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Post by dejibo on Jun 28, 2009 10:03:56 GMT -5
Thanks for the Bday wishes, I was a brat all day I love my bday. Cellphones. I LOVE LOVE LOVE them, but HATE HATE HATE folks that have NO clue to put the damn thing down for a minute. If you get a text, or a call, it will ring, or buzz. you dont have to keep staring at it like that will make one appear. Have you seen the news headlines of folks that walked off a curb, or into traffic because they were so distracted by texting? I hear phones ringing while I am in the ladies room, I have seen grown professional women stop mid conversation with their kids to answer a phone call from a neighbor. now, I get that these things are extremely convienent, but what the hell does everyone have to talk about? All day, everyday, these folks have a cell phone hanging off their ear! They are gonna get an infection, cause no air ever reaches that ear. MANNERS! that is exactly what we need to teach in schools. Manners! If you are lost, and need to call and get directions PULLOVER! use your phone. Almost got Granny's head ripped off cause some dope was lost and on his cell phone. Computers are amazing, but yes, we have created a society that cant, and wont be able to show their work. They cant spell, they cant do basic math or make change. They want INSTANT answers to every issues, and delayed gratification is no longer in our vocabulary. we must have it NOW! We can order from Ebay or Amazon from our phones. We are sliding down that ladder, and our standings have dramatically slipped in the eyes of the acedemic world. WE SUCK! We used to be in the top 5 consistantly, but now, we cant make change if we work at McDonalds, unless the machine tells us how much to give back. We are not going to be the leaders of tomorrow, if we continue to let machines do our thinking, and work for us today. just my humble opinion. I was at sears, and the cashier couldnt seem to get my order right, because she was so busy on the damn cell phone! I saw the manger, and waved her over. I asked her to please ask the cashier to HANG UP THE PHONE, and pay attention to my order. She tried to charge me 3 times for the same blouse, and couldnt figure out the price on a pair of pants. The tag was INSIDE the pants, but she was so distracted she couldnt figure it out. She made the mistake of giving me the "just a second" finger. OH Hell no! I got the manager. Its bad enough that every person we pass is on the phone, now we cant even get customer service. Boston has BANNED all cell phones, Ipods, or electronic devices while on the job. 3 major train wrecks have come about from folks on the cell phone, even after the ban was enacted, we had one more crash. he admitted he was texting his g/f instead of watching the track. SHEESH! We no longer talk to each other. That makes me sad. /em puts away her soap box.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 28, 2009 13:07:42 GMT -5
Another death shocker - Billy Mays of HI BILLY MAYS HERE was found dead this morning. Dunno why he died yet though. Didn't like his commercials but still sad to hear he died. As quoted from CNN: Highly likely that it's due from that. Sad news, American TV won't be the same without him!
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 28, 2009 13:22:37 GMT -5
What the fuck?! Thats another death that comes out of nowhere. That one won't get as much attention though.
Yeah, I don't like his commercials either but it is sad. The dude was doing his job so he could support his family. You can't hate him for that.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 28, 2009 14:00:15 GMT -5
What they're saying on FARK makes a lot of sense, he just had hip surgery yesterday, I think? Or very recently. Flew back on the plane... Deep vein thrombosis is probably what got him. Kills with little to no warning at all.
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Post by Caller on Jun 28, 2009 20:30:39 GMT -5
Yay I can sleep at night now. And oh ho yes I can hate him. He's on every fucking night SCREAMING HIS HEAD OFF SO LOUD THAT YOU CAN'T IGNORE IT AND YES I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT AND GETS YOUR ATTENTION AND MAKES YOU WATCH BUT THAT DOESN'T CONDONE IT OR MAKE IT ANY LESS ANNOYING WHEN EVERY GODDAMN WORD OUT OF HIS MOUTH IS SPOKEN IN SUCH A WAY YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE STILL HAS A VOICE.
Though I'm with Norfy this is getting ridiculous now. I'm not gonna tempt fate by asking a certain question but it's just becoming almost overwhelming.
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Post by UltimateCloud on Jun 29, 2009 5:41:37 GMT -5
Re: mobile phones - can't be bothered to get into it. I'm too lazy. So, some news: I built a complete new website for my company. It's taken me about a solid month, which included re-learning HTML, CSS and Javascript (although, this was never used in the end). I haven't done anything web related for a long time, so it was pretty cool to be getting paid to spend all my day making a website. It's probably not the best website in the world, but I think I did a decent job considering that I'm not a professional web designer and never have been. It's currently off line at the minute and due to go live at the end of the week. I'll post a link if anyone's interested in seeing it. After doing it all though, I've had loads of fun. It was refreshing and reminded me of just how much I love doing stuff like this. I'm thinking I might make a personal web site and try to push my services on other small businesses to see if they'll bite. I reckon it wouldn't be a half bad business plan to sell them a "professional looking" 5-6 page website for a low cost. Most companies charge in the region of £400-£500 for that, and I think I could offer it as low as £200. Not bad for something that wouldn't take up too much time... I dunno if I'll go ahead with that any time soon, but I definitely think there is a market out there for this kind of cheap web design. Considering I have all the tools and knowledge beforehand, the only expenditure is my personal time. Like I said though, I don't think I'll try anything like that any time soon. Other news. Nothing exciting really. Me and my girlfriend are still together. I never thought I was the relationship kinda guy, but as sappy as it sounds, I couldn't imagine life without her now. >.> She's pretty much my best friend and we have such a good time together. She's not into games or anything like that though. But to be honest, it's quite a relief. It means I can have some personal space by playing a game or something so we're not stuck together all the time. Other than that it is literally work and sleep. I work from 8AM to 7PM Mon - Fri. It takes me an hour to get to work and back, so I have little time in the evenings as I'm usually passed out in bed at 10:30. I brought a new laptop a while back as well. It's a Dell Studio which I got quite cheap as I had a "special" arrangement with my boss. >.> It came with Vista Home Premium. I HATE Vista and I did try it for a week but just couldn't stomach it. Instead of going back to XP though, I thought why not and installed Windows 7. Now I know that Windows 7 is just "Vista in disguise", but it actually runs a lot smoother and faster than Vista ever did on this laptop. I'm really impressed. I like the usability and the quick response times. It seems easier to set up and use than Vista too. So far I've had no problems with compatability or software. It all runs good. Anyways, that's probably enough from me. I do tend to mumble on these days about random crap. Maybe I should start a blog... that's all that everyone does on those things! (Not really, I could never be arsed with one of those. )
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 29, 2009 9:57:51 GMT -5
Glad things are good for you, Nick. Show us the webpage when it goes up. I would seriously need to relearn HTML and all that again too if I ever wanted to do some more web design. It has been years. I don't even think if I remember how to put a picture in HTML. Its that bad for me. Heh XD
So my neighbor let me borrow a movie from him called Postal. I never heard of it before and he said it was pretty funny. I knew it was going to be bad right when the opening credits started to roll. Know how I knew? Cause the first thing you see is "An Uwe Boll Movie". And yeah, it was BAAAAD. Oh so very horrible. I have no idea what the hell it was about but it was retarded as hell. This was my first Uwe Boll movie. If his video game b ased movies are this retarded, I can see why people despise him. Cause Postal was just so goddamn awful. XD
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Post by Office Ninja on Jun 29, 2009 17:05:05 GMT -5
Well my mom went outside to let the dogs out this morning and made a startling discovery. Kittens! It seems someone had dumped three kittens in the sandbox under the playhouse. Now I have my Mom and Sister telling me I need to take one to replace Schautzie. I love little kitties but I just don't think I am ready yet. I still have a hole in my life where Schautzie used to be, but I do not think I could handle another animal now. I still come home and realize I dont have my dog greeting me at the door now (Though her kitty daughter has taken to sitting in the window right next to the door when we get home. Its not the same but I love that she is there.) This was my little girl. i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/kikaro/Pets/DSC00715.jpgI do miss her so. I still don't think I can have another one so soon. *sigh*
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 29, 2009 18:14:18 GMT -5
We have a greeter... Fred greets me at the door every time I come home. If I go outside and he can see me, he wails at the top of his lungs until I come back inside. He's definitely my precious baby. Kittens are great, but they come with so much more responsibility than an adult cat. With Spay/Neuter, vaccinations, possibly micro chipping... it adds up, and fast. Still, kittens are great to play with. Grats on your work project, UC. I'm very rusty on web programming and design myself. I only know basics, not good with Java, PHP, and others... including everyone's obsession with flash sites now. I enjoy it, but... it's hard for me sometimes. Dealing with clients was very stressful for me.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 29, 2009 18:25:08 GMT -5
My cat greets me sorta. Once I am inside he comes from wherever he was to meow and stuff. If, however, he sees me outside and coming to the door I can hear him hissing and growling and screaming. Like he has no idea who I am. Then, when I open the door, he finally realises who I am and is like "Oh, its you. Hello!" I had a chance to do a website for someone back in the day. When I was in highschool a teacher came to me and said that the people working for a charity organization called The Rainbow of Hope Society were looking for someone to make the webpage. She knew someone from the charity and told him about me. He spoke with me for a bit but nothing came of it.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 29, 2009 19:55:18 GMT -5
I've only done two, one was a joint project, the other was for my co-op grade. I didn't do a great job on either, the co-op was left missing the meta tags, which I still really don't understand. Kinda scared I'll see one of my former clients and they'll quiz me. I'd like to do a personal web site again, but... I don't know what about. Hoping to make a group in one of these silly online games or maybe write a blog from a character's point of view. Maybe. We'll see.
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Post by dejibo on Jun 30, 2009 15:23:43 GMT -5
Kittens are a boat load of work. Teaching them to use the box, and then to stop clawing your stuff, and brushing, and feeding, and training, and ripping them off your curtains, and the vet bills, forget about it. I vote that you will know when you are ready, and then will get another doggie. I think a doggie is what your heart needs, not just another mouth to feed. Help mom find a good home for the lil sucker, and be glad you did a good deed.
me? nothing. up to nothing.
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Post by Caller on Jul 4, 2009 18:31:24 GMT -5
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jul 10, 2009 19:28:17 GMT -5
I don't know if I ever told you guys about this retarded family in my neighborhood or not. But they live in a house right across from me and they have a really big german shepard dog. When we first moved here they would walk their dog right past our place and if Simon, our cat, was outside the dog would go balistic and start barking, trying to attack. Then one day the daughter of the family walked the dog. Again, right past our place and another problem with cat and dog started. I heard the dog barking and I imediatly run to the door to get Simon inside and see the young girl struggling to hold on to the dog. A few hours after that, the mother comes to our place with the dog in a very provoking manner telling us that our cat attacked her daughter. This was obviously bullshit. I saw her daughter struggling to hold on to the dog but I did not see Simon attacking her or the dog. All I saw was him hissing and screaming but it was in self defence. Needless to say, this family has been a problem for us since we first moved here. Now, just yesterday the father, who walks the dog the majority of the time, came to our living room door and starts pounding on it and ringing the doorbell like crazy. My mom answered and the dude has some sort of accent cause she couldn't understand a thing he was muttering other than "cat". He was also equiped with a baseball bat. He stormed off and we watched him walk back to his place. As he got there he started comforting his daughter. Now obviously this little girl made up some story that our cat attacked her. And this time I wasn't there to see if he did or not.....but COME ON! A little bitty cat, who is afraid of people, decides that out of all the people in the neighborhood he wants to go attack her. Riiiiiiight! From now on we are keeping Simon inside. And if we do let him out it will be on a harness and leesh with either my mom or I keeping close tabs on him. Cause if my cat ends up dead I WILL take my revenge out on their dog. I hate killing animals needlesly but I see this as an attack on my family. And it'd be "an eye for an eye" situation. Also, after work my mom and I went for a walk. As we were getting close to home we saw the fucker walking his dog.....and holding the bat. He noticed us and stared right at us. Making the bat visible. I made sure as we walked I stared right back at him. Making it obvious with my head turning towards him. You wanna provoke me by staring, buddy? Be my guest. I stare right back! I view this whole situation with my cat, his dog, and the baseball bat as a direct threat to my family....and I don't like being threatened. ....sorry for the drama
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Post by Caller on Jul 10, 2009 19:48:05 GMT -5
Uh you can probably file a harassment claim on that and get a restraining order. It is never acceptable to storm to someone's house with a weapon under any circumstances and if you don't have Barney Fife on your force the cops will agree. Especially since the threats are ongoing. I know you want to make sure he knows you're not afraid of him, but 10 to 1 he's falling into a certain archetype: he wants to be in command (watch him around his wife/significant other, something tells me she's quite the obedient one), and he uses intimidation as his weapon. If he feels challenged or feels his methods are not working with you, I guarantee you, he WILL go further. Keep Simon indoors at all times. He *will* attack Simon eventually. He is using his daughter as an excuse and has likely raised her to be a whiny attention whore just to get daddy to pay attention to her, ergo the whole claim of your cat attacking her.
File a complaint with your law officers now. Don't wait until it's too late. Take pictures and record what you can, especially of the bat.
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