Monthly Archives: August 2004

There is a computer on this planet which contains vital information. This computer contains critical information regarding the wherabouts of a particular product that I am looking for. It says where this product will be and at what time it will be there.

What I would like to know is who has access to this computer?

I have been trying for a few days now to locate the Roady2 XM Satellite Radio Reciever. This product is extremely popular and extremely difficult to find. I have called every Best Buy and Circuit City in the area and none of them have it in stock. They claimed a shipment may be coming in today, but they have not recieved the radios yet.

When I call XM, they are quick to give me a list of dealers, but can not verify stock. They have not told me that there are no more Roady2 radios being sent out, but on the other hand, nobody seems to have them in stock. Where do I go from here? I wanted to get the radio by this weekend.

With all the computerization and technology these companies use, you would think someone would be able to tell me, “Best Buy in west bumblefuck will be recieving 4 units by the end of the day” so I could at least get down there the next day once they make their way to the shelves!

I’ve made the switch from Microsoft’s Outlook Express to the all new Microsoft Outlook 2003 and I have to say I am impressed. Aside from the shazzy looking UI, they’ve improved Outlook quite a bit since the last version.

First of all, the filters work, and they’re a lot faster than they were in Outlook 2002… I had many problems when experimenting with Outlook 2002 because I could check mail 100 times faster with Outlook Express, but the 2003 version run smoothly and quickly.

Another great feature of Outlook 2003 is it’s spam filtering. As someone who gets about 994 pieces of spam per day and about 6 real emails, it’s been critical that I find a solution to filter spam as it reaches my inbox. I’ve played with just about every spam filter out there and have found one, SpamKiller, that I like. Combined with Outlooks built in spam filtering I have tremendous control over what makes it into my mailbox and what gets deleted. Plus it’s easier to delete the spam now than it was in Outlook Express.

I’ll run it for a while and see how it works out, but so far, I’m loving it.

This weekend was great. I took off Saturday from the radio station to head up to the New York Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo, New York.

I headed out about 9AM to get a hold of $25 in gold dollar coins. There’s just something about buying stuff at the renfair using gold coins out of a leather pouch. I find it so “in-period”. It wasn’t an easy task gathering the coins either. I had to go to 2 banks and they couldn’t provide me with a roll, so I managed to gather together about $30 in gold dollars.

After the whole money ordeal, I picked up Kerry at the train station and we headed out to Queens to meet up with Laura, Vinny and Dave. We got to the faire about 20 minutes before Scott and Liz arrived, so we all got together and had a blast. The Renaissance Faire was a lot of fun this year. It’s a great place to go with friends or family.

I’m looking foward to going back to the faire with in the next month or so.

If you bring the computer into the bathroom with you, that’s fine.
If you like to blog while you shit, that’s fine.
If you like to frag your friends while pushing brown, that’s fine.
If you like to send spam while squeezing spam, that’s not quite fine.

But do me a favor….When all is said and done, WIPE, WASH and then…ONLY THEN…pick the computer back up or else I’m not touching it the next time you screw it up and want someone to fix it!

So I get a phone call, asking for me by name, on my line which is:

1. Unlisted
2. In my mother’s name
3. NEVER given out to any companies/agencies

and the caller claims to be representing Maxim Magazine. When I asked where she got my number, she answered “Maxim Magazine”. Knowing that Maxim does not have my phone number, I again inquired where they got my numbed and her reply was again “Maxim Magazine”…

After telling her that I did NOT receive maxim AT THAT NUMBER she hung up.

Now, I dialed star[*] 69 and got the number 800-362-0796… I’ve been trying to research that number but with no luck. So far, it will cost me between $60 and $250 just to find out who owns the number. $250 to find out who called MY phone.

I call out to the masses. If anybody has access to this information would you please email me any information you have. I dunno, maybe someone in your family is in law enforcement or is a private investigator? I could use a hand…