My DSL is back up today after an inexcusable outage that began Friday afternoon at 5 and continued until Monday. The outage knocked out several friends as well because I had pimpd out this company to everyone I know, causing me to become Patient Zero in a network failure epidemic.

On top of that the company was just short of insulting in their attitude, tossing away the idea of monitoring as “impossible” and basically blaming me for not informing them of the problem (“we rely on our customers”) when there was no way to reach them at all on a weekend with an emergency(!!!). I told them to fix both of those things within 30 days or I’m not their customer any more, much less their advocate. There was no response yet to this.

I’m in shock at their response, frankly. I am a lazy SOB but I can’t ethically encompass being this crappy to a customer. The worst part is, I’ve used these guys for years and know them socially.

Now service is up, but my 1.5M download speed has magically become 384K. So I’m getting much less bandwidth than I’m paying for now. Guess that isn’t worth checking or monitoring either.

I think I’m switching providers very soon. I don’t like getting this angry over buying stuff, it’s bad for my soul. And I’m angry enough right now to feel flushed and trembly.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/908430.asp?cp1=1

“Virtues” guy and yapping tiresome hypocrite moralist William Bennett has a big, big, big gambling problem.

Folks this is why it’s not a good idea to become famous and wealthy by being a prude and yelling at others about virtues.

My DSL has been toast since Friday, without any response from my ISP. I know them personally. They are all going to freakin’ die.

Mochi green tea ice cream rules.

I have been obsessively listening to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in my car. Boy, they’re good.

The Jerkcity book is also good.

There’s no reason for you to have been reading any of this, is there?

I was at the MAUL today and outside the Apple store there was a line of people with their little welcome cards or something waiting to buy a new iPod. The usual tiresome egotistical Apple Store employee was there giving posters and stuff to people waiting in line to BUY SOMETHING.

I wish I’d come up with the Apple Cult. It’s great to see people sacrificing their time and energy to give someone else money.

Next time I’m going to go investigate some new online group of people, because they look interesting, and someone I know who is cool is involved, someone STOP me.

Because it’s the same every time. They’re paranoid little cliquish shits who exist only to have a little chunk of bozospace they keep others from enjoying.

I went through that on Efnet 5 years ago; never again.

Also, make sure I never move to Northern California.

Guh.

Yes, there’s an LJ community for stoner anorexics: .

I have had AC/DC’s song “Shoot to Thrill” stuck in my head on and off for two weeks now. Is there an entry in the DSM-IV for this? IS THERE A PILL/TREATMENT? Thanks.

…would let me make this shirt?

Who told our fatuous puppet president that he was the hero of ID4, anyway? Hmm? HMM?

Right, so:

It’s the National Day of Prayer.

It’s Loyalty Day.

It’s International Workers Day.

So today, brothers and sisters, I pray that all of us working people will be loyal to one another. Let’s work hard to support each other, care for each other, watch each other’s backs, and take care to avoid infighting and drama in the work place. And let’s keep our powder dry; this is an employer’s decade, and they’re looking for ways to grind us down a little harder. Solidarnosc!