iSucks

*this is from my friend Adam*



There are a lot of things that suck. When asked to write about something that sucks I was torn. You have SCA the group, Ska the music type, Furries, Hentia, scat play, scat music, water sports(sex), water sports(water polo), cults, people in general, and of course vacuums(hover and Space), all these things and many more suck.

I decided I would go with i sucks. Not I, but i as in iBook made by the Apple Corporation, not to be confused with the Umbrella Corporation, makers of the finest Zombies this side of Romero. So I connect my iPod, through my iCable to my iMac, so I can iDownload from iTunes, while I write in iWorks, waiting for iMovie to finish compressing, so I can burn with iDVD, or maybe put it all together in iLife. iThis, iThat, I can't stand it. This trend of iEverything is driving me mad. It was a neat iDea when they did it in '98 with the original iMac. All the peripherals (including some third party) were iSomething. Now it's gotten so bad, that they force iThings upon us with every ounce of there mighty iStrength. Now are they doing this in the hopes that i will catch on? Guess what, if after seven years it hasn't, it won't.

Is it perhaps just Apple's reflection of our ever growing self centric culture, where everything is about slefishness. I need this, I want that, our society has become damn selfish, even the Military is pushing it's Army of one campaign just to attract the average self serving, self centered, self masturbating, and most likely self loathing American. Is Apple going after the same demographic? Are they helping this greedy nation focus on what's important, the i? Are they feeding the gluttonous swine iPearls? Will we the people become me the people and will I buy iStuff till there is no more we, or us, and only me? I don't know. What I do know is I'm sick of seeing it. Sick of other companies jumping on board and fling i's around like like a drunk trucker flinging shit in the stall of a hillbilly food mart. i, i, i, I mean I, I, I am weary of needing to preface every fucking noun with the letter i, followed by the capital of whatever the word really is. Well I'm done, I gotta go take an iShit.

supervisors suck!

*this is from my roommate chris*



Strap on your seatbelts this really sucks! OK, weve all that experience when you call somewhere and you need to talk to the supervisor a.k.a. call center god. Each time I get to the supervisor, I usually know whether or not Im going to be bad cop or good cop.

Meet Mr. Bad Cop Long story short, I get this sweet nice call from a magazine telemarketer and mistake #1, I broke my own rules, never buy over the phone. Anyway I purchase because she broke it down to $2.40 a week thats right ladies and gentlemen a whopping two dollars and forty cents!! Who doesnt shit that amount and for my $2.40 a week I get 8 magazines any 8 I want I committed to the mandatory 5 yrs (cringe) billed monthly @ $24.99 and the last ten thousand months are free anyway that night I look into what it really costs and Im paying 2 times as much HOLY SHIT thats a lot for paper bound together thats going to get dirty wet spots from the bathroom.

You know it Ring ring I cancelled the next day!! Sce-whew! Case closed. WRONG!

I check my bank balance and sure enough- $24.99 Subscription Services Ca. was taken out of my balance As soon as I saw that I was fucking pissed, I grabbed the damn phone called the number and get a rep who cant do shit and hell have to transfer me to King Wise Ass (also known as the supervisor). Well the guy doesnt want to refund my money but will cancel the service from this point, WHY??? Well, Im glad ya asked because I single handedly cost the company money I made a financial commitment to them to receive these damn magazines, and they further made a commitment to the publisher like its my fault I cancelled the next day nice scam these guys have thing is they also didnt tell me when I first ordered that it was going to cost me my lifes savings and a small child.

So heres the best part, I tell him that Im going to dispute the $24.99 with Visa, he literally said Youve got to be kidding, I cant believe you, you would honestly dispute the amount with your credit card company, so what youre saying is that if I dont credit the amount youll call your credit card company, youre amazing. (And, well yea.. I am kinda amazing LOL anyway), he says in a last ditch effort can we charge you the amount and youll get 3 months of those magazines you did make and cost us money I said NO credit my card the $24.99. FINE SIR seeing that this is a life changing amount for you Ill refund the money so you can buy your ramen noodles to live just do me a favor and donate the magazines, yet Im sure youll sit there on your couch and keep them anyway Im so sorry to have changed your life by you making the commitment and then changing your mind, youre pathetic.

I havent quite decided how Im going to turn the table so in the mean time, Supervisors suck!

Guest Blog Writer,

Chris

movies suck

i just got out of flight of the phoenix. of course it sucked. a bunch of us went to see white noise but it was sold out. but my friends like to see a movie just to go to the theater. i think a lot of people are like that and hollywood knows. thats why they keep turning out such crap.

to sum up the movie a plane crashes in the desert and they rebuild it so they can all hang off the wing and then fly it off a cliff being chased by a bunch of nomads on horseback. who makes up this shit.

but it's not just flight of the flying turd. its most movies. i don't know why i keep going. and blockbusters are the worse. you know if it's a big summer movie it's going to be painful to sit through.

i used to like independent and foreign film. i've been to a lot of film fests. most of these suck now too. once people saw they could make money from indies they started panning to commercial interests. if your film has a bunch of big name actors and no one had to go into hock to make it, it's not independent. when you give a indie director some money they lose all artistic ability. take kevin smith. clerks rocked, everything else he did sucks. artists need limits. it forces them to be creative.

directv sucks

since i've been out of work you'd think i would be watching a lot of tv. but i'm not. i can't stand trying to find something worth watching. i just download the shows i want. but my roommate chris is a tvholic.

he recently switched from cable to satellite because he thought it would be a better deal. he was wrong. he was paying $125 for hidef digital cable and our 4mb cable modem. the first problem was they charged $10 more for the cable modem if you don't subscribe to digital cable. but he found we could get a 256kb connection for $25 a month. we tried it and it was fine. even when downloading files you don't notice a huge difference. instead of it taking 1 hour to download a tv show it takes 4. no big deal. plus we're already ahead $15.

so he calls directv cause a friend refers him. his friend got $50 which makes him the only one to get a deal. anyway they tell chris that they have a 3 room deal with tivo for free. sounds good. programing is $40 for the base lineup with local channels (why they charge you for local channels is beyond me) and $23 for hbo and showtime. plus they gave him the hbo and showtime free for the first six months. the savings now are $37/mo or $444/yr. not bad.

the first time the sat tech comes out he either doesn't knock or goes to the backdoor we don't have. anyway he finds the door bell on the second try. the guy was really cool and we talked about hacking the sat for free programming. as he was getting it hooked up he asked where the phone line was. we don't have one. both of us just use our cell phones. chris was told he only needed the phone line for pay per views. wrong. turns out you need it for the tivo as well. why you need it for tivo is beyond me since the sat already gets the program guide. this is the first big disappointment.

then once everything is done they have you call in to active your plan. when chris calls they tell him it going to be $40 plus $23 plus $15 for the boxes! the boxes they said where free actually cost $5 per each month. the free part was the hardware cost but they charge for the programming per box. needless to say chris was pissed. so now the total cost was $103 before the phone line and we had a slower modem and no hidef. i had an old voip box. so we ran a long ass coax cable from the office room where the modem normally is to the living room. we hooked up the modem and voip, it must not have been getting a great signal cause it took several times to connect to download the tivo updates or some shit. plus it has to test the line every fucking time it does anything. so after almost an hour its finally done.

chris is excited to try tivo for the first time. he goes to the tivo menu but no dice. it says he has to call to activate the service. what the fuck. so he calls and the first person says its done and to wait a few minutes and it should work. it doesn't. chris calls back and is told that it's an additional $5/mo for tivo! fuck them. its like they want to nickle and dime you to a slow death. to recap it's now $108 plus $15 for the phone line which is a big savings of $2 off the cable.

directv has an add that says friends don't let friends subscribe to cable. why not? is it because since your getting fucked on directv you want your friends to suffer too. kind of like when all your married friends connivence you to get married so you can be as miserable as them.

this sucks

this is a site for me to bitch. about anything. mostly technology since that pisses me off most often but also politics, life, the universe and everything.

first bitch

blogs suck

everyone is going to be able to read this and since i've used my real name it's going to be on google for everyone to see. future employers, clients, lovers, friends, enemies, and the rabble that is the internet.

i've done this on purpose. i'm tired of hiding my opinions for fear of how others will judge me. fear sucks.

i'm not using capitalization on purpose. don't really know why i just don't want too. maybe it shows what i really think of the this blog. which is not much.

but back to why blogs suck.

it seems blogs are the next big thing. time or some fuck was thinking to make them person of the year. then they made word of the year. so what. it's still just a web page which has been around since 1994 when mosiac hit. i remember compiling that on a dec at school. i wrote my first web page that day and i don't think much has changed since then.