Category Archives: Rants

Hulu Ad Failures

I watch a lot of Hulu, and gen­er­ally I don’t really mind an ad or two. How­ever, I hate untar­geted ads. For exam­ple, ads for Mono­stat or birth con­trol pills. I’m a guy. Hulu knows I’m a guy (I checked, its in my Hulu pro­file). Why in the world are they show­ing me com­mer­cials for [...]
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Review: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson

I’ve had some bad luck with books lately. First, I fin­ished What Dreams May Come by Richard Math­e­son. Aside from the hor­ri­ble writ­ing style (oh wo is us! the after life for bad peo­ple is soooo hor­ri­ble you just can’t even imag­ine. like seri­ously. its really really awful!), the doc­trine it tries to teach is so [...]
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Swaptree backs down

I’m a huge fan of Book­Mooch, an free book trad­ing web­site. The web­site lets you put your old books up for trade. If some­one requests a book, you send it to them at your own expense and receive a credit to get a book from another user. When you request a book from some­one else, [...]
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Hard Candy, V for Vendetta, Dodgeball, and the US Movie Rating System

Let’s start with the US movie rat­ing sys­tem. For those of you unfa­mil­iar, there are a few basic ratings: G — Gen­eral Audi­ences. Suited for peo­ple of any age. Nor­mally like mel­low his­tor­i­cal movies or doc­u­men­taries. And Dis­ney movies (although most Dis­ney movies nowa­days are PG or PG-13). PG — Parental Guid­ance Sug­gested. Kids should have an adult [...]
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My new keyboard arrived!

Hur­ray! A new key­board! And I almost entirely like it! It has a few quirks that I don’t entirely enjoy, but over­all it is pretty good. Again, this is the Microsoft Ergonomic Key­board 4000. Things I like: The black and sil­ver and very sharp look­ing. Even the “Do Not Remove — Safety Infor­ma­tion” tag is designed to blend in. Lots of [...]
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Yodlee OnCenter

So I’ve been using Yodlee for YEARS and recently they decided to roll­out a new and “improved” ver­sion. It sucks. Really really really bad. Its hor­ri­ble. They took one of the most use­ful pieces of tech­nol­ogy avail­able on the inter­net and took out every­thing won­der­ful about it and threw in a few (many) hand­fuls of [...]
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Bleh.. I feel terrible.

Yeah I feel like crap. My heart has been act­ing funny the past cou­ple days. Its that darn mitral valve pro­lapse crap I think. Stu­pid defec­tive heart. Oh well. It nor­mally calms down after a few days. Yup my life is dull. Been work­ing on the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor some more. Its a fun lit­tle project. Up [...]
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Impermeable Rock

Imper­me­able — Mate­r­ial that does not per­mit flu­ids to pass through it. So my sis­ter shows me this posh new water called FIJI. On the back is a lit­tle graphic show­ing where the water comes from. So appa­rantly it rains unto a vol­cano, and then goes through the dirt, and then some­how mag­i­cally gets past this [...]
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*blink*

About halfway through sea­son 4 of Alias. One thing that dri­ves me crazy is how these field-trained and battle-hardened agents close there eyes before shoot­ing a gun. Umm.. Cor­rect me if I’m wrong… But uhh.. Don’t you kind of need your eyes open in order to aim the gun? Another annoy­ance: How come every tech gad­get blinks [...]
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eBay Suspension — The saga continues!

As you may or may not know, my eBay account was sus­pended over 1 1/2 months ago for the vague rea­son of being “asso­ci­ated with a pre­vi­ously sus­pended user”. I was given that users name, and that is it. This user hadn’t used his account in 5 years, and so I thought it was strange that some­how [...]
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