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Always wanted a horse, not really, but I would like a horse head pillow. My birthday is coming up...I don't celebrate birthdays. If someone wants to give me a horse head pillow I'd accept it, but I'm not asking for birthday presents. I finally got the rebate check for the Hitachi hard drive I bought for my still incomplete HD-MythTv box. Forgot about that rebate, maybe I'll use the 80 bucks to buy a horse head pillow. Why do rebate checks look like junk mail postcards? Almost threw it out. Make magazine has an article about building your own DVR, havn't read the whole thing yet, I'm lazy.

On a side note, wanted to give kudos to my nephew who after much consternation has successfully setup his Netgear wireless card in Fedora Core 3. The sad part is that he has to use a Windows driver as Netgear doesn't support linux.

Tiger Direct is suing Apple because Apple has named their new operating system Tiger, infringing on their trademark. I think Tiger Direct actually has a case. Sucks to be Apple with Tiger available for sale tomorrow. Gosh, I want to buy the new Apple OS Tiger directly...can't do it at TigerDirect.com. Maybe Tiger Direct is really wanting to become an authorized Apple reseller. I think I'm on Jaguar, but never refer to it as Jaguar, I call it OSX 10.3. System info tells me I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.9 no animal names just numbers.

I'd love to have one of these Mario Bros. Atari cartridges. I was 12 when this game came out, don't remember ever seeing the commercial. That was such a long time ago. My memory sucks, might've seen this commercial everyday after school and I wouldn't remember. Who knows, I might've even had this game for my Atari. It's neat to see Mario on a system other than Nintendo. Stupid Italian plumber, how can you fight a gorilla all by yourself?

Take that Redmond! Apple takes top spot on Wired 40 list. According to a very mac friendly source Apple is kicking butt in something. Probably profit margins on hardware.

Oh and my rebate on the cable modem is finally going through, forgot about that rebate. I didn't buy it from those piss poor rebate fullfillers at Tiger Direct. The modem was bought from...trying to remember... ZipZoomFly.com. I will never buy anything with a rebate from Tiger Direct, too many bad experiences.

Repeat, don't buy rebate stuff from Tiger Direct ever!

An interesting rebate story, sent in a rebate I knew was past the turn in date and will be getting the rebate after all. Not sure who to thank, Radio Shack or Verizon for honoring it.

Seems like my last few posts have been about things not working. Would like to point out some success'

clipped my toenails without much blood

fit into a shirt I was too fat to wear comfortably before

I don't get it. Tried to set up my junk to use the Xbox and the free muliplayer Kai Xlink thingy. Created a Kai account (p00pship if you want to battle me), put their firmware on my router, engine is running, no dice. Shit don't work. Changed the en0 (wired) to en1 (wireless) in the preferences cuz I'm wireless. No consoles show up in the user interface. I'm sure I'm missing something really simple and I'll feel even more like an ass when I figure out what it is.

update: Mech_ass_all_out won't work for me. I'll try it with the only other Xbox game I have, Crimson Skies, I need a review copy of "Doom 3" for the Xbox, who do I ask for that?

I'm hating on New Edge Networks because they can't figure out that I've cancelled my DSL service, they keep charging my credit card. I called up to cancel and the dude told me to do it online, so I did, and now they don't think I did, but I did do it, and I have the emails to prove it. I hate the outsourcing of support or billing, or whatever. Asshats can check to see what activity has been on that IP address, should be zero since I haven't had an active residential phone line for a month. And I sold my DSL modem on Ebay. Arrrghhh

Haven't managed my personal finances very well this month. I'll be oweing money all over town soon. Maybe I should fake my own kidnapping...

Big Lebowski moment over

Need that hundred bucks I put into an ING Direct savings account. As a Tivo user I got a 25 dollar bonus by opening the account. Might be able to meet my obligations if I deplete my savings.

No idea how accurate this is, but you can take an internet speed test here. I got a 4.52 Mpbs down and 427 Kbps up on the last test I took. Feel bad as a Mac user using a windows site to test my connection.

Neat, I thought it was pretty much legal to smoke pot in Canada, now multiple sclerosis sufferers who want the government to pay can get relief from a newly approved cannabis based mouth spray. I would've called it "Cannabiseptic". Does it come in different flavors? I wonder if it does get you high ... one of the main ingredients is THC...interesting...where did I put my passport? Oh that's right, I don't have one. Darn.

I'm not buying these dolls unless they are anatomically correct. It's pre-order right now. Judging by the pictures on the website they are cheaply made, skin colors don't match on the bodies and heads. It's obvious that the heads are the kind that you can easily squeeze and yank off the body. Doesn't King David get his head chopped off at some point? I guess that's one reason to have an easy pop off head.

This is another reason to buy a Mac. Nine Inch Nails has released the new single as a GarageBand track so anybody can remix it.

Track doesn't load well in the version of GarageBand I have. Wonder if the new Tiger comes with GarageBand? I'll be upgrading to that soon.

Why? What does this pay for program do that I couldn't do for free? I'm using iPodder, a free program, to download podcasts. I hate to think some OSX user thinks they can't use a program unless it has an X at the end of it's name.

If that's the case I should make a version of Firefox called FirefoX and charge money for it. I guess I'd have to trademark FirefoX to make it legal.

You might want to change your DNS settings because there's been a rash of Comcast DNS outages recently. The comments suggest changing your DNS to Verizon DNS servers, or old leftover AT&T Broadband DNS servers that weren't taken down when Comcast bought AT&T's cable stuff. I've changed mine to an average of Comcast and Verizon DNS. To do this just add the IP addresses up and divide by the number of servers you added together. For instance, Verizon's DNS servers are 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, and 4.2.2.3, one of Comcast's DNS servers is 68.87.66.196. Add them up to get 80.93.72.202, then divide by 4, and then that's your primary DNS server, simple really, and reliable.

Oh, and it's also complete BS, don't try it, it won't work. I was making a joke. The not funny kind.

I done learnt that to get the best from VOIP I need a QoS server, or Quality of Service server. The purpose of the QoS server is to prioritize VOIP traffic over other internet traffic. Learnt it 'cuz I had a problem with VOIP and streaming internet radio. VOIP would disconnect after 2 minutes if I was listening to an internet radio station at the same time. Gee wiz, maybe it's not a rip off to pay the phone company for dial tone...

Or maybe I'm an idiot and you can buy routers that do QoS...can my Linksys router do that if I put Seasoft junk on it...????

Maybe if I update my firmware, can't do it as it is now on version 2.02.7.

Need to update firmware and see what options I get.

Updated firmware unrecommended way, wirelessly. Now I have QoS stuff!

Dance Dance Rapper. Damn Canucks. I love the creative touches with the formuliac nature of rap.

Guess my niece is missing...

My sis must've been calling numbers from caller id looking for her. Sis didn't recognize my new number, or my voice when she called asking if she was here. I kinda laughed, since she didn't recognize my voice, and I didn't identify myself as her brother, no clue what she thought. All I said was that she wasn't here. Does VOIP distort my voice?

I guess this is a good deal. Outpost.com, Motherboard & Sempron 3100 CPU Combo for 160.00 limit one per household. I like it because the processor name has "pron" in it. When will I grow up? I'm almost 34 for goodness sake.

For fucks sake. I wasted hours of bandwidth to get an episode of "The Amazing Race" that aired weeks ago. Damn it, it's not even high def. I hate you internet.

Got to thinking why I think it's ok to get tv shows off the internet, and not ok to get mp3s off the internet without paying for them somehow, unless of course they are freely offered by the artist.

Broadcast TV is free. That means your CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, PAX, WB, whatever that is broadcast over the air is fair game. What does it matter how I get it? Right now I'm downloading The Amazing Race, and I'll be Tivoing the same episode. I'll probably have watched the Tivoed version before the bittorrent version is fully downloaded. I won't watch any of the commericals no matter how I got it.

TV shows that are on cable or satellite should be only available to people who pay for cable or satellite tv. I pay for Directv, so any show that's not on a pay channel I can get any way I choose. The headache is that by using Bittorrent I'm distributing at the same time I'm downloading, so I'm probably helping someone who's not a cable or satellite subscriber steal a program.

My head hurts...can't justify stealing anymore right now...more to
come...

Skipping over the non-cable or satellite subscriber issue.

Let's talk music.

An argument one might make, "It's on the radio, how is that different than broadcast tv?" It's not. Go ahead and record the radio. Internet radio stations...some of them are paying the fees regular radio stations pay...can you record that legally? Don't know. Oh my head hurts.

Oh boy, download TV shows using bittorrent. It's only gonna take 8 1/2 hours to download Dr. Who. I should really get Robot Chicken, that show is only 15 minutes I think ... 6 hours to download a 15 minute show. Think I'll only use this for stuff I can't get any other way, or not at all, because I'm not sure it's legal...

80 dollar mail in rebate on 200 gig Hitachi DeskStar hard drives from Compusa. In store only, limit one per household. I wouldn't recommend Hitachi drives for any data you really want to keep. I'm putting one into the MythTV box I'm building, don't care if it dies or not, it's only TV. At 80 bucks after rebate, so what if the Death Star explodes?



Post updated with a slightly clearer picture. Haven't got the rebate yet...what's up with that?

Damn it! First the Pope dies, then my internet phone doesn't work. The phone actually wasn't working right yesterday either. If I place a call everything is super, if a call comes in I can hear fine, but the caller can't hear me, this is very annoying. Time for some tech support.

update: it works again, never got any reply from tech support. Not sure if they did anything.

update: doesn't work.

update: Yeah! Works again and I've got the admin password so I can tweak my Sipura 2000. Seems that the problem was the proxy it was setup to use is undergoing "testing". What's cool is that you can dial 611 from the phone and get connected to tech support.

Damn it! I hate you congressors and senators! You make me mad by changing bankruptcy laws. Me strong angered at you! ARRRGHHHH! Guess me have to pay bills.

At any rate, the Canon PowerShot S70 is a joy to hold. It's ultra sleek and much smaller than I expected. Look foward to 7.1 megapixel pics of my thumb.

The thumb I will put out looking for tricks to help defray the cost of this freaking camera. Thank Zeus I got a sweet deal from Dell, but dag-nab-it this camera ain't cheap. I may be forced into taking dirty pictures of naked persons in order to pay for it.

If you need naked person type 7.1 megapixel pictures taken of you, please to be contacting me, because I have a camera that can do that.

18 year olds plus only, ladies preferred

I've got to pick exterior colors for my house. Think I'll go with historically traditional ones for a Craftsman style bungalow. Didn't find much searching until I found this Flickr photo set. Some kind of green for the body is what I'm leaning towards. The neighbors on the left have a yellowish house and the guy on the right has a white one. I've got some time to decide because it's way too cold right now to paint.

Did a walkthru of my burned house today. Everything has been stripped down to bare floors and studs. That pic is where the fire almost burned through the living room floor. Keep in mind that there was carpet and another wood floor that the flames ate up before creating those almost holes.

That's what I thought when watching "The Office" earlier tonight. Turns out that hump wasn't the one from Cheaters. It was Kenneth Cole, who happens to look a lot like the hump from Cheaters. Kenneth Cole designs shoes and other stuff that they sell at Macy's. I don't think he confronts people who are cheating on their spouses. Maybe he confronts people who wear counterfeit shoes.

My latest electric bill showed up in my inbox today. It wasn't as good as my Qwest bill where they owe me, pretty good though. Only 21 bucks, compared to the last one before the fire which was over 100 bucks more than that. Almost hate to move back after all the repairs are done, really enjoy these cheap utilities.

It's been almost 30 days since I last slept in my own bed. Don't think I'd want to sleep in it now, probably in a landfill. Thankfully those two aren't allowed in my guest room, or else there'd be hair all over my new MacBook Pro. Should only be three more months of their crap to put up with, "... feed me, pet me, play with me ..."

And, I should find out next week for sure how the whole "contents" thing will work with my homeowner's insurance. Hope that ambulance ride will be covered by my health insurance, picked up my mail Friday and there was a notice claiming that they think some other insurance might cover it because it was the result of an accident. Had to fill out a form, now I get to wait and see.

Got a new bill from Qwest in my email today. They actually owe me 26 bucks. Not everything sucks when your house almost burns down. I guess they owe me because they bill in advance. I got lucky when they agreed to let me out of the two year commitment, but c'mon, I'm not in the house, how can I use their DSL on melted phone lines? DirecTV let me put the service on hold for six months and will give me a free move-in thing, or something. Awesome!

Do pugs ever stop shedding? Sheesh, hair everywhere. Staying at my folks place for who knows how long and they've got a couple of pugs. I would think that in the cold weather they'd keep as much hair as possible. Maybe when it gets colder.

iPhone glass replacement kit showed up today. The glass in the kit was broken. Shoot.

Dummy at work told me that today. He voted, but didn't vote for president, just local elections. All because of the electoral college system we have, his lame state of Idaho only has 4. He claims that he hates the electoral college system and would rather that the popular vote would prevail. Hey dummy, you didn't vote for president, so yours didn't count period. Obama won the popular vote as well.

The movie still sucks, but it looks a lot better in Blu-Ray. I will say that you can sort of tell the bad guys from the good guys in the higher def version. Viewing the DVD version I couldn't really follow the action, or tell which robot was which. To be honest I was catching up on email and stuff during the heavy CGI scenes. Just wanted to see what's her name in a belly shirt and short skirt in high def.