[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

I've spent $5.50 an hour to watch TV this month, based on about 10 hours of TV viewing and a current cable TV bill of $55 a month. Also, of the 10 hours of TV I've watched, only part of that time (the Superbowl) was unavailable online. I think it's time for me to drop my cable subscription.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Speaking of cable, my local cable company has instituted bandwidth caps. Doesn't affect me too much, but my buddy who has a 50 meg data subscription averages twice the cap a month. I expect there to be a huge shitfit thrown by subscribers in about 2 months.
 
Speaking of cable, my local cable company has instituted bandwidth caps. Doesn't affect me too much, but my buddy who has a 50 meg data subscription averages twice the cap a month. I expect there to be a huge shitfit thrown by subscribers in about 2 months.
Yeah, I'd guess the same. Sadly, the only other option I have for high speed internet is CenturyLink, and after reading reviews of their speeds, customer service, tech support, and install techs on several different review sites; there's no way in hell I'm switching. The reviews I've seen for CLink make Comcast look like saints.
 

fade

Staff member
How does he average that much data a month? Is he streaming uncompressed video by the bit?
 
Now just imagine, that it is Texas, you are at a Football game... it is 80 degrees, and you see dozens of girls in shorts or mini-skirts wearing Uggs... because it is cold, I guess.
 
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I think that might be the best argument against those things I've ever seen.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
How does he average that much data a month? Is he streaming uncompressed video by the bit?
Ever since he got a torrentbox, he's got a fetish for 1080p video, I suspect. He and his wife are netflix junkies too, and their kid always has a laptop on rotating episodes of hey gabba gabba, and so on and so forth. I think he's even gotten two C&Ds.
 
Well, I guess it's officially a rant now. Got to work this morning and had no additional info or communications from my contracting company, no where in the building to sit, and nothing to do with our office equipment. Packed everything that would fit into my locking filing cabinet, wheeled it into my boss' office, and left him a note explaining why it was there, then came back home. I'm billing them for 8 hours today, because it's not my damn fault that they failed to provide me with a work space.
 

Cajungal

Staff member
Come on, ladies. You sound like a damn Cathy cartoon. "I'd eat dog shit if it made me skinny"? You are sad, and your gross powdered "food" makes me sad. You have time to cook, it's just that you're too lazy. Hell, I see you wandering out of your classroom and making the teacher next door watch them while you slowly make an eighteenth cup of green tea. You are sad. Sad, sad, sad. Perhaps the saddest thing of all is how pretty and healthy you look, and you can't even be grateful for it. I know everyone has personal goals and shit, but there's a limit. I've found her... the one person at work I don't like. And it's not just that. She also drops the kids off early at science during my break. What's wrong? Can't go an hour without complaining about not eating and guzzling down tea?! Jeepers.

Otherwise, work is fine. But man.
 
I work with an entire floor (12 of us total) of women that are exactly like that. Since there are no men here, it's even worse. The ones that ARE attractive? Workout every morning before work and eat well enough but not ridiculously "healthy".

You should hear them when they're ordering lunch. The whining.....
 

ElJuski

Staff member
Come on, ladies. You sound like a damn Cathy cartoon. "I'd eat dog shit if it made me skinny"? You are sad, and your gross powdered "food" makes me sad. You have time to cook, it's just that you're too lazy. Hell, I see you wandering out of your classroom and making the teacher next door watch them while you slowly make an eighteenth cup of green tea. You are sad. Sad, sad, sad. Perhaps the saddest thing of all is how pretty and healthy you look, and you can't even be grateful for it. I know everyone has personal goals and shit, but there's a limit. I've found her... the one person at work I don't like. And it's not just that. She also drops the kids off early at science during my break. What's wrong? Can't go an hour without complaining about not eating and guzzling down tea?! Jeepers.

Otherwise, work is fine. But man.
As someone who drinks a shitton of tea I TAKE OFFENSE.


HARUMPH
 

fade

Staff member
Dear RadioShack:
Why does a momentary switch cost 4 dollars? I'm tempted to just wire this thing up with an old house switch that I got for 50 cents at Lowes.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Dear RadioShack:
Why does a momentary switch cost 4 dollars? I'm tempted to just wire this thing up with an old house switch that I got for 50 cents at Lowes.
Because people who require a momentary switch specifically by name generally have more cash to burn. That, and they're still trying to coast on the reputation of the company they USED to be before they basically became a tiny big box store.
 
Turned out to be a Microsoft mistake that caused our group to no longer have seating. We now have seating, but it was a serious downgrade from our previous accommodations. I guess I shouldn't feel too bad though, they even kicked several FTEs out of their offices.
 

Cajungal

Staff member
As someone who drinks a shitton of tea I TAKE OFFENSE.


HARUMPH
Tea itself is not sad. Drinking it in an attempt to try and fill yourself up when your body is crying out for nutrients is SAD. Also, hi, Juski! :) Good to talk to y'all again.
 
Ugh, I made a slab of delicious local thick super bacon, a couple of fried eggs and a pile of buttery toast for dinner/breakfast tonight and it is making me feel like hell. I am not looking forward to doing paperwork for 12 hours in a bit.
 

ElJuski

Staff member
Tea itself is not sad. Drinking it in an attempt to try and fill yourself up when your body is crying out for nutrients is SAD. Also, hi, Juski! :) Good to talk to y'all again.
But tea comes packed with flavanoids in every serving! That's nutrilicious! No, I get what you're saying. Starving yourself does not equal weight loss, at all.
 
<sigh> I hate having to explain to people multiple times that we can't just give them access to someone else' account. The problem is further compounded when the account in question had so much data in it to be burned, that it wouldn't fit on a single DVD, and now I'm trying to walk someone whose level of computer literacy I have no way of knowing through the not-too-terribly complicated process of merging two or more portions of a data archive, and I can't get them to give me a detailed response about what's going on on their end, except when they exaggerate how long they've been waiting on the data. This is why I got out of tech support 13 years ago.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
I thought today was going to be good. I had a terrible night's sleep, but I still woke up feeling confident.

Then I got so tired I had to take a nap, and I woke up from that in a crap-load of pain. I broke a jar while trying to make dinner, and now I'm in even more pain from the stress of dealing with that.

Now I'm waiting for even more to go wrong.
 
I thought today was going to be good. I had a terrible night's sleep, but I still woke up feeling confident.

Then I got so tired I had to take a nap, and I woke up from that in a crap-load of pain. I broke a jar while trying to make dinner, and now I'm in even more pain from the stress of dealing with that.

Now I'm waiting for even more to go wrong.
Sounds like we had awful days together friend. I hope today goes better for you! (I know mine already is!! =^^=)
 
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