Holy Crap!

You.. stop what you are doing right now.. and go here. Read the linked entry on some guy’s blog… and commence with laughing and snorting and whatever else it is you do when you’ve just read some of the funniest shit you’ve seen in awhile!

A Brief excerpt:

• f.f.b.c.c.w.: “Sir, I just need to schedule a payment.”
• me: “Schedule it for Friday, then.”
• f.f.b.c.c.w.: “And you’ll be able to pay it by then?”
• me: “Probably not.”
• f.f.b.c.c.w.: “Then can we schedule it for a time when you will?”
• me: “Sure. Schedule it for May 16th, 2010.”
• f.f.b.c.c.w.: “I can’t schedule that far, sir.
• “me: “Friday, then.”
• f.f.b.c.c.w.: “But you’ve already said you won’t be making a payment then.”
• me: “I won’t, but some other account representative will be on duty then, so it’ll be their problem.”

Ya gotta love seeing someone screw with Bill collector’s.. uhh.. I guess.. that is unless you happen to be a bill collector.. then you probably hate it unless its really funny, and not you that’s being screwed with

After another relatively slow night at work.. I have yet another brilliant IM conversation to share, one of our customers had invented a new troubleshooting step… ‘uncrashing’

RP says: new term used…..”I had to uncrash it”

Dan says: what’d they do? delete windows?

RP says: no she said her son made the computer crash so she had to uncrash it

Dan says: she deleted her son?

RP says: no

Dan says: She should have..that would prevent future son crashings

RP says: lol

Dan says: this command, will uncrash any windows based system you run it on:

Dan says: Format C: /U /Y

Dan says: 100% Guarantee, no windows crashing your computer after that

RP says: lol funny

So.. while we’re still trying to figure out how this lady ‘uncrashed’ her computer.. we did have a good laugh about it..

I also got sent this link at work.. which loads up a pretty funny flash animation about SuperVillans and Linux…

So, Dreamhost is running a contest. They are looking for ‘remixes’ of a short video they have posted on their site. Since the prize is free webhosting, for life.. I figured.. what the heck…

remix3.mp4

its a 4 meg (or so) file, you’ll need Quicktime to view it.

Just thought I would share with y’all a conversation I had at work tonight..because I found it humorous…. this conversation was with…let’s call her Sarah (primarily, because, that’s her name.) (This is the actual IM conversation..with small edits to protect the guilty). The link in question, goes to an article discussing the drop in sales of Thongs to older British women.

Dan says:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050801/140/foly8.html

Sarah says:

I don’t think they are uncomfortable

Dan says:

I’m just amazed that they seem surprised that older women aren’t wearing them anymore.. I would think that there aren’t that many mid 30s-40 year old women that think they still have the figure for a thong

Sarah says:

true enough

Sarah says:

however it has more to do with not having unsightly pantie lines

Sarah says:

that is my theroy on it

Dan says:

you’re right about the panty line thing… Girls worry about the strangest things.. you don’t see guys going around wonder if their boxers are leaving visible underwear lines…

Sarah says:

it’s just a girl thing

Dan says:

kinda like that ‘does this make my butt look big’ thing?

Sarah says:

thats right

Sarah says:

you do know the correct answer to that question right?

Dan says:

“Of course not, you’ve got a great ass, honey”

Sarah says:

good boy

Dan says:

you know.. I can’t think of anything else to blog about tonight… I may use this

Sarah says:

you’ve been blogging like a mad man this week

Dan says:

I’ve been talkative… what can I say? Besides..its an excuse not to finish unpacking

As you can tell.. I had a incredibly productive day at work.

If this article on the dailymail is correct…We won’t be seeing any new Sean Connery movies.. which sucks…lots. According to the article, Sir Connery has become fed up with the idiots running the movie studios:

He told the New Zealand Herald: “I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who greenlight the movies.”

And while I agree, that especially lately, the people giving the go ahead to make movies, have absolutely no idea what makes a good movie..it sucks that we don’t get to see Sir Connery on screen anymore =(

So, apparently, I’ve been picking what stocks/mutual funds to invest in the wrong way. I’ve been trying to figure out things like past performance, future estimates for the company, things called p/e ratios.. all that financial muckety-muck… turns out I should have been picking stocks based on morals.

Both virtue and vice seem to be increasingly effective investing strategies. God and Satan are both winning on Wall Street. In recent years, people who have invested in a particular brand of virtue—the Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund—and people who have invested in a particular brand of vice—the Vice Fund—have both handily beaten the market.

And, in case you had to ask, yes.. my choice of the two options would have been to invest in sin and vice.

while I was at work tonight, I came across this link. Which is a very cool set of optical illusions showing that our perceptions of an item’s color is heavily influenced by the surrounding items… Very cool.

If the fact that Hollywood is releasing a remake of “The Dukes of Hazzard” isn’t enough to convince you that Hollywood has ran out of new ideas for movies, and we should just count on seeing the same movies with different actors in them… perhaps hearing that not only are they planning on releasing a “Live-Action” version of the Transformers in 2007, (And really, how live action can it be, when your main ‘characters’ are cars and trucks that turn themselves into robots? Has anyone seen a car/truck turn itself into a robot on the highway recently?) Hollywood is also planning on releasing a film version of Voltron.

So..apparently, our big hits in ’07 will be remakes of animated Robot TV shows.. which would mean.. the big hit for ’08 must be a Movie version of America’s Funniest Home Videos.