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Archive for May, 2007

My Dog is Nuts

Posted in: General by Steve on May 23, 2007

So I went to let the dogs out tonight and Buddy, my 8 month old Golden Retriever, was laying on his back, snoring and sleeping.  I snuck up on him and got this picture.

Buddy

Cubs Quotes of the Day

Posted in: Sports by Steve on May 21, 2007

“Mediocre can work out pretty well in the NL Central”

“There are maybe 10 players that deserve roster spots on the Cubs”  “And 2 of those are Daryle Ward“

“You know what they say: Scott Eyre is human, to release him is divine.”

Source:  Desipio.com

Links for 5/20/2007

Posted in: My Links by Steve on

Greensburg, KS – Just wow

Posted in: Weather by Steve on May 20, 2007

Can you believe the devastation?

Links for 5/14/2007

Posted in: My Links by Steve on May 14, 2007

Awesome!

Posted in: General by Steve on May 11, 2007

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

Here’s my first one:

Might as well throw some jalapenos on it as well.

Links for 5/8/2007

Posted in: My Links by Steve on May 8, 2007

That’s all for now. 

Internet Dependent

Posted in: General by Steve on

Last night, I came to the startling conclusion that I can’t live without the Internet.

My home Internet and digital cable went out last night at about 6PM, which was fine for the early evening since I had to fix a computer and Debbie had to go to class.  After class, we met at home to then go out and pick up a new grill.  She noticed that the TV was all staticky.   I didn’t think anything of it since the last few times it’s been out, it’s come back on after a couple hours.

After picking up our grill, we headed back home and had to unload this sucker.  It weighs about 300 pounds and Debbie and I couldn’t lift it ourselves.  We had to get our neighbor to come help us.  We got it in the garage and went into the house to let the dogs out.  Debbie found that the cable was still out. 

So I called Comcast and their tech support didn’t pick up for 20 minutes.  I was waiting for a person to pick up that long.  It was ridiculous.  So I hung up and tried to go through the Internet side to see what was going on.  I get through right away and talk to one of their support people.  She tells me that there is not any maintenance or outages in my area and so the earliest they can have someone come out is Wednesday (this was on Monday night mind you).  So I have no choice but to suck it up and say okay.

I let Debbie know and she is appalled.  Why would it take that long to get a technician out to us when ALL of our services are out?

I call them back and wait for the regular cable side.  I’m waiting for 30 minutes before I get through to Frank.  He tells me that there is a problem and that he doesn’t know how long it will be out.  At least I get an answer this time as to why.

On top of no TV, it was about Elevety Billion degrees upstairs.  We need to get some more fans or windows or something since it’s starting to get warmer.

Point being, every night, my wife and I have a routine of watching TV, checking our email, looking up junk on the internet, then going to bed.  It’s sad that the whole night was ruined because we couldn’t do any of those things.  We were at a loss for words because we wanted to relax.  I started reading Code Complete and Debbie was reading one of her books. 

Have we all become so dependent on technology that we can’t function and communicate with each other by talking to each other?  Has instant messaging and texting taken over?

Stumbling Findings 5/6/2007

Posted in: My Links by Steve on May 5, 2007

Greensburg, KS Tornado

Posted in: Weather by Steve on

Preliminary reports say that 60-70% of downtown is destroyed:

http://www.kansas.com/233

UPDATE: 90-90% of the town is destroyed, lots of damage, updated the link