Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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The introduction songs to Drew Carey were the greatest. Here's a selection.
It appears Janet Jackson wasn't the first by centuries.
This wardrobe malfunction didn't require any FCC intervention.
Ouriel has a series called Execution is the key. The title is what caught my eye, because I'm a big believer that the difference between greatness and everything else is execution. Execution is about just doing what we already know needs to be done. Ouriel goes over user interface issues during a website's registration process and PR issues related to bloggers. Great stuff!
Great compilation of funny commercials. You'll enjoy the next 5 minutes.
Just another reason not to put your vibrator in your purse.
A week ago, I bought a new Dell computer loaded with Windows Vista. I must say, I have never experienced this many bugs in one week. I could go on-and-on. Windows Vista must be the buggiest operating system ever.
- The screen flicks to all black for very brief (sub-second) intervals.
- The language bar keeps setting the default keyboard layout. I had to disable it.
- The chess game has bugs.
- It doesn't recognize .MOV files out of the box.
- The wireless Internet sometimes breaks when I hibernate and I have to reboot to re-engage it.
Here's a video I took of the chess bug. Now, I understand chess is a complex game, but it's not nearly as complex as an operating system. If Microsoft can't get the rules to chess correct, then we're screwed.
When I downloaded this video from my camera, I couldn't locate it. It doesn't show up under the Movies folder. I installed Quicktime, hoping that would fix the problem, but it didn't. I had to search the harddrive to find it. I'm technical enough to figure this stuff out, but there's no way 99% of the planet could've found the video.
An 11-yr-old kid killed a 9 foot 4 inch hog with a pistol.
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I think the blogosphere has to start talking about bullying. A lot has been made about bullying recently. So, read this, answer the questions, here or in your blog. And write something about your own experience in bullying.
When I hear about children dying in Iraq or the young adults dying at Virginia Tech, I honestly get a little angry. And I'm usually in a bad mood for the next few hours until I force myself to get over it. On the other hand, a guy who use to bully me when I was a kid died in a car accident when we were kids. I was happy to hear that. Which brings me to another point. Half of my classmates were bullied. I can remember some girls bullying one of the less popular girls, Chantal, in grade 4. They created a Hate Chantal club. They were very mean to her. Each grade in my elementary school had a team full of bullies. I have a hard time believing that my schools were any more prone to bullying than most. I went to very good schools. So when I hear people blaming the murder of the young adults at Virginia Tech on the bullying of the murderer in high school, I have to laugh. None of my childhood friends turned out to be murderers. Or at least I don`t think they did. Questions.
- Am I a bad person, if I'm happy to know that the bully did not live a full life?
- Were you bullied as a kid?
- Was bullying as rampant in your schools, as they were in mine?
- What happened to the bullies in your school?
- Was it just the boys, or did the girls bully too?
- Were you the bully?
I'm tagging Chip's Quips, Marjolein Hoekstra, Joseph A Nagy Jr, Oleg Dulin, Scott Kingery, David Rothman, Tom Simpson, Aimee Evans, Jason Schramm, David Walker, Alec Saunders, Tim Dungan, Nathan Weinberg and Steve Michel. Tell me about bullying in your childhood.
Last night (or early hours of the morning), I was working late and a movie came on that I had never watched before; The Unsaid. I was so busy working that I just let the movie play. I small portion of my brain was following the story, which got interesting really fast. I then closed up the notebook and started watching. I thought this movie was awesome. I was about a very real subject that has always intrigued me. The difference between those enjoying a good life and those living a bad life is often luck. `
Spoiler warning! This guy comes home after a really bad day at work and finds his wife having sex with their young kid. He freaks out and beats her to death. Meanwhile, this other guy finds his son`s suicide note, several weeks after his death. In the letter, the son reveals that his suicide was to escape from the gay sex thrust on him by his therapist. The father goes over to the therapists house intent on killing him, but the therapist commits suicide before he can get to him.
Sometimes, behind in the wrong place at the wrong time can push us all over this cliff.
R|mail.Bloggers Blog is reporting that Lucasfilm is going to put video clips from Star Wars on its website tomorrow that fans will be able to use on social networking websites.
http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=524071
RedFlagDeals: 20 Cent Listing Day on eBay.ca. One day only, starting Thursday, May 24, 2007 between 00:00:01 ET (12:00 AM plus one second) and ending on the same day Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 23:59:59 ET (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).
I simply didn't know what to expect when I watched this video. Now iM ROTFL.
They didn't believe me at the class reunion, but I really am going to Mars (or at least my name is).
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/messages/20070523.html
The Montreal Gazette referenced me last week. No link!? The article refers to an apology by Bell for their recent poor service. I think I`ll flip the bird to both of them. Bell is currently refusing to service my cell phone. In fact, they even refuse to replace my 12-volt charger. They insist that it`s a universal charger and should work in all vehicles. Imperically evidence indicates that it works in only one of my three vehicles. They remain stubborn on this point. FO!!
As previously reported here, I engaged a new lawyer over a month ago. He estimated the work would be about 4-6 hours. I agreed to meet with him and he spent the entire meeting trying to selling me $75k+ in additional service. Realizing I was being scammed, I stood up, told him I'm leaving and left the meeting. He latter billed me more than $1000. He admitted in the attached letter that the meeting was for 30 minutes, but was billing me for 3 hours of meeting time and 3 hours of prep time. I told him and his firm that I was reporting them to the law society.
Today, I received an updated bill from him, Paul Kotschorek of Keyser Mason Ball, LLP. In order to justify his charges, he's rearranged them. Now he's billing me for 30 minutes for a follow up letter after our meeting, 40 for his sales call and 4 hours and 50 minutes of prep-time and meeting. The fact that he upped his prep-time from 3 hours to nearly 4 hours 20 minutes should be a first sign that this law firm are scammers. The worst part is that now he's billing me for the original sales call. Wow! That's nerve. I've decided to respond by adding this new information to my report to the law society. In addition, I'm reporting KMBlaw.com to the better business bureau and I'm also going to expose them online, so that other potential clients don't fall for this obvious fraud of a law firm.
I just unpacked my new Dell notebook. I'm going thru the 100 steps to get your computer working. I should be done by Tuesday. There's four small scrapes on the inside cover near the mouse pad. Not worth sending it back, but it does ruin my experience a bit. My first four Dell notebooks were awesome beasts and I expect this one to be no different.
I'm sure every dog owner will deny their dog is a nuisance to their neighbors, but the honest truth is that your neighbors likely resent you if you have outside dogs.
- We have two average-sized dogs in the yard that backs onto our own. If the dogs are in the backyard, which is most of the day, they bark the entire time when they see someone else is in the area. They yap all day. They yap! They yap! The owners know it and continue to send the dogs out there.
- On the north side of our lot, the owners have this very big dog, which they allow onto the street without a leash. About once a month, the dog will run onto our property up to one of our kids, barking really loudly to try and scare our kids off. The owner has seen this several times, but continues to allow their dog out without a leash.
- Today, I saw another really big dog on our property, no leash. I've never seen the dog before, so I walked away hoping that it would simply leave.
I'm honestly thinking about reporting the dogs, but I know the city will do nothing about it anyway. I know that every single dog owner will deny their dog is a nuisance. But we have three outside dogs in the neighborhood and they are all nuisances. If you have an outside dog, then sorry, some of your neighbors don't like you because of it. Simple facts. Imposing your right to own a dog on others makes you a bad person. Now, if you have an inside dog, or your dog is truly docile, then please accept my apology, this isn't about you. Also, if your dog has a purpose, like a seeing-eye dog, then please accept my apology also, this isn't about you either.
I'm sick of dog owners.
This is simply amazing. This Hooters girl, twirls on a chair, while pouring a pint.
Awesome VW commercial of the uses of one VW thru its lifetime.
I created a new resume widget for ResumeBay. You can now post your resume anywhere. I pasted my own resume to the end of this blog entry. No, I'm not looking for a job.
http://www.resumebay.net/blog/?guid=20070511143226
World premier of Spiderman 3 from TV Guide.
Another great WOW musical mashup. Too sexy!
A camera, a mask, a finger, a Men With Hats copyright violation and you are #1 on YouTube.
Seventy-years ago in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Tornado video from the stroms in Kansas this weekend.
Three more parking assholes. This parking area has about 20 spaces, which fill up every morning as parents drop their kids off. All three pics were taken the same day. This day was particular bad, which prompt me to take the pics. Check out where the yellow line is. People are such a-holes.
Please get the f'k out and let them genocide. These videos are sick. These are the people that the American soldiers are protecting. If you support protecting these values with Amercian soldier lives, then you are part of the problem, blood is on your hands, you are a murderer.
... and the monkeys blog.
Most of my day involves exchanging emails, calling people over-and-over and a bit of chatting via chat clients. Those exchanges Friday defined good and bad customer service. On one hand, I exchanged emails and phone calls with Chris F and he so thoroughly impressed me that I dropped $540 in sales. On the other hand, TicketMaster, Bell Mobility and Rogers Mobility so disgust me that I simply walked away from any further commitment on my part. No business for them. Let me elaborate further on all.
The first thing I did this Friday morning was to check the Detroit Red Wings website for tickets for Saturday's playoff game. Their execute suite search returned no tickets available. I then checked normal tickets and there was plenty available, but there was a problem. The only option for ticket delivery was via international post. The game was tomorrow, so that wasn't really an option. The fact that they offer this option 24 hours before the game is extraordinarily dumb. I got frustrated and tried to find a number to call. Nothing! Eventually, I did find an executive suite sales number and I called it.
Chris F works for the Detroit Red Wings. I won't spell out his last name, just in case he doesn't appreciate it. But anyone working for the Red Wings should know who he is and promote it on Monday. He answered the phone and was able to make the sale in less than 15 minutes. Not only that, but he gave me his desk phone number and his cell phone number, just in case I wanted anything else. He also said that he'd stop by the suite and say hi. Anybody else going to the game can stop by suite #48 and say hi. A few hours later, my wife suggested that maybe I should invite my dad. I called him up and he was interested. I took Chris F to his word and called his cell, his desk phone and emailed him to get that extra ticket. Took a bit to get in touch, mostly my fault, but now we have three tickets. That's $540 in sales in about 30 minutes of exception customer service work. Thanks Chris!
Next came Bell Mobility. When Chris F called me back, I was at the Bell World store trying to get help with my near useless phone. My cell phone is complete crap. It's a Motorola Q. The screen has a fracture line. I miss calls (like Chris F above) all the time. The voice message indicator is borked. The phone hangs all the time. The car power adapter works in only 1 of my 3 vehicles. In all cases above, they refuse to do anything about it. They weren't interested in servicing my phone. They weren't interested in giving me a new phone. They weren't even interested in selling me a new phone. I already had commited to a plan and therefor I wasn't worth their time. Wow!
Next I found my way to a Rogers Wireless store near my place. There was one clerk and a lineup of 3 people. I was there for about 5 minutes, the lineup didn't move and I decided to go somewhere else and come back later. I suspected that the lineup was not normal for such a business. Thirty minutes later, I returned to find a similar lineup of 3 people. I sat in line for another 5 minutes, the lineup didn't move and I walked out. Personally, I expect a clerk to greet me at the door when I'm buying. Waiting in line to buy a cell phone and plan that would cost me about $10,000 over 3 years is ridiculous. I'll go back Monday or Tuesday morning, but if there's a similar lineup, then I'll move-on.
I just setup the website, now it's just a matter of moving the blog.
More home video of star actors making an ass of themselves. Rumor is the x-wife made the video public. Celebrity divorces shall feed the blogosphere for years to come.