Lisa Nowak is claiming that she was not advised of her constitutional rights when she was arrested areested. It sure is hard difficult to type after two Tequila Sunrises. Methinks the wife is trying to get me drunk and take advantage of me. Little does she know that I can still flog blog drunk.
But then again, a break might be in order.
Holder’s commenting on the grossest things to come OUT of dogs. I’ll have you know that #3 is 100% completely true. You think that stuff that’s inside diapers looks nasty when it’s wet? Wait till you see it come out of a dogs anus.
She wants to get rid of the ankle bracelet that she has been forced to wear because it causes abrasions and she cannot lace up her military boots…aannnd she might want to take a drive.
I don’t get the opportunity to play many games, at least not here lately. I have my favorite stand-bys that I usually play with it’s nice to find a new one every now and then. When I do I like to support smaller and independent developers such as Phelios games. Phelios is an independent developer of Windows and Mac Games that you can find at their web site. My biggest issue with thinking about switching to a Mac or Linux desktop is the lack of games designed for those operating systems.
Apparently there are some developers trying to remedy this and Mac games are starting to be a bit more readily available, particularly now that you can run the Mac OS on i386 hardware. I have always like RPG games, and Phelios sells those as well so go check them out when you get the chance.
John Couey was sentenced to death today for the 2005 kidnapping, rape and murder of Jessica Lunsford. I had sent a twitter post when I heard but since it isn’t up yet I though I would go ahead and write a bit about it. At the time this horrible incident happened back in 2005 I posted a couple of times on the subject and was just disgusted and awed that this sick bastard could do something like this.
Justice has prevailed in the case and after an hour of deliberation a jury recommended 10-2 that Couey receive the death penalty. He is a previously convicted sex offender with a 30 year criminal history that told the police at one point that he would do it again.
In a recorded conversation between Couey and his Aunt he said he knew he was going to be given the death penalty.
About the only thing that could make this better is if her were to be made to suffer as his victim did before he is killed.
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Now that I have seen Elisson’s ideas for his new kitchen setup I have been hankering to redo ours. Alas, that’s going to have to wait. I would however like to get the master bathroom done at some point in the near future. The wife wants to tile and paint it anyway, so we might as well redo the countertops as well and replace them with granite.
I’ve looked around at several different places and I must say that I am impressed with the level of service and professionalism at All Granite and Marble. Apparently quite a bit of their appeal is the process that they go through versus what a lot of other companies do.
All Granite was the third shop in the country to start using computer numerically controlled machinery for the fabrication of granite countertops and this speeds the project up immensely and also improves the quality of the finished product. It has to do with the fact that since the machines are computer controlled they get the exact cut you need and since they use water the edges are much more smooth and less dull than other competitors. They have five of the machines,so can get it done in a timely manner.
They also have a much faster turnaround time than most other companies as well. Since there is no middle man, they take three days from the time of templating your cabinets until they are installed. Since quite a few companies take anywhere from two weeks to two months and leave you without cabinets this is a pretty darn big deal.
They also sell tools and granite maintenance and care products as well. One of the things I learned from a friend of my a few years ago is that you need to keep granite cleaner on hand as well in order to keep it looking beautiful. One thing that he had done that was really exciting to me is that he had his touchscreen home automation interface mounted directly into his granite countertop in the bar. It was a very nice finished project. Being so much into home automation as I am this was neat.
Here is what I would love to put in the bathroom…
I wish I knew what was going on. The sites are so slow it’s not even funny. I don’t know if I have hit my hosts speed limit or what. I had to buy another ten gigs of bandwidth yesterday so that my site wouldn’t run out before the end of the month. I don’t seem to be getting a ton a spam, but I have no idea how to check and see.
Maybe I will log into AWStats later and see what’s going on. I’m not even getting nearly the traffic that I was when the Harry Potter book came out so I know that isn’t the problem.
Now that’s what I’m talking about
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You can only have one otherwise they have to remove your liver. not shown is the juicy juice fruit punch.
Our cable and Internet service have gone down at least twice this week. Saturday while I was at work it was out most of the day. Apparently it had just come back on right before I got home from work. It just went out about 30 minutes ago. No big deal, I thought. Occasionally I have to reset my router and pick up a new IP address. That didn’t work, so I checked the TV and sure enough the cable was out as well. Time to call Charter, which I always hate doing with a passion. Their automated system is for stupid people and then techs act the same way.
Call I did anyway. It takes a couple of minutes to navigate through their confusing voice menus before I even get to the automated part. I had to decide whether to talk to High Speed support or Cable TV support. Since the lowest paid goons seem to work for High Speed Support and I don’t particularly want to talk to someone that knows less about computers OR tech support than I do I chose Cable TV support. I have never called them and thought that maybe the automated system would be shorter than the Internet support system.
No such fucking luck.
“Welcome to Charter’s Automated System. In order to help you properly please describe the problem in one short sentence”
“It doesn’t work”
“It sounds like you are having a problem with your Charter Television. Is this correct?”
“Yes”
“Do you see anything on your screen?”
“No”
“Is the picture white, black or null”
“Black” What the hell is null anyway? Is that the fuzzy screen?
“OK, let’s check a few things. First, is your TV on?”
“Yes”
“Do you have lights on your cable box?”
“Yes”
“Let’s reset your cable converter and refresh your information” (as if that is going to do any good right now. All I want is to speak to a rep and see if their is a fucking outage) “Turn off your cable box and when it is off say Continue”
“Continue”
“Unplug the Cable box and say continue when you are through”
“Continue”
“OK, now plug it back in but don’t turn it on. When you have finished this please say continue”
“Continue”
“It may take a few minutes to refresh and you should see either the time or a channel number on the display screen. When you see the time or a channel please say Continue”
I am starting to get stressed at this point.
“Continue”
“OK, turn on the television and when you see the channel please say continue”
“Continue”
“Great! It may take up to 45 minutes for the guide data to be downloaded to your converter but you can continue to watch television at this time. Can you see the screen now?”
“NO!”
“OK, I think you said that you don’t have a screen, is this correct?”
“YES!”
“Would you like to speak to a customer service representative?”
No, I just enjoy spending 30 fucking minutes on the phone speaking with a computer. I feel empty inside when I can’t interact with a goddam system designed for stupid fucking people.
“Yes”.
“Thank you for calling Charter Communications. Please do not hang up as it may take several minutes to connect you”
I wouldn’t fucking dream of it.
<brain numbing music…>
“Your approximate hold time is six minutes”
<more brain numbing music>
I walked around outside just to insure that nobody had run down the power pole or inadvertently run a ditch digger through my front yard.
<several more minutes of music so brain numbing that I want to smack my head on the pavement>
Looking around the kitchen for something to eat. Damn, my cell phone is getting hot.
“Thank you for calling Charter Communications, my name is non-english-speaking tech support goon. Can I help you?”
“My Cable TV and High Speed Internet are down, I want to know if you guys are experiencing some sort of outage or something”
“May I have your name”
“Richard Miles”
“…and your address”
“blah blah some place in Temple Georgia”
“…and your phone number”
“770-bit-eme0”
“For security reasons I need to verify the last four digits of your social security number”
Perhaps you would like my cock size and the color of my last bowel movement as well.
“xxxx”
“OK, hold on while I check”
<mind numbing music>
“Who Am I Speaking to?”
?
“Richard Miles”
“Mr. Miles, I am showing that indeed we are experiencing a service problem in your area. The Television problem was reported at 8:30 this morning and the high speed internet loss was at 6:30 this morning. The should be back up any minute”
“Really, I have been working on the Internet all morning. It just went down a few minutes ago”
“Do your neighbors have cable service right now”
Let me stick my fucking head out the window and check
“I have no idea. They are all probably at work and I am working from home”
“You work from home”
I do today. Why, you wanna come over for a reach around kiss or something?
“Yes Ma’am”
“I would also like to review your service while we are on the phone. I see that you are subscribed to our largest cable television package and that you have the 10MG high speed internet service. Perhaps you would like to sign up for our phone package with free long distance for on $14.99 a month for three months and DVR service for a year for free if it’s available in your area”
I can’t think of anything else that would excite me more than to sign up for a couple of new services when I am calling to bitch about my existing services not FUCKING WORKING!!!!!
“No ma’am, I have three cell phones and disconnected my land line two years ago”
“Is there anything else I can help you with?”
“No ma’am, have a nice day”.
It’s a fucking conspiracy. Charter techs sit in the office drinking beer (hey, now that’s an idea) flipping random switches and laughing their asses off knowing that you are going to call tech support so that they can try to sell you more stuff.
It’s five o’ clock somewhere, time for a drink.
My Internet is back on. doh.
Here is the desktop I am currently using.
I’m running DesktopX beta. Right now I am not running any widgets, but probably will load some later. I also use DX to set my desktop work area so that it reserves 80px at the top and 32px on the right for my task bar and system tray.
I am also using Objectdock Plus for my three docks. The one at the top is my task bar and shows the currently running programs, the one at the right is just a system tray and the one on the bottom (shown in the first screenshot) are my shortcuts; start menu, my computer, documents, music, pictures, internet, recycle bin, a clock, current weather, Google search and email.
I like all of the widgets and other stuff that I sometimes run but mostly I like a clean empty desktop and this seems to be what I fall back on.