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Who designs these things?
Well, I had a Wal-Mart gift card I had to use, so I walked all over the store, and couldn’t find a single thing I actually wanted. Ended up just using the card to buy some groceries! Ha ha. I guess that’s a good sign, I already have a lot of stuff I want.
But with the money I saved on groceries, I decided I could pick up this cool little multi-tool.
I ordered it from rockynational.com and would recommend ordering from them to anyone else. I placed my order on Thursday, and it arrived in the mail on Saturday! That’s speedy service. The quality of the tool is as good as somthing the size of a couple nail trimmers can be. I wouldn’t go to town on a rusty old bolt with this, but it should come in handy in those situations where you wish you had a knife or a simple pair of plier.
But some of the features of this thing leave me puzzled. Who had the checklist for this thing? Granted, many of the tools are sure to come in quite handy. The knife, the screwdrivers, the bottle opener. But what kind of guy that’s looking for a nice all purpose tool, is going to be gung ho about the NAIL FILE and the TWEEZERS? Okay, I’ll give the tweezers a pass, as this could come in handy for the outdoorsman who happens to get a splinter. But a nail file? Really. “OH YAY. My utlity tool and manacure set finally arrived!” Such a waste of a slot on my multi-tool.
Yet another podcast.
This week:
- Paint
- Hoodlum Kids
- Hawaii
HP Bloatware
Seriously. Can you not hook a printer up just to print? Do you really need ink monitoring levels, a photo processing center, newsletter, and automatic updates? All I want to do is print a document once in a while.
Maybe I’ve been out of the old school hardware scene for a while, but it took a good 30 minutes to install the driver and all the damn software for an old HP3900 here at work. Surely there’s some third party drivers out there that you can install to give you basic printing functions, that don’t bog down this already bogged down hardware!
07.31.08So much paint. So little time.
Well, I decided it’s finally time to get to all the hail dents on the Toronado. Except for the fact that nobody around here sells the right color of paint. If I were smart I would have stocked up. But no. I’m not smart. Luckily Biebs was able to score some for me from Home Depot in Hays. Saweet! So I was looking at maybe starting the sand and fill the MANY MANY hail dents this weekend.
And then I’m heading over to drop of my rent check and the landlord is there. She says, “Hey, here’s that paint you asked for to paint the house!” Hooray! Which I am also excited about. Finally get some paint on the gawd awful trim on this house. So that’s gonna take priority. Except that I don’t have a ladder. Gotta get a ladder. Only its hard to haul a ladder home in either a Toronado, or a Mustang. If only I had…oh…an El Camino!
But they’ll both get done. Hopefully before the snow falls. I hope.
07.29.08Net nutrality gaining significance.
“I am pleased that a majority has agreed that the commission both has the authority to, and in fact will, stop broadband service providers when they block or interfere with subscribers’ access”
-Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman
The FCC appears to be taking steps to convince Comcast to stop throttling people’s internet connection speed based on what software they are using, or how big of files they are transferring. It’s still shaky ground though, as even though there’s net neutrality principles from the FCC, they aren’t legally enforceable. Comcast can just give the FCC the finger and keep doing what they’re doing if they want to.
For those who aren’t quite up on the issue. Comcast (which is an internet provider) has been intentionally slowing down people’s internet who use BitTorrent. BT is primarily used for file sharing, and I’m not going to sit here and drabble on about how many LEGAL torrents there are. I whole heartedly admit that a clear majority of torrents, probably are illegal. But the issue is, if you let ISPs control this activity, where does it stop?
Right now Comcast is claiming that it is slowing people down to help ease network congestion. (I.E. All these people downloading huge files, would keep many other paying customers from getting the speed they paid for.) Well if we allow that. What’s to say Yahoo couldn’t write Comcast a check, and with so many people going to Google.com, they slow down (or even restrict) ALL connections to that website, (of course claiming Google creates too much network traffic), and eliminating Yahoo’s main competition for an extremely large group of people.
Imagine not being able to visit your favorite sites, because they haven’t entered into an agreement with your Internet Service Provider.
Imagine having to pay a basic connection fee, then pay for an entertainment teir, that gives you access to YouTube.com. A sports tier that gives you access to ESPN.com.
Imagine not being able to chat with your friends because your ISP only allows Yahoo Messenger, and your friend’s ISP only allows MSN Messenger.
Of course all these are extreme scenarios, and admittedly a bit far fetched. I would like to believe that as time goes on, the choices in portals to connect to the internet will increase profoundly, and those with rigid, overpriced business models will be left behind by those that offer more flexable and affordable alternatives. In this regard, I’m somewhat on the fence. However, in the more immediate future, I truely hope that pure uncensored internet continues to be a reality.
Another birthday on the books.
Had a pretty outstanding birthday. Laid back, the way I like it. Andrea got me a set of car ramps, a trouble light, and Final Fantasy Tactics: A2! All excellent gift choices! Thanks to Mom and Grandma for gifts as well!
I spent the cooler hours of the morning out waxing the car and polishing all the chrome. I SEROUSLY don’t understand why chrome when out of style. So damn sexy when it shines! Then once it got friggin 100 degrees outside, I came in and played some Guild Wars, and dinked around on the internet. Ran a couple errands and genrally just took it easy.
Excellent birthday in my opinion. One of the best!
You’ve gotta be REALLY geeky to think this is funny.
I’ve been watching a lot of the old Star Trek TNG episodes lately. Then somebody posted this on OldsPower.com, I thought it was hilarious.
HOLY CRAP!
Here’s a new B.G. Willers Podcast!
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Least single people EVER? C’mon!