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Subsidized Netbooks from Cell Companies are Crap

Nathan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:11:21 +0000

In the last year these little computers have become a big hit. The past couple of weeks I have had three friends get a new Netbooks. Personally I carry my laptop around with me, so having a netbook just doesn’t suit me. For them however it was a perfect solution. Portable, cheap, and they run Linux. What more could you want.

How about not to be screwed over by cell companies selling Netbooks at a “subsidized” price with a two year contract. The computer industry moves too fast for this to be a sensible option for the customer. Yet AT&T, Verizon and others are doing this. These computers are Netbooks, which means they are cheap, and underpowered. How does anyone expect these computers to be usable in two years?

I would personally not even think about getting a subsidized Netbook from a cell company. They are going to lock you into a two year contract, paying $60/month, and in a year you’ll have a messed up slow computer.

Thanks Jerks!

Tags: Bitching, Computer, Netbook

A maze of Corn

Nathan — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:45:44 +0000

So last night Kim and I wend to the Corn Maze. When we first pulled up, there was a line of cars about 15 long. I was under the impression, this place didn’t get that busy. But I guess I was wrong. So as we pull up the guy asks for $2. Apparently it costs $2 to park in one part of the corn field, and $10 to get lost in another. The whole parking situation pissed me off. First we had to pay then I had to drive my card into a field, and my car isn’t the best for driving into fields. Anyway, Kim had gotten free tickets, so all my bitching was really for nothing, since the only thing we had to pay was for parking. We headed to the maze, which we of course got lost in. I swear we went back to the beginning five times. Met lots of people who kept asking us if this is the right way. I let them know that I was lost, and didn’t think it was a good idea to follow me. But then we figured out that the maze was broken up into parts. The beginning was the most confusing part, and it got easier after that. I would have to say it took about an hour to get out of the corn. All in all I had a good time, and would do it again….if all I had to pay was $2.

I give it 3 stars out of 5

Tags: Bitching, Lost

Facebook — Privacy Issue or Fun Stalking Tool

Nathan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:19:39 +0000

Oogaly boogaly boo!

Now on to a rant about privacy and Facebook

Yesterday Facebook.com released a new feature which they call news feed. Basically its an embedded rss reader that tells you what has changed on your friends profile. Also they added a small one to each persons profile. Now we can look at this with two different views.

This is an invasion of privacy. Which I can see, and the view is all well and good, except for the fact that you put your information on the site for others to see. The people looking at the news feed can see what the news feed it telling them by going to your profile.
This is a tool that can be used to make stalking easier. The only thing I can say to that is YES!, and what is your point. Could that stalker not just go to your profile and get the same information? The answer YES!

If you use Facebook as so many do, you notice that there are people with thousands of friends. Those are the people saying statement 1. This could easily be solved by those people only having friends they are…..FRIENDS WITH!!!! Facebook could dumb there site down to deal with these assholes by making a tiered list of friends. Like “Best Friend”, “Good Friend”, “Acquaintance”, or Facebook could make the news feed an optional tool. But fuck that. Then your so called private info wouldn’t show up to acquaintance. Then there are people that are bitching about the stalking. Lets first look at the word stalker, or in this case stalking (Stalking is a legal term for repeated harassment or other forms of invasion of a person’s privacy in a manner that causes fear to its target. ) So statement 2 is stating the something as statement 1. So as I see it, three things can happen,

1. People can cut down the number of friends they have, to only FRIENDS!!!
2. Facebook can change there site to accommodate assholes like these
3. There assholes can take there shit somewhere else

My vote goes for 3.

Tags: Bitching, Friends, Social, Web_2.0

No Gas, Child Predators, Time Waster, and Girls

Nathan — Wed, 17 May 2006 03:02:35 +0000

I received an email today that I thought I would share with everyone.
“It has been calculated that if everyone in the United States Did not purchase a drop of gasoline for one day and all at the same time, the oil companies would choke on their stockpiles. At the same time it world hit the entire industry with a net loss of over 4.6 billion dollars which affect the bottom lines of the oil companies. Therefore May 19th has been formally declared “Stick It To Them” day and the people of this nation should not buy a single drop of gasoline that day.”
This is all great and good, I’m all for sticking it to the man, but come on really, all this means is that we will all get enough gas on the 18th to make it through the 19th. So let me ask, what does this accomplish? This will only hurt gas stations. So please if you decide not to get gas on the 19th at least stop and get a soda.

Am I the only one who thinks these shows like Dateline, 20/20, and others are having too much fun busting these child predators. I mean really do we need to see a naked guy thinking he is going to get some for a 14 year old girl. I say take the money you are using to produce the show, and give it to the police to help find even more child predators.

Todays Time waster is an olde but a goode. It grabs pictures for flickr and you have to guess what tag all the photos have in common. Find it here.

Guys why do we do the things we do for women? Why do we always play their game? Why do we spend the cash? Why, Why, Why??? I’ll tell you, it’s because it doesn’t matter how much you say you hate it, deep down inside you like playing the game, cause with every game you can’t wait for the out come.

Tags: Best Interweb, Bitching, Gas, Women

Fucking Bitches

Nathan — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:00:26 +0000

So I just walked into the UC, and sitting there was one of my Ex’s sorority sisters, who she is good friends with. Right away when I walk in, this girl looks to the guy sitting next to her and starts whispering stuff. The guy is an ATO, which is the same fraternity that my ex’s new boyfriend is in. Anyway I know this girl is talking about me. I ignore it and get a newspaper. Then walk over to her and say hi, we were friends and i was trying to be nice. Well she just totally ignores me. So I walk away. I don’t understand why these girls have to be this way. I didn’t do jack shit to her, or Lauren, there is no reason for anyone to be acting this way toward me. I really don’t care if they want to be bitches, its cool, but don’t be whispering shit right in front of me when you see me. If you have a problem you need to come out with it. That’s what I do. If I have a problem with someone, I tell them, it may make me see like an ass, but at least the people know how I feel.

Tags: Bitching, Women

WTF!!! UAH

Nathan — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:11:15 +0000

What the hell, here is a test result I did off the Wifi in the libarary.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 88 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 11 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (main)
Test Time:: 2006/03/27 – 9:31am
Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 93.09 sec
Tested from a 97 kB file and took 9.023 seconds to complete
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 16.64 % of your hosts average (180.187)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-4C1G2BON0

As you can tell this was from a few days ago, but still….OMG!!1

Tags: Bitching, School

Bank Fraud

Nathan — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:30:45 +0000

Wow….so this morning I received a call from my bank. They asked if I had made a purchase from “Bed Bath and Beyond” or as i call it B cubed…lol…ok so anyway they waned to know if I had made a purchase for $1.00 I was like “ummmm….no” So they are going to cancel my debit card, now I have to wait for 7-10 days for a new one. After years of bitching about Amsouth they finally did something good. I thanked him, cause they could have gotten a lot out. But Fuck You hackers you didn’t get it….hehe!!!!

Tags: Bank, Bitching

Alarm on a shitty car

Nathan — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:01:28 +0000

Third post of the day. Here we go. Tonight when I was leaving campus tonight there was a shitty car parked in front of me. Now I drive a vechile that needs to warm up before being driven. So I was sitting there letting the truck warm up, when the car alarm in front of me went off. WTF? This car had a blue book value of about $1500 tops. Why would someone have such a sensitive alarm on a car like this, and what am I suppose to do once an alarm goes off?
Nathan

Tags: Bitching

Happy Holidays?!?!?!?!?!?

Nathan — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:10:03 +0000

Happy Holidays Everyone, (and Marry Christmas), does that seem right? Or should I stick with Marry Christmas and say fuck off to all the other holidays that fall between Thanksgiving and New Years. I mean who the fuck cares about Boxing Day (December 26), Festivus (December 23), Hanukkah (26 Kislev – 2/3 Tevet almost always in December), and Kwanzaa (26 December – 1 January), the Christians only care about the one big day Christmas (December 25). Is that how we are supposed to think? What really gets me, are the people that support or efforts in Iraqi, but say its not the Holiday Season, its Christmas. Now that’s just plain hypocritical. We loose troops in Iraqi everyday so that those people have the same rights that we do. But here in the states we say fuck their ideas on God and Religion, it’s fucking Christmas…..That is just fucked up. Come on people we are not the only ones in the world, there are others, and so the fuck what if all the stores are just selling Christmas things, that doesn’t mean that there is not some Jewish kid looking for some Jewish things to buy. Come on people we need to learn to live together, this is the Holiday Season, no matter how you look at it, and yes to the Christians its Christmas, but to others it’s not.

In other news I pissed on my pants yesterday. Noticed I said “pissed on my pants”, Ok so here is what happen. I was sitting on the toilet taking a crap, minding my own business, on the second floor of the library where no one goes. You know how every time you crap you have to piss. Well the same thing happen to me yesterday, except some of some piss got stuck in the tube. I know its weird and I may be the only one that this happens to, or maybe it was just how I was sitting. Anyway, so when I went to reach around and wipe, the piss shot out, I mean like a stream shot out. This was not good. The area in which the piss landed was the back of my pants. Ok this was not good either because now if someone would look at my ass, it looked as though my ass crack had sweated. How disgusting is that. As I said I believe it was just the way I was sitting, I was kind of leaned forward. Another factor is it was cold, so maybe the shrinkage caused this. I don’t know, whatever it was that was the first time that had ever happen.

Happy Holidays
Nathan

Tags: Bitching, Christmas, New Year, Work

Schedule :(

Nathan — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:58:16 +0000

Hello again, how is everyone…..good I hope!! So anyway I want to bitch about our schedule posting times. In about 48 hours the new week starts. But there is still no new schedule. Ok, I remember about a year ago when the schedule was posted the Wednesday of every week, now that has gotten pushed back to Thursday, then Friday, and now this week Saturday. I mean come on would it not be nice to have some what of an advance on you schedule, especially since this coming week is a week in which we have a holiday. Maybe some people would like to plan events around their schedules, but that can’t be done because the schedules have not been put up yet. Anyway, I’m done bitching about that…………um well looks like I don’t have that much more to say, so I’m going to leave it at that.

Tags: Bitching, Work