by Matt | Aug 11, 2002 | Imported Entry
The only interesting thing I did today was pick up my parents from the airport, which I’m starting to think was a mistake. From the minute they got off the plane all they would talk about was baseball. Even my brother, Capt. Baseball, actually told them to, and I quote: “stop talking about f*ing baseball.” Adding to this is serious jet lag and a 3 hour time difference between the east and west coasts. This results in EVERYONE being in a seriously shitty mood. Especially when something doesn’t go their way. For instance, this evening my father tried to check his email. Adelphia, being the worst cable company in the world (yes, far worst than Comcast) has, at the moment, some very broken email servers. They’ve been trying to fix them for quite some time. Lucky for me it’s only incoming mail. Since I don’t use Adelphia for anything but outgoing I’m ok. Unfortunatly for my father, he relies on his email. Instead of A) trying to fix the problem, B) calling Adelphia to see what the problem might be or C) trying again later he chooses option D. Option D includes throwing a temper-tantrum like an 8 year old girl and throwing, yes throwing, various items from his desk across the room. Then, in a loud pissed off voice, declairing that the cable modem was going back tomorrow and that he “didn’t want to deal with this shit.”
You can see that we’re dealing with things in a mature and adult manner at this point. I almost told him to go sit in the corner for 10 minutes of quite time. As for my actual reaction I said something along the line of “just settle down and try it in the morning.” Apparently this wasn’t a good idea and I was met with a “and its all your damn fault, my computer worked fine before.” At this point, I would like to point out that his “computer” is a whopping 133mhz and is running Windows 95. So “working fine” is a term that shouldn’t even enter into the description of this giant paper weight. I don’t see how its my fault that his computer can’t physically handle a cable modem. Sure, the point to all this is that his email should have been working. Yes, it should have. Did I break it? No. You want to get pissed at someone, call Adelphia. Acting like a spoiled fucking child won’t help either. I know you’ve “had a long day” but fuck you.
So, if his royal highness gets his way, which he will, I’ll be offline for the rest of the summer. I don’t exactly relish that idea so I’ll simply have to steal his modem. Or he can buy me another one, since he happens to be using my old one at the moment. And if he doesn’t like me using “his” modem, too fucking bad, he shouldn’t have returned a modem that was working fine just because he doesn’t know how to use it.
I’ve even offered to fix the problem or at the very least call Adelphia. That apparently wasn’t good enough. No, we’d rather complain about things that we could easily fix. It’s much easier to live with something when you’ve gone out of your way to prove that you’re incorrectly right. He’ll probably simmer down after a nights sleep… but he’ll probably return the modem anyway. I should also mention that while this story paints my father in a bad light, he actually gets pissed off quite rarely and is usually a mild mannered baseball coach type of person. That’s what happens when you spend all day travelling I suppose. Well, if I don’t post for a while, don’t be surprised. Later.
by Matt | Aug 11, 2002 | Imported Entry
Apparently Scott has been having a rough day. He also apparently hates…
Pop Music:
“The music industry easily at the lowest point it has ever been. Each day, the radio waves of America are infested with a combination of terrible pop quintets, rappers who rap about rapping with other rappers while wrapping things, rock groups whose most inspired lyrics could pass for a LiveJournal entry, and that terrible “Hero” jingle from Spider Man which sounds like it begins midway through the damn song.”
Moby:
“Of all the faux underground music that exists today, one person stands out above the rest as the most haughty, irritating, and completely useless of the artists of this type. This one man does all he can to try to seem different, but ends up just looking conceited and whiny. This man is Moby.”
And the movie Signs:
“Movies like this are mainly why I dislike seeing things in the theater from the month of April through the month of September. Everything that comes out in that time period is designed to rake in maximum profit for as little quality as can possibly be afforded. Now that M. Night Whatever has a shitload of money one would hope that he would be making better movies in the future.”
Ouchy. I just thought I’d share since I didn’t do anything interesting today of my own. Enjoy the bitter opinions of Something Awful
by Matt | Aug 11, 2002 | Imported Entry
Woot. Another weekend game night. CS and Jedi Knight 2 were enjoyed as always.
Oh, I should also point out that Nagle left me a little present. A link to one of the funniest cartoons on the planet. THANKS NAGLE!
Rejected by Don Hertzfeld
And because I missed it… this weeks Friday Five:
1. Do you have a car? If so, what kind of car is it?
I’m the proud owner of a shitty 1990 Oldsmobile ’88. I don’t know for how long though, it’s going to be replaced soon.
2. Do you drive very often?
Daily
3. What’s your dream car?
1969 Cadillac Elderado or 1959 Chevy BelAir
4. Have you ever received a ticket?
One, but it was bullshit. I fought it and didn’t get the points on the licence.
5. Have you ever been in an accident?
Yes. A head-on with a SUV. Stupid SUVs. It wasn’t my fault and I got money to get a new car from the morons insurrance company because she was a friggin’ asshat.
by Matt | Aug 9, 2002 | Imported Entry
MagusXL: or have a search option for “don’t show me crap I can’t download because you asshats don’t make backups”
docholoday: hehehe… you said “asshats”. that’s funny
MagusXL: actually, I only typed it.
docholoday: yes, but the voices in my head do a good chip impression
by Matt | Aug 9, 2002 | Imported Entry
Randomness across the w3 (www) today.
Seems Chip has updated and switched Chocobo.cx over to Moveable Type. Huzah for him. I guess after poking at him and showing him how it works he must have taken a likening to it. Now if only we could get him to switch his personal journal. heheheh.
Also, sadly, NeoWin closed its doors temporarily yesterday. One of my personal favorite sites for windows, software and game news. They’ll be missed until their return.
Lastly, after seeing one last night, I want one of these more than ever. I want the G4 PowerBook with a huge-ass studio display. Hot damn!
Laugh… it is funny.
Also funny… sad in a “we’ll sue for anything nowadays” sort of way, but funny.
Lastly, it’s Photoshop Friday over at Something Awful. Go see what depravity they’ve come up with this week. I believe we have parodies of CD covers this time around.
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