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Dear Foreigners Visiting the Grand Canyon
written 16 Aug 2009 while the school buses headed home
Thank you, the pleasure has been all mine. I cannot wait to visit your country and skip your countrymen in line, not move over even an inch as you barrel down the sidewalk, and return your general rude attitude.
Also, thank you for proving to me how very, very tough and/or gay you are by staring at me from across the cafe, the bus and the parking lot for as long as I am in your presence.
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Facebook Video Hates Users and Myself
So I’ve spent the past 24 hours trying to upload video to Facebook. The first three times it failed. The last time it uploaded the entire video, a painstaking hour long process of hogging all of my bandwidth for some reason, and then:
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Gambling with our Tax Dollars: What’s in it for the taxpayer?
To the notion some candidates have of deregulating the government even more, clearly a free market doesn’t work when you allow some companies to inflate themselves like balloons in a world where there will always be pins.
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They were the Bands that Defined Your Generation
Or so claimed the television advertisement. A catchy line for sure, spoken over top of some random stage shots of a band I didn’t recognize to a tune I certainly couldn’t recall.
“Who is it?” my mind darts, dashing, desperate to know who these bands are that defined my generation. The announcer continued…
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The Thing About Microsoft is…
Microsoft just recently admitted making mistakes when Vista was released, stating that “We broke a lot of things.” and “There’s a conversation going on in the marketplace today and it’s just plain awful.”
We broke a lot of things.
The conversation referred to is presumably the one where word of mouth is spreading Vista’s incompatibility with many devices and the general feeling of the new OS being a step back from XP. It might also include the conversation where many users, as much as 40% of current college students, are deciding that rather than upgrading to Vista ($130 – $220 depending on the version) they’re going to shell out for a new Mac (who’s computers are now only about $500 more expensive and who’s OS upgrades are only around $80.) Apple’s market share (for Macs) is up to almost 8% (from less than 1% in the late 90′s). Corporations (especially in China) are switching to Linux more and more often. Firefox has as much as 41% of the browser market, which just a few years ago was all but completely dominated by Internet Explorer.
So what happened, and what’s going to happen?
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Soul Capturing: A 1 Part History of the Current State of Personal Home Photography
I wonder how many landfills are seeping to the frills with old pictures of people who were asked to “stand together there with your [insert friend/sibling/parent] and smile”, only to leave behind a photograph full of discomforting smiles reminiscent of the faces people likely make while simultaneously having a bowel movement and giving birth through the mouth. If there’s one thing I hope the world’s greatest minds invent, it’s a camera contact lens, so that by simply blinking you take a picture. That way, people will have no idea you’re about to capture their soul on film and you’ll be able to catch real life instead of random poses.
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Don’t Be Fooled: The Government Owns You
Last December I had applied for a passport for my son. I went to the county courthouse in Cambria County as I was visiting my parents in Johnstown and submitted the application. I wanted to submit an expedited application as we were leaving to go on a trip in 6 weeks and I’m familiar with how slow and inefficient our government is, having been living under its rule for the vast majority of my life, however the people at the courthouse insisted that I would receive the application in no more than 3 weeks if I submitted it via normal means. I can only imagine it’s an extra 5 minutes of work or something for them to submit the expedited request. So anyway, I submitted the application.
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MidPhase Hosting is a Complete Scam
My first experience with a host came with Lunarpages a few years back. Olivia over at Yummy Wakame had recommended them to me and I appreciate advice, so I went with it. Lunarpages had stellar support for the first few months, and so I started referring all of my client to them.
Almost simultaneously their phone support became non-existent and they were having 2 to 3 day turn around times with email support. Sites were down for days at a time. It was time to move.
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Blogs without Comments…
…are as antiquated as old media. There, I’ve said it, now everyone can enjoy the Superbowl on Sunday without feeling like there’s this fat, smoking monkey in a rubber clown suit hanging from their mullets.
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Pittsburgh Family Cheated by Comcast
In a blanket effort to further alienate customers today, Comcast in Pittsburgh, PA completely disregarded a Pittsburgh family’s requests for support. The family was attempting to connect to various websites, including the father, Nathan Swartz, 28, a Web designer who needed to connect to a client’s site to work as well as his wife, Olivia Meiring, 30+, who was attempting to access popular time suck, facebook.com.
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