This past week I passed the CompTIA 220-601 and 220-602 exams and became A+ certified. Not the most impressive of certifications that are out there, but it gets me a raise. Plus it is one of the few positive steps I’ve taken in my life in a long time. So I’ll take what I can get and call it success. Now on to Network+. There’s no rest for the wicked.
So I called my old cell phone provider to cancel my service. Like you do when you get an iPhone. He keeps trying to retain me. Like you do when retention is your job. Other than the iPhone one of the reasons I gave was due to the fact that since I’ve moved to Columbus I’ve had alot of random calls drops, voicemails with no calls, and so forth. General connectivity oddities(Say that three times fast.) He went on and on about how they’re always working on improving the coverage and how I hadn’t called before about it. I said it wasn’t a huge deal, but can get frustrating when calls just randomly drop. He said he understood, and by this point I had played the game and let him attempt to retain. So he said he set my account to cancel at the end of the billing cycle, which is in a couple of weeks, and was reading through the disclaimers and things he is required to say when guess what happened.
The call dropped. Heyo! It’s like I’m some sort of smarty pants sub-genuis type. Now to call them back and make sure it canceled. Oh, no. He canceled it right then, that’s why it dropped. Good customer service?
So I got my iPhone last night. Fucking awesome! I am in love with thing. Blogging from my phone is pretty sweet. Oh yeah!
http://www.nosocialism.com/2008/07/nasa-backtracks-on-1998-warmest-year.html
Watch the video at the bottom from the BBC. It’s good.
Oops. Did I just pwn my sticky goo of justice all over global warming? Better put it to good use hippies, I hear my sticky goo of justice is full of protein. Maybe it’ll put some hair on the chest too.
Honestly, what have we done about global warming so far? Other than just alot of rable rable?
Oh, we spent a ton of money turning corn into an ineffecient fuel that no one uses. Now people outside of Somalia are starving. Even I’m loosing weight.
We’ve ensured the growing populations of polar bears will continue to grow till they overthrow us(All hail our new polar bear overlords!) Didn’t Colbert teach you hippies anything? Oh thats right, you watch Stewart.
We made some more solar, electic, and hybrid cars, none of which anyone can afford, and none of which a large number of people buy. I’m guessing that’s cause gas is so expensive. Hey-Oh!
Here’s what we should do. Just declare war on global warming. With the war on drugs and terror, we’ll have a trifecta of wars. Like a trilogy. Everything is better in trilogies. The three wars of fuck! We could get t-shirts and coffee mugs, all we need for enough people to buy the stuff and then I can retire to the lovely new beachfronts of Greenland. Maybe take a trip on a sub to visit Miami. Hooray!
Haha. Sticky goo of justice. Sometimes I kill myself. And kittens.
I hate talking politics. Well honestly, no I do like talking politics, its just that no one else does. People like their views and aren’t going to change them due to having to admit they were wrong in the first place. Especially when alchohol is added to the mix, people become really…..wow. I’d link to a clip of South Park’s “Rable Rable” but that just seems to cliche.
Anyways none of this has a point. You know that. I know you know, I know you know, I know you know…..right. The actual reason for starting to write was the fact that I’ve noticed over the last year or so, my political views shifting towards the right. Not the scary right, I’m just moving a little farther away from the scary left. And the hippies.
I’d like to just point out that hippy hating has been medically proven to remove heart conditions. It is seriously such a great way to get heathy. Just go out to a park, find some hippies doing their hippy thing and yell at em for a while. You’ll be amazed at how great it makes you feel. I’m super cereal.
It isn’t that I now agree with Republicans or no longer agree with Democrats. I don’t. It’s that choosing a side is pointless. I’m not saying because “they screw me over equally.” I say it because I don’t care. None of it has any relevance to my life. This isn’t Glenn Beck talking, I don’t listen to Beck because he’s right. It’s cause he’s fucking hilarious.
There’s no need to debate global warming. Know why? Cause in 50 and 100 years the planet will be hotter colder. You’re children will be just fine. Their children will be just fine. They’ll all be fine, you will have provided them with a world they can live in. Polar bear be dammed, I promise you they’ll be fine. The idea of providing them a perfect world to live in is illogical at best anyways. Of course there will be problems in their world, maybe the same ones we have, maybe new ones. I have no fucking clue, and anyone that pretends to have a clue is a jackass. What’s important is that you raised your children smart enough to know which problems to worry about, and how to solve those problems. Right? Right?
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Oh yeah, go hate on some hippies. Moral of the story is, if you hate on a hippie, goose kills a kitten. And that is always a good policy.
Isn’t it interesting how nothing at all can destroy that scrap of confidence you’ve been trying to build your whole life? Heh. Guess I’m having one of my days. One could find the positive since it has been many years since having one of my days. My days aren’t about the positive though.
And yet this one is just a little different. Should that be the positive taken from it? I’m not sure. It’s interesting, usually one large thing can happen which makes me need a day. But today, instead we have many tiny things, unconnected things, converging from different aspects of my life causing today. I’m smiling. Not the cynical smile I try desperately to hide. Not the fake smile you all know so well. A genuine smile. This is different than I’m use to. Is this the positive move I’ve needed to happen for so long now? I think it is. So I raise my glass (My last 90 Minute IPA if you’re interested) and ask you to do the same.
Cheers and Hooray!
So I’m starting to finally feel more at home. I have a store that sells beer. The people in the store know beer as well. That makes me feel good. I can pick up some Ruination or some 90-Minute, and they nod their heads in agreement to the awesomeness that is beer. Now I just need a bar with some taps of substance and I’ll be a fish in water.
One of the loves of my life is music. I love to have it wherever I am. Along came the mp3 player and it made it so much easier. Smaller, easier to use, and you didn’t have to carry around a bulky pack of cds. The only problem is taking my whole collection with me. Sure most of the time a 4GB ipod nano will be fine, but what if you want access to your whole collection? An 80GB ipod might sound like the solution, but no, that won’t hold my whole collection. Now will I ever really need more than 80GB of music at any one time? Probably not. But I can remember the days when a computer would never need more than 16mb of ram.
So what I’ve done is set up Jinzora on this pc to stream my music to me. I can access it from any computer with an internet connection, and it’s my whole collection. Works like a bloody charm. I was originally worried about the quality but it’s top notch. I finally got a chance to check it out off of my own network and on a different connection. Very happy.
Next project, converting the desktop from Windows to Linux. Hopefully I can tackle that in the next few weeks or so.
Whew this week has been brutal so far. At least I’ve been able to spend the morning relaxing while listening to some music. The Slip if you are interested. Check it out, it’s free and worth a listen. Just bought the Ghosts I-IV from them. I know the album was suppose to be “Pay how much you feel” type of a thing. But I paid for the download without checking it out. I don’t know if the music is good, but I like the business model, and where NiN is going with it. It is a sad state of affairs when I’m looking for music based on the business model. I will say I think they’re on to something. They don’t need record companies anymore, all they need are tubes connected to the neterwebs.
I’m not getting on a soap box right now. I’m feeling relaxed and happy. Time to grab some lunch and head out to buy some Ruination.
Hooray!
If I go to a bar and sip beer while watching drunk younger ladies play volleyball, what does that make me? Does it make me a creepy old man? Or does it make me this guy?
I say it makes me awesome!
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