Random Bitching Monologues

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I've watched with my hand firmly on my greased-up fleshpop as phattymatt pissed across a street. I'm not shteinting you. Curb to curb. Never would have thought it was possible.

I think this should go in your "not a man" thread.

[rjs246]

I think you have a rather large crush on me.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

What can I say?  I love your body, Larry.

[mussa]

Got a wireless router yesterday and have been trying to figure it out ever since. So much for plug and play on a Mac. 

[Diomedes]

Did you watch 60 Minutes last night?  They had a segment all about exactly this problem, and how the Geek Squad and their ilk are becoming as necessary to the average person as a good plumber or electrician is..

[Wingspan]

Got a wireless router yesterday and have been trying to figure it out ever since. So much for plug and play on a Mac. 

what kind?

We have Macs at home, and I had a wireless router running in about 15 minutes.

[Cerevant]

Got a wireless router yesterday and have been trying to figure it out ever since. So much for plug and play on a Mac. 

I'm guessing since you said "a wireless router" and not "an Airport Express" you didn't get an Apple wireless router.  The key to Apple's simplicity and stability is staying within their tightly controlled product experience - which means only buying Apple (or Apple approved) products.

[Cerevant]

Did you watch 60 Minutes last night?  They had a segment all about exactly this problem, and how the Geek Squad and their ilk are becoming as necessary to the average person as a good plumber or electrician is..

Hopefully there will be data communications codes just like there are electrical and plumbing codes, as well as licensing and bonding.  With so much moving to the digital domain - family communications, home movies, photos - the cost of your computer getting farged is growing fast.  Not something you want to trust to the neighborhood teenaged geek who thinks he has a clue...

Oh, and take the running of data cables out of the hands of the electricians.  They barely understand electricity, and figure that gives them a clue about datacomms.  It is all just wires, right?

[SunMo]

this is the reason why, if you have a marginal friend who is experienced in computers or cars, you must take care of them.

my wife has several friends whose husbands would be a nuisance to me if not for their abilities to save me money.

[General_Failure]

Beer is cheaper than $50/hr.

[SunMo]

yeah it is...

in fact, the best example of this was when my wife's friend's husband hooked a bunch of entertainment equipment up and hooked me up with a sweet setup, he probably did about 5 hours of work, including crawling around in my crawlspace getting filthy.  let's say, conservatively, i could've paid him $35/hour, so about $175 worth of work.

i took him out that night and got him shteinfaced and full of food for about $35.  that rules.

[Rome]

My buddy put in a new heat pump/cac system in my house and it cost me a pizza and a case of beer.

I tried to pay him the going rate but he got insulted that I even offered.  To soothe things over, I took him to a strip joint and paid for about a dozen lap dances for him.  I still saved a grand, easy.

[Diomedes]

Friends are better than money.

[SunMo]

make new friends...
but keep the old...
one is silver...
and the other gold...

[ice grillin you]

Friends are better than money


i buy all my friends so not really