Best. Blonde Joke. Ever.
Ξ January 6th, 2006 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Rant |
http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/4853
Finally realized something about myself.
Ξ July 19th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Rant |
For the longest time I’ve believed that I just attracted disagreeable people. I seem to find them no matter where I go.
At my new job as an arcade tech, I have the ‘pleasure’ of working with this guy. He is, in his own words, an absolute prick.
I have no doubts to this claim. He’s about as nice as rubbing fiberglass on a newborn baby’s buttocks.
After yet *another* altercation with this guy today (over nothing important, as these things usually are) I got to thinking: maybe it’s not the other people, maybe it’s me!
I mean, really…people actually avoid me. I used to have a dumpster diving partner, who actually flat-out told me that he didn’t want to dive with me any more. Couldn’t figure it out at the time, but now it makes sense. Supposed friends of mine, some that I’ve had for years, won’t return phone calls or emails.
Heck, the public in general (say, when I go to a store, or whatever) always seems to give me that “gah…I really don’t like the looks of this guy” look. When I drive down the street, people actually *stare*. I don’t drive an outlandish car, and I’m not a bad looking guy (not rip-your-eyes-out ugly, anyway) so there’s got to be something there.
Some vibe, that I put out. Something that says “don’t like me”.
*shrug*
In other news, I dropped off my first Geocache today! Find it here. Just a micro. I’ve been doing a lot of it lately, and have been picking up the lingo, the tricks of the trade, and whatnot.
PETA
Ξ April 20th, 2005 | → Comments Off | ∇ Rant |
Recently I’ve become acutely aware of the rights of animals. I don’t know what happened, but suddenly I’ve realized that a lot of what happens to animals is just wrong.
It started off with my looking at healthy choices for food. I’ve nearly cut out dairy from my diet (though I’m still eating cheese, and not much at that). Meat wasn’t far behind. You certainly get more than enough protein from plant sources. Fact is, Americans eat too much protein, causing calcium depletion, an increased strain on the kidneys and a multitude of other ill effects.
So now I’ve been browsing the PETA website, finding all sorts of interesting film clips, like this little gem. Proof positive that mankind is truly evil. Jennifer Lopez aparently has a line of wear that has a lot of fur. I didn’t like her much before, and I like her less now.
What about baby seals? Cute, adorable baby seals. let’s club some! Just bash in their little heads.
Even Sarah has gotten into the game. Ever the one for a steak, a roast beef sandwich, or KFC, a lot of our thinking has changed rapidly.
If you’ve ever thought about becoming a vegetarian, there’s never been a better time! PETA has a free ‘vegetarian starter kit‘ that contains some literature (along with some tasty recipes) and a short DVD containing PETA TV commercials, a short video detailing ten reasons why becoming a vegetarian is a good idea, and one other thing (which I forget, I haven’t watched the whole thing yet).
George Bush Inauguration Party
Ξ January 21st, 2005 | → Comments Off | ∇ Rant |
Did you know George W Bush spent $40,000,000 on his inauguration party?
http://www.oliverwillis.com/node/view/1695
It was largely donated money from large corporations, but come on.
Macaroni & Cheese
Ξ December 30th, 2004 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Rant |
For the longest time Sarah & I have been trying to get Riley to eat a more varied diet. I’m talking normal food. Stuff like Macaroni & Cheese.
Riley would always turn his nose up at the prospect of eating it. He wouldn’t even try it. Any pasta for that matter. Made feeding him a joy, since we eat a lot of pasta. WHAT KIND OF KID DOESN’T LIKE PASTA?!?
One day I just got fed up with it. I didn’t feed him lunch for a while, to make sure he was good and hungry. Then I gave the kids bowls of mac and cheese.
Sly dug in. He loves the stuff. Riley of course took one look and started crying. Sly and I just kept eating, and watching Riley of course.
Finally, hunger got the best of him; he picked up his spoon, and started moving it towards his mouth. He stopped an inch away. Crying.
Now, of course he’s not in any danger, he’s just mad, so I’m trying not to laugh my head off. He’s just sitting there, with his spoon an inch away from his mouth, eyes screwed tight, screaming his head off.
Finally, hunger won! He put the spoon in his mouth, and closed it. He sat there for a second.
He then opened his eyes, and started shoveling the food in his mouth.
I know a lot of what kids go thru in their exploration of likes/dislikes of food is visual, but that’s been one of the biggest hurdles in getting Ry to eat a lot of what we do. It’s like “Just taste it, buddy! Once you do, I know you’ll love it!” and then he doesn’t. It was awful to cook for him, and have him take one look at his meal and start crying.
Just yesterday he ate a bowl of spiral pasta and sauce, something he would never do before. I just hope he’s come out of this ‘food fugue’ for good.
Ξ November 5th, 2004 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Rant |
So we stopped at Wal-Mart to buy some diapers. Load the kiddies up in the car.
There’s shopping cart in the front, and no car, so I push the cart out of the way so we can just pull forward.
I hop in the passenger seat. It’s been really windy today. I mean really windy. Without realizing it, my pushing the cart out of the way just started it rolling, and it must have tapped the car in the other lane.
A woman walks up, motioning. I unroll the window, and she says “You know you just hit that car, don’t you? You can’t just push carts into cars, you know.”
I say that I wasn’t aware that it had happened. She says “You idiot, you just did it!” and before I can say anything to the woman, Sarah drives off.
Frustrating. Had a lot more I wanted to say to this presumtious person. I’d also wanted to check the car and make sure it was okay. Sarah hates confrontations, so since I wasn’t driving, wasn’t much I could do.
Bugs me, though.
The Holy Grail - Atari’s “Quantum”
Ξ February 6th, 2004 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Rant |
I have a ‘wanted’ ad on craigslist for arcade games. Haven’t heard anything since I placed the ad nearly a month ago.
So ~4pm I receive an email from someone just down the road from me in CT. They say they have an old game called ‘Ouantum’ which, obviously is ‘Quantum.’
It was left by the previous owner of the house some years before. It was in the way, and they wanted it gone.
Doing some research, I find the game to be fairly rare (500 made, only perhaps 200 left in existence). Double bonus for being a vector game. Price in good condition? ~$2,500 +/-
I email back stating that I would love to take a look at it. This is about six PM.
It’s now 11pm, and I received an email stating that someone from MA just came and ‘hauled the game away’ and ‘thanks for my interest.’
Now…WTF? If you’re going to hold a carrot out to a donkey, don’t give the carrot to another donkey!
I’m just so frusterated I can’t see straight now.
Ξ January 4th, 2001 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Rant |
Had the worst time with a shipper over the last few days.
Bought some blank CD’s for the CD Burner
I’ve ordered. I bought them from onvia.com. I haven’t had a problem with this merchant, they shipped quite prompty, overnight, for free. This was great!
The problem started with the shipper, Airborne. I ordered on Friday, and a Saturday ship was promised.
Well, Saturday we received a huge snowstorm. The driver, wisely, decided to head back to base due to the storm. Airborne called, explained what happened. This was fine, as I didn’t want anything to happen to someone just to deliver some blank CD’s. They explained that they’d deliver
on Tuesday, as Sunday was New Years Eve, and Monday was New Years Day. That was fine.
Tuesday came, and Tuesday went. No package. Not even a phone call. I called the very next day and was told that the driver was new and had gotten lost. Not to worry, they said, it will be there tomorrow.
Tomorrow came, and tomorrow went. I called that evening, around seven, and the manager of that depot explained that he’d been having problems with that particular driver. He himself was driving that route tomorrow, and he’d deliver it himself personally early the next morning.
The next morning came and went. Around two in the afternoon I called, again, to confirm delivery. They said they’d page him. Finally, somewhere around three, the package arrived at my door.
That was the problem I had with Airborne. Now, today, with FedEx, another problem. Before new years, I ordered some ValueRAM from outpost.com Again, this company delivered quite promptly. The package was delivered a couple days later via UPS.
Where does FedEx come into play here? Well, I had problems installing the RAM. So, I called Kingston technical support for assistance. They told me that I probably had a bad module, and would send one out overnight for me. What a nice gesture!
While I was waiting for my CD’s, I kept checking the front door. There was a sign for the AIRBORNE man to drop the box taped to the front door window. Next to that, I found a slip stating that FedEx attempted delivery, and would try again tomorrow. Attempted? Bullshit. I’d been there the entire day. No one knocked, no one rang the bell.
A call to the FedEx customer service line later, and I was told I’d have a delivery re-try for the same day, but there were no promises that it would be there that day. An hour and a half later, I see a FedEx van pull into the driveway. So, I throw on a shirt, and go down to meet him.
The man was quite rude. He snottily said that he couldn’t leave the package because it required a signature, and there was no doorbell. I replied that the doorbell was beneath the sign for the AIRBORNE delivery service. The sign quite clearly stated, ‘AIRBORNE: LEAVE PACKAGE HERE.’ It did not say FedEx leave package here, or Aunt Jemimah leave package here, or God leave package etc, etc.
Well, this rant is long.
Updated the DVD list, and, of course, buy some stuff.
