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I read this article, and I found that I could really identify with the social classification being described. I think I’ve covered this here before, but I’m dreadfully single, yet not looking for a relationship for the sake of the relationship, either. Anyway, it’s all in the article, and if you like reading about my life, you’ll be interested in this, too.

The following is an excerpt from this week’s Gamespy Grudge, and I thought I would share because I totally understand how Fargo feels on this one:

shaithis: Fargo, you still with me?

Fargo: Sorry dude, can’t talk, I’ve got the whole of the Spanish Armada up my WAZOO. [Fargo points to his Wazoo.]

shaithis: That’s a disgusting place to put an Armada.

Continue reading I understand his position

So, after much patient waiting, COX is finally delivering High Speed Internet Access to my neighborhood. I will be going down to a COX office this afternoon to “pick up my IP address”, whatever that means, and theoretically sometime on Thursday, they will “switch on” my access. I took a few minutes this weekend to put together my hardware package so that all I need to do right now is get a three-way coaxial splitter hooked up (somehow I only have a 2-way splitter – I know I used to have a 3-way!) and my new iMac will be set to start communicating with the internet as soon as they “switch it on” Thursday.

Then, when I have a little more “extra money” I’ll put Airport cards in the iMac and Powerbook and hook up an 802.11b access point and then I’ll be able to surf the web wirelessly and put my cable modem et al out of sight. The fewer cables visibly connecting to my iMac, the prettier it looks, I say. If they come out with a cheap 802.11b network/USB adapter for my printer, that’ll be one less wire, and I can … I don’t know … put my printer up to a couple hundred feet away from my computer.

Okay, getting a little off the subject here, but the bottom line is that quite a bit of interesting writing that I haven’t been able to capture for the last eight months or so will be pouring back into the site, effective Thursday, March 7th. (I hope.) I was musing to myself the other day about how many great and interesting things I have to say that never get written down or posted because it isn’t convenient. Some of it is lost because I have ideas while I’m at work and there just isn’t time in most workdays to write everything I think down coherently. It takes quite a bit of thought and concentration and time to get stuff out of my head and into a format that makes (some) sense. Concentration and time that I just don’t have available to me while being interrupted all day by whining morons. So, hopefully the ideas I have after work will appear immediately on the site, and the ones I have while at work will have enough time to be worked out after work.

We’ll see.

So, you remember a little while ago I posted that I thought I was about to get a complaint? Well, that guy did complain, the next day. Weeks later, management managed to finally speak to me about it, by which time I had forgotten the entire event. We discussed it with the sort of vagueness that distance lends; no one was aware of the details or circumstances, so we kindof generally discussed why upsetting customers is bad. So, since several people have asked me to follow up on my meeting with “the man”, I have been meaning to, and finally got a chance to today, which reminded me that I had thought someone I talked to would complain. So, I cut-and-pasted the contents of that post (after proof-reading it) that kinda explained the nature of the call, and emailed it to my direct supervisor, who may end up sharing it with “the man”.

Note: I don’t think I’ve ever referred to my boss as “the man” before the other day, and do not do so in any other context than this message and that. Mostly it seems silly.

Continue reading Look, it’s no big deal

So, I was over at IGN.com, looking at a little blurb about the upcoming video game based on the upcoming Spiderman movie, and I liked this:

IGN’s top five Worst Radioactive Things That Could Bite You:

5. Radioactive Badger

4. Radioactive Yogurt

3. Radioactive Yeast Infection

2. Radioactive Midget

1. Radioactive Tal Blevins

I guess Tal Blevins works at IGN or something, so that’s an inside joke, but MAN O MAN, wouldn’t having all the powers of Yogurt or a Yeast Infection, but scaled up to human size be a trip? With super-powers of yeast, could I turn grape juice into wine instantly? Also, why would a midget bite me? Just food for thought.