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what, that extra-large wasn't big enough?

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so yesterday, tim hortons said they were
changing
their cup sizes and removing the small completely.
It’s being tested in a couple of test markits for a month to see the reaction.
All I’m gonna say is. welcome to 24 oz extra large, kids.
Here’s the entire article.

Tim Hortons super-sizes its coffee; medium becomes new small
Updated: Mon Aug. 29 2011 4:36:32 PM
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Coffee lovers at two Ontario Tim Hortons outlets may soon be doing a double take at their double-double.
The popular chain is brewing up something new using outlets in Kingston and Sudbury as test markets.
Tim Hortons spokesman Nick Javor says the company is introducing a new extra-large cup size which will hold 24 ounces (710 millilitres).
It will also be changing the names of all the cups to make room for the new extra-large, which will cost $1.90 plus tax.
Javor says the 20-ounce (590 ml) will now be known as large, the 14-ounce (414 ml) will be medium and the 10-ounce (295 ml) will become the small.
At the Kingston test outlet, the eight-ounce (240 ml) size will be called an extra small but at the Sudbury outlet, it won’t be on the menu at all.
The prices for each cup size will not change.
Javor says research shows customers’ tastes are moving to larger sizes. He says it will test the two markets for about a month to see what the reaction is.

That's exactly how you promote accessibility and uphold the law in hamilton. really, it is.

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Thanks to a contact on MSN, we have tonight’s stupidity.
this time it come’s from hamilton, and it’s HSR’s
apparent lack of hiring compitent drivers
My comments follow the article.

Mo ther, worker want HSR to apologize to boy in wheelchair
Peach Festival transit pitfalls Dan Provan, 7, with respite workers John Moning, left, Coleen Plate, centre, and his mother Robin. He had trouble riding on a bus to the Peach Festival.
John Rennison/The Hamilton Spectator
Daniel Provan is a seven-year-old with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and is non-verbal. The Our Lady of Lourdes student was born seven weeks early with brain damage and is wheelchair-bound. But he was allegedly denied access to the designated wheelchair space on a Hamilton Street Railway bus.
His mother, Robin, wants an apology from the HSR after her son was made to get on and off the bus without a ramp.
Daniel and his educational assistant, John Moning, set out for the Winona Peach Festival early Friday evening and waited in a long lineup for the free shuttle service at Eastgate Square.
When the bus arrived, the driver did not open the back door, where passengers in wheelchairs usually enter, Moning said. So the EA took the boy to the front.
Once on the crowded bus, Moning said he asked the driver twice to have people occupying the wheelchair seating area move back. He was ignored both times, with the driver finally asking: “Where would you like these people to go?”
Moning ended up having to put the brakes down on Daniel’s wheelchair, behind the yellow line. When they arrived at the Winona festival, the ramp was not lowered for them.
On the return trip from the festival, another bus driver closed the back door before they got out and told them to exit from the front, Moning said, adding the driver had already stepped outside the vehicle to drink a coffee at that point.
Moning told the driver Daniel needed a ramp, but the driver said: “It’s OK. Just back him up, he’ll be fine.”
Moning and a secondary EA, Coleen Plate, ended up lowering Daniel from the bus without the ramp, after Moning had asked the driver three times to lower it.
The city’s public works department spokesperson Kelly Anderson said the director of transit, Don Hull, is assessing the situation to gather more information about the incident.
Daniel’s mother, Robin, sent an email Friday night to Mayor Bob Bratina, who replied Sunday, saying he would ask his staff to “review and comment.”
“I demand an apology. I think Daniel deserves one,” the 43-year-old said. “He didn’t ask to be disabled.”
Robin, who works for the city’s community services department, said this incident shows her that there is still a lot of “ignorance and intolerance” against people with disabilities in Hamilton.
“It was such a shock, such a slap in the face,” the 43-year-old said. “It’s unfortunate that other workers in the city … could treat another human being so shabbily.”
Similar incidents with HSR have happened before during Moning’s outings with Daniel, with whom he has been working for more than a year, but the EA never made a big deal out of it. “They might be having a bad day, whatever.”
But Friday’s events “ticked (him) right off” because it counteracted progress the city has made around accessibility awareness, he said. “Stuff like this happens and you’re going back 10 feet again.”
Moning said he wants to see HSR staff undergo more sensitivity training around the accessibility policies set out by the province.
“(I want) a public apology saying: That never should have happened.”
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Having lived in hamilton, I know what the rules and regulations are regarding this type of situation, and for a city that’s screamed accessibility for years, to allow this, and their only response is their looking into it?
If I were their, both drivers would be suspended without pay for at least 30 days pending a complete investigation, and either forced to undertake serious retraining or lose their jobs, entirely.
You are required by law to secure wheelchairs, and I’ve been on those buses. Nobodey moves to the back, nobody gives a shit.
Packed or not, if their is a wheelchair, the people in designated spots are to be told to move and the chair properly secured in the designated area.
As for the ramp?
That’s again, another form of blatent not giving a crap about the safety of the passenger(s).
If the child or the PSA’s had been hurt? It would be HSR’s neglogince that caused it and hell would be raised.
I feel both drivers shold be removed from their jobs, and a public apology from the drivers in question and from HSR as a whole shold be given to the child and workers who were put in a dangerous situation, and could have died that night because of the driver(s) negligence.
I know some of you are gonna wine that it’s a disability, who gives a fuck, but if you were in that situation, I don’t think you would be saying that, so just keep your mouths shut.
If this had happened here in Ottawa? the city, right alongside the people who live here, those drivers would be removed from the road and a full investigation would come out of it and their wouldn’t just be some lame ass form letter from the city and the mayor saying it was being looked into.
With that, I’m outta here!

and again, GWMicro prooves why their the superior company over freedom screw you over.

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So after krista’s
computer kurFuckle
we’re to the point where now we have to get it upgraded, and back to spec for use during the next school semester and beyond.
This includes upgrading the OS, swappping out sticks of ram, etc.
I decide most of the software stuff can be done remotely.
We both have window-eyes, so we decide, let’s use remote assistance via wineyes.
Great, in theory.
Practically. not really.
Things seemed to work, but apparently not all the way.
I couldn’t get control of the remmote computer, so dial up
GWMicro
technical support and play 20 questions.
It’s near the end of their business day, so they give me a suggestion to try, and to call back if it doesn’t work.
This is, to forward port 3389 thrrough any router/firewall present.
I did that, on my machine, and on Krista’s.
Things still don’t work.
I redial support at GWMicro, and explain the entire situation to today’s representative.
He tells me that this knew feature is buggy, and sometimes doesn’t work do to a bunch of inharrent nat issues, etc.
I ask if it’s being worked on.
I was told, it’s not on the todo list, it’s in *active* constant development, and the issue is being worked on as we speak.
He couldn’t give me an ETA for resolution, but it if not in the next hotfix, it’ll be in the next major upgrade.
If this issue had been told to
Freedom scientific?
I’d have been blown off and the bug would go unresolved, just like the hundreds of other bugs that have been present since their murger.
They add knew features, and the hell with bugs.
So, GWMicro 1. Freedom screw you over, 0.

6 Reasons The Guy Who's Fixing Your Computer Hates You

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The things I find in my e-mail. just, oh my god.
I needed this laugh.

From: James Homuth [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 4:51 PM
Subject: 6 Reasons The Guy Who’s Fixing Your Computer Hates You
This was freaking amusing. And by freaking amusing, I mean you have no idea how much of this is actually true. Well, okay, so maybe 3 of you do. Because it’s two pages and has images that are of abso freaking lutely no use to folks without working eyes, I’m squishing this into one email. For the folks who need pictures, URL’s at the bottom.
6 Reasons The Guy Who’s Fixing Your Computer Hates You
By my calculations, about 96 percent of all computer repairs are done, not by the local computer guy or the Geek Squad, but by The Friend Who is Good With
Computers. Often that friend is nothing more than an average computer user who knows how to look up error messages on Google, but it doesn’t matter —
once they become known as TFWIGWC, they will get the call every time something goes wrong. And they will fix it, probably for free, because TFWIGWC pities
you.
Still, any time a bunch of
TFWIGWCs get together and share their computer repair horror stories,
you learn that there are certain things their “customers” do that make them want to ram their head through a wall.
So, before I touch your computer, friend who may or may not do me a favor in return for this free repair job, here’s what you should know:
#6. Future Computer Problems Are Not Automatically My Fault
This computer is yours. You know exactly who has used it. It is in its current condition without any outside interference, especially from me. I, on the
other hand, am about to spend several hours of my own time trying to get it back into the condition it was in before you or someone you love screwed it
up. So, two months down the line if I get a call from you, saying, “That program you installed messed up my computer.” I will beat you until it causes
hydrogen fusion. Or at least I will imagine myself doing it.
This is how it’s gonna go down, chief.
See, the vast majority of the computers I fix are broken because of some bullshit the owner has installed, like Weatherbug, or some program that changes
their cursor into an amusing animated kitten. Or, they’ve been playing some online flash game that just funnels in malware as fast as their connection
and processor will allow. While fixing your computer I will explain all of this, and talk about how an entire industry of malicious free downloads thrives
purely because so many Internet users are trusting souls like you. You believe all men are good at heart, especially on the Internet, so no amount of antivirus
warning popups will convince you that the people distributing “Wild Bill’s Poker Roundup” for free want anything but the best for you.
So, I go through and strip out the malware and toolbars and Trojans, then install protection like Malwarebytes or something like it to help block this type
of deceptive shit in the future. Then, two months later, I get that call:
“Yeah, I don’t know what you did to my computer when you were here but it’s so slow now that I can mow the lawn waiting for it to check my email. I need
you to undo whatever you did.”
At this point I will drive over, again, imagining myself slamming the owner’s dick in his own laptop. Five minutes after I arrive, this exchange will occur:
“Wait, where’s Spybot? The program I told you to leave on there?”
“I uninstalled that. It was messing up my computer. It wouldn’t let me play any of my games.”
But at least you have this fake scanner.
Yes, it was Spybot. Not the programs that I told you would cause the exact problems we’re looking at right now, you impossible dipsh- “Wait, where’s the
antivirus?”
“Oh, I got rid of that, too. My cousin was downloading music, and it wasn’t letting him open the files, so we had to get rid of it.”
“Sure, sure. Now, this is going to seem like an odd request, but for this next step, I’m going to need you to take out your dick, and lay it on your laptop’s
keyboard.”
Anywhere around the “G” key will do just fine.
#5. Expect One More Person for Dinner
“Wow, I didn’t think it would take that long,” you’ll say as I’m into hour two, removing eight months’ worth of stupid bullshit from your hard drive. “Is
it going to take much longer?”
Yes. It’s going to take much longer. Much, much, much longer. Probably. See, the thing is, I have no way of knowing how long it’s going to take me to find
the problem. That’s why before I came over here, I canceled all of my plans for the rest of the day.
The only reason I’m not punching you in the neck right now is because I know this ignorance isn’t your fault. Despite owning a computer and probably using
one at work, much of your knowledge comes from Hollywood, and Hollywood hasn’t got the slightest goddamn clue what they’re talking about. In movies, everything from hacking the Pentagon to creating Kelly LeBrock can be done in one flurry of keystrokes.
Oh, that reminds me, we’re going to need some bras.
In real life, the same symptoms could be the result of any of three billion different problems. Especially when the symptom is that the computer is “slow.”
Or when the thing you’re complaining about only happens once every two days, and never when I’m around. If it’s a result of the malicious software and
other bullshit I was just talking about, remember that it’s specifically designed to be hard to remove.
Half the time I’m going to wind up Googling for other people who’ve had the same problem, because none of the standard spyware removal tools will do it.
Half the time, my search will take me to a message board and I’ll find this:
________________________________
User: ComputerGuy
Posted: 8.1.11, 10:24 PM
Subject: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don’t Detect It
Body: (Exact description of the same problem we’re having)
_________________________________
User: Admin
Posted: 8.1.11, 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don’t Detect It
Body: (Request for more information, OS, HijackThis logs, etc)
_________________________________
User: ComputerGuy
Posted: 8.2.11, 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don’t Detect It
Body: Never mind, I fixed it.
_________________________________
User: Admin
Posted: 8.2.11, 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don’t Detect It
Body: Issue resolved. Thread locked.
_________________________________
OK, try it now.
You might notice me becoming steadily more frustrated as this process repeats itself eight or nine hundred more times. And you’re making it worse by being
the kid in the back seat who’s constantly asking, “Are we there yet?!” I want to make it clear: I have no problem whatsoever bending you over my knee and
spanking your ass until you shit blood. Go find a movie to watch, and I’ll let you know when it’s fixed.
#4. Assigning Blame Is Not a Priority
The subject of who is to blame for your screwed up computer is sure to come up. There are a couple of reasons — one, some people, usually douche bags,
live in a world where everything is somebody’s fault. The computer can’t just break. Somebody has to have broken it. Nothing “just happens,” right?
But other times it’s just that whoever’s computer I’m working on wants to make sure I know that they didn’t screw it up. It’s, “I told my son not to install
that Firefox thing.” Yes, Firefox broke your computer, not the 27 “free screensavers” websites that each came with their own toolbar, or the hundreds and
hundreds of sketchy porn sites.
“Yeah, but you were shopping on eBay the other day!”
But the focus here should not be on blame — I don’t want to hear how stupid your wife is. It needs to be on repair and preventative action, so that we
don’t have to go through this again. And by “we” I mean “I.” And, the thing is, there’s a good chance you’re not going to want to hear why your computer
is actually in this condition. At least not from me. Let me talk to your son in private, and you’ll be a much happier person. I’ve tried the direct route
with parents before about their teenage son’s porn use, and how he’s not old enough to know to keep to the reputable porn sites, and it never, ever ends
well.
“Bobby?! He wouldn’t do that. He’s a good kid.”
“Yep. He’s also a teenage boy with a volcano full of dick-related hormones that require an outlet.”
“OK, what’s the cup fo- OH MY GOD!”
“I know my son, and he wouldn’t. Maybe a hacker did it.”
“Yes. A hacker, out of the blue, decided to break into your computer and place temporary files onto the system in the hopes that a repairman would see them
and then report them to you. Evil hackers have it in for your son, and this is by far the best way to do it.”
But even that isn’t as bad as when there is no kid involved at all. Then I have to figure out which spouse has the poop fetish. Saying the wrong thing to
the wrong person can cause an instant rift in a marriage. But saying nothing at all means that the activity will continue the second I pull out of their
driveway. And a month later, I’ll be getting the blame for the computer’s relapse. “You know, eBay sure does have a lot of popups for shemale porn sites
these days.”
#3. Don’t Ask Me How to Make Your 10-Year-Old PC Faster
“I just bought this game, and my computer won’t run it. What’s wrong?”
If your computer is more than five or six years old, the answer is most likely going to be: “You need to buy a new one.” No, I can’t upgrade it, you bought
it at Wal-Mart and one reason you got it so cheap was that the motherboard has absolutely no place to add any components.
“Can’t you just put more memory in it?”
That long blue slot is your RAM slot. Most new computers have four or more.
Nope. All of your RAM slots are filled. Replacing the motherboard with one that has room for more RAM creates a domino effect where everything other than
your monitor, mouse and keyboard also has to be replaced. The hardware is obsolete, all of it, and it’s not my fault.
“Yeah but even the stuff I used to do runs slower.”
Yes, because you are using newer, updated versions of those programs and the people who make that software assume you are regularly upgrading your computer.
Each version of Microsoft Office is going to be more of a hog on your computer’s resources than the last one. Everybody makes their programs load on startup
because they assume you have vast stores of RAM to keep it in. See those six rows of icons down by your computer clock?
“OK, so here’s what we do: I sell my computer on eBay for a couple hundred bucks, and we buy the new system with that.”
Not so fast, Johnny Mnemonic. Your setup wouldn’t sell for a couple hundred bucks. It won’t sell for 10 bucks. Remember that “obsolete” thing I mentioned
earlier? That means that virtually nobody on the planet has any use for it. I don’t care that you paid $1,000 for it 10 years ago. Right now, it’s worth
less than the shipping and handling fees it would take to deliver it to your customer. Computers degrade in value at roughly the same rate as bananas.
How about instead of me buying those from you, you pay me to haul them off.
No, it’s not some huge scam on the part of the people who make computers and computer programs. And even if it is, I’m not in on it.
#2. Toolbars Are Bad News
I’ve used the word “toolbars” several times, and you’ll notice I use the word kind of like how you’d use the word “virus.” Toolbars are little strips that
get glued to the top of your browser, bearing some advertisement and a bunch of buttons that will probably take you to even more advertisements. When you
downloaded that free program that rotates pictures of your children on your desktop while playing inspirational songs, way down in the Terms and Conditions
it mentioned that the price of downloading that free program was that they got to stick a toolbar on your browser.
And when you download the next gadget, its toolbar will not replace the last one. It will glue itself to the other one, and the next will get stacked on
top of it. Eventually it will look like this:
The first thing I’m going to do when I start poking around on your machine is open Internet Explorer and Firefox, and the number of toolbars I find there
will tell me everything I need to know about the problems I’ll be encountering and what caused them. And I’m going to uninstall them all.
But I bring this to your attention because from now on, when you download anything, pause for a moment while you’re blindly and rapidly clicking “next”
on each window that pops up, and look for the word “toolbar” on the list of things they’re asking to cram onto your computer. Uncheck it if it will let
you. If it won’t, just bail out of the whole thing.
That “cancel” button is there for a reason. The program won’t be offended.
Even if you don’t mind viewing your Internet through a two-inch window at the bottom of your screen (maybe you like to pretend you’re seeing the world through
the slit of a knight’s helmet or something), a lot of these are malicious programs that track everything you do and, at random, will boot you out to some
site they control.
I’m also going to get rid of a lot of free programs that sounded really useful when you clicked on the banner ads offering them. Again, I don’t want to
lower your opinion of your fellow man, but “Registry Cleaner 5000” was, in fact, not cleaning your registry, it was spawning fake warnings to make you
go download more bullshit. Weatherbug will, in fact, tell you the temperature, while it’s spawning popup ads on your system. But there are other ways to
get that information.
#1. “Wipe” Means EVERYTHING
Worse has come to worst. I get to your place, and your PC is so screwed that it won’t even boot — not even in Safe Mode. Maybe you have a boot sector virus
or maybe some key files got corrupted, but one way or the other, our only troubleshooting option left is start over and do a clean install of your operating
system. With an exasperated sigh, you tell me, “Yeah, fine, just wipe it and start from scratch.” I ask if you’re sure because that means you’re about
to lose everything, since you did not keep backups. You say you know. You just want to start over.
Several hours later, all of the drivers are installed. Windows is up to date. You have a new antivirus. Your system is smoking fast (well, compared to what
it was). You can actually see a whole screen’s worth of Internet in your browser. It’s like new again.
You sit down, open up your browser and ask in horror, “Where’s my email? And all of my music?! And my pictures?!”
You just told me to wipe it. Did you not know what that means? Because when I said “lose everything,” I didn’t mean, “lose just the bad stuff.” I meant
every motherfucking thing. In some cases, this is a breakdown in communication. The person has heard a “computer guy” use the term “wipe” before, and they’re
just repeating it. Trying to connect with you by using terms you’re familiar with — even if they’re not. “Yeah, ‘wipe,’ like when you’re cleaning a window,
right? You wipe it off?”
Or, they figure I couldn’t have wiped everything because, look, Windows is still there. Hey, maybe that other stuff is still hiding somewhere, too!
No, Swordfish, you didn’t keep any of that important stuff on any kind of a backup drive, you kept it all on the exact same bit of hardware you have been
dragging through a shit gauntlet of adware, spyware and Trojans. So, you’re starting from scratch. Think of it as a second chance. A fresh start; to clean
up all off those bad habits, and to treat your computer like the crucial yet fragile tool that it is.
See you again in about three months.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-guy-whos-fixing-your-computer-hates-you/

Hicks and computers do not mix. I am living proof.

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My brain officially aches. I have had the…what, almost 2 weeks? From hell. Naturally, this computer was the cause of it.
I woke up on the morning of the 5th to one hell of a mess. I restarted the machine, got tossed into a never-ending boot loop. I swore in all kinds of pretty and colorful ways, then I called Shane and explained the problem because at 7 PM on a Sunday evening when I finally got around to it, Lenovo technical support were the last people I wanted to talk to. His theory: My Windows install’s trashed. Well…Shit,
My next course of action, grab the 12-year old. “Here. Read this.”
“But why?”
“Because I asked you to, and this computer’s on crack. Now, read.”
So the child manages with my help to get Windows installed, but no drivers, because, well, going to hunt for those required an Ethernet cable that we didn’t have. So my mother gets it in her head that she’s gonna take it to our local fixit shop and they’re gonna wave their magic wand and make it all better. Yeah ok, smoke some more of that why don’t ya?
She takes the machine in on friday, the 12th, after loudly and screamily insisting that she could take it in by herself and me loudly and screamily insisting that no, I was going with her, it was my machine and she didn’t have to use it, I did. I didn’t care if she paid for repairs, but I wanted to speak to the person(s) fixing it. So grudgingly she took me with her, I suppose because I’m the only one who knew where my personal Windows CD was and well, they asked her to take it in with the machine.
So I walk in, described to the guy what the underlying issue was, what I did to fix it. Now I knew this guy was 1. an arrogant prick and 2. a stupid son of a bitch, because he’s standing in front of me saying he likes Lenovo, and that’s just not something you say to me after I get 2 phone calls within 3 months of each other saying that other students’ exact makes and models, same machine, had literally began smoking, in their faces. (Hi dead power supply nice to see you.)
So I tell the first dude, “We’re bringing this in for a software issue, but I want the hardware looked at too. I’ve suspected a dying hard drive since June.”
I get it back Friday night, hey, cool, it’s working, and they said the hard drive wasn’t dead. I wake up Saturday morning to discover I’m jammed in another endless boot loop! The word of the morning, at top volume, was “Son of a bitch!”
I leave for my grandparents’ place that day because I’m staring at this thing and I can’t fucking take it anymore. I was ready to overdraft my bank account and rush order myself a netbook even though I hate them on principle just because I needed a working computer, and my mother had just pissed $120 into this thing, having the Windows install fixed and putting a 2GB stick of ram in it. All I’d done the previous night was uninstall Open Office and VLC Media Player, which are two programs that are completely fucking useless with a Windows screen reader, and the next morning I wake up and it’s boot looping again.
So Tuesday, Mom drags it back down to the shop. The second ass-clown who worked on it was at least not a complete ass-clown, as he did discover the dead hard drive right away, even though his buddy over there swore to god that Lenovo hardware never failed, but now we have this other issue.
“Oh, she screwed up the hard drive by uninstalling software.”
What? What? As in, the fuck? Which is to say, are they smoking? Also, what kind of drugs are in the water over there? Uninstaling a piece of software should not fuck up the hard drive, unless the hard drive was already fucked over in the first place, which means that *somebody*, ain’t doin’ their job!
I blow up Shane’s phone again, and drop this cute little tidbit of bullshit on his desk. Naturally, he’s about as pleased as I am, but he’s got the net, he’s got a working computer and can do more than I could at the time. He busts out google, does a reverse lookup of their phone number which I had somehow managed to beg borrow and steal. Then, the Better Business Bureau gets involved.
I didn’t do it. During Shane’s conversation with whomever he spoke to over there, we found out that these twerps were operating under expired credentials. So not only were they doing this, but they were sticking inaccessible software on a disabled person’s computer, blaming said person’s removal of the software for their incompetence, then telling said person not to remove said software. Reportedly, someone from the state of Massachusetts paid them a visit yesterday evening. If we find out more, we’ll let you know.
So. that’s been, what, my last, 2 weeks? Freaking out over a broken computer, dealing with incompetent tools, freaking out because it’s broken a second time, sending it in, then finding out the retards who were supposed to have fixed it the first time blamed me for screwing it up, and finding that they were operating a repair business with expired credentials! And on top of all this, I start classes in 2 weeks! I almost didn’t have a working computer for college. Can we say heart attack? Can we say nervous breakdown? I can!

And once again, related posts returns to the blog.

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Hey there. Other code monkey here. You may or may not be aware the guy what primarily maintains this thing kind of made it commit suicide a bit ago. We’ve been piecing it back together since, and now, I’m fairly sure we’ve got everything back. One of the casualties of blog suicide? Related posts–I’ve since re-related those posts. You now once again have the option of jumping from today’s audio post to a random, possibly unimportant post, about Shane’s cat. Yay. Or something. Enjoy.

mommy's are made of win, especially when they pay for late trips to mcdonalds.

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Hey all;
Another random audio type thing.
This time
James
comes with me.
I got a random deposit so we went to mcdonalds for a midnight snack.
go grab this thing
note the driver wasn’t made of win. He failed, spactacularly.

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an explination, and an an apology from this blog's management.

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Ladies and gentlemen;
Throughout today, you may have seen comments scrolling across this blog, belittling, being rude towards, and just outright being unkind.
The simple fact is this.
Their was a family emergency, mainly, a death in the family. The message informing me of this fact, arrived this past Friday.
I then indicated that I was not attending any services for them and stated my reasons why.
Ever since then, I’ve had to deal with e-mails, facebook messages, etc. wining that I was a useless child, and saying things that aren’t fit for this blog or it’s readers.
I then noticed an onslaught of comments today, from these same people trying to make you all take their side saying similar things.
I have since removed these comments, and locked down commenting until such time as things calm down.
I apologize for this, but this is the only way to ensure my protection from those who wish to cause problems.
This blog’s authors and management take a dim view on those who are out to do nothing but harm others, weather it be an author, or another commenter, it’s not tolerated.
Thank you for your time, and again, sorry if you had to read that crap.

entries recovered/reposted, this thing looks to be in order, once again.

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Ok;
The missing blog entries have either been imported, or the power of
google
was used to restore the entries in their entirety.
We’ve gotten rid of the duplicates that would show up on the main page as well. but do to linking structure breakage we don’t have time to go fixing all the links that broke because of this thing falling over.
so if you click a linked article and it takes you to the wrong place, use the search box to find the right one.
also, ignore anything that says

Mirrored from

insert blog name here.
it’s another issue we’re not going to fix, because it would take time, time we don’t have.
Don’t like? don’t read. simple.
Those entries’ll iventually scroll into the archives and you won’t see them anymore.
good night all.
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we're recovered, for the most part.

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Hey all;
We’re recovered mostly.
I had to use an LJ import, that still isn’t complete, so things might be duplicated.
Their are so many in here, that I don’t have time to go through and get rid of them all, so you all are just going to have to suck it up and deal with it.
Their are still a couple posts that need to be imported, but we’re working on that now.
Take care.