Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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Today, I finalized a deal with NBC Sports to sell them my Talk-Sports.net website. It should be a good deal for the users, I know it was for me ;-) NBC plans on rebranding the website in the coming months. Likely candidates include GiveMeSports.com. I'll continue to manage the website for the next months until we can transfer the hosting and domains to NBC. Once the hosting and domain are tranferred, NBC plans on neglecting the website and eventually turning it off without notice.
Today, I calculated that it's been 75,000,000 seconds since the last time I had a job. I enjoyed each second thoroughly.
Today, I frequented a local bar. I arrived at 12:30 ad suspect they get a good lunch crowd based on my previous arrivals there. At about 1PM, a delivery man arrived and kept the back entrance open for more than 40 minutes, causing the place to drop in temperature to 10 celcius while their heating blasted full throttle. This isn't the first time I've had this experience at this bar. Beyond the loss in heating expenses, I and many others are less likely to return on cold days. The manager is an idiot. How much would it cost to keep your lunch crowd warm?
Video of the Winnie the Pooh ride at Disneyland.
Video of the High School Musical parade/show at Disneyland.
YouTube refused the video as it was more than 10 minutes. Sorry!
Video of the Small World ride at Disneyland. Why go to Disney, when I can bring Disney to you over the Web.
YouTube refused the video as it was more than 10 minutes. Sorry!
My kids fighting Darth Maul at the Jedy Training Academy in Disneyland.
Video of the Pinocchio ride at Disneyland. Very dark.
Video of the Snow White ride at Disneyland. Not great. Very dark.
Here's a partial list of the Hollywood Stars will captured while in Hollywood earlier this month. I'll upload the rest next month, as I've exhausted my Flickr limits for this month.
Good customer service is difficult. Great customer service is near implausible. This is because a great deal of people simply have no patience to be good customers. My website, Talk-Sports.net, has a membership program and I'll enumerate some examples of bad customers. If you want to run a successful business, then you have to treat these bad customers well. Then laugh at their stupidity offline.
- When you sign up for the Talk-Sports membership program, you arrive at a webpage that says in big bold letters that it can take hours for your account to get setup. About 10% of the time, I get a phone call 5 minutes after the purchase and the person is asking why their account isn't working yet, sometimes angrily.
- When you sign up for the Talk-Sports membership program, you are told to setup a password on the website. One-third of the time, they don't do it. When this happens, I send them an email asking them to setup a password and respond after they do, so that we can manually complete the setup process. They'll often respond to that email saying their account still doesn't work.
- I received an email from one customer saying that he tried to join, but it said the account already existed. He said that last time he tried to join it worked and he was wondering why it wouldn't let him join again.
- Talk-Sports payments are made thru PayPal. While on the phone with one customer, they said their computer doesn't have an icon for PayPal anywhere. I had to explain that you go to your Web browser and type www.paypal.com in the address bar. In this case, it's not really the customers fault, they simply don't understand computers.
- At least once per month, I get an angry phone call from a customer. I try to calm them down, but quite often I can't. If they don't calm down within 2 minutes, then I simply give up and tell them to call back when they are ready to be reasonable.
I think I could write a semi-funny customer service experience daily. Maybe I should.
My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods. We've discovered that when I'm in a good mood, it turns green. When I'm in a bad mood, it leaves a big red mark on his effing forehead. Maybe next time he'll buy me a diamond.
Which manufacturer has the most wins at bristol. Go to Ask.com to find out.
I went to ask.com and typed the question using my mobile device. I got zero results. Ask sucks.
The FBI had an opening for an assassin. After all the background checks, interviews And testing were done, there were 3 finalists; Two men and a woman. For the final test, the FBI agents took one of The men to a large metal door and handed Him a gun. 'We must know that you will follow your Instructions no matter what the circumstances. Inside the room you will find your wife sitting In a chair ... . . Kill her!!' The man said, 'You can't be serious. I could Never shoot my wife.' The agent said, 'Then you're not the right man For this job. Take your wife and go home.' The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was Quiet for about 5 minutes. The man came out with tears in his eyes, 'I tried, But I can't kill my wife.' The agent said, 'You don't Have what it takes. Take your wife and go home.' Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the Same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the Gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one After another. They heard screaming, crashing, Banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was Quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the Woman, wiping the sweat from her brow. 'This gun is loaded with blanks' she said. 'I had to Beat him to death with the chair.'
MORAL: Women are crazy. Don't mess with them
He told me that I was swerving into the shoulder and that I was kicking rocks, which were hitting his car. I didn't recall driving on the shoulder and the lanes were clearly marked. I look at his car and then the road. The shoulders were paved and not rocky. At this point, I got worried. Further, the shoulders had grooves that caused your tires to whine when you moved into the shoulder and I didn't recall hearing my tires whine. I resisted being argumentative and decided to just play dumb.
The cops questioning was all over the place. Drugs. Money. I was a littled worried that this might be one of those bad cops. If he was capable of inventing cause, then would he invent evidence. Eventually, he let me go with a warning for driving on a paved shoulder, which contradicted his story that I kicked up rocks all over his car. Further, I believe a driving on a paved shoulder ticket would apply to someone who drove continuously in the shoulder, not momentarily.
As I pulled away, the cop pulled away in the opposite direction. He immediately turned on his sirens to pull over the first guy in his sights. I realized then that he was pulling over everybody he could, inventing cause everytime.
He pulled over the wrong guy this time. I got his name. I'm going to file a complaint against him.