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Shawn McClung © 2006
This whole week (and part of last) I have been progamming Wireless Access Points for a large grocery distribution center in Bellevue. Actually, last week I was in Spokane. Anyway, here in Bellevue they put me up in one of their meeting rooms so I could spread out and do my job. Quite nice of them. This room had a TV in one of the corners, and seeing as I had 130 units to program and each one took over 6 minutes. I had a lot of free time on my hands. In small 5 minute chunks. So I watched a lot of TV. However, the system they have only allows local channels and national news networks. So i watched a lot of boring TV.
Today though, I watched something out of the normal. For the last 2 days I stayed mostly with MSNBC and heard the name "Condit" more times then I ever needed to hear in my life. So today i turned to some channel called Tech TV. I should have done this days ago. This channel was pretty sad to say the best. It was a bunch of younger (I'd say mid 20's) people talking about new technology. The thing that really got me though, was some segment where they took calls from around the country live on their show. One guy from Maine called in to ask if he should have the little switch on his power supply set to "115 or 230." Ummm, people this retarded shouldn't own a fucking computer. He later went on to say as he was "messing with his computer" (why??) he had it on his lap and was turning it over when he heard something inside moving around. His question was, should he turn the computer on or take it in somewhere to get service. Easy enough question to answer I thought. Oh how wrong I was. The idiot on the show told the guy not to turn his computer on, then asked the guy if he had a digital camera. Mr. Maine confirmed. Idiot show boy then asked the guy to carefully open up his computer, take a picture of the inside, and then email the picture to him at idiotboy@techtv.com. My jaw dropped.
Didn't he just tell Mr. Maine not to turn his computer on? Mr. Maine sat there for a minute. You could actually HEAR him thinking it through. He finally uttered, "um, but I can't turn my computer on." Idiot Boy stood there for a second, then quipped out, "so, don't you have 2 computers like everyone else?"
I turned the channel at this point. The really sad thing, Idiot Boy most likely makes a hell of a lot more money then I do.
posted 8/29/2001 05:58:36 PM -
I'm trying to remember the name of the band that did a pretty funny song that made fun of goth music and the Sisters of Mercy. All I can really remember about it is they chanted "black" and "death" a lot in it.
Anyone remember the name of the song or the artist? email me.
posted 8/21/2001 09:19:20 PM -
It's not a very beautiful day in the neighborhood. (link via BrainDan)
I remember when I was in High School I started a campain to get the show's theme song to be our class song. I thought that would have rocked. I think I even got 2 or 3 other people to vote for it. As it turned out "we" elected that god-damn "don't you (forget about me)" song from the Breakfast Club. I went to high school with a bunch of sappy jerks.
posted 8/21/2001 08:27:16 PM -
Note to overly sensitive readheads: The post below was in no way intended to offend, disgust, cause loathing, sicken, repel, revolt, or in any way piss off readheads.
However, I don't ever really care if what I write on my personal weblog offends the sensitive ears of the internet masses.
Regardless, this whole thing has reminded me of a story. When I was in 4th grade, a new girl started in our school in the middle of the year. She had very long, very curly, and very red hair. The kids, of course, decided she had cooties. Because that is the way kids are. One day in class I got paired up with her for some reading thing. I found out she was really nice. So we became friends. In fact, I was her only friend. So then I got pegged with the cooties too. I even got into a fight (the only physical fight I have ever been in) over some kids pestering her about her cootie problem. I won when the other boy (ironicly his name was Sean "bacon and bits" Bacon) suffered from a bloody nose. His blood was all over the snow in the back of the school yard. They didn't pester her about cooties anymore.
posted 8/19/2001 03:38:11 PM -
Be OS, the red headed stepchild of the OS world just sold to Palm for $11 Million.
That sounds impressive until you realize Be has an outstanding debt of well over $60 Million. Either way you look at it, the Handheld market just got the most underused OS on the market. What they plan to do with it is anybody's guess. I tried to use Be once when they released it free for personal use. It was a very stunning and well made OS. The only problem was the total lack of applications with any kind of standard. At the time you couldn't use Microsoft Office on it. You couldn't run about 99% of the games on the market on it. But damn it was a fast OS.
posted 8/19/2001 01:32:58 PM -
I never link Stile. Ever. Until now. (read on, note that the link to Stile's retarded site does contain pr0n ads)
So I guess the drama goes like this. Salon contacted a few "web cam girls" for an article they were going to run. These girls sent in some answers to questions and Salon cut them all up to create Candy from strangers. A few of the site owners who were mentioned in the article are pretty pissed of, and the rest are quite happy at the site traffic Salon is ushering to them.
Now what I don't get is where the fuck Stile gets involved in this? From the look on your faces, neither do you. (Ha! I can't see your faces!) Yet he wrote a very long and "colorful" page in response to the article [Warning: Stile Link]. He takes credit for cam portals. I mean, exactly how full of yourself do you have to be to take credit for something that general? Al Gore anyone? Stile for president? Fuck that. Then he goes as far as to belittle the comments of the "cam girls" who were quoted by saying they used to show much more on their cam when they were in HIS cam portal. Even Howard Stern has standards.
Stile, give it up. You are no more then a porn pusher who has a very dim view of women. You make fun of mental and physical retardation, and you actually expect anyone to view you as a staple of ANY internet community? I'll bet almost anything that the answer to that question would be "well, look at the traffic my site gets, someone must like it." Yes, I'm sure lots of people read your site. And I have about as much respect for them as I do you.
posted 8/14/2001 03:14:36 PM -
The weather here has been really odd lately. So far this week it has been really cold (so cold you can see your breath) and foggy up till around noon or so. After that it gets up to around 85 degrees. I hate hot.
In other news, I finally got my new PC Chassis yesterday. I am no longer using a shitty AMD CPU. That processor was the reason to my lockup problems. I am back on an Intel and life is good. Not to mention a whole lot faster too.
posted 8/14/2001 11:56:27 AM -
It looks like the Blogger API project is coming along really well. Maybe someday soon we will be able to update Blogger powered sites from a desktop installed application rather then through a web server. I know AOL(ivejournal) allows its users to do that now. In my opinion that would make Blogger even better.
posted 8/14/2001 10:22:11 AM -
Fun with blogger's fresh blogs list:
Jilson is a 16 year old teenager who is currently studying in Pioneer Junior College. Or maybe he is a l33t haxx0r who has no spelling skills even though he "attends junior college."
Pillow Talk Blog wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be from the title. Still, kind of a cool idea.
Cherry Whore, we have this disclaimer because we are 16 and don't want to get sued. Above all, the requirements to view the site include the normal items (IE4+, CSS, Java, etc) and respect for them, the domain, and mary jane. Drug users are so fucking pathetic.
(I was going to only link sites that had the template the first two had, but could not find a third. Just so YOU know.)
posted 8/13/2001 08:10:02 AM -
I (finally) posted the pictures of the wedding. They can be found by clicking on the latest pictures in the middle bar over there.
Looks like Jish will be in town again this weekend. And he wants to play. Yay, things to do!
posted 8/08/2001 05:29:42 PM -
I think for lunch today I am going to get some food and eat it at the public boat launch park on the east side of west seattle. There is a great view of the Seattle skyline from there. Not to mention right now is SeaFaire here. There are a ton of military ships in the harbor. Everything from small boats to a massivly large aircraft carrier that makes the largest of comercial ships look like small speedboats. They have all of the aircraft out on deck, and from what I am told, the general public can actually take a tour of the ship while it is in dock. One of the cable techs I work with tells me that he watched it come in. It took almost 10 tug boats to push it up against the dock. From what he says, they have to turn their engines off before they get near the city because they are nuclear powered. I don't know if I quite believe it would be dangerous to the city but not the crew, though.
posted 8/03/2001 10:45:42 AM -
I have almost no tolerance for stupid shit.
Let me tell you a story. It is filled with lies and deceit. And it all takes place in a small office I like to call my place of employment... (fade out)
Yesterday, after I got back from lunch, there was a large box waiting for me in front of my desk. Printed on the outside of the box was the image of a computer chair. Finally, I thought, I no longer have to sit in an uncomfortable 1974 style conference chair! I was quick to assemble my new chair so that I could start enjoying it right away. Not soon after I had finished I was asked to follow a co-worked into downtown Seattle to drop off a rental car and bring him back to the office. So off we went.
As soon as I got back, I was greeted with a depressing sight. My chair was gone! However, in its place stood another box. Same printing on the outside, and it was heavy enough to hold another chair. At first I questioned my sanity. Had I actually assembled the chair? Was this some sick joke? The latter proved to be true. I soon learned that 2 chairs were purchased, one for me, and one for another unfortunate worker stuck in an old chair. So I went exploring, and I found what I expected to find. My assembled chair was now under the ass of my co-worker!
"That's messed up!" I exclaimed.
Much giggling commenced. I questioned the motive behind this discovery and found that our receptionist was behind the crime. I went back to my desk, my day ruined.
That brings us to today. When I got into the office this morning, I had an interesting email waiting for me to read. It was one of those web greeting cards. I don�t know how long it will remain active, but here is the link to it: Here. I generated a very vulgar email in responce. Whoever owns that AOL account is going to have a nice letter waiting for them after they get home today.
The morning wore away and lunch time came around. After I got back from lunch, the second box (filled with the second chair remember) was now gone as well. I was too busy to deal with it though. A little bit later I had to print a large document on the printer near the receptionist. As I passed by to get my print I noticed that our receptionist was now seated in my new chair. Another day ruined.
I have waited all day for my chair (either one) to reappear at my desk. Apparently that is not going to happen. It seems the chair was never meant for me in the first place. It was all a big ruse to get me to put both of the chairs together for the people they were actually intended for.
So now it is fucking war. I will no longer be anything more then polite to any of the people involved. Next time one of their computers at home breaks, they better look fucking elsewhere for someone to help them fix it. I will no longer engage in idle chat, nor will I inquire about even the smallest bits of their outside lives. If I get asked a question that is anything other then work related, I will shrug and find a way to all but tell them to piss off.
Because I have almost no tolerance for stupid shit.
posted 8/02/2001 04:46:55 PM -