Rantings, mostly…

Ah, don’t worry. That’s about as deep as I’ll be getting in this post.

I was just a mite bummed out about 12 hours ago (7PM yesterday) when I called the local fire department and the conversation went a bit like this:

Fireman: “City” Fire Department.
Me: Hi, who am I speaking with?
Fireman: What?
Me: Sorry! Who am I speaking with?
Fireman: “City” Fire Department.
Me: Oh. Ok. Well, nice to meet you “City” Fire Department, I’m toe.
Fireman: Alright.
Me: I was wondering, what measures do I need to take or what do I need to arrange with you cats to snag this CRT monitor off my hands and dispose of it eco-friendly like.
Fireman: Say what now?
Me: How do you guys get rid of computer monitors?
Fireman: We don’t.
Me: You don’t know how to dispose of computer monitors or you don’t offer that service?
Fireman: Neither I ’spose.
At this point bear in mind that I full well knew that improper disposal of a CRT monitor is a seriously environment unfriendly action.
Me: Do you know if there is anything special I should do before throwing it away?
Fireman: No I don’t believe you need to do anything but set it out for the garbage man.
Me: Alrighty then mister. Thanks.
Fireman: *click* He hung up.

Besides the fact the exchange between me and the hillbilly fireman was absolutely mind numbing I find it amazing that a fireman anywhere doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to dispose of something like that.

Even worse is my local chamber of commerce said to “check with them, they’ll know.”

The painful truth is that out of all the various ailments that plague my mind and body — procrastination is above all the worst of them.

I think back on the year’s events thus far and I am deeply disappointed at my personal results.

Let me put some aspects of this into perspective and show you a few numbers.

Projects: 17, Completed: 0
Snippets: 80+, Completed: 12
Single-Use Applications: 20+, Completed: 0
School-Related Projects*: 4, Completed: 0

* These are those projects that required a certain amount of effort. The effort I gave was much greater than what was expected, but only enough of my effort to achieve an A+.

And in general things that just sort of die for no reason. For example, this lame excuse for a blog.

I’ve plenty of things to say so it must come down to pure laziness and/or procrastination.

Anyway, I plan on officially listing an entirely new set of steps I plan to follow to become more efficient. I may however start an entirely new blog or project to do it.

Man I sure have some poor management skills. Oh yeah… and I’m lazy.

Well, that’s assuming he had only one…

But what bugs me most about this is the fact his Web site STILL doesn’t have anything on it about the death of his daughter.

Considering the dumb bastard has been jailed for failure to pay child support, I’m not surprised that nothing about the loss of his daughter has made it to his site that promotes his music.  Does you make wonder though doesn’t it?

“Hrrmm… my album only made me $25,000,000 this year — guess I’ll skip the child support!”

Well, to the little 4 year old angel, Jelani — RIP.

From a direct quote on the page, “It’s heartbreaking to us that someone would do this to the site.”

I cannot agree more.  Why in the hell would someone hack a site dedicated to helping cheap software movements (mostly free)!?  Oh, that’s right… because virus writers have nothing to do with their pathetic permanently fused to their chairs, lives.

I mean, I went through a small phase of “virus” writing — the joke kind, and the “Haha, you trusted me ph00l, now you’re pr0n is gone!” kinds, but never this “My baby must propagate to the ENTIRE world so that I can spend the rest of my life in prision!  Moo har har!” kinds.

The problem is such widespread ignorant use of valid “hacking” tools being employed by everyone and their 11 year old brother or sister.  Or the retard little hackling (script-kiddie) who desperately wants to be a “hack4r” and proceeds to (hopefully) impress others by utilizing one of the most mundane, and idiotic (although sadly, extremely prolific) routines of exploiting old or abandoned software.

So here is my final thought on the culprits — either you’re retarded or you are a stupid child.  Otherwise, you might be smart enough to say, “Hey, I think you need me on your team — I’ve something to show you.”  If no one wants to reward you for your efforts (although nefarious in nature) then screw it — do what you feel you have to.

But I know damn well DonationCoder (and gang) would have gladly accepted you or made things worth your while if they didn’t.

This rant was made possible by parentheses.

I am so tired and unenthusiastic about this post I am not even going to post any links whatsoever to Adult Swim or some of its newest retarded “horror comedies” like Stiff and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

Stupid shite isn’t even funny.  It makes me SICK!

Seriously though… Stiff is stupid.  Decent gore for a low-budget piece of shite though.

Speaking of which, is Adult Swim really that low-budget?  Since when?

(The links don’t actually work so don’t bother clicking on them.)

I know, I know… I have said it at least a hundred times before, but it really is.

The latest thing to send this point home was the tremendous amount of blogs that have no original content, but instead link to someone else’s blog, who in turn links to someone else’s blog and finally, somewhere at the end of all these “click-throughs,” you wind up at the content you originally sought.

For example, the creator of WordPress loves to blog other people’s blogs.  See “Google Gadget Ads.”  His post is all of 2 lines long, barely long enough to basically say, “Click here to get what you actually wanted, dummy.”

Anyway, the first thing you see is the link to Niall Kennedy’s post about Google Gadgets.  Where does Niall’s post finally bring us?  You guessed it… Google Gadget Ads.

So what ever happened to unique content on the Web?  I mean, I figured that is why I could excel at blogging, because I am so ridiculously mundane and lackluster that it HAD to be unique!

Now it sinks it again that this blog will never be popular.  Why?  I guess because I do not blog enough of other people’s blogs.

Then again, that is what I have done with this post so who knows?  Maybe I will get a million hits from this post alone.