Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Four things pissing me off this evening





Five O'Clock Shadow 51

Originally uploaded by evo_terra


I'm not very happy tonight and certainly in a thumbs-down mood. Here's why:

  • NPG Cable just might be the worst internet company I've ever had to deal with. I can barely keep my VPN connection open thanks to the constant drops during the day. Upload and download speeds are terrible, customer service wait times extraordinarily long... sucks. To top it all off, they have the audacity to run commercials for their other services while you are on the dedicated support line. People! When I'm having trouble with a product is the exact wrong time to pitch on more things that probably won't work! Good thing I move in a few days.
  • Why are so many connectors suddenly griping about too many social media sites? Um.. hello? You sound like a bunch of curmudgeons. No one expects you to jump on board with everything, but they do expect us to give new things a try. We can say "no thanks"... we can say "that doesn't look like it's for me"... but we should never say "I'm getting too many requests to join even more social networks". I thought we were the ones folks turned to to see what these were all about?
  • Off-topic blog comments come with the territory, but this guy Harry is on my last nerve. If you're going to try and get all "hard hitting expose", have the nuts to post with a real address And also have the nuts to step up and say when you've made a mistake.
  • I have a presentation to due tonight, two chapters to write, packing to do, and no time to do any of it. So I'm cranky.


Maybe I'll be a happier poster tomorrow. In the meantime, this song by Beatnik Turtle sums it up

5 comments:

  1. So Evo are you staying in Arizona or moving out of state?

    From now on you should baleet those that have been warned. Then you can yell BALEETED!

    Wishing you Sheila and NJ good luck on the move.

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  2. The pathology of the random douche bag internet flamer is really fascinating to me. I recently had someone on livejournal leave an anonymous comment to the effect of, "you're a freakshow waiting to happen and your picture looks like you shit your pants." Didn't take issue with my blog content, or even imagined details of my personal life like our new friend Harry here. Just felt the need to take a couple shots at my physical appearance for good measure. I'd like to think it means that I've arrived as a public figure, but sadly I'm convinced it says more about said random douche bag(s) than the likes of us, Evo.

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  3. Evo, I had a call into NPG for a support issue a couple of weeks ago and while I was on hold for a good 10 minutes waiting for a tech guy, I never had an any ads.

    Odd.

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  4. My dad always had a good saying for things like this:

    Cheer up!

    Things will get worse! ;)

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  5. Good to see ya back, man.

    I fault myself for belonging to too many of the frakkin' social network sites. I belong to about 8 or 9, now. I'm sure there 2 or 3 others I've just set up an account on... and then never gone back.

    I'm active on three. Twitter, Pownce and FaceBook. Now, I don't count myself amongst the Social Media Glitterati, but I want to know what y'all are doing, so I beg for invites and try out the new stuff, probably a day or so late. I will get a job that takes advantage of my psychotic obsession of playing in this new media market... if it kills HarryDresden or not...

    In the meantime, I'll sit at the feet of one of the media mavens... that's you, Evo... until I have to get up and go potty... or get a coffee... :p

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