Not All Hummers Are Good Hummers!

Saturday, July 28th, 2007 | Life, Rants | 3 Comments

A week ago or so they decided that, though there was no “pre-arranged seating” in my department, that they needed to “separate the teams”. Now this was not a logical move at all because everybody pretty much enjoyed where they are sitting and we have about 1 team meeting every 3 months, which consists of BOTH teams meeting up. Anyways, our supervisor got in later than the other one (as would typically be the case). So the other sup decided that he would claim the half that I was sitting on. Despite the other supervisor having the main desk that’s on that half of the room (and still does).

Now we are all floundering to find seats everyday because not everybody has the same schedule everyday. Well one day I was forced to sit at this desk which has some old / dead guy staring at you no matter how low you slouch. I mean I either have to be disrespectful to the dead and flip him upside down or let him stare at me. Well I didn’t want that 2 days in a row.

Did the next best thing and took somebody else’s seat who is fairly territorial (as one should be when they are “batman”….) and I moved his stuff over one desk then sat there. I thought I was crafty when he came in and was like WTF and then decided to move over even one more desk because their was cooties or something on that one (and “batman” has a daily struggle with cooties to begin with, no need to make it more difficult).

Now I am all smug, I have a seat with everything except my nametag (mysteriously vanished, perhaps somebody else wants to be me… well I know a lot of people who do, but they are just creepy stalkers and don’t work at the same place i do…). Just when I think life is good, an old / living guy across from my cubicle starts humming. Now as any person would do, you figure it will go away so you just ignore it. Well what if it doesn’t go away!?

I tried to retreat into my iWhatever I was listening to at the time, but I couldn’t get this old hummer out of my mind. He hummed longer than anybody has ever hummed. I mean I know you gain a lot of experience with these things the longer you live, but DAMN, don’t you have to take a breath? !?

At a certain point I stood up and was going to say something rude, but I looked over at my friend and started laughing and then could not say anything. I mean I know it’s not good to be rude to the elderly but this hummer was just freaking me out. I mean what if I loose all appreciation for hummers in the future!?!???!

I was able to calm down knowing that this was “my Friday” and that I would not be back into work until Sunday and then I don’t think he would be there Sunday or Monday.

The moral of the story is Not All Hummers Are Good Hummers!

My $254 Car Wash (with pics)

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 | Life, Rants | 1 Comment

So I get to Louisiana and decided I shouldn’t go see my mother until I wash off the crap from my car trip.

At first I was going to go into an automatic car wash. I crept up on it and got on the HUGE ground rails and inched forward only to hear a shrieking noise that I could only assume was the underside of my car getting raped by the giant rails. So I backed out of that and found a hand wash place.

I threw in some quarters and proceeded to wash off my car. Well, I saw a spot on my car during the power wash that looked like some soap was sitting on my hood. So I aimed the sprayer at it and not but a second later and a huge chunk of coating (seems to be some kind of hard laminate that protects the paint and keeps it shiny) blew off.

Now by huge chunk I am not kidding, if you take your thumb and index fingers from both hands and make a circle out of them, it is still bigger than this.

So what does this mean? Basically I will need to have my entire hood repainted because this is not just a ding in the paint job. How it looks now I am guessing the value of my car is about $1000 lower than it was yesterday. What I will have to do is pay $250 to pay off my comprehensive deductible on my insurance to get it fixed.

Yes, that’s right. A car wash just cost me $254 dollars. I am not happy.

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COX SUX

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 | Rants | No Comments

Ok, so I only get so many days off in a week. More specifically: ONE. Having this short amount of time, I tend to try to be nice and work on my website during some of that time. Well guess what. If I can’t get online, I can’t do all that much.

Well my problem starts here. Right now I am writing this crap in a notepad that when I CAN get online I will post. Why can’t I get online? Because Cox Suck. No, I didn’t say Suck Cox, I can’t see that being enjoyable for anybody.

See the little light on my modem that says “cable” keeps blinking. That light means there is a problem with the………. cable………. yes, I know that’s a hardcore concept, but try to keep up. It shouldn’t blink, it should just be solid on.

Why can’t I call and bitch at them then???? Because it’s not my account and my landlord just said “give it a couple more days, sometimes it sucks for a few days and then gets better….” AH…. A COUPLE DAYS. Um, I don’t have a couple bloody days to just stare at some blinking lights!!!!

I told him to add me to the account, but that seems to be part of his give it a couple days thing… Grr, I’m not happy.

I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.

Sunday, November 12th, 2006 | Rants | 5 Comments

Yes, it’s a quote by Mel Brooks. It is here because my site needs new quotes. I took down the quotes on new design because, though over 500 exist, most of them are too “positive-reinforcement” and NOT “Smartass”. So start finding smartass quotes. You can post them in the comments, or if you have a big list you can just email me or use contact form on site.

Oh, and on a only quasi-related matter, I discovered yesterday that the search engines look wrong in IE6, they aren’t centered or fit right. I have 7 and can’t really test changing it, so until I get more time to experiment and compare elsewhere it will stay broken, since though it doesn’t look right, it still works.

Time to switch to utorrent

Monday, July 31st, 2006 | Rants | No Comments

Doh, I wrote this post and then searched for something on google using firefox 2.0 beta and forgot that tab mix plus extension is disabled. AKA typing in search box overwrites current tab.

Anyways, super quick rewrite: Azureus 3.0 will be commercial, which will suck, but more than that it will work like itunes and kazaa. Azureus has been a pioneer of some of the best bit torrent features ever that have all been copied, but I would highly recommend that you stay away from it when it hits 3.0. Get utorrent from utorrent.com and also install peer guardian (and configure it to block p2p and not show allowed connections).

That’s it, sorry it’s just a quick rewrite, but I am just saying, if you haven’t switched. Do it before 3.0.

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Tidbits

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 | Rants | 1 Comment

At one point I was willing to dedicate a lot more time to this than I am now. Now I think up things and just end up telling them to people on the phones. I mean that makes a lot of sense since I don’t see people as often I need things to say when I call them. However I know it’s boring knowing that there won’t always be new content on this site.

In fact the “6.0 design” has just gotten laid off for an unforseeable amount of time. I mean I want to launch my new design and format, and I want it to dominate the internet and start to make me money off the website, but currently it is just not a priority.

I think it’s going to take me another 2-3 weeks or so before I am back to doing the things I was doing before taking this job. The job keeps me really busy bouncing all over the valley, and when I have been getting home I am eating, drinking, watch a movie, going to bed, repeat x6 days a week.

I kind of enjoy my job. I mean, I don’t enjoy having a job at all, but who does. For what it’s worth though, I am very glad I ended up with this job over GoDaddy. Not just because it pays more, but because I don’t have to be in a corporate environmnent sitting in a cubicle. Man was not meant to live in a cubicle.

Ask-a-Smartass is kind of screwed up. It still kind of works, but it’s having different problems in both browsers, that yes… could be fixed with a little attention, but honestly I am currently glad that the idiotic question count has dropped. I mean sometimes there are some really quality questions on there that I can give really choice answers to, but lately it’s just been retarded kids asking about video games and me ignoring or deleting the questions.

Superman was pretty good. Well it was way better than the last X-Men movie. The special effects were fantastic. Kevin Spacey did fantasic job as a dark Lex Luthor. The guy who played superman looked like they pulled him from the comics, like he should. Lois however, strange choice. I mean the actress looked damn good when she was playing a blond surfer girl in some movie, and she fit the part really well in Beyond the Sea (also w/kevin spacey), but as Lois Lane she just kind of sucked. The lines they gave her sucked and she just was not very sexy etc… I mean terry hatcher did a way better job in Lois & Clark, and in this I just don’t see how Superman would want her so bad. I am however now finding the old superman movies to watch those, since this brought back good memories of those.

I met this really personable, fun, attractive girl today. Of course she was married, so I dropped it.

Hmm, did I write this and then ignore it for several hours only to not finish it and then want to go to bed and just say screw it and hit publish? Me thinks so.