Welcome to Nowhere

Home ยป Page 182

  • This kid trumps any 2 of yours. And she’s not even related to me.

    written by

    james

    Girl’s writings opening new window on autism. And all I have to say on this is… wow. For once, that’s the only opinion I can offer. Be afraid. But seriously–the kid’s 13. She started doing this, according to the article, when she was 10. I dunno about you, but any 10-year-old kid I’ve ever met can’t be bothered to sit at a computer for more than 30 seconds unless they’re getting the chance to blow the crap out of something. I mean, yeah neither can she, but at least there’s a reason for that. This is one of those occasions where I kinda wish the crap going on in Iraq wasn’t the only thing that gets a follow-up from CTV. Kid’s practically half my age and already she’s gone and proven she’s twice as smart as me. Props to her parents, too–it’s way, and I do mean way, too easy to just give up, say I quit, and let the system take care of the kid. I used to go to a school for the blind, and by about my third or fourth year there, I saw an increasing number of people there who *may* have been blind or visually impaired, but who had multiple of other issues going on and their parents, I swear, just decided “Hey, that place’ll take them off our hands. Away they go.”. Good on you for actually standing up and taking control of the situation. I just hope all the media attention that story’s gonna get you guys doesn’t add to what I imagine is already a bit of an occasionally stressful time. Either way, go Carly go! And if by some freak accident someone who knows her stumbles across this tiny yet very opinionated blog and wants to give her a place to tell her own story, just get in touch with me. I’ve got lots of space I’m not using, and I’d love to put some of it into an effort like that. And hey, you fools at CTV, follow up on it a little will ya? Iraq can take a week off.

    Update:

    Someone at the CTV is apparently listening. A little over 24 hours after I saw this article, they did follow up. Awesomeness. And the offer I made in reference to that follow-up still stands. See? I’m not entirely cruel–just when it’s deserved.

  • Someone’s gonna have to reformat…

    written by

    james

    I just spent the better part of 3 hours on a spyware call. That ended up pretty much being nailed, except for a lingering Windows Installer issue. Nothing I tried was working, and even the fix I ended up settling on was a little iffy at best. If she does end up calling back, I won’t be surprised. I will, however, bet it’ll end in a reformat. Sometimes, I love this job. And sometimes, I think it’d be much simpler to just blame the computer manufacturer. Unfortunately, we *are* the computer manufacturer. Someone tell me how I messed that up…

  • Satan invented winter. Only explanation.

    written by

    james

    I made the stupid mistake back in December of showing up to work when I had plenty of warning about a “significant” snow storm that later turned out to be hell, blanketed in white crap. This morning, Environment Canada has released a statement about two potential major storms, one from Alberta and one from Texas, that will quite probably merge and become yet another “significant” snow storm. Now, I don’t have a problem with winter–in fact, I rather enjoy it for the most part. Just… not on days when I have to work, and not on a Sunday when it’s already gonna be pushing the limits of an hour and a half getting to work. I’m rather tempted, in fact… very tempted, to just schedule Sunday and Monday off. Mother nature, you tend to give me a rather nifty headache…

    ,

  • This collective duh moment brought to you by morons inc.

    written by

    james

    Someone else is starting to clue into the whole common sense thing. Not really a new fad, folks. Pot may impair mental functions of MS patients. Gee, ya think? If the media says it, I suppose it must be true. So now can we embarrass the royal hell out of those who say otherwise? Ah who cares? I’ll just do it anyway.

  • What punctuation mark are you?

    written by

    james

    I’ve taken 1 call today. I’ve fixed 1 royally screwed up computer today. I deserve a quiz.


    You Are An Exclamation Point


    You are a bundle of… well, something.
    You’re often a bundle of joy, passion, or drama.

    You’re loud, brash, and outgoing. If you think it, you say it.
    Definitely not the quiet type, you really don’t keep a lot to yourself.

    You’re lively and inspiring. People love to be around your energy.
    (But they do secretly worry that you’ll spill their secrets without even realizing it.)

    You excel in: Public speaking

    You get along best with: the Dash

    I’m, uh, scared to ask. So I’ll just not.

  • Winter, we need to talk.

    written by

    james

    I’ve let this little conversation of ours go unhad for way too long, and it shows. Not only are we being hit with snow on average of every second day, but now you go and throw at us temperatures upwards of -18, *before* wind chill, on top of that? And a wapping -29 after? What ever I did to piss you off, you’ve just given me reason to do it twice over. Oh, yeah, and go ahead and drown us in snow tomorrow. I have the day off. I can freely bitch you out from the comfort of my own, very heated apartment. Ha and such.

    , ,

  • Sanity not included.

    written by

    james

    Usually I wouldn’t post this many work-related blog entries in a row, and definitely not *from* work, but in this case, I’ll make an exception. There are 2 agents waiting for calls. I’m coming off break in 3 minutes. I am relieved. With 2 available, I should not be relieved. It’s too busy here…

  • I left work nearly 12 hours ago.

    written by

    james

    I’m back at work now. I’m off at 7:00 tonight, barring another 10.5 hour day. Uh, crap on a cracker? The hours I’m billing Dell for are gonna be bloody well insane…
    *****************
    Ladies and gentlemen. When I left work yesterday, it was snowing like hell. There is more snow in Ottawa’s forecast for today. Somebody up there is intent on pissing me off. And it’s thinking about working.
    *****************
    Can someone please tell me, just once, why it is the Writers Guild of America was holding out and being a bunch of royal panzies for the sake of higher royalties to have material streamed over the internet? Are they, perhaps, not aware that if the TV stations weren’t doing it, some other generous soul with a nack for getting his hands on free content–not me, RIAA/MPAA, relax–would just do it instead? I mean, not that I haven’t thought about it. But really, if that’s the only reason they’re striking, which is sort of what the article in question’s leading me to believe, it is making me contemplate perhaps watching significantly less actual TV content than I already do. Realisticly, I only have a TV right now so I can watch hockey and/or baseball. And since my team’s biting the suckitude bullet something fierce, it’s going to end up just being baseball. At least this year. And hey, that I can probably get online, too!
    *****************
    The computer they have me working on at the office has developed a habbit of randomly and inexplicably restarting without warning. No error message, no blue screen, no notta. Just I’m in the middle of typing/reading/whatever, and then kerpoof. I bitched a little about that last night. And I’m still thinking about taking the bitching to our I/T folks and flat out giving them the option. Give me access to something as uber basic/simple/non-retarded as MSConfig and let me tell you what the hell’s wrong with this thing. That way all you need to do is replace the faulty component I know exists, and then get out of my hair. I wish I could work in I/T…
    *****************
    It has been decided. OC Transpo isn’t *all* evil. I only took an hour and 15 minutes or so to get here today. An improvement, really, over a week ago. I’m… not quite to the point of irritated. Yet.

    , , , , ,

  • My first actually failing computer?

    written by

    james

    And it’s at a computer company for which I work, and I can’t even diagnose it. I love it. Anyone wanna see a tech support agent call tech support?

  • Review of Terminator: the Sarah Connor chronicles after 4 episodes: weee!

    written by

    james

    After the writers strike and the fact that that pretty much meant the end of CSI, Anne clued me into a new series that hadn’t aired yet but was coming. That of course, being uh, this one. I made mention of it before, but that was kind of before I got my head fully wrapped around the goings on. Now that I’ve actually seen a bit more of it, I can form a basis of opinion on it. And that opinion, roughly summarized, is why the hell did it take them this long to come up with it? If you aren’t or never were a terminator fan, the series will probably give you a killer headache. Unless you like drawn-out storylines, and then you might just want to watch the series in spite of it being a terminator one. It’s definitely not something you can just kinda come into halfway through–the way they’ve set it up, you kinda have to know what’s going on in the beginning in order to figure out where they are now. But if you can get enough of it to catch yourself up on what’s happened so far, it becomes highly enjoyable. Or maybe I’m just all kinds of odd and crazy. That’s a distinct possibility too. I’m a sucker for a halfway decent action movie/series. And for the most part, on an action versus storyline basis, the Terminator movies were pretty up there. And although this series is only 4 episodes old, I think it’ll end up right up there, too. If the 1.5 of you who actually read this haven’t gotten a chance to see the show and are curious, here’s a trailer. At the least, give it a 5 minute look. Anyone who attempts to convince me it sucks without having at least having done that will receive little more than an Achmed style response. Thou hast been warned.

    Update:

    It took me until 10 minutes to 7 the next morning to figure out I fubared that trailer link. Fixeded. Sometimes, I’m an idiot.

recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives