Clever bastard........

As seen on arsforums, this guy doesn't want his kids online at all hours of the night.

"I'll give you my solution to a similar problem at home. My kids have all had broadband service in their bedrooms for years. I enforce "quiet hours" by serving their ports from a separate switch and controlling it with a lamp timer. Their internet service is on from 6:30 AM 'til 10:30 PM"

Such a low-tech solution, yet elegant at he same time.

I'm here at work, workin. Just got all of our Antivirus software scripted so it uninstalls one AV client and installs another. It's awesome.

Fuckin dorks and other ramblings........

Phil just called me. "There was a change of plans and there are no positions currently available."

After analyzing that decision, I came to the conclusion that "they" either a) have no fucking clue as to what they are doing or b) don't care.

It's probably a nice mix of both.

My new job is going well. Lots of work to do. I gots me a new laptop. It screams. 1GB RAM, M745 CPU (1.8Ghz M chip with 2MB cache) and built in wireless. I'll be busy at least through year end, prolly more like through August-September 2005. It's fantastic.

The facility is a trip. It looks like a prison on the outside and its actually really nice inside. I have a real data center again!!!! Hooray for the raised floor.

The work is going to be strange though. Its like inspecting a house for termites. Only instead of just finding out whether or not the place has them, you know they're there, and you have to find each one, interview it and find out what exactly it chewed on. But the infrastructure is there to make it a really killer setup and I'm looking to make it run like a top.

Changed jobs.....new email address

Hit up my gmail email address if you need to email me for the next few days.

randy.lovin@gmail.com

I gave notice.

I start my new job in 7 days.

*calls up current manager and whispers* "Seven days" *hangs up*

Now i just need to find a little girl, 20 gallons of water and a hollowed out television set. My master plan will be complete.

Work funny

Someone here at work sent a calendar appointment to all employees. The meeting is mandatory for all corporate employees. They used 3 different fonts, multiple cases, italics, boldness, and 2 colors. Not only that, get this, the calender item says the meeting starts at 12AM.

4 minutes later.

"Please note that this meeting is for June 16th only. (A glitch in the system states it is for June 16-17. This is incorrect.)"

HELLO!?!

The glitch is in your head! DID YOU REALLY SCHEDULE A MEETING FOR MIDNIGHT!?!

o_O

YADTVP

Yet another DirecTV post.

I am in need of a cable I probably threw out with some other stuff I had with my first TiVo. It's a cable called a "Home Control Cable". It will basically allow my 80 hour TiVo to control the DirecTV receiver in my bedroom. I just emailed Rob and he said Karen might have found the one that came with his TiVo. If she did, I might piss myself. I was going to order one off Tivo.com for $7 and probably another $7 in shipping. hehe

In other news, I got some new bedroom furniture. Sheila and I were driving around to different home consignment stores looking for some dressers last saturday, and we found this place on Tustin that had a dresser and nightstand that matches the armoire in our bedroom. So we put down a deposit and were supposed to go back on sunday to pick the dresser up, with my uncle's truck, but it didn't work out. So we're gonna do it on thursday. I might see if I can get the use of Scott's truck, otherwise I'm just going to shell out the $20-35 to get it delivered.

Television.......................IT COMES FROM THE SKY!

I got a DirecTV setup this weekend. I installed it yesterday. It was painless since I had almost all the necessary tools. It was too late to call and have the service activated, so I'll be doing that tonight. So far, based on the PPV preview channels, that I can tune so far, the picture is phenomenal and every receiver (including the DirecTivo) has an optical out. Surrounded by sound I am.


Hmmmmmmm.............$189 for 120 more hours of goodness.

UPDATE!..........It's activated.

Best picture quality ever. Another DirecTivo plus........Dolby Digital Surround Sound on every TiVo'd DTV broadcast. This feature isn't even available on standalone TiVos.

Penny Arcade never disappoints.

Clicky!

One last thing today.......

I want to stab whoever is giving people in this company multi-megabyte header images (a black and white 2 inch by 3 inch company text logo that should be around 15kb) to the folks that email "All Employees" press releases and the like.

Yup, someone in the company emailed a 3Mb word doc, that should have been no more than 50kb, to every employee in the organization. Thank god for single instance storage.

What's even sadder, is if we told them to stop and to use a separate set of logos, they would still use the old set.

You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000 MB.

So sez my Gmailbox.

randy.lovin@gmail.com

Self Service Terminals at Carl's Jr. insure prompt and friendly customer service..........IF YOU ONLY SPEAK FUCKING SPANISH

That's right. Sheila and I went to Palomar Airport yesterday for the hour long biplane ride she got me for Christmas. Well, after we were done with our flight, we were both starving. So, we go to the closest place we could find, Carl's Jr. We get there and they have 3 cash registers there, and 2 of them are blocked by these huge self service kiosks. They have 22" touch screen displays and you basically touch what you want and then feed your money or atm card into it to pay.

Being the connoisseur of new technology that I am, I go and enter our order in, feed it a 20, receive my change and go and sit down with my order slip.

15 minutes later

The restaurant is EMPTY. The half dozen people that were there when we arrived are now gone and 5 or 6 walk in customers and numerous drive through customers have come and gone. We still have neither food nor drink, and we're both pissed. So, I go up to the counter and ask for our drink cups, give them another 2 or 3 minutes, it appeared the manager and 5 or 6 people behind the counter were having a "meeting" (aka fucking around). Then I went back up to the counter and asked where my order was.

Being the fucking paragon of customer service that he was, the manager only understood 2 of the words that I said and pointed at the order number on my reciept and said "That's order number". I gave him the best "No shit" look I could muster and then explained my situtation. He glanced up at the order terminals and asked if they had made the order (in spanish) and then said that "We're making right now".

I went and sat down.

Two minutes later another dim bulb comes out and asks to see my receipt so they can fill my order. Apparently, they must have deleted it from their terminals in the back.

5 minutes later, we have our food.

In conclusion, if you only speak spanish, expect FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC customer service, because your dumb fucking ass can't read the english text on the self service kiosk and you'll get to have a REAL PERSON take your order in your NATIVE LANGUAGE!