Taco for Your Blood

Wahoo's Fish Taco is giving you food for your blood. I guess if you can spare the blood and it's not tainted, then it's a good deal for all. I guess it beats selling your blood to get money to buy the booze food. Cuts out the middleman. (^_^);; (Are there places where you can sell blood? I've only seen them in cartoons and movies.)

Wahoo's Fish Taco Blood Drives!

Help support the blood supply and donate blood at one of the following Wahoo's Blood Drives. All presenting donors will receive a coupon for a free meal at Wahoo's Fish Taco.

If you want some free food, I guess you can head on down to Wahoo's. Although all the blood next to all that food doesn't sound very appetizing... (>.<) It starts July 1st. (I guess you can call your local Wahoo's to see when they have their blood drive.) I'm not going. I refuse to donate to the incompetents at the American Red Cross. I don't feel comfortable with an organization that can't even spell my name right handling my medical information. After three donor cards with misspelled names, I just threw in the towel.

Yesterday Was a Sad Day

I made a prediction that yesterday wouldn't be a sad day. Alas, I was wrong. I found out yesterday that osaka kappo is under new ownership. (T_T) It was one of few decent places to eat in Orange County. For the uninitiated, osaka kappo is a Japanese noodle shop. It was quite good. I used to recommend it highly. You could find my friend there almost everyday at lunch. I got to find some more decent places to eat that's not so damn far away... I know this great ramen shop in ikebukuro, but it's a bit far for a bowl of ramen... (T.T) I guess I could always go to Van Nuys for some decent ramen.

I Hate* Crap Companies...

*Hate is a very strong word and I just use it for emphasis. I don't really mean it. (^_^);;

I just got off the phone with Micron. I left a voice mail. I hope somebody listens to it and does something about it. They are the people behind such brands as Crucial and Lexar. I thought it was a decent company, but it turns out it's not.

I need to get a Lexar Firefly drive replaced. They used a cheap plastic and perhaps it's poor design or both, anyhoo it developed a crack across the casing and there's a little hole where a piece of the plastic fell off. The tech support rep told me that it's a physical damage and they won't replace it. Yeah, a physical damage due to manufacturing (and perhaps design) defect. I'm not in the business of paying for other people's mistakes. I told her to get me her supervisor and she started to repeat herself so I had to cut her off and firmly tell her to get me her supervisor. The supervisor took care of it. I have to say I'm not very fond of out sourcing support. (>_<#) They both were a little hard to understand, they didn't have a grasp of English like the support people here and the phone system was horrid. It was worse than Samsung and Cisco's. They had to repeat things constantly and I had to repeat things constantly. It was a pain. (>.<)

As much as I dislike writing these things, but if it helps at least one customer avoid this kind of hell it's all worth it. I'm going to revise my recommendations concerning Micron brands. Simply avoid it.

Tech Support Day

I spent a few hours today on tech support. Yes, I do provide tech support. Couple of friends called me asking for help with their computers. One was fairly simple the other was little more troublesome, but nowhere near hard. It's just a matter of looking in the right spot for the answer, but I guess you need to know the proper question before you can find the answer. They were pretty simple to me, but I'm reminded on occasion that this is not the case for others. I grew up with computers. The first computer I ever used was an Apple ][e. Those were the days. Things were much simpler... Maybe I'll get into business of support of something. It beats working in a cubicle. (>.<)

Dot Dot Dot

I use Gmail and have an account with a dot (.) in the name. I wondered about whether someone out there has the same account without the dot. It turns out that's me. (O.o) According to Gmail, it doesn't care about the dot. It's all the same. Nice to know that even if someone forgets the dot, I'll still get my mail as long as the Feds don't steal it.

YouTube Is Slow [Updated]

I uploaded a video last night, but it's still not up. It says it's still processing. How hard is it to process a 2 second clip? Maybe you'll see it here eventually...

The baby's daddy complained about his kid being on the Internet. Since I'm a nice guy, I removed the video. (Check the profile if you don't believe me.) He didn't like Lewis Black view of the world. It's great world view in the grand tradition of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. If you don't know these names, I suggest you familiarize yourself with them.

Blurry-Face-Disease

I recently saw a blog talking about the Japanese and their crazy views on privacy. The stuff they get all hot and bothered about are non issues for the most part, because it falls under fair use, right to publicity, First Amendment, etc. in the States. In the States, there's expectation of privacy, but the Courts aren't such idiots that they grant a blanket protection. If you're out and about where people can see you, you don't have any right to complain about your photo being taken. If you were on private property, it's a slightly different thing. It's a legal issue and can get convoluted, so I suggest you consult a lawyer or a law professor for the details.

I ran across the perfect item for these Japanese who are worried about their privacy. Now everybody can be happy and not worry about "blurry-face-disease".

Who knew such things went on, and here I thought we were the nonsensical ones.

How Long Would It Last Under a CA Sun?

During my travels on the net, I came upon on something interesting. Replate. It's a nice idea, but I wonder if it actually works. I guess if there are flocks of people hanging around garbage cans, then it could work. I wonder how long some of the stuff would last under a hot California sun or in similar places. Would it give someone food poisoning and possibly cause their death? Would people who don't know about it just throw it out as they pass by?

Bye Bye Vista

I got rid of Vista. Followed some instructions on the web to get the XP bootloader back and deleted the partition that Vista was on. I don't know whether I should blame Microsoft or Sony for the whole driver mess. I couldn't get all the drivers to make it work. Vista is better to look at than XP, but it was annoying. I didn't mind the UAC, but there were parts that I wanted to tweak but couldn't. It was a bit of usability hell. I just gave up. I didn't want to spend too much time on something that's not even working.

I guess I'll embrace Vista when I get a Vista preloaded machine.