Rants

1) What is it with people at the post office? Why can’t they show up prepared? For fucks sake, they wait in line for 15 minutes and then walk up to the counter and start asking about mailing things overnight. They get handed a form to fill out and then waste even more time. Why don’t people have their shit together? Look, I can understand if you are buying a money order and once you get it you put into the preaddressed envelope, lick it shut and mail it right there. But what is up with people showing up with a children’s toy and walking up to the counter looking for a box, tape, and scissors? And then the check writing. Who the hell writes checks at a store these days? Every bank in the country offers debit cards, yet I always see some numbskull writing a check eating up time from my life. Killing me in little bits as Henry Rollins would say.

2) Congress is trying to pass a law to force local libraries to install censorware on all their computers. I thought the uptight Republicans believed in ‘local control’. Shouldn’t it be up to my town to decide how we want to run our library? God damn election year politics is what it is! Fire them all. 435 chipmunks would do a better job than our current contribution sucking congress.

3) Peter Hamilton – This guy writes a good story, but he’s dragging me into the 4th book of the series and still hasn’t resolved anything. I get thought Reality Dysfunction: Emergence and Expansion and Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation and still clean up to the bazillion plot threads going on. I need to order Conflict and be done with this series. Geez, I can’t imagine what it would have been like to read the first book and then wait a couple years to read the next one. Fucking authors…

Damn Sysadmins

The people that host Cruft decided to reconfigure their server to disallow letting a CHMOD 777 cgi execute. I can under stand the security reason for this, but how about a little email stating the policy change.

Monday stuff

First, go buy my crap.

Second, with sixteen data points (Dots boxes) I have the new averages for the flavor distibution. Not surprisingly, Cherry still leads.

Cherry: 5.81
Lemon: 3.38
Lime: 2.94
Orange: 2.81
Strawberry: 3.00

My alphabetical theory seems to fail since Strawberry is the #3 flavor. After a few more data points, I’ll be ready to send my findings to Tootsie Roll for some answers.

Mindless Link Propagation

OK, people are telling me to post on Cruft. We’ll here you go, this will keep you busy.

As always, visit Lucas at dioxidized.com, he’s usually bored and needs you to excite him with hits on his page.

Round IDE cables, very l33t, read here.
Neat designer items, read here.
Shuttle launch in two days, for more info, read here.
For cool haxxor wearables, read here.
For all kinds of crude pictures, read here.
For more mindless link propagation, read here.
For good quotes, read here.

In other news, I had sushi last night. That’s my second time of eating sushi for those of you that are counting. I watched some guy on a date try to be macho and eat a bunch of wasabe. He almost blew his tounge out his nose he was coughing so hard.

I’m selling bunch more of my old junk on ebay. Slower than a garage sale, but it builds up my PayPal account. There are also some domain names going for sale cheap on ebay here and here. People will try to sell anything…

Unclear on the concept

As some of you may know, I have a page with Dr. Pepper Imposters. It is just a few photos of cans I have collected. Today I received this email:

I am writing to say that Dr. Thunder is the best soda ever, even better than Dr. Pepper. My friend Keith Gilliam would like to be the next spokesmodel for the drink, and if you could help us out in any way possible it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The Biggest Dr. Thunder Fan Around

Now did I mention that I worked for Dr. Thunder or that I was a casting agent for them anywhere? Folks, am I missing something?

I replied:

I’m sorry, but I have no connection to Dr. Thunder. I am but a humble webpage maker with a picture of Dr. Thunder. Good luck to Keith on his spokesmodel career. I know he will do great.

Heaven help America.

BTW, the pencil sharpener is up to $2.75, go bid more, there’s less then 30 days until I need $300 for a new Playstation 2!

I wonder if this tag still works?

I dug a grave last night

My children had two fish. Peanut Butter & Pom Pom. I was never really sure which fish was Peanut Butter and which fish was Pom Pom, one was orange and another was black. The orange one, I’ll call him Pom Pom, hadn’t been looking to good lately. Droopy fins and what not. I had chalked it up to the long trip we took, when I placed the long term food cube in the tank and left the light on for 10 days.

Last night, while the children were taking a bath, Michele took me in to see Pom Pom. Pom Pom had no balance or orientation. He couldn’t stay horizontal and keep bumping into things. He would swim a bit, then float toward the surface, then swim a little more. I’m no expert, but I could tell Pom Pom would soon shuffle of his mortal coil.

Rather than letting my children find a fish floating in the tank come the morning, I had to take action. My wife is not good with these things and left to wash the kids. I got a net and bowl and took Pom Pom from the fish tank. I expected him to quickly die by the time the I got outtside to dig a grave. I dug a shallow grave and looked in on Pom Pom. Mouth still gasping. I watched him for a minute, thinking happy thoughts to ease him out of this life. He didn’t die. I decided not to bury him alive or let him linger on. I killed the little fish to end the ordeal. I thanked him again for being a good pet and making my children happy. I buried Pom Pom so he could return to the earth and feed the trees in our backyard.

Sometime soon, the girls will realize there is only one fish in the tank. I guess I should tell them Pom Pom died, but it would be easier to tell them that he went for a long trip. Being a parent isn’t all diaper changing and mess cleanup.