Like starting your work day with a quadruple shot latte. It's even better when the boss picks up the tab. Hey, if it's free, I'll even drink Starbucks swill. Most of the time. Just what do I do with The Underpants Gnomes?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
I get Sunday off
I almost never get Sunday off. I can usually count on working every Sunday (like I have for the as long as I’ve had a job). My boss is a religious person so she uses this as a chance to go to services (I’ve never asked her what faith she practices, and I probably never will since one’s religion usually not an appropriate workplace topic). But this past week, she had other family events which necessitated me working by myself the entire weekend by myself. Being an hourly employee (I’m not ready to disclose where I work, and what my job is yet, but I will say that it is definitely non-it. Most of the time. When I’m not fixing the computer at work, or fielding calls from Indiana trying to fix that computer over the phone, but that’s a whole other blog posting…..), her concern was I had too many hours this pay period (she and her husband own the company). ANd so I get Sunday off. I have no ego. I’m not going to play office politics. But my issue is thus:
A Sunday off outside of Football season is a wasted Sunday. But I have made it known that if I will get Monday nights off to watch Monday Night Football.
Training camp has started by the way…..
Finally…..
A few months ago, I saw on Brielle’s blog her problems with trying to run Vista. So I decided to put Windows ME on my computer to prove that ME has less issue than Vista (read it here). That was my mistake. In order to do that, I had to tear apart a perfectly good Windows XP system, wipe the drive and start over from scratch. That attempt lasted all of about three days, and then I decided to go back to windows XP. Which means once again wiping my drive and starting over from scratch. This was a couple of months (or thereabouts) ago. Tonight, I just now finished getting everything reinstalled (even the games that I never played anyway). Maybe The Anti-Christ should make an operating system that doesn’t suck (though that would be too muck to ask).
The moral of this story is don’t try to show up the SOSDG administrators…..
Friday, July 25, 2008
Since I left AT&T WorldNet
It has come to my attention that AT&T has shutdown all of the there internal newsgroups (even the ones I complained about here), and let go the help employees who worked there. I figured something was rotten when I tried to send an email to Trif and it bounced back with no such user. Then I saw all the MF’ers in alt.att discussing the demise of the AT&T Newsgroups…..
So, my only question is: where’s Nick Trifonoff, and Gage Robinson? ANd while you’re at it, where’s Ellen?
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
My latest toy....
Since I upgraded my cell phone, I have been looking for one thing. And I found it. I found a micro-SD memory card on sale at Wally World (in fact, my boss had me get one for his T-Mobile Shadow, as well). I could play music on my phone through my current Bluetooth headset, but it sounds like I'm listening to AM Radio. Through tin-can and string. I had been looking for Bluetooth stereo headphones for a while, and Qwest had all Bluetooth items on sale. So I went to a Qwest kiosk near work last week, and I finally found my latest toy: Jabra BT620s. The sound from them is excellent. I would be so bold as to even say that they sound even better than my really expensive wired headphones that I use for my stereo. As for the phone headset side of the equation, they're even better than my previous set (Jabra BT130). My father was always complaining when I called him on a windy day with the old set, but the new set gives no issues). The only drawback is that it has a tendency to pinch me behind my right ear.....
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Look out, Wikipedia, there’s a new player in town…..
I use Wikipedia. I will admit it. I think nearly everyone has used at one time or another. But it has its drawbacks. For example: since anyone can edit it, it is vulnerable to vandalism from anonymous sources. But it does make for good time killing, and there is a lot of good knowledge in it. You just have to take it with the occasional grain of salt…
But today, Google has unveiled Knol. From the write-up on Slashdot:
Knol's distinctions from Wikipedia are that authors are identified by their real names (and verified), and that they can share in ad revenue if they choose to
Whether or not this will replace Wikipedia or not, I can’t tell.Some people will prefer Wikipedia because of the anonymity, some will use knol, because of it’s verification. I will probably use both. And keep my tin-toil hat on at all times. This could still be a ploy by The New World Order (Mind-Control Division)……
Shiny Side Out, people.....
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Ugh
I've just come to the conclusion: I do not like iced lattes. Sorry, Starbucks.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Look out world....
I had to come to work early on only 4 hours of sleep today. So I got a quad shot latte from Starbucks.. The Underpants Gnomes are already taking over the building.....
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Monday, July 14, 2008
I'm not dead yet
Sorry if you all missed me the past week. I decided to try yet another attempt at dual booting ME/XP. I did pretty well. I had ME going for about a week, and I got my new Wi-Fi card working in both systems. But I went back to XP. I like an OS that won't crash on you every thirty minutes just because it feels like it (what was The Anti-Christ thinking?). And don't get me started on Vista either. That's just a piece of shit. XP just works. Period. Well, there is the new version of SuSE out. I may try that one...
And some other thoughts:
And some other thoughts:
- Ernie Jurick isn't really bald. He's just such a devout Pastafarian that he tonsured himself. Ramen.
- I'm not the only person to leave AT&T WorldNet. Some of my friends the I knew on WorldNet are also leaving (in droves apparently). I've found some of them on usenet (thank The Noodly Master that Comcast still offers it).
- Shout out to Beauregard T. Shagnasty: Change your shorts. Twice....
- After almost two years of having to talk to someone in India to activate windows (which isn't that big of an issue, as long as it's installed on only one computer at a time), I was shocked when I called to activate it today, and the computer verified without having to route me to someone.....
- The Mariners still suck. The New World Order (Mind-Control Division) is leaving a lot to be desired this year.
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Monday, July 07, 2008
Clearing up the clutter
Bought a wi-fi card for my computer today. Comcast told me that the cable modem had to go out to the living room outlet our else we would continue to have connectivity issues. So I get it installed, and when I determined that it works I took out the Ethernet card (still a good card, and I’m going to keep it. It’s just if I'm not going to use it, I'm not going to keep it installed). And I moved the modem and the router out to the living room. So now my new apartment is exclusively Wi-fi. And now that I got the modem and router out of my room, I have to think of how uncluttered it looks. I've always had the cable modaem and networking hardware in my room, and it always looked like a jungle with multiple lines stringing in and out of my room. Behind my computer is still a jungle, but it's less of a mess than before.
Edit: After noticing the jungle of cables in the living room, I decided to bring everything back into my room. My roommate never noticed any lag in connectivity (he uses wi-fi exclusively). I did notice, however, a dramatic slowdown vs. when I was wired. ANd i figure if it’s all going to stay in my room, it might as well be a wired connection. Back to square one. But at least I have wi-fi now, and should the need ever arise again, it can be moved….
Happy Birthday, Richard Starkey
Ringo Starr is 68 today. The one Beatle who hasn’t snuffed it yet, and doesn’t suck….
Sunday, July 06, 2008
It’s been a week
Since I moved in to the new place. What has happened when I fist moved is that I threw a whole bunch of stuff into boxes and moved it to my mew apartment. The issue is that most of the stuff stayed in those boxes in my new apartment. And then when I moved ten months ago, most of that same stuff still stayed in those same boxes. Since I got tomorrow off, I’ll probably go through them, and start throwing stuff out. If I’m not even going to bother unpacking it, then it’s probably not necessary…. And I need to rearrange the furniture in my room. It’s getting to cluttered. And my apartment is now wi-fi’ed. My roommate got himself an iMac, and he didn’t want to string an Ethernet cable to his room, so he got a wi-fi router.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
It ain’t all that bad
I do read The Consumerist daily, and Comcast is one of the regulars to appear. Not A Good Thing in general. But on occasion, Comcast does get it right. Here’s my experience: Though three moves, the Comcast technician has always been on time to hook up service at the new place. In fact they’ve always been within an hour of the beginning of the window. They were also on time when I upgraded to digital cable and I got high-speed internet.
It ain’t all that bad. Yes, Comcast does have some bad apples in it, like most companies do. And I’m not trying to mindlessly shill for them either. If an employee screws up on company time, then the company is responsible for setting it right. Usually this means shit-canning the rogue employees and getting some people in there who aren’t incompetent fools (which if Comcast did in the first place, they wouldn’t be the subject of so many Consumerist articles).
If you can’t tell already, the cable guy came here this morning, and we now have TV and Internet at the new apartment.
Edit: 12 hours after I made this post, my high-speed internet falked out, and Comcast will have to come out again and trouble shoot it. Not that I’m complaining. We needed to get a hi-def box anyway for the living room……
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