WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

GEORGE W. BUSH
I don't think I should have to answer that question.

AL GORE
I invented the chicken. I invented the road. Therefore, the chicken
crossing the road represented the application of these two different
functions of government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring
greater services to the American people.

RALPH NADER
The chicken's habitat on the original side of the road had been
polluted by unchecked industrialist greed. The chicken did not reach
the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was
crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.

PAT BUCHANAN
To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American.

RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but I'll bet it was
getting a government grant to cross the road, and I'll bet someone
out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with
crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this? How much more of
this can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by
their tax dollars, and when I say tax dollars, I'm talking about
your money, money the government took from you to build roads for
chickens to cross.

MARTHA STEWART
more behind the cut, kinda long

Today… well what can I say about today? It kinda sucked.

* a script on our monitoring server at work died a day ago. I wasn't getting important alerts as a result.
* I thought my phone was coming today, but it wasn't.
* I got a "Bitch pay me" letter from the other complex. They want me to pay out the remainder of the lease. No, they violated the terms of the lease, they should deal with it. Assholes.
* I had problems paying for my gas from my debit card
* I then had problems signing on to the internet from the parking lot to see what was wrong with my banking.
* I ended up taking cash out from a non-network atm to cover the gas. Say hello to foreign atm fees.
* My allergies are worse today. Ugh.
* I accomplished a project. Found out some dumb terminals in Texas didn't like the project. Damn pieces of crap. I partially backed out to give the users access again.
* I went to micro center trying to pick up a PCI nic. I found one that didn't state linux compatability, so I asked micro center tech support if linux supported it. They suck. Their tech support is crap. Screw them with a posidrive screwdriver up the ass. I ended up getting my contract customer to purchase it anyway. Fortunately it worked.
* I got home, and found out what was going on with the bank. Fucking nextel double billed me for my phone AND the security deposit. I was overdrafted by 50 bucks.
* I got nextel and national city on the line and the problem was fixed within 10 minutes. I <3 national city. What an awesome bank. I could use my debit card to buy dinner finally. 🙂 * I bought dinner, and they were out of guacamole mix. We hacked something up, but it's just not the same. On the other hand, something that corrects everything: I AM ABOUT TO EAT ZESTY TWIRLS! HELL YES! w00t! That and my phone comes tomorrow for sure. yay for fedex 2 day express. No more broken antenna! I'm back home and have access to my lotion kleenex. Rock on! I can go to bed when I'm done eating. And yes, I found a post to make me laugh my ass off. I wrote this last year when I was working 3rd. http://www.livejournal.com/talkpost.bml?journal=noweb4u&itemid=19551

Anyone else out there with seasonal allergies have any recommendations for what I should do? I'm not opposed to prescriptions, provided you've actually tried it. 🙂

I hear you say often that you're not turned on to politics. Well, let me bring to bear the lessons of history. If you're not turned on to politics, the lesson of history is that politics will turn on you.
-Ralph Nader

Now, I don't care if you vote or not. Every vote you don't cast makes mine more powerful.
I just thought it was an awesome quote.

So I did it. I got the Nextel i88s I've been lusting after. It's basically the i55s (not sr, they don't have a ruggedized version yet) with GPS functionality. I'm not yet aware of whether it exposes a GPS API to J2ME, but I'm sure it will eventually if it doesn't already. Either way it exposes location data to 911, so it's cool.
I was playing with the numbers, and I found it was cheaper overall to add the phone to my account as a new activation (Taking the $200 bitchslap for not having my account open for more than 6 months, but it's a deposit, and I get it all back next summer, so oh well) rather than trade in my current i700plus (with accessories and options and the cost of the phone, its actual worth is about $120 street value, they were only going to give me $100 off, which still wasn't as cheap as the initial activation) I put a cheap service on it, and put it on hold (becky is actually going to make a try at selling crafts to cover the $30/mo plan I put on there) and just carry it as a second phone on the account.
Either way, it ends up costing me less ($40, which I spent on various accessories) in the long run, and I come out with a cooler phone.

http://nextelonline.nextel.com/websales/images/medium/i88s_m.jpg is a url for a photo of the phone.

The complex is evicting our ant infestation tomorrow. w00t.
I guess we've had serious ant problems throughout the whole building. Even the property manager (Mary) who also lives in this building has them as well.
To see what kind of infestation I'm talking about, check this crap out.
http://mainframe.timmins.net/gallery/fall2k2/abb
Yea, those are ants, and they're coming out of the wall behind the shower. Why is it that every problem I have with apartments involves the shower somehow? 😉

Ahh well, at least they're fixing the problem here. They'd just ignore me at the old place.

(17:37:22) xxxx: i am the dark hacker.
(17:38:03) xxxx: you are owned.
(17:38:20) noweb4ulaptop: haha
(17:38:35) noweb4ulaptop: zer0
(17:38:36) noweb4ulaptop: haha
(17:39:11) xxxx: who is the one you call zer0?
(17:39:17) xxxx: i am the dark massiah
(17:39:28) noweb4ulaptop: I know only one person who can't spell messiah