I don’t mean for every log entry I post to be loaded with bile, I just find it easier to write when I’m pissed. So let me describe the source of my frustration. Picture, if you will, a room full of right-wing Republican Christians. Now picture me, also sitting in the room.
(If you want to make it funny, picture the ‘Bull in a china shop’ bit from Family Guy.)
That’s what it’s like spending the day with my family. I walk around on eggshells the whole time, not wanting to say anything or expose myself in any way for fear that I’ll be outed as the black sheep that I am. For as depressing as spending the whole day with my family is, the more depressing fact is that my family is really all I’ve got left.
Continue reading “You can choose your friends”
I’m going home, and so it’s gonna snow. Wow, never would’ve seen that one coming. Now I really want to leave Friday. In fact, I *really* want to leave Friday. Oh well, that ain’t gonna happen. Fucking fuckity fuck, I hate Moscow.
No matter what I do, I always seem to be letting people down. People expect me to go to college and kick its ass simply because I’m ’smart.’ This wonderfully intangible ’smart’ quality doesn’t seem to be visible to my math professsors, because they tell me I’m ’stupid’ - an equally intangible quality that serves no purpose other to confuse.
So meanwhile, I’m letting my folks down, my friends down, random people I know that work at Costco down, and I can’t seem to do anything right. No matter what I say or do, it’s wrong and I should be doing it a different way. Dammit, I think I’m going to get a job delivering mail. At least then everybody should expect me to do everything wrong.
Much like the dog who’s beaten often enough they expect beating, I usually find myself dreading going to sleep these days, for fear that my neighbors will be Partying Hard and I will be unable to get any rest. Or maybe that weird waterpipe rumble will come back. Either way my sleep success rate has been so low here I pretty much expect to not be able to get to sleep.
And, like the gambler who expects the worst, I even think that writing about it might jinx me. What if one of my neighbors decides to turn on their stereo because I was writing about how quiet it is? What if as soon as my head hits the pillow the idiots above and behind us decide to watch a movie at 135db?
Needless to say, I’m really looking forward to being home. It’s not going to make my life any simpler; indeed, things are gonna get pretty weird once I get back. But at least I’ll be in my home, in my own bed. I sure am going to miss all the people from Moscow though.
In response to this latest freshly squeezed pile of fetid elephant shit crapped out by the monolith that is ZDNet, I posted this on their forum.
Lance, I’d just like to say that as a (former) PC Magazine subscriber, articles like yours are the reason I dropped the subscription about four years ago. It’s pretty obvious that the quality of journalism is going down at PC Mag when an article like this even manages to make it to the web site.
Continue reading “More proof that the ‘expert’ community is getting progressively dumber”
http://216.180.233.153/~swidotcom/support_letter.php
Since when did the “Security Community” get so goddamn stupid???
Let’s analyze a few of their “intelligent remarks,” shall we?
“A spyware-infected computer is not a problem for the ISP. This is a problem for the company that sold the customer an agreement for technical support along with their PC.”
Well, they’re half right. It’s not an ISP problem, nor is it a computer manufacturer’s problem. Back when I was doing computer service, ’stupid shit’ like viruses and spyware was specifically NOT covered; it was an optional service/fee.
Also, what they’re not bothering to tell you is that Dell techs have to help you reinstall your OS if you call up and tell them that your machine is acting really odd and you would like to try reinstalling your OS to see if it fixes the problem. Onward:
Continue reading “This is goddamn tard-o-matic bullshit from hell”
So I got my new G4, and it’s really awesome. And I found a kick-ass buyer for my iBook, and that’s really awesome. And, my CS professor approved my proposal for my next CS project. And that’s really awesome. So I probably won’t be posting here much for the next couple of weeks, since I am going to be living and breathing computer science. Don’t fret though, we will be having a New Year’s LAN thanks to MasterBeta, if you want to be kept informed please contact me via the usual channels and I will keep you informed.
