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I don’t think people realize how personally I take the events that happen in the lab. I spend close to the majority of my time, my life, doing things for the lab: buying equipment and supplies, fixing systems, working with the lab, testing software, trouble shooting issues. I dedicate a lot of myself to the lab and take the things that happen in there very personally. People don’t realize that a smart ass offhanded comment about the lab feels like a slap in the face to me. I just wish people could realize that.

This morning, when I walked in at 7:45 to get the lab ready to open at 8:00 (that’s right people, I get here eary to guarantee that the lab is open for you on time), I found that the night before someone had torn down all of our printing policy signs and replaced them with one sign stating that “Printing is Prohibited.” It was signed “the Staff” but I know it was a student that did it as a sort of political statement. I’m sorry, but if you have a problem with something in the lab, I am more than accessible for comments, concerns, questions, request, compliments, or what have you.

Grr. I just hate starting out my day like that. I’m going to sit at my desk and read my emails that actually compliment and thank me for all my hard work, make up some new signs for the lab, and file the entire issue away for posterity.

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Have I said before that I hate phone tech support? I just got off the phone with Belkin tech support, I was on the phone with them for almost an hour so that they could tell me one small little thing that should have been in the manual to begin with. I’m going to spell it out in infinite (read: excesive) detail here so that maybe someone will find the answer in a google search where I couldn’t. I don’t know how quick my journal will come up in a seach, but since my searches got me a total of 3 results in google, I think it may be helpful to someone.

I was trying to install a Belkin F1U401 4×1 USB Peripheral Switch. I had it connecting both a Mac and a PC to an HP LaserJet 1200. When I sat down at the PC, I could take control of the switch box, no matter what port I was plugged into, but when I sat down at the Mac, I couldn’t even figure out how to take control. The manual was written specifically for PC and had no information on how to actually use the application that it installed on the Mac. The PC was running Windows 2000 and the Mac was running OSX. When I got on the phone with Tech support, they asked me a lot of questions that just seemed to dance around the subject. My question being, how do I take control of the switchbox from my Mac. After an hour of waiting, he finally tells me to press Alt+F11 on the mac to take control. Why did it take him an hour to tell me just to press Alt + F11? Why didn’t they have that listed in the manual? Why didn’t they have an update online to tell me that? Why wasn’t it in their forum anywhere? Why doesn’t anyone anywhere tell you this? Why did I have to spend an hour of my life waiting to hear something that should have been in the manual?

Sorry about that, I just needed to make sure that all that was written down in a public forum somewhere. In fact, I’m tempted to make a web page dedicated to that one piece of information, just to save countless hours in the world. I don’t think anyone deserves to go through that.
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Fuck the Matrix, Keanu was still better in Bill & Ted

I saw the third Matrix movie, and like the third Indiana Jones movie, it was much better than the second. Unfortunately, unlike the third Indiana Jones movie, it wasn’t better than the first. But then again, it didn’t have Sean Connery either.

I can make no pomises that I won’t spoil the movie if you keep reading…

…you have been warned “Fuck the Matrix, Keanu was still better in Bill & Ted”
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I knew I should have stayed in bed today

I never want to know anything about a movie until I have a chance to see it. I don’t even want to know if someone liked it or not because I want to formulate my own thoughts and opinions about it. If I know enough about someone, and they even say one word, I already have an idea about the movie just by the word and the way they said it.

Nick saw the Matrix last night, and he said “Dude.”

I know exactly what that means from him, I know immediately, from that one word and how he said it, what he thought of the movie. I’m trying not to dwell on it, but it just irks me so. I contemplated not coming in today, just to avoid any chance of someone talking. I figured, Steve and Craig aren’t going to be seeing it, so it shouldn’t be too bad (though I did joke with Steve, that Nick would be practically vibrating with excitement all day today). But lo and behold, as I half expected, Nick turned around and asked if anyone had seen it yet. We all said no. He said, if he had to sum the movie up into one word…

I told him to stop, to not go any further, and that one word would be too much. Steve said he’d castrate Nick if he said anything.

Nick said “Dude” and I tossed Steve my exacto.

Now I need to go get the mop…

and maybe call a doctor.

Definitely get a mop though.

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Apparently I slept poorly last night. my neck has as killer krick in it and I’m generally achy. I’m not the least bit tired though so maybe I just slept too heavy. Either way, I’m paying for it today.

I was really looking forward to the final episode of Joe Schmo Show last night but it was pushed to next week, always next week. Damnit. I made diggity-damn sure to watch last week’s episode on Monday because I forgot to watch it last Tuesday, but then last night they showed the same episode again. So now I have to wait until next week to see if they actually pay him $100,000 for a week’s worth of Television and to be the butt of a huge practical joke.

So what the fuck is up with all these promotional offers to get people on a new service or subscription (i.e.: cable internet, DISH network, cell phone plans, etc.) and not giving a little out to the long time members. I’ve been using my cable internet provider for a long time, and I’ve been with them through good times and bad, outages and slowdowns and disruptions in service. Today I get this flyer in the mail saying if I subscribe to my internet provider, I can get a free xbox live starter kit and two months of service free. What do I get as a long time service subscirber? Another bill. What the fuck is that.

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fuck, I’ll get home sooner or later. I have like two pages left to print and the printer keeps jamming and printing the same page over and over again because of it.

grrr.

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just an update, those fucking inbred support eliteists still haven’t called me back.

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Fuck You you Fucking Fuckhead Cock Ass!

Local Service Representative: “I’m sorry, we can’t help you, try calling our national number, tell them you’re a Universtity and the nature of your problem and they’ll be able to help you.”

National Service Representative: “I’m sorry, since you don’t have a case number or order number, I can’t help you. I can contact your local zone and see if I’m allowed to give you assistance.”

Yeah, I hate fucking service people. They either don’t know how to fix my problem or aren’t allowed to fix it. Either way, I have to sit here at my desk shoving pencils up my ass waiting to hear back as to how I might be able to make my software work. And when I say my software, what I really mean is the software that was bought without any testing or compatability comparison before it was just dumped in bulk (and short in licences) in my office. “Yeah, we have 20 machines in the classroom and another 30 in the lab. Wait, you only brought me 18 licenses?” So now we have a software that can only run in a classroom that’s almost booked solid so the students can’t work on it out of class, and some of the applications in this monsterous suite (which, by the way, takes up to 45 minutes to install individually on each of the 18 machines) don’t work and no one can even tell me if I’m allowed to have service.

So yeah, fuck you and your fucking eliteist “we know but we’re not telling you” support.

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Fear not, this is visible to a select few friends…

It seems that from somewhere, the fit has hit the shan, so to speak. Steve’s right, it does feel like high school only with much larger topics on the wind. I feel like everyone is saying something about everyone else behind their backs, and then those stories get twisted and contorted and corrupted before they make it all the way back around the the person’s face. There’s a lot of shit and a lot of truth flying around right now and sometimes it’s tough to separate the two. There are truths and shit that apply to me and, to be honest, I’m willing to let it all hit me because I know people who are in a much worse place than I am. I still see myself as lucky and fortunate in all of this, regardless of what other people feel or think of me.

I love you all, and I’m serious about the hugs and handshakes thing.