Category: Rant

Mail filters written by idiots.

I got an email from my Dad, and since it’s a Microsoft Turd document I tried to bounce it to my work account so that I could read it there. But it bounced:

<tomblin@foo.bar.com>: host mailgate5.foo.bar.com[192.232.121.235] said: 550
    Message refused - Banned text appeared in header or body: 'shit' (in reply
    to end of DATA command)

I piped the message through strings to see where the banned text occurred. It was somebody’s name – “Phil Matushita”. Words fail me.

With a mark-down like this, how can you NOT afford it?

Screen grab from a Garmin GPS dealer.

The price has been marked down from $799.99 to $799.00. Well, I couldn’t afford it before, but now…

(Note: This is not a hint. This is the not the GPS I want anybody buying me for Christmas. If I were in the market for a new GPS, it would be the Garmin 296. Thank you.)

Open letter to Rochester drivers

…or at least the ones who work for the company whose name sounds a little like nodak:

Just because there is a molecule of snow on the gound does not give you license to park 3/4s of a car width away from the car nearest you. When I lived in Canada we had two little tricks that I’m willing to share with you for no cost: we either got the fuck out of our cars and kicked some snow off the ground to find the stripe, or we just parked as far away from the next guy as we did in summer. Now, is that so hard?

I swear our company parking lot’s capacity goes down by 50% in winter, and you have to park further away from the door just when you’d least like to walk that extra distance.

That’s not good

My laptop was on when I pushed it aside to watch a TV show. I picked it up after the show, and it made that “bong” noise that it makes when it’s booting. And then 3 seconds later it made it again. And continued to make it as odd intervals, for about 20 more times before it eventually booted.

I’m backing everything up right now. I’m also checking out the prices for new Powerbooks.

You must be smarter than this stick to be on the Internet

Seen on a mailing list for Linux users:


I am trying to unsubcribe this email ... becuase I want to resubscribe
under and another.
I cannot find what email address to send it to....
Does someone know it off hand?
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