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July 29, 2007

U.S. Airways can suck my balls

I just sent this little gem on the US Airways customer feedback form. Have fun too. They like to hear from The People.

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On July 28, your flight #17 from JFK to PHX was so delayed, the connecting flight #38 to LAX had already left, leaving me stuck in Phoenix.

I called your "customer service" line at 2:30am to reschedule a flight for monday the 30th, being too exhausted to haul myself back to the flight line having been automatically assigned the next flight out at 7am.

I was told it would cost me a hundred dollars plus the difference of the two ticket prices.

That is complete horse shit.

I will never fly on your airline ever again.

July 14, 2007

mad

ok. Doctor Who is making me mad.

Some of these episodes suck ass

real bad

July 13, 2007

twenty eight bucks and change

Big hunk o' steel. A machine table.

About 5 feet by 3 feet by 2-1/2 feet. Welded together from 2-1/2 inch angle iron - 1/4" thick... heavy duty stuff.

I tilted it over on the bed of my pickup truck. Tried to lift it on but it wouldn't budge. Tried a second time and there was less than a foot of it on the edge of the truck gate... i bobbled, it slipped off and came crashing down on the concrete.

Turned it 90 degrees and leaned it on the truck gate again. Got a hammer and hammered off a bunch of little studs that were sticking out of it so it would slide easier

Now the shortest (2-1/2') side would be vertical as I lifted it. Perhaps easier to lift, except now the weight was all asymmetrical left-to-right.

I braced for the big push, thinking "use your LEGS"... lifted it a little, struggled to get a better lower grip and lifted it more. Bore my weight (all 130 pounds o' wiry non-musclyness) into it, quivering and grunting.

It slid on a little at a time. Once it was more than halfway on, i rested.

Yeah... I was wearing board shorts and flip flops the whole time.

Went to D's house, smoked through 2 jigsaw blades and only got a single one-inch-deep cut. So much for cutting to pieces and dumpsterizing. Had to dump it in one piece.

Drove it down to Carson to a salvage yard. They paid me $28.57

Which is the going rate for 400 pounds of scrap steel.

July 11, 2007

noises on

I was just watching some Doctor Who on the wall, channeled through the "plank" media server.

Having a portal to bring in all manner of entertainment, I choose one of the few shows worth seeing.

We're in the age that the hippie media visionaries of the sixties foresaw. But they thought "personal cinema" would be a good thing.

The YouTube generation excretes exponentially expanding loads of offal. It's a frenetic mashup so obnoxious, I predict people taking conscious measured "time outs" from the info-collective.

Maybe get some street time, face time and nature time.

God, the internet has become WORSE than TV.

I suppose some will become immune to it. Some people eat at McDonalds every day and survive.