Cory Doctorow, one of my favorite contemporary science fiction authors, has managed to put my own private nightmare into words.
The main character in this story has far too much in common with myself.
It’s a great story but it definitely hits close to home.
Merry Christmas! Now get off your damn computer and enjoy the holiday!
So Wednesday started off normally enough. After my recent 6 month review, I’ve been trying much harder to get to work early everyday. The highway I take is really a just a big parking lot filled with what seems to be asian women behind the wheel of every car.
So after staving off death every morning on my way to work, I usually arrive a bit frazzled. This morning was no different. I hustle up to the building, and whip out my access card to get in.
Doesnt work. Read more…
I must’ve work up on the wrong side of the freakin’ UNIVERSE today because I am in a righteously bad mood.
Consider yourselves warned.
Thank you for calling Comcast, how can I help you do my job today?
I am forever doomed to call Comcast tech support…
Happy post-Turkey Day y’all. We just spent the last week moving, then went to Chicago for the holiday weekend, and a few minutes ago I put the finishing touches on our new cable modem and network/wireless. More to follow on all of this later.
Here is the result of a bandwidth test I ran on the new modem:
Not bad. Now I’m off to read up on the WRT54G and all the fun stuff you can do with it.
Oh, how I HATE chain letters…and the people that send them. Here are a few reasons why:
1. You will not save the life of some 6 year old addled with brain cancer by simply “forwarding a message”. If a six year old has brain cancer, God wants him to die. Dont mess with God’s plan. He will FUCK YOU UP.
2. The Make-a-wish Foundation doesnt use chain emails to get donations. People smarter than you use chain letters to entertain themselves. Dont be a retard.
3. I swear to CHRIST, if I get one more fucking email about a little kid and angels, I’m going
to burn down a church. A story about a little kid walking into a pharmacist looking to “buy
a meewacle” with money from her piggy bank for her terminally ill brother makes me angry. I
dont watch the family channel for a reason. I dont want this bullshit showing up in my inbox.
4. People dont use emails to find missing kids. They use the police and television.
And if you think forwarding an email about a kid who’s been missing for two weeks on the
other side of the country is going to help, you’re dumb. And wrong. But mostly dumb.
5. I WILL NOT, repeat will NOT, join your stupid fucking cause because of an email.
I will not save the baby seals, those fur coats they make out of them look too nice.
I will NOT try to stop horses from being killed for food. They’re an animal just like pigs or cows.
I will NOT change my political beliefs which took me 25 years to formulate because I got a
fucking email from a moron.
-the tourist
Funny… I was just listening to Bob Marley’s “Soul Shakedown” in the car on the way to work today.
My fellow chocolate addicts should feel a tad vindicated today. A recent study by researchers at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany yielded the following results:
In skin, the flavonols [in chocolate] have been shown to reduce skin’s sensitivity to UV radiation, increased blood flow to skin, and improvement of skin texture by increasing its density, thickness, and hydration.
The same flavonols have recently been shown to have benefits for cardiovascular health as well.
A quick summary: Chocolate is good for your ticker and the stuff that keeps your insides in.
Good to know!
via Slashfood
As you can tell, I took over a month off from my blog.
Many bloggers suffer an occasional burn out, usually related to new or suddenly important responsibilities elsewhere. Some of them simply feel obliged to post and they stop experiencing whatever satisfaction they were getting out of it originally.
I, on the other hand, have spent the last month doing nothing but learning how to administer servers. You can probably guess where this is going.
I love my new job, but when you spend 8+ hours per day doing nothing but fixing servers and the various support tasks that come with running web sites you tend to feel almost intimidated by your own site.
So that’s basically what this post is: Me re-breaking my blogging cherry after a nice break.
That is all.
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