience).  I myself used it in the past, and I will use it now, since I like the features and the power it has, but if you're looking for a tab manager, go with tab mix plus first.  It won't cause you nearly as much grief if you're a simple user.  If you're a glutton for punishment, and you've done a recent full system back-up, go ahead and try it...

 

EDIT: This extension also works with Tab Mix Plus.....

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Texting/SMS Dictionary

I've previously asked if I was the last person to use proper grammar/spelling whenever I text or sms/mms people (actually, a good chunk of the posts on this blog now originate from my cell phone).  Anyway, if you've ever wondered what people are saying when they're testing you, here's a handy dictionary.

A wee bit faster......

I've noticed of late that whenever I used Firefox (yes, it's my spreadfirefox link), it's always seemed slow.  Slow to load up, and then half the web hung up in some form or another.  To the point that I started dabbling with Safari, Opera, and (Gasp!) Intranet Exploder.  So today, I decided to do something about it.  When I started up Firefox today, I went through my extensions.  All 59 of them.  And uninstalled a third of them (I never used them anyway, and many of them were out-dated).  Then I went through and got rid of all my themes (I don't know why I got them to begin with, since I just use the default theme, anyway).  And firefox is a faster now.  When I fix friends' computers, the most common cause of problems is the '3 stooges syndrome' at start-up.  And firefox can get that issue as well, apparently......

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