So I’ve ordered myself a phatty new development machine and flat screen LCD in the past few weeks. The machine came last week and the LCD came today. When the machine came I had to hawk the UPS guy down in my car to get it, because he had left a note saying that I’d have to sign for it and he just wouldn’t leave it on my porch.
So when I knew the LCD was coming, I left a signed note taped to the front door that told the UPS guy he could leave the package there and I would accept responsibility for it. I’m not working too far from home right now, so I can check the Internet to see when it’s been delivered. When it’s there, I can just jet right home and bring it inside. No big deal.
Well this all happens today. I see the notice online that the package has been delivered. I get home to find a note taped to my front door that tells me my package has been left on the back deck. I open the back door of my house to find the package as well as another note taped to my back door telling me my package was on the back deck. Thanks.
Now before I say this, know that I’m not knocking the UPS guy. But if you’re going to go to the trouble of putting the package on the back deck, you are presumably doing it to lessen the likelihood that someone will gank it off your front porch. Fine. I get that. But I think you lessen the effectiveness of your crafty UPS guy package hiding technique when you leave a big note on the front door that essentially says “Free Gear on the Back Deck!!!!”
But that’s just me. In any event, I now have my new blazing fast system and 20″ LCD screen. You could say I’m a very happy geek today.
James Brown was thrown in the pokey yesterday for trying to go Ike Turner on his wife. This is of course sad news for all involved except us, the public, who are treated to this Nolte-esque snapshot of JB. Eat your heart out, Nick.
I think I’ve mentioned in this space before how I hate those stupid Mac commercials with the morons standing in front of a white screen telling their imbecilic stories about how hard PCs are and how easy Macs are. Like how it takes them 3 days to copy a file on their PC but they can just set their digital camera down in the same room as their Mac and it magically edits the pictures on it into a musical montage holiday video, posts it to the Internet and sends it to all their friends. Whatever.
My friend Tracy sent me this spoof commercial made by a video editor that actually uses a Mac every day to do his job. It’s not only hilarious, it truly captures a lot of the things that are so irritating about working with a Mac. Funny stuff. WARNING: There is a bad word or two in the video, so be careful if playing at work or around your mom. 
Apparenlty Keyshawn Johnson hasn’t just been playing Madden since his dismissal from the Tampa Bay Bucs a few months ago. John Mahannah has issued a restraining order against Keyshawn because KJ has allegedly been making threats on his life, sometimes up to twenty times a day.
A word of advice for John. If you want to keep Keyshawn away from your house, I would suggest painting your front lawn like an end zone and hiring some defensive backs to play Cover-2 in your driveway. His performance of late suggests that employing these tactics will ensure that there is no way he will make it onto your property. 
The blizzog would like to wish a happy birthday to Mark Turner of the Internet’s MarkTurner.net. We’d like to say that we are very thoughtful here and knew in advance that this was Mark’s birthday. Unfortunately, we suck, and are just “me-too” posting after reading about the milestone on jt.net. Despite this, we hope that Mark will be good enough to overlook our suck-ness and accept our sincere and hearty congrats upon his reaching his 35th year.
Do you think that The Bachelorette always just keeps “the black guy” around until the second round so she doesn’t look like a racist? I mean, I can understand why Trista sent home Likes-To-Get-Drunk-and-Piss-Myself Guy last season, but I think my man Marcus deserved a chance over some of the tools Meredith kept tonight. I’m just saying.
It’s like I always say: Throw out the record books when Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Greg Ostertag get together. Apparently the two got into a bitch-slap fight last night over the last tube of sun block.
It’s about as hard to blame Zydrunas though as it is to spell his name. How can you not want to punch Greg Ostertag? I’ve never been able to stand this guy since his days at Kansas. He’s one of the few college guys that I actually felt was a flat-out dirty player. He was Lambier-esque in his cheap shots under the basket.
So I say good for you, Zsdfsdifudsfaas. I hope you punched him in the Ilgauskas before they pulled you apart.
In the latest display of arrogant corporate behavior, Microsoft is suing a 17 year-old Canadian kid over the name of his web site, MikeRoweSoft.com. Mike, you see, is a web designer, and a fairly talented one from the look of the examples on his site. Microsoft, you see, sucks, and apparently has nothing better to do with their bajillions than sue this poor kid.
I really wonder why companies don’t think these things through. Does M$ really think that their corporate brand is going to be tarnished because someone accidentally finds themselves at MikeRoweSoft.com instead of Microsoft.com? News flash, Bill. You wouldn’t want this person as a customer unless they are paying you for support, because this person is a moron.
Good luck, Mike. I hope you prevail.
Screw you, Microsoft. I hope you give up on this. Your time and energy would be better spent making SourceSafe not suck so bad.
How ’bout them Panthers, eh? Unfortunately I did not go up to Philly to execute my crafty plan of selling rope to suicidal battery chuckers. I guess I will have to devise yet another evil plot to make myself rich.
I wish the Colts would’ve won yesterday. I think Carolina matches up much better with them than they do with the Patriots, but I still think the Panthers have a shot against New England.
It’s going to be a fun couple weeks.
