I use IceRocket to track visitors here. I just got some one from the Islamic Republic of Iran. He, or possibly she, got here via Google Images. This is the page he ened up on.
Frankly, I’m not sure what to say about that.
Other odd search request that end up here:
“army mos, high paying” - Let me make that easy. There aren’t any.
“darling i dont want to be professional for my wife” - Again, not sure what to say there.
“upgrading worth it 10.5.5 10.4″ - NO don’t do it!
“Nixon vs Mondale 1968″ - Ah, dude. Read a history book.
“was jimmy carter in the army” - Rational question. Nope, in the Navy.
“dungeons and dragons for linux” - That’s a bit geeky, but dumb. If it the web based stuff it will run, otherwise, not really. D&D is a table top game.
“1970 olympic flight seized by arabs” - Unless they mean an airline named Olympic, that’s a weird combo.
“drinking beer on lunesta” - Good way to get a long nap.
“upgrading from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5″ - NO Don’t Do It.
“pictures of cats and bats” - No bat pictures, but do have pictures of cats named after bats however, close enough?
“Rants of a lost life” - Nice turn of phrase. May steal that.
“I didn’t get into law school my life sucks” - my fair heart bleeds for you dude.
“can you get high off Amidrine” - Not really. Make you loopy and feel like shit however. Better than the headache, I’ll give you that.
“10.5.5 main.cf group” - Good luck. You will need it.
“using diclofenac with midrin” - Done it, but it’s not really a good idea unless you are getting regular blood test for liver and kidney failure.
“adderall ubuntu” - Odd mix there. Shoulnd’t need the adderal, Ubuntu installs fast enough that you should be able to finish.
“heather alexander alexander james adams wtf” - What? He’s a transexual filk singer. Can’t be the only one…
“fink vs macports” - Use Fink. MacPorts has issues. Not as many as 10.5.5, but fink still wins.
“24Q10″ - Nike Herc Rules!
“bristol stool chart type 4″ - That’s what you want, dude.
“working for michael kors sucks” - But he seems so fun on Project Runway.
“Apple postfix not working 10.5.5″ - I feel your pain.
‘”scary devil monastery” - We don’t talk about chickens here.
“is leopard 10.5.5 worth upgrading” - NO.
“OKLAHOMA ROADS SUCK” - Why, yes. Yes they do.
“MY LIFE SUCKS BACKWA” - Ah? what?
“why did jimmy carter suck” - Don’t know. Let’s re-visit that question in a year.
Adderall can cause rage like behaivor, which I tend towards any way. No, really, I do. Today my lack of tolerence of fools, an oncoming Adderall crash and low blood suger level damn near made a perfect storm, possibly leading to my arrest and trial for manslaughter.
Let me explain. No, there is to much, let me sum up.
We at $WeSellUsedMacs have a dude (and he is a dude, if you know what I mean, and I think you do), that comes in once or twice a month, asks dozens of dumb questions and general takes up time and space and never buys any thing. He came in today and I damn near killed him. Dude has an old ass craptacular iMac that he wants to run some version i-freaking-life. This machine can just barely run the version of the OS he has on it. Could not understand that it couldn’t run an current version of iLife because it’s a 500mhz G3, and it iLife needs better than that, for any version made after 2005. Also didn’t seem to understand that the 2005 version of iLife needs a faster machine to run parts of it or that he didn’t have a fast enough machine AND didn’t have a DVD so the iDVD application would be non-functional. Then the dude sits there and lies to me. Example: as a point of fact, the default setting for Tiger (aka OS X 10.4) is to check, weekly, for software upgrades. The current release is 10.4.11. Dude’s machine, “Which I had on the Internet this morning” is running, and I use that term loosely, 10.4 dot nothing, i.e. never been updated. The fact that he didn’t know what software update was means, in general, he didn’t know how to turn off the default, or, again, he was lying to me, either way, not a good idea if you want to stay on the good side of the only person in the store that will talk to you.
Once we had established that we did have a version that would run, more or less, and that we did not have the 2004 version, and that we could not get it we get a copy of the CD out of the back room. As an aside, I have no idea why we keep something in the front and some things in the back. It’s 30.00 item, no need to keep it under lock in key. Any rate, it turns out that he may or may not have enough cash on him, so he wants to know if he pays cash for it now, can he come in later (like 2 or 3 days later), get the cash back and put it on his credit card. Ah, no, and WTF, Over? Next he wants to know what our policy on software returns is. We don’t have one, (or more accuratly, you can’t return opened software or software that doesn’t come sealed). Next “One more quesion ‘My father has this G5 that has iLife installed on it and iMovie doesn’t work, why?’”
Damn if I know or care, and I’m damn sure not going to attempt to trouble shoot it with out seeing it. Told him that the only way that we could find out would be to check it in for service. I can pretty much tell y’all that we’re going to get the 50 buck diagnostic fee up front.
One the craptop front, I’m done to the last one in the “fix the fucked install” update, and I’m going to try the uber build in a few. If you’re going to do things like this, made damn sure that you have screen installed so you can log on and off the machine as it does this long ass sort of thing.
Update: Not done with the fix emerge. Have a conflict in the use flags on the last freaking item. Fixed that and relaunced the fix emerge. This results in only one package needing to be install. Woot! Might get this done today.
Updated update: Needed 2 items after all the conflicts were resolved.
I haven’t posted in while, not because my life doesn’t suck, but because I don’t post about family members issues. Let’s just say I’ve spent a lot of time at or near the Pink Palace on the Hill over the last few weeks.
Plus, well, dealing the [REDACTED]’s city inspection teams. My back yard is now down. Grunt.
I am going to post about my Cow-orkers some time soon, however.
But, just to show you that my life has ALWAYS sucked, here is a story of mine that I pulled from UseNet about some of my time in the US Army.
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“This is no shit” [1]
This would have been in 1979, early spring, at Ft. Bliss Texas. I was going to my first AIT (24Q10). I was assigned to the “Student Battalion”
of the “School Brigade” of the Air Defense School. Also attached to the brigade was the International Student Battalion. At the time the US was trying to
be nice to various Arab states, among them Kuwait. Kuwait had bought some HAWK ADA systems and was having some troops trained there [2]. At any rate,
one group of trainees had finished and had gone back to Kuwait. Leaving the American army to clean up their mess they left behind. Note that where
“Attached” not “Assigned” to the ADA School, and while they were in school, no American Officer or NCO had been in their areas. Each class of
the US Student battalion (each about 30 some odd troopies) was given a half of a floor to clean (a Shower Room and say 30 rooms). We were (at
the start) given 3 days to do this. We arrive, bright eyed and bushy tailed, and went up to the 3rd floor. Gagging noises. Stench like you can
not begin to believe. Knee deep trash over the hallway. Holes punched in the wall. Our class leader, a fellow Student (who re-uped with change of
MOS) took one look down the hall and said “This is going to take more than 3 days” and ran down to the staff folk to tell them that, leaving me more
or less in charge (I was a PFC at the time and was the ranking private in the detail). I wander down to hall to the shower room, where, lo unto my
eyes I find a semi butchered goat hanging in the shower stall, and a small grill in the vestibule for the shower. Of course this is May, in El Paso.
They had been gone for, at this point about 4 days. You can guess what state of “ripening” the goat was in. The long and short of it is, while I
have not been a janitor by trade, I have cleaned up some rather gross things, not of my own choice or making.
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[1] All Army stories start off this way. Required by law, I think.
[2] Having seen what are supposed to be the best of the Arab ground forces (Air Defense, to counter the Israeli Air Force), I no longer wonder how
the IDF did so well in ‘67 or for that matter in ‘73 or ‘80 or why Desert Storm went the way that it did. Not real good troops, IMAO
I live off of Sheridan. My current gig is on Sheridan. The City o’ Tulsa has decided to mangle the intersection AND the on and off ramps for the Broken Arrow Expressway. My normal 3 minute drive is, if I take the “obvious” route, is now about 20 minutes.
This, to put it mildly, suck extremely large things through very small straws.
My blog on why my life sucks just became a reason why my life sucked.
I’m sure it has to do with changing to FireFox 3.0 last night on the laptop, but my access to the admin functions of the blog went away. The send email thing was not working so I had, in essence a dead blog. I tried a little mySQL fu on it, but no joy. Poked Google with a sharp stick and found this emergency.php. Works like a charm.
Hopefully this one will have a better ending than some of the others.
Remember my brother’s dog? Well, she is sick, with Parvo, which is Not Good. However, she seems to have a mild case, and the vet thinks she will make it.
All of my dogs, (we think) have had shots. Well, we know Jack and Coco has, but were not 100% about Brandy, so I got to do the Clorox shower before the dogs got close to me. Not like I didn’t used to do that damn near daily when I lived in Delaware County (it’s good to ward off poison ivy), so I know the drill. Brandy goes in for her shot in the morning, so I don’t have to make the house smell like a high school swimming pool.
