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Blarg

Reasons (well, it all comes down to one reason) to be pissed off:

• "Couldn't he [a TA in my THE 2000 class] try to be a little less gay?" -- a student behind me at the exam this morning
• People who get off by laughing at others
• Those I'm-trying-to-hide-it-but-don't-really-want-to smirks from them

Look, I'm finding it really hard to understand how people justify this total lack of respect for others. I don't want to simply dismiss someone because they give me a look I don't like, but it's getting harder not to. (The THE 2000 TA thing was a very poignant example of this insulting nature that people seem to have.) [Update, blah, blah, blah. I don't feel like blaming this entirely on others. I have my own issues, but I feel like there are a lot of people who "get past" their issues by being ass holes to others.]

explodingdog Print

I'm getting an explodingdog print for my birthday. Here's my current list (in order of preference):

1. Sucks To Be You
2. so far from where i want to be
3. i am getting homesick again
4. look at the stars
5. I will survive
6. i heard about the monsters out there
7. city could not stop
8. I am flying
9. underneath it all
10. I AM TV
11. we fought for our country
12. you are right. I am leaving

So, which one should I get? (The image has to be from after 2001.09.01.)

Tech Support

Tech support (look at the article and the advertisement).

Segways

"It's much easier to ride this than walk," Officer Jennings Kilgore said.

Network Solutions

To Network Solutions: I win.

Wow

Doesn't this seem offensive?

"We personally thought Asians would love this T-shirt."
-- Hampton Carney

There are, of course, eBay auctions for these shirts.

SOAP

This guy thinks SOAP is silly.

Spyware

Right, because Cydoor's software isn't shady:

"All this talk of spyware is the equivalent of of elevating one bad seed, and it's having negative consequences on the good software."
-- Robert Regular, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Cydoor

Email

Umm, I would like to check my email.

AOL Time Warner

AOL Time Warner.

Ugh

This article makes me worry.

http://www.thecoolkids.org/tom/

Cool.

Lawsuits?

Now, us Americans can sue as an excuse for having fat asses. What is wrong with us?

VeriSign Problems

I'm not the only one with VeriSign issues.

Uptime

One hundred days.

Tech Support

Now they think I'm trying to delete a domain from their system, but I never had any domains registered with them. Heh. What part of "delete my account" is so hard to understand?

• Delete domains?
• My response...again, trying not to sound frustrated

Network Solutions Tech Support

I received THE EXACT SAME RESPONSE from another customer service person a Network Solutions. It might be time to contact a lawyer.

• Response from Brigett (see also srey's response)
• Trying not to sound frustrated...

Network Solutions/VeriSign

Network Solutions ... oh, sorry, VeriSign ... won't delete my account from their database. They are now on my list of companies to boycott. Here's the correspondence.

• Initial inquiry
• First response
• Second request
• Second response
• Start over...

Rebates

So I bought a Yamaha CD burner last December. It came with a $30 rebate offer, which I sent off after making sure the burner worked. The rebate asked for a copy of the receipt, the proof of purchase from the top of the box, and the UPC barcode. After waiting four months, I received a note from Yamaha saying that they could not send me a check because my submission was missing the barcode. The box has a large hole where the UPC used to be, and while it's possible that I forgot to put it in the envelope, I'm doubtful. I remember sealing the envelope and wondering whether the postal service would accept such a thick letter. So, whatever. There's not much I can realistically do by 2002.04.15 (the deadline, according to the note I received). Hmm, Yamaha may have just made my list of companies to boycott.

Martha Stuart

As Tyler Durden put it, "Fuck Martha Stewart."