Archive for the ‘oh what fresh hell is this’ Category

On So-Called User Agreements

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

It's not an agreement if it's forced on you. It might be a rule or a declaration or even a law, but it's not an agreement if you don't get the chance to agree to it. The trend in online-enabled software these days is to have some kind of user ...

Tonight until now

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Best part of tonight: Shouting at 10pm, along with a few hundred thousand of Chicagoland's finest, "7...6...5...4...3...2...1....(pause for CNN animation/graphic).....YEAAAAHHHHHHHH! WOOHOOO!" Worst part of tonight: DH driving me to train station where I left my car this morning only to find a dead battery due to me leaving ...

Pet Peeve: The “Did you see the e-mail?” e-mail

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I see no point to the "Did you see my/her/his e-mail?" e-mail, nor its close cousin, the "Please respond to my/his/her e-mail," e-mail. It is particularly vexing when received less than 24 hours after the original mail, and it's downright annoying when received less than 8 hours after the ...

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Friday, August 8th, 2008

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EA Issue - a phone number!

Monday, July 14th, 2008

(For full understanding, please reference this post.) So, I got a response from EA this morning. The response basically was telling me that I can't get two pieces of equipment replaced on the same RMA and I need to open a separate RMA for the guitar. Yeah, as you can imagine, ...

Wholly new levels of suckitude

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

I am at my wit's end with EA's support. I will recap below. Please note that the PDFs that I will be linking to are anonymized printouts from EA's support site. To read them chronologically, you need to start at the bottom and read up. On ...

Rejected by Facebook

Monday, April 14th, 2008

It's one thing for a computerized algorithm as part of its regular parsing procedure to reject a two letter name; it's yet another for a human being assigned to the task of being smarter than the computer to follow the same ill-advised rule. Congratulations, Facebook. You get to join the ...

News

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I got two calls from my gyn office this morning. I just recently switched to a new office. I actually saw a Nurse Practitioner instead of a doctor, which is wicked cool to me, especially since my Aunt is a NP. She was extremely cool. I ...

And so it begins..

Monday, March 24th, 2008

As of an hour ago, I began having the symptoms of a cold or flu. My throat started hurting. I felt suddenly drowsy and dopey, for lack of a better word. (It took me darn near 30 minutes to finish that last post because I kept just ...

Knee Update

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I had a doc appointment today to go over the results of my MRI. The good news is that I do not have a torn meniscus. My meniscus looks fine. The better news is that my ligaments in general look to be in great shape, that everything ...