Rantings, mostly…

OK, so I call Dell to find out whether or not my laptop was supposed to come with a Bluetooth card installed or not and after 4 minutes holding a thickly accented Middle Eastern man proceeded to talk about security, authentication and some other shite when I gave him my service tag.

Once I finally got him to send me through to technical support he had to first stop me and tell me:

“I see that you have not extended your parts warranty.  Let me look up those prices for you so that you may extend it 1,2 even 3 years.  Alright?”

“Um, that’s OK, I don’t want to extend the warranty.”

“OK then, thank you sir, hold one moment while I look those up for you.”

*sigh*

“OK sir, I have looked those prices up for you.  To extend until 2011 will be $229.nn* after taxes.  This will cover…”

*CLICK!*

So, note 2 things.  The * is I forgot the change and the “click” is when I said screw it.

Take note of one last thing actually.

Which is odd when you think about it.  Normally calling a company is the best way to get a reduced cost.

I hate Dell.  And I hate grape squishee 7/11 accents… yeah you heard me…

Evidently my previous article was “worthy” enough to get a pingback from “Delete Blog.”

At first I thought, wow, my first ever pingback (I think).  Then I thought, “Oh that’s right!  Successful bloggers use the success of other bloggers to promote their blogging!”

That’s when I knew Delete Blog must be on crack.  I further verified this by seeing that for the date of November 12 alone there were 100+ posts, November 11 (the day I got the pingback) was similar.

Then I decided to check out a few and some of them are completely horrid, such as:

http://deleteblog.com/how-do-i-get-the-file-to-restore-my-itouch-to-an-earlier-software/

Which leads to:

http://www.officialappleitouch.com/?p=934

You may notice that it is a blog that without JavaScript is completely devoid of content.  After allowing script I see that it is a “cry for help” post.

How in the hell did that make it to the front page of a “website” that “collects the best and most interesting news, blogs, forum and articles from around the world about recent topics?”

For that matter, how the hell did my post about my kids and I make it to the front page on November, 11th?

Here’s one that I found via their “Featured Articles” widget:

http://deleteblog.com/5-blogging-tips-every-blogger-should-know/

Looks like the editor-in-chief has been stealing material from SiteProNews, Squidoo and Top Blogging — and not even doing a good job of it either.

Unless I’m mistaken, Delete Blog you are useless.

Yet another reason for me to hate Charmed.  Although I am trying my best to like it since my wife is forcing me to rent all 8 seasons from Netflix.

Anyway…

In the episode “Primrose Empath,” it is *very* evident that the final fight in the end was a direct copy of Neo’s encounter with Agent Smith at the end of The Matrix.

Everything from the Matrix-esque running horizontally across walls, ala Trinity in the scene with the cops in the beginning, to the one-armed fending off of Agent Smith once Neo realized he was The One.

Of course, the finale to the ripoff was Prue leaping into the demon Vinceres and then flexing her newly acquired empathic Matrix power, inevitably ripping the demon apart as Agent Smith was done by Neo.

Of course I may not have been so excited to post this had my wife not sworn up and down that The Matrix ripped it off of Charmed.

Charmed, November 2000 vs The Matrix, March 1999, for the record.  : )

Some stupid insurance company has a commercial that looks surprisingly like “A Scanner Darkly.”

Dammit, for the life of me I cannot remember. When I do I will be sure to post back or edit this post.

I am totally sure that everyone in the world cannot possibly wait to find out.

Pfft. Yeah.

I found myself recently watching Becker; which just so happens to be one of the greatest shows on Earth.

Anyway… in the episode “The Princess Cruise” an affable, yet extremely naive and dimwitted Linda (Shawnee Smith) sets up a wildly inexpensive vacation for John (Ted Danson). Unbeknownst to John are the horrors that await him on that vacation.

More to the point, John says to Linda that she should venture into the storeroom and bring back a boxful of syringes. Ironically, in the movie Saw II, Linda, I mean Shawnee Smith finds herself in a pit of used syringes.

Coincidence? Who cares!? Shawnee Smith is hot either way!

For a long time I’ve enjoyed Tom Hanks movies. Well, until I saw “Cast Away” that is. It wasn’t that it was a horrible movie, but it was horribly long, horribly boring and horribly loses itself amongst it’s plot.

One key thing that I just loved about the movie, since I could identify with talking to an inanimate object (and sometimes receiving a more literate correspondence than you would otherwise with a real person) on more than one occasion, was the creation of Wilson.

Yet, strangely something still nagged at the back of mind. Why does that seem so familiar? I’ll tell you why. It’s a direct ripoff of the movie “The Blue Lagoon“.

And here I thought, amongst all of the steadily decreasing uniquely imaginative ideas that spawn in Hollywood today, surely Tom Hanks would not be privy to it. Just goes to show you what I know and what making over a million dollars on a semi-crappy movie will make you do.

Where is it found?

Emmeline (Brooke Shields) is weaving a Wilsonesque coconut husk head with palm frond hair, whilst Richard (Christopher Atkins) plays with their beautiful toddler, Paddy (Chad Timmerman) on the beach.