Chuck Norris Facts

February 2nd, 2010

I haven’t posted anything for awhile. I LOVE Chuck Norris facts, and was laughing hard in the office today when I found there is actually a book on Amazon. I added it to my wish list, LOL!

And then, I realized a few new facts. Not sure if this has been pointed out by anyone else before:

“G.I. Joe collects Chuck Norris action figures.”

“Gravity is not what drags you to the ground, Chuck Norris drags you down to the ground.”

“A picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of Chuck Norris is worth a thousand kicks to the groin.”

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To all the Windows Mobile Fanboys

October 17th, 2009

This is a confession of sorts. Set me in that little booth with the priest for a moment and let me spill my guts.

I used to be an Apple hater…

I spent hours upon hours over the past two or three years fussing with two separate Windows Mobile phones. My first foray was with the $400 (at the time) HTC Tilt and then when I was pissed off enough and I thought, “maybe it’s just this crappy phone, I spent another $400 for an HTC Fuze.

Sure, I was theoretically able to do some cool things, like manage my Windows Home Server from my phone (when I could get it to work), and then I sure enjoyed the hours of research trying to figure out how to set my phone up as a Sideshow Gadget (which never worked btw). But what I really enjoyed (sarcasm) was the fact that the stupid piece of shit could barely place a fucking phone call. Yes… these are supposed to be cell phones after all, yet you would think that my $400 hunk of junk had a sense of humor by playing “April Fool’s” with me 365 days a year by displaying a phone keypad and then laughing at me as tried to do something basic like dial a freaking local number.

Well, the real “last straw” is the fact that Microsoft could give a shit less about any customer requests. I had followed this thread for over a year regarding syncing Windows Live Calendar with a Windows Mobile device. That post on 10/10/2009 is from me. And there are multiple threads like this all over the internet. Seriously guys… SYNCING A FUCKING CALENDAR TAKES TECHNOLOGY FROM ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO!!!

So, I got frusted one day as I missed yet another meeting because I “forgot” and would have loved some reminder from the $400 laughing skull in my pocket and decided to buy an iPhone and just give it a whirl. I would have spent the full $700 but my contract with AT&T was up and so I got a 32GB iPhone 3Gs with a few hundred dollars off.

I wish I had the time to do a full review, though frankly there are a ton of them already on the internet. So let me cut to the chase. Within minutes, I had a working phone (yes, my first concern was a FUCKING phone that could actually dial and recieve PHONE CALLS!) that also synced all my contacts, mail, calendar with a Google account (ironlically through MICROSOFT Exchange…). I was downloading free apps left and right, syncing Podcasts, and generally having fun using my new toy, yet revelling in the fact that I finally have a useful gadget to help me do business.

Next thing I’m doing, putting up my old phones AND my fussy Zune (a whole ‘nother story) on Ebay… should I say “sorry” to the poor chap who bids on these?

So, the moral of the story: I think I’ve learned a very important lesson. I’m not going to say that I’m exclusively buying Apple stuff from here on (at this time, I am still a happy “Windows” user in general), but I’m not going to be a Microsoft fanboy any longer. If there is a competing product that seems to be doing well, I’m going to check it out, and I suggest you do the same. I think you’ll be happier in the end.

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I was anti-Obama before it was cool.

October 17th, 2009

Found this, supposed to be a “bumber sticker”. It states my sentiments, exactly, LOL!

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More Big Brother, You Think I’m Kidding, Don’t You…

August 6th, 2009

Apparently the White House is accumulating an “Enemie’s List” against their over-reaching health care reform agenda. I found this through the Drudge Report, and is reported through the Dallas News, but you can find the request on the White House blog here.

But, in case they take it down, here is a copy/paste and the original screen shot:

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM

Facts Are Stubborn Things

Posted by Macon Phillips

Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, “facts are stubborn things.”

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Big Brother

August 5th, 2009

Barrack Hussein Obama (AKA Barry Soetoro). The Socialist clown:

Barrack Hussein Obama (AKA Barry Soetoro), the socialist clown of the USA

Barrack Hussein Obama (AKA Barry Soetoro), the socialist clown of the USA

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Mountain Dew Game Fuel is Back!!! FOR THE HORDE!!!

July 20th, 2009

First of all, check out my prior post regarding making the Mountain Dew Game Fuel Float. I assure you, this is still a tasty treat :)

So, here’s the deal this time. Recall that the original Game Fuel was a limited edition flavor in promotion for Halo 3. Well, now, in promotion of the upcoming Blizzcon, the promotion is now for World of Warcraft. Specifically, the original Cherry flavor (red) has a label with the prototypical Horde Orc, and then they have a Raspberry (blue) version with the usual Alliance Night Elf. Take a guess which color I’m stock piling…. FOR THE HORDE!!!

OK, so the other cool thing, please click on my or my brother’s links below to sign up for the phat lootz that Mt Dew and Blizzard are passing out. If you are familiar with the “dailies” in WoW, you’ll know the drill…

Mountain Dew Game Fuel Horde Banner

Mountain Dew Game Fuel Horde Banner

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More AT&T Billing Fiasco

June 12th, 2009

So, I changed my billing structure last month with AT&T for our cell phones. Apparently the chick at the store said that we could get unlimited Text and Data for $10 per line (we were previously paying something similar but for only 200 texts/month and so were paying for another 100 texts or so per month when going over).

Long story short. I notice that I was charged $215.64 last month for “Data”. The data amount was consistent with just checking eMail, so I know it wasn’t excessive web usage or anything like that. I called (thank God, this time I didn’t wait long on the phone), and found out that basically it was “never set up” the way that I was told it would be done. Apparently due to something about one phone on the plan not being “compatible” with the $10/mo plan and requiring a $30/mo plan. I sure wish the employees at the AT&T store had been properly trained to know something as simple as this… would have saved me 30 minutes of my time, some frustration, and further hate being spewed regarding AT&T.

In the end, this got corrected, but my wife had just paid the bill without noticing the overcharge. Our Wireless/Internet/etc. bills are large and it’s actually easy to miss $200 here and there. It makes me wonder how much money AT&T is sucking away from people from stupid mistakes like this.

I am seriously thinking of breaking our contracts early and eating the $300 fee…

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The Hate for AT&T Continues… Let’s Count the Ways They’ve Screwed up.

March 5th, 2009

Things that AT&T have screwed up, just over the last 2 months. Keep in mind, every one of these issues involved 20 to 120 minutes on the phone with their customer service, dealing with crappilyy designed voice prompts, multiple transfers, etc.

  1. I cancelled AT&T Uverse on January 23rd and moved to an area where AT&T Uverse is not available, they sent me the RMA kit to return the equipment, which I did, but yet they have still billed me for February and March for a service that does not even exist at my current location. It was funny how the person on the phone said, “but I see you are getting service at …blah … location”, and I said, “but Uverse does not exist at that location”… I’m still waiting on a the “manager” to correct this case.
  2. I tried to cancel AT&T bobile broadband since I don’t need it anymore after a job change, but I was still on a contract. Fine. I lowered the data rate to save money for 2 months with the plan to cancel. Guess what, they retro-actively billed me for like 15 GB of data on the lowest data rate plan and billed me for $6,702.36. This was fixed, but only after a week of calls to check up on it.
  3. I originally ordered AT&T DSL at my new location (believe me, I had no choice, it was this or dial up). They set me up with the 1.5 mb/s data rate even though I ordered the 6 mb/s data rate. This took one month to resolve and was unable to stream movies from NetFlix which I do often.
  4. Related to the new order of AT&T DSL, I ordered the WiFi modem which supposedly is reimbursed. I got a regular DSL modem; spent a few hours on the phone to get the modem I originally ordered; was supposed to get a box to send back the first modem but have not and now I have a bill for $250 for both of these modems and I’m told I somehow don’t qualify for the rebates any longer… I hung up when at least trying to get the stupid RMA box sent to me – after being on the phone for 30 minutes while at work with patients waiting in the office hearing me yell at the AT&T rep about them wasting my time.
  5. Again related to the AT&T DSL at our new home. This was supposed to be turned on February 1st. But the dumb fuck on the phone activated it the day that I placed the order (mid-december) so we had to pay 1 1/2 months of bills for a service we did not use..
  6. Every time I call AT&T the stupid fucking bitch on the voice prompts wants a phone number… but we don’t have a phone number because this is the 21st goddam century and we use cell phones… then I just scream at the phone and push digits on the keypad until I get to someone and then I’m on hold or transferred 3 times until I get some jackass who “might” know what they’re doing. Every once in awhile I get someone nice. Why in the world are the jackasses still employed? I wish I could tell someone the 2 or 3 nice helpful people so those guys/girls can get a fat raise… I do thank those couple people.

 

There’s 3 or 4 more issues, but have to get back to work… not that I haven’t wasted about 40 hours of my life with fucking AT&T anyway. I should send them a bill, I wonder if I can bill Medicare (or whatever their corporate health insurance is) for my time.

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AT&T FUCKING SUCKS !!!

January 7th, 2009

Oh let me count the number of times I wish I could just slit my wrists after having spent 2 hours yesterday and another hour today just trying to talk to AT&T.

Yesterday, I disconnected AT&T Uverse from a residence in Texas and then tried to confirm if service would be available in Pesacola, Florida. Those two seemingly simple tasks took an hour each of mostly waiting on hold and required two separate phone calls (because, of course, some jackass in a cubicle in Texas could not possibly be cross-trained to do anything for services in Florida…)

After much investigation for alternatives of internet service in the Pensacola area, it is obvious that this town is still behind the curve technologically and the only real choice is DSL vs. Cable. And, since the Cable companies in that area also seem to be offering circa 1990 level of technology, I will be using DirecTV. I am unlikely to get a landlord to allow me to fully install another cable outlet (holes in the wall, etc.), so it looks like DSL is the only choice. You can imagine my joy when I see that Bellsouth (aka AT&T) is the only provider.

So, I tried to sign up online for DSL only (no phone required), but that did not work and so I just wasted another hour of my life with a goddam phone to my ear blaring horrible elevator music just to set up a shitty DSL service (a “yawn” 6 mbps down and a very disappointing 512 kbps up).

Oh, and the kicker: They are forcing me to take their piece of junk DSL router, which costs $75. Apparently, there is a rebate, but I went to their website and I am told that there is no rebate available. Well, the upside ot this is that I won’t be anxiously waiting by the mailbox for said rebate…

Please never let me meet the CEO of AT&T in a dark alley…

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A Workaround to View DVD Movies in Windows Media Center on the Xbox 360 using Windows Home Server and the My Movies Add-in

November 12th, 2008

The basics of my current setup:

  1. Xbox 360 Elite with the latest updates from MS Live (as of 11 November 2008)
  2. Windows Media Center (WMC) on this Xbox was setup through a Notebook PC running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 along with Windows Media Player 11 (WMP)
  3. After setting up WMC, the Xbox was then set up to view shared media from a Windows Home Server (WHS) on an HP EX475 [see my guide on how to do this here]
  4. My Movies for WHS (v2.49) is installed on the WHS. The x86 client (v2.49) is also installed on the notebook PC for easier metadata editing. I think settings in the WHS Home Server Console are basically the default settings (ie just set up to watch my /Videos share)
  5. I have setup “//SERVER/Videos/Movies” where I have individual folders for each DVD in my collection, within which I have the ISO for the DVD. This works fine on WMC on the PC’s in my house, but this will not work with the Xbox (and apparently with any other extender), thus the following steps have helped me get around this

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