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July 28, 2007
Color returns to my website...
... and air conditioning returns to my home.
As you can see (provided you are not reading this via RSS), color has returned to my website!
Posted by Decemberice at 09:15 PM | Comments (1)
July 25, 2007
Air Conditioning/ iPhone ETA Tomorrow...
... thank god on both.
My iPhone, has taken a rather scenic voyage through the country. Ironically; however, it started in Canada. This is ironic because I just ran into some people in an ATT store yesterday (one of them was extremely hot but that's neither here nor there) who came all the way from Canada to see the iPhone. Apparently they scheduled a flight to my area (where they had relatives) because they've been following the iPhone in the media and wanted to experience and possibly purchase it.
God bless Canada, they are really starting to come around.
Again, still not ironic, except for that they couldn't buy it. The lady in the store said they have to have a current US residence. So, as opposed to my iPhone which came to me from Canada from a US-based business... their iPhone could not come to them from the US despite the fact that they are apparently stockpiled in Canada.
This is almost as good as the time the mouse (animal) got strangled by the cord from my mouse (computer peripheral).
Life has a funny way of playing games with people's heads.
Also, air conditioning should be arriving tomorrow. Hopefully that means we can heal my blog which turned cripsy in appearance when it sponteneously combusted last week. As soon as my doctor get's back in town to refill my medication so I can walk again... this will turn out to be a rather great week.
I'll take pictures of the iPhone unboxing and let you know how it all goes.
Being the Apple dope I am, I also bought the Apple bluetooth headset. It is significantly overpriced, but hey, if you are buying a $600 cell phone... why not go all the way?
Posted by Decemberice at 10:31 AM | Comments (1)
July 16, 2007
Angry Cell Phone Customer Who Can't Get Reception Destroys Cell Towers With A Tank...
... Serious folks, headlines like this don't come around everyday. The man got angry when he couldn't get good reception, hops in his FRICKIN' TANK! and decides to show the cell phone company where they can stick their crappy service by way of playing a grand scale game of dominoes with their cell towers.
Let's explore this a little more shall we...
I can't call my psychic hotline because the phone connection is crappy. Obviously, my cell service is once again standing in the way of my mental health via clairvoyant intervention... Clearly... something must be done about this.
So, I put on my dancing shoes, get in the tank I keep in the shed for just such ocassions, and 5 minutes later it's on like Donkey Kong.
Now that's the shit right there. I've always liked the Australian's they are a wiley bunch. Seriously, you could tell your kid you were once the president of the United States and it might make them a little bit proud and inspired... but you tell him that you once righted things when a company wronged you by running their properties down in a frickin' tank, and that's a kid who's going to grow up taking no shit from anybody.
Now, you may think this story can't get any better, but you'd be wrong... you see... the tank has a star on the back. As if to say fuck you I'm a superstar. Kiss my star while I gleefully demolish your towers... It's like the man is doing it with a sense of style.
I just cannot say enough good things about the genius who did this, I think I may write to him and request his autograph. I wonder if they will impound his tank or if it will be bronzed and put in the lobby of the cell company's headquarters.
UPDATE!!! It appears that MSNBC has video footage of the pursuit and the man demolished cell phone towers in the tank:
Posted by Decemberice at 07:47 PM | Comments (1)
How did my blog get torched...
... you ask? Why is it so crispy black and ashen grey? Because I have no air conditioning at my house right now and it, as I will soon as well, spontaneously combusted into flame. It was 106 on Saturday. It may have been 104 or 105 but 1 or 2 degrees matters not when you get past 100. The point being that it was freakin roasting.
As it turns out fans do nothing but push hot air around in that sort of climate. I can't help but have a whole new respect for the engineering that goes into an central air conditioning system. Well, that and they say it's going to be $1,600 to fix. I'm not sure my car is even worth that much.
So long iMac, I've traded in my hopes and dreams of a new computer on comfortable living conditions. It was a tough decision... I sweat it... (couldn't help myself), but the long-term investment of not suffering heat stroke on a nightly basis outweighed a pretty new computer in the end. Blah, priorities.
Last night I actually went to the movies just to enjoy their air conditioning. That's right, I ended up at Pirates of the Caribbean (yes it's still in theaters) but I have no opinion on the movie because I spent the entire time basking in the climate controlled goodness with soda and popcorn.
It's amazing how much ice cream a person eats when their house is a smoltering 98 degrees. You just can't bring yourself to cook things because well... you run the risk of making the house 99 degrees from the evaporating fumes of the microwave when you open the door.
At any rate, I'm done bitching... for now... I'm totally going to Alaska for my vacation.
Posted by Decemberice at 07:26 PM | Comments (0)