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Archive for August, 2007
Welcome to the new serverThis website now resides in a new server. If you see this message, your DNS has updated. If you do not, well, then you have no idea this happened. The comments are now all going to be in the wrong posts again. *sigh* I’ll see if I can fix this, but I doubt it. If I am hosting your email address and you are having problems with it, email me from a different account. FlakinessFlakiness is my biggest pet peeve, closely tied to people who are late to an appointment. I’ve decided that flakiness is due to 3 things. No, I’m not bitter or anything.
Oh dear(Yes, that’s Clay Aiken) The home ownership dreamIt’s really more of a nightmare. First I had a leaking toilet. The plumber didn’t find anything. Then the toilet stopped flushing. The plumber lied to me, but I saw through his lies, I told him to forget it and I fixed it myself. After that, my huge elm tree was dying and it had to come down. And the same day, as soon as the elm tree was taken care of, my AC unit started leaking water like crazy into the garage which leaked into the living room. So this is another day off work, waiting for a HVAC technician to call me back. Once that is repaired (hopefully not an expensive fix), I’ll have to replace some floor boards in the living room. After this is taken care of, I’ll need an electrician to upgrade the 220v outlet in the garage so that I can buy a modern clothes dryer. This never ends. Like the song goes “I’m no superman.”
My tree is coming down
Fiesta of weirdnessThe Tampa Tribune Published: August 9, 2007 ‘Man falls out of car while trying to spit. Guess which state.’ We don’t have to guess because that headline, from an Internet news-posting site aimed at young adults, included a logo that simply says ‘Florida.’ Drew Curtis, a media critic who runs the Fark.com site and may well scan more news stories each day than anyone else in the country, says Florida is by far the leading source of strange news. His readers send in quirky story suggestions by the thousands. He selects the stories he likes, posts links to them, and tags them to give an idea of the content, such as stupid, spiffy or asinine. Florida is the only proper noun on his tag list. We asked Curtis what the Florida tag means. After he stopped laughing, he referred us to his new book. His viewers suggested that ’so many stupid things happen in Florida, it deserved its own Fark tag,’ Curtis wrote. ‘I wasn’t convinced it would get much use, but I decided to go ahead and put it up anyhow. Boy was I wrong.’ Below are recent examples of his Curtis’s use of the Florida tag. • Here’s a great idea. Take a cougar to a 4-year-old’s birthday and take it off the leash. • Man evicted from place of business because he doesn’t speak Spanish. • If you’re going to go into an office to ask for donations to cover the costs of your daughter’s death, make sure your daughter isn’t waiting in the car. • Woman decides that Chuck E. Cheese would make a better parent than she would. • If you’re going to spread oil all over the floor of a grocery store and fake a fall, make sure the surveillance cameras aren’t rolling. ‘For some reason,’ Curtis concluded, ‘Florida is messed up. … Perhaps it’s the warm weather that makes people stupid. … Whatever the reason, Florida is without a doubt the No. 1 state for weird news. ‘I would be willing to bet that most of it begins with a few beers and goes downhill from there. … Throw in some old people and some lost tourists and you have a fiesta of weirdness.’ We know. We live here.
Another pic of the shuttle launch The space shuttle
Where do you take my money?My router died. OK, the one I was using. As a good nerd, I had a back up router that had been giving me problems in the past but I thought I’d try it again. Everything was great after setting it up. For about an hour. Then it started doing what it always did, which is its inability to sustain a wireless connection. A firmware update didn’t do any good either. So I finally got annoyed, drove to the nearest Apple Store and decided to just fork out the money for Apple’s Airport Extreme router. The store was packed, as always. People trying one of over 10 or 15 iPhones they had on display, teenagers browsing the Internet (thankfully they’ve blocked MySpace, so that’s helped some.) But not a big deal. I spotted the white box that I needed and proceeded to find the cashier. I walk to the back, nothing, I walk to the front, nothing. Finally I ask an Apple employee “where do I pay?” and he points to a long line at the Genius Bar (where they do technical support and repairs.) I think he saw the expression on my face and he said “are you paying with cash or a credit card?” I told him that I was planning on using a credit card. He pulled out a small palm pilot type thing and next thing you know, he took care of everything. So that was kind of cool but they really need to figure do something with their check out process. And all the teens!
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