Hey guys, it’s GREAT that someone got their head out of their asses and came up with a way to legally download music off the Web. I’m MORE than happy to pay my .99 cents per song and download them immediately and listen to my heart’s content. But give me a fucking break - you’re not foiling anyone but the dumbest of dumbasses by not allowing the iTunes software to directly store these files as .mp3s. I WANT 'em as .mp3s - it’s what my TiVo recognizes, making it so that I can download music to my PC and play it through the uber stereo in the living room. I PAID for them - there ain’t no illegal pirating going on here. And I can GET 'em as .mp3s - but I have to have iTunes burn them onto a CD first, then turn around and use Windows Media Player to turn the songs on the CD into .mp3s. A little bit of hassle, but not much, since I want the songs on CD anyway so I can play them in my car. But c’mon iTunes & Music Industry in general - I understand you don’t want illegal copies floating around, but simply making iTunes software unable to burn from iTunes download format to .mp3 is pretty damn stupid.
My Dumbass Smoker
OH why oh why did you pick TODAY to quit working? And WHY did you do it AFTER I’d thawed out the ribs and covered them in dry rub? Yeah, I could just put 'em on the grill, but it’s not the same as lovely smoked ribs. I want SMOKED ribs, not grilled ribs. Why TODAY? Why not, say, next week? Or even today, AFTER I smoked the ribs.
The Third Rant that I cannot remember
OK after typing up the OTHER rants, I can’t remember what the third rant was. But I know it was pitworthy. It was bad. So FUCK YOU, third rant topic! You’re annoying as hell! As soon as I remember what you are, you’re going to GET IT!
“Pepcid works better than Prilosec OTC. And if you take Prilosec OTC, you have to keep taking it for 14 days!”
No, dumbass, you can stop taking it anytime you want. You’re not supposed to take it for more than 14 days without seeing a doctor. And stop complaining that it takes 1-4 days to work. It’s for chronic heartburn, fucknose! Any idiot with a 3rd grade education can read that in the warnings. If the only way you can sell your overpriced Tums is to lie about the competition, then how good can your crap be? Douchebags.
Guess what? There already are illegal copies floating around. Really. Just thought you should know.
Sincerely,
TJdude
OK, so here’s my minorant: C2: If you don’t want carbs, why are you drinking coke?
Seriously, if you were serious about avoiding carbs, wouldn’t you give up coke? In fact, if you were intelligent in any way at all, wouldn’t you give up coke*? So why are they making low carb coke?
*Not that I have, or plan to, but that’s beside the point
I click on a link that’s a story from washingtonpost.com or chicagotribune or whatever. The masthead loads, the banner ad loads . . .
I sit there and wait and wait . . .
alt-tab over to the Dope for another 90 seconds . . .
alt-tab back – WHAT? STILL nothing but the fucking banner ad? The activity light has glowed a steady green for all this time! What the hell is it doing? Loading all sorts of webbugs and useless JavaScript garbage? :mad: Cut to the chase! Show me the fucking story already!!
Goddamn web designers seem to assume that everybody has a fucking T1 nowadays! :mad:
I bought a flat screen yesterday with a silver casing. When I got it home, I realized that a black casing would have looked better. The silver sheen has sapped my will to live and I don’t know if I can go on. Here I sit, watching Sponge Bob Square Pants as the Philips corporation mocks me with their chromatic malice. A dark cloud of despair has settled on my soul, and the forecast calls for further cloudiness, precipitation, and gusts up to 15 mph. OH LORD, WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME?!
Dear Dad, when I asked you last week if you’d like to do something on Father’s Day, and you told me that seeing as Mom was going to be out of town that you’d rather not plan on anything because Sunday was the day of the classic car show and you might do something else on Saturday I believed you. When I found you at the cabin on Saturday, I took the opportunity to give you your fathers day present, saying “Happy Father’s Day!” at the time. I even brought some watermelon up - something I know you like and that Mom doesn’t so you rarely get it. We spent the afternoon with you, and had dinner together.
So don’t fucking go tell Mom when she comes back that we FORGOT about you on Father’s Day! I brought you a gift! I said Happy Father’s Day! I tried to plan a dinner or something ON Father’s Day and you said NO! What else am I supposed to do?!?
I had the same problem last year when I was looking at universites. I was looking for information about Carleton University, and their website is huge! A single page takes forever to load, and nothing is easy to find. I gave up trying at home, went back on the school’s T1 connection, and had them send me some information through the mail.
I can’t wait to get back to school and have a high speed connection again. At the rate we’re going, we should get cable internet here in 2010. Two years after everybody stops offering dial-up service.
Must you always be shown in pairs? I hate you, hate you, hate you, even one at a time, but now we have to have a double dose each and every time you air!!! And for pity’s sake, can you come up with some new ones, if you just HAVE to stay on the air? I’ve seen the same two commercials for what seems like years now (and it doesn’t fool anyone when you simply reverse the order in which they’re shown–just raises false hope–temporarily–that we only have to see one this time). And just knock off the BS about the free month’s supply being for a limited time only. You’ve been saying that for months! NO ONE BELIEVES YOU ANYMORE! So just SHUT UP!!
Even the National Weather Service is getting into the act. The thumbnail satellite photo on my local forecast page is a whopping 67K jpg. I almost always hit Stop before it finishes loading.
For some reason, this resurfaced in my mind, over a week after school let out.
The TI-83 has a log (i.e. log base 10) and ln (log base e) function, but no other bases. It can easily handle operations that require 2 inputs (e.g. “+”) so why can’t it do log base 2, log base 9, log base 5.6 if I want it? Hell, when I learned that log_b(x)/log_b(y) = log_y(x) I wrote a program that did it. Took about 5 minutes. So why don’t they just include such a thing built in? I mean, fuck.
TJdude825, about C2: I don’t dring regular Coke, and won’t drink C2, either. But if C2 gets to the point where it’s the same price as regular Coke, I will buy it for my kids. My 13-year-old hates Diet Coke, but likes C2. She doesn’t need all the sugar in regular Coke (yes, yes, I know, she doesn’t have to be drinking Coke at all, but she’s a teenager, she only has soda with dinner, and I’m sure I could find more important things to forbid). I would guess that a lot of parents would rather give their kids lower-sugar sodas if they’re made readily available.
Okay, on to my rant: To my 17 year old daughter: No, I don’t spend a lot of one-on-one time with you, but it’s not my fault! Whenever you’re home, you’re desperately trying to figure out where you can go so you don’t have to be home! Several times, I’ve written time with just you into my calendar; invariably, something comes up with a friend of yours that you’d rather do. I understand that, really I do! But then when you bitch to people that I never spend time with you because I’m “too busy with the baby”, well, that, my dear, just frosts my fuckin’ shorts! Knock it off!
) is a question. Why they’d try to make it is obvious.
I almost always hit Stop before it finishes loading.