Hey Hollywood… gimme a damn break!
I just read an article about how they might reboot Batman after the next movie comes out. Are you kidding me?! They’re already talking about milking the cow AGAIN before the next movie comes out? They do this all the damn time! It shouldn’t come as any big surprise that Hollywood is out of ideas. They’ve been telling the same six or seven stories over and over for twenty years now. They’re starting the Spiderman series over already and it’s already setup with a sequel in the...
Read MoreIt’s my fault, but you’re still stupid
I got a text message from AT&T this morning warning me that I’ve used up 65% of my data plan for this billing period. I didn’t sign up for the gouging 2Gb plan so that means I’ve used 130Mb of data since April 14th. Huh? I don’t think so. I signed into the AT&T Website to check things out. I saw that, according to AT&T, I sent 52Mb yesterday at 4:50. There’s a lot wrong there. First of all, I didn’t send 52Mb of anything from my phone, ever. EVER....
Read MoreSniffing out posers
Why, oh why do I have such a limit of patience for posers? I’m really a pretty moderate guy. I tend to let things go and not dwell on them. But when someone is really in my face about things that I know about, it gets under my skin. Especially when it’s obvious that they don’t have a damn clue what they’re talking about. You probably know that I’m a computer guy. I’ll blow my own horn for a second here and say I’m a damn good computer guy. So when someone...
Read MoreHey Network Administrators… suck it.
Network administrators are nearly the most useless and annoying people in any IT organization. They have nothing to do and they seem to be notorious tinkerers. Playing with networks is like playing with their toys. Their favorite toy is SECURITY. They just looove to tinker with security settings. I think it gives them some sort of bizarre fetish satisfaction to be able to screw with peoples lives; all in the name of SECURITY. The problem is that most of them (at least most that I’ve run into)...
Read MoreTransformation of a conservative
If someone had told me six weeks ago that I would have been marching in a union protest, I would have thought they were crazy. I’m a pretty conservative guy, politically speaking. My general sense of things can be summed up pretty simply. We need less government. Hey government, stay outta my way and outta my business. It’s no big secret that when I joined the technical college as a teacher, I was automatically signed into their union. I thought that was hilarious! ME! Part of the teachers...
Read MoreSometimes you have to start over
I’ve been getting my standard list of bugs. Some are legitimate. Most aren’t. Today though, I got a list of bugs that reads like this… Doing some action, got a big bad error message Hit the back button and tried another action. Got another message Hit the back button and did something else. Got another message. Hit the back button and tried something. Got another message. To me, this seems like driving your car into a tree and then trying to continue to drive. Driving along, hit a...
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