Fucking Tech Center
Why is it that when a company/person can’t explain to you what they want, and you do the work as best as you can but it’s not good enough for them, they treat it as if it’s your fault? I’m getting really sick of that shit. And in my experience, it only happens with companies based out of the Tech Center. It just seems like they’re all full of themselves and totally oblivious to the needs of the outside world and they are utterly terrible at communicating their needs but if you don’t totally fulfill them, it’s entirely your fault. And nevermind the fact that they never want to pay you what the work is worth. It’s getting so I don’t want to take on clients if they’re based in DTC.
Wasted
In a 20/20 type internet expose, CNN has put together a rather bland story about a young female alcoholic. The main goal of the story is to try and hint at a genetic disposition in some people toward alcoholism. That’s fine and interesting, but what’s truly amazing is that this girl consumed on average 216 drinks per week. That comes out to about one and a quarter drinks every hour of the day. I can hardly fathom this. If nothing else the financial repercussions would be so enormous as to inhibit this. I’m sure frat boys across the country consider this a challenge.
3 for Me
They say good things come in threes. 1, 2, 3. I’d have to agree, I mean, I am salivating and frothing over the possibilities of my Cinema Display and the new 800mhz G4 PowerBook with DVI and 1280 rez. Mmmmmmm. Portable when necessary but with upwards of 2800 pixels across when at home plugged in. Fuck yeah.
Okay, not a good example
NYTimes: The Workaround: 32 Steps to Frustration
The phenomenon affects some so-called standard-format DVD movies, including “The Mummy” and “The Bone Collector.” While some might argue that this is not so much a bug as a critical response, portable computer users are told that each time they wish to watch such a movie, they must follow a nine-step procedure that involves first viewing the DVD’s bonus material.
Viewers of certain wide-screen-format DVD’s have no such option. Gateway advises them to try to track down the standard-format version. To date no known workarounds exist for those who have been unable to finish watching the Mariah Carey vehicle “Glitter.”
Sounds like a feature to me. Any interesting workarounds that you’ve seen? I can’t really think of anything too heinous recently… Except I remember Conflict Catcher a few years ago used to cause extension conflicts itself. And NAV telling me that a virus definitions file it itself downloaded was infected with a virus.
NT + FH = FU
So part of the deal I’ve got with a new client includes my working down in their office. Their first strike is that they’re in the Tech Center. Their second strike is that I was supposed to use NT of all OSes, and the third strike comes in the form of fucking Freehand 9.
Jesus christ. I almost shoved a fork in my eye just so I’d have a decent excuse to not do the work. But as it turns out, there was a G4 450 in the corner being used as a print server. So I suffered through a hockey-puck mouse and Illustrator 7. A lesser of two evils, I’m sure. Tomorrow, I’m bringing in my pro mouse, at the very least.
And now I know the answer to that age-old question: If offered an otherwise perfect job but you had to use Windows, would you take it? My answer is ‘Yes, but I’d make them need me first and then whine until I get a Mac.’
Psycho Bitch
Lovely miss Love. Remaining Nirvana members are trying to have a court prove what we have all known for years, that Courtney Love is a fucking lunatic.
I am personally one of the not so few who thinks she had Kurt and El Duche killed.