I’ve added two new sections to the site, as this “thing of mine” seems to keep on growing every week. I’ve added a software section for both SharpMT’s, the RantsTab, and a few other tools that I’ve “saved” from my shareware company which is now closed. As most of these donation-ware applications tell you to look at this site for more information, I’ve added a donations page to help that process along. Otherwise, it’s business – or un-business – as usual!
Category Archives: Rant
Drive-Thru Horror Story, Part 2
I understand why people like to use the drive-thru of a fast food restaurant. Even though it promotes laziness, it is a convenience, especially on a rainy day. (Remember that east coast people melt when they get wet so we avoid the rain at all costs – I learned how to not melt from my trips to Seattle and I thank the ppl there for that.) I also understand that sometimes the drive-thru can be a necessity, too… especially at a Dunkin’ Donuts. After all, if you’ve been there enough and are now so fat that you can’t get your butt checks off the driver’s seat or if you’ve opted to sue the food chain for “making” you obese [crock of shit!] and can’t be seen getting a 12-pack of chocolate frosted before your court hearing. Of course none of this makes up for the fuckhead in a drive-thru line that causes a ten minute wait to get coffee.
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Blackout!
Ironically, my piss ant, bass-ackwards, small town is just beyond the eastern most edge of this massive blackout that has sacked towns from Detroit, MI to Fairfield County, CT to Toronto, Canada. My parents have no power and they’re only 5 or 6 miles away. There are Metro-North trains that I would ordinarily be on that have been stranded between stations for hours. Radio and TV stations are off the air all over western CT and parts of NY. New York City has people clogging the streets as they walk out of MTA terminals, leaving stuck subway trains behind. As near as I can tell this is the first mass blackout since some time in the late 70’s but my mother likens this to the “blackout of 1965” – either way it’s a major outage and I still have power… scary.
Metrosexual?
Is this life imitating art? Or art imitating life? Or just another fabricated buzzword for the sake of an article? Hard to say… I saw it on MSN earlier today, and while I think the majority of the article stems from the hype of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, a good amount of it hit a little close to home…
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Hospital Food
For the last 48 hours I’ve been sustaining myself mostly on hospital food and it’s forced me to make an observation. OK, observation might be too strong a work… nothing earth shattering but it’s something I’ve realized over a set of recent events from my life.
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oOoo! Reflective Rainbows!
I’ve got a little bit of wisdom to offer the Puerto Rican population of New York and Connecticut: CD’s need to go into a stereo system to be heard. This seems like it should be common sense, no? It’s not. I’ve seen more CD’s hanging from mirrors over the last few weeks to cause this little fortune cookie sized bit of advice to be formed.
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ESPN Screws the Pooch
I hate Sunday Night Baseball. I know that ESPN has enough clout with MLB to negotiate at least one game a week for Sunday night ‘ball, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it… ESPN: You suck and you proved it tonight.
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Home Alone… YES!
Needed a night away from everything, so I took one, even if it is a Saturday night. The Yankees won their game today. A week’s vacation is about to begin. I went out to lunch with my sister and my mom. Had the Jeep out in picture perfect summertime weather. I’m out of beer in the fridge, but I’ve still got some Diet Coke left. Went to a GeekFest this morning. Spent the night ensconced in the house and currently watching PCU on cable. *w00t*
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Advice Required: Who Should I Be Mad At?
Someone deserves to take the blame for my latest round of stress that’s been caused by my medical care, but I don’t know who should catch the brunt of my angst. I’ve identified the possible offenders, easily enough: my battery of doctors, my insurance company, my local CVS, and my current company. While each one of these people, places, and things claim to care about my wellbeing, the combination of them has started to make me realize that there might be some wisdom in chucking it all for a good dose of Windex, the all-powerful cure all.
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News Flash!
Had to share two bits of information, however off-topic they may seem: “Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions.” This from MTV.com, Ozzy has opted to weigh in on the use of pot. While I can see both sides of this particular argument, I do find it rather comical that, well, this is Ozzy! He was also quoted as saying, “One thing leads to another. Coffee leads to Red Bull, Red Bull leads to crank.” Guess I should switch to decaf? Anyway, the boy obviously has a platform – he could run for the presidency in ’04, provided he gets a translator to speak to Congress for him… maybe Sharon can help.
The other bit of news is to celebrate the expulsion of another stupid person from my day. Well, at least the possibility of it, as I saw that “McDonald’s tests self-ordering kiosks.” It seems that McD’s is in the process of testing these self-ordering terminals because they believe it will help out with order speed and accuracy. After all, most mortals use ATM machines these days, so we should at least be qualified enough to feed ourselves – at least that’s what McD’s is hoping of the mass populous. I’m thrilled because this removes the possibility of encountering another buffoon in my day-to-day life, even if I do eat at McD’s like once a month. Stop and Shop have some registers that are self-service and it’s great… as F. Gump once said, “You know – one less thing” to worry about.
Local Business
So over the weekend I was at the local Hooters for some wings and beer. OK, more for beer than wings, but their wings were killer this weekend. And fine, so we have more than one Hooters in the area, but that doesn’t matter. And yes, there’s more to the place than just tits and ass. Yes, the waitresses are fine attractions for the restaurant, to be sure, but there’s something a lot of people miss when talking about Hooters: the service.
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Warning: Contents May Be Flammable
I’m in a state of complete disbelief! I live in a country that requires that all disposable cups – designed for hot liquids – come with a “Warning: Contents May Be Hot” because of a idiotic lawsuit. You remember the one, right? Woman pours coffee on her lap and sues McDonald’s because she ‘didn’t know it was hot’. So now all “hot cups” come with the warning. I’m also unlucky enough to live in state that has ridiculous laws about certain things, most noticeably with regards to liquor sales: we can’t buy from a liquor from a store after 8pm Mon-Sat and not at all on Sunday. And yet, for reasons that no one can explain, it is now legal to buy fireworks here.
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Starbucks Updates
It’s been a while since I’ve had an update from the Mermaid’s Lair, but, well… it’s been boring lately. Granted I don’t spend as much time there as I used to, now that my manuscript is done, but the product line seems to be gotten stagnant lately… I think their malt-frap drinks were supposed to be the big release of the summer, but they didn’t *wow* me that much… It hasn’t been completely dead there, though – so what’s the latest from my local Starbucks?
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Screw You, Hallmark
I’ve often wondered if there was a government board or council or something that dealt with the creation and maintenance of holidays in the US. Let’s face facts: Flag Day would be completely forgotten if there wasn’t someone reminding us every 14th of June. There’s no religious reason for it. No one exchanges gifts on it. There’s a spark of patriotism that goes with it, but for the last couple of years, every day in the US has had a spark of patriotism, so this holiday can be easily overlooked. Yankee Stadium knew about it this year: everyone got a little flag to carry in the stands and there was a huge flag displayed during the national anthem, held by soldiers from the four branches of the US armed forces. So someone is keeping the holidays straight for us. I think it’s been Hallmark that’s been doing it. However, to Hallmark, I say, “Screw You.”
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Speaking Invisibly
I think I’m officially developing a new talent. Maybe cultivating is a better word, actually. I mean, I didn’t plant the seed of this talent – my mum did that. I certainly didn’t help it grow into the mature trait that it’s become – my day job did that. No, I was stuck with this hardy talent, so I think I need to cultivate it now and start using it to suit my purposes. You see, it seems that I’ve taught myself to Speak Invisibly.
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