Personal Thank You
To Officer Alviso of the Burlingame PD. Sure, it was just a meter violation, and technically I was in the wrong, but never the less were understanding and let me go with just a warning — and you were pleasant too!
A hell of a guy.
Attention SF DPT parking nazis: those $50 tickets and most of all your shitty attitude is why people get SOOOO angry. I of course don’t condone hurling urine or rocks your way, but would it wouldn’t kill ya to be professional and courtesous. (And issue valid citations — you used to ticket my correctly stickered car all the time when I lived in the Duboce Triangle, ya bastards… and you knew what you were doing, you just didn’t care.)
Sweet Jesus, I hate NetworkSolutions
…they held one of my domains hostage and sent me through so many hoops, wasting so much time, that now my only option this far out is some bullshit $150 “redemption fee.” What a racket they’re running — no wonder they’ve lost all of their domain business.
For the next several days, I’ll fantasize about revenge and talk to lawyers. I don’t think my urge to kill will subside fast enough for me to let this go onto the back burner.
Disturbing
A room here at the office contains nothing but two knee pads. It’s been bothering me for days… so thought I’d share. You’re welcome.
Superchicken
There’s more than 10 billion chickens in the world, but only one…
What to Watch
Frontline: News War, a 4-part series starting tonight.
Readers didn’t need a week of front-page stories about diaper-wearing astronauts and the alleged cultural significance of Anna Nicole Smith to tell them that the Fourth Estate is having an identity crisis.
[…]
The 4 1/2-hour “News War” series traces the pathology crippling the media business — financially and legally — back to the days of the Nixon administration.
Now with PowerBoost!
So in what’s perhaps an unholy union between Comcast and Jamba Juice, Comcast has started this thing called PowerBoost. Supposedly this doubles your speed during large downloads — only for short bursts, and only given “network availability.” I *think* I’ve seen this, but am I the only one calling horseshit on this? No way to really verify this or see when you’re getting “PowerBoosted.” No guarantee if it’s gonna kick in during that 123MB download of OpenOffice. It’s gonna skew network speed tests and the average download speed given by your browser. And it’s undoubtedly going to be used to quell the piles of customers complaining about less-than-steller speeds, especially the craptastic upstream speeds (which are Boost-free).
Some marketing weenie at Comcast deserves a promotion. Jamba Juice should sue.
(If this is already deployed in San Francisco, it’s having the desired effect — I’m testing north of 18Mbps right now, but my upload speeds? 690Kbps. C’mon Comcast.)
Flowers
Well, this doesn’t happen often…
Road to Redemption Chart
Hmmm… work in progress, but starting a chart here on America’s favorite export: blame.
| If you are… | …and get busted, seek… |
| Mayor, oh, and fucking your campaign manager’s wife | Alcohol Treatment |
| Congressman, querying your male pages as to their masturbatory habits | Alcohol Treatment |
| Evangelical preacher ordering up a bucket of Cock n’ Crank every weekend | Some horseshit pseudo-scientific “Spiritual Restoration” |
| A Thieving Whore of a Politician | “Rehab”, followed by 30 months in prison…or tearful TV appearance, followed by 8 years in prison |
| A Thieving Whore of a Lobbyist | Confuse everyone with a series of disguises, then go to jail for 6 years |
| Spoiled celeb flashing yer meat curtains ’round town (and not named Paris or Britney) | “Treatment” for “undisclosed reasons” |
Ok, gotta go work, but c’mon, send me a few more.
Oh, that itch…
I’ve got that new car itch. I hate that. Took me 2 years to scratch it last time. Oprah turns 5 in May, and I think it’s time to get me some new wheels. Going to see exactly what the 2008 M3’s got before I make a decision. (Note to BMW: spare me the pumped up HP with the weak comparable torque.)
The RS4 is a non-starter, too fugly and speed-racer for my taste, M5’s too big. Caymen needs more guts. Any suggestions? I don’t drive for my commute, or I’d be looking at some hybrid, a Civic or something along those lines. Although, those hybrids… ehhh. I just can’t bring myself to drive something more akin to a kitchen appliance than a car.
Also, for sale: 2003 Acura CL Type-S Manual w/Nav. Black/black. Only 40k miles. One of only 820 ever produced in this configuration!
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