Well we're here. Kind of - we're in the beautiful and majestic Toronto Airport diligently awaiting our flight. I wanted to leave a little later than my parents wanted me to, as well as everyone else at the dinner table last night, but I caved, and we're here, a full 4 or so hours ahead of the flight (it's 6:46, and our flight leaves at around 11 or so). Just for the record, the wait for customs was 15 minutes, in case anyone was wondering. We're just kind of sitting here, looking at the duty free store, and listening to the airport news channel showing on the flat panels above our heads. I am missing everyone so much already - this morning was a bit teary to say the least; I guess I'll just leave it at that - teary. These next weeks will be difficult on me and everyone else involved, especially Claire, but I'm confident that we can all make it - we love each other for pete sake! I think I should put this thing away for a bit, seeing as how the wireless is a bit spotty here, but the really good wireless is 10 bucks for a day. I suppose that's not really worth it -- we're stuck in this airport for a long time, but not quite a day. This is going to be so much fun, difficult on me as far as missing people, but so much fun! "We're on Vay-Kay!"
Love and miss you all --
Matt
PS: Our flight (BMI#109 from Hethrow) arrives in the amsterdam airport at 4:45 (local time), 10:45 (rochester time)
PSS: Quick edit before I go, (Edit means I added it later), but simon and I forgot to put tags on our bags, so I'm sure they'll get there alright, but we picked up some luggage tags while we were in the airport.... We got Canadian Flag luggage tags - no use risking the anti-american sentiment, right?
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Senseiteki: <---- I5 4 G14N7 D0rk
So, I didn't have anything to do tonight, so I decided to fix this computer that I have to do at some point for this lady. Piece of crap computer, windows 98 se, and it doesn't even do that well, but that's another story.
So while I was waiting for the computer to do it's shit, I decided to call the geek squad, pretending to be some guy who had a really slow computer, and wanted his laptop hooked up to a wireless network, and he doesn't own the router.
Anyway, so I call, they ask me hundreds questions, and she said that in order for them to come out and get all the crap off my computer, it would be 249. Basically, that price is figured out by including the "drive fee" of 129 for them to come out to my place. But, she tried to make me feel better by saying that it is guaranteed for 30 days, so if anything goes wrong, they'll come out again. I told her I heard of "these guys" who will come out to my house too, fix all my shit, and they also guarantee their work for 30 days. They charge 59 dollars. Want to wager a guess who "these guys" are ;) Anyway, she really didn't have an answer for me why the price difference is so much. I guess I don't know either - it's just exorbitant! (i think i used that right - go go dictionary.com)
So I asked how much it would be to have the wireless network installed - she said 149, including the "two computers." That doesn't include the router, so I said "how much is that?"
She says: "Well, you have to buy that yourself."
Matt: "Aren't you people from Best Buy?"
Geek: "Yes, but you still have to buy it yourself."
Matt: "Can't they just pick one up at the store on the way out?"
Geek: "Well, you can come to Best Buy and have them show you which one you need to buy."
Matt: "But if I was going all the way to Best Buy in the first place, shouldn't I just bring in my computer and avoid the 129 dollar drive fee?"
Geek: "I guess you could do that."
I just don't get it. It's kinda like AOL - they're taking advantage of people who don't know any better. I hate that.
this has been a paid advertisement for My Computer Guy - This blogger does not necessarily (but I do) agree with the product being advertised herein.
www.mcguy.com
;)
So while I was waiting for the computer to do it's shit, I decided to call the geek squad, pretending to be some guy who had a really slow computer, and wanted his laptop hooked up to a wireless network, and he doesn't own the router.
Anyway, so I call, they ask me hundreds questions, and she said that in order for them to come out and get all the crap off my computer, it would be 249. Basically, that price is figured out by including the "drive fee" of 129 for them to come out to my place. But, she tried to make me feel better by saying that it is guaranteed for 30 days, so if anything goes wrong, they'll come out again. I told her I heard of "these guys" who will come out to my house too, fix all my shit, and they also guarantee their work for 30 days. They charge 59 dollars. Want to wager a guess who "these guys" are ;) Anyway, she really didn't have an answer for me why the price difference is so much. I guess I don't know either - it's just exorbitant! (i think i used that right - go go dictionary.com)
So I asked how much it would be to have the wireless network installed - she said 149, including the "two computers." That doesn't include the router, so I said "how much is that?"
She says: "Well, you have to buy that yourself."
Matt: "Aren't you people from Best Buy?"
Geek: "Yes, but you still have to buy it yourself."
Matt: "Can't they just pick one up at the store on the way out?"
Geek: "Well, you can come to Best Buy and have them show you which one you need to buy."
Matt: "But if I was going all the way to Best Buy in the first place, shouldn't I just bring in my computer and avoid the 129 dollar drive fee?"
Geek: "I guess you could do that."
I just don't get it. It's kinda like AOL - they're taking advantage of people who don't know any better. I hate that.
this has been a paid advertisement for My Computer Guy - This blogger does not necessarily (but I do) agree with the product being advertised herein.
www.mcguy.com
;)
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Jerry Seinfeld
So what's the deal with oversized toilet paper rolls anyway? Are the American People that lazy that they can't even imagine having to store more than one roll of toilet paper next to the commode? The manufactures of this stuff are so hooked on making the roll double the size of a regular roll, or triple the size, or quadruple the size (and extremely soft, which bugs the crap out of me, by the way), that they have even added, in specially marked packages of giant-humungo sized toilet paper, a toilet paper roll dispense extender that makes your normal toilet paper roll housing fit their giant abomination of a paper product.
What's the deal with that?
Oh, time to sing:
"happy 100 postings to you, happy 100 postings to you, happy 100 postings dear Thoughts and Ramblings (mostly ramblings), happy birthday to you"
What's the deal with that?
Oh, time to sing:
"happy 100 postings to you, happy 100 postings to you, happy 100 postings dear Thoughts and Ramblings (mostly ramblings), happy birthday to you"
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Maczot again!
SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys
BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com
MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software
This is pretty cool - they give .05 for each blog entry that mentions this stuff, and then so you can download it for free! freaking A mannn
99.99999 of you won't give a shit, sorry guys
-matt
BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com
MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software
This is pretty cool - they give .05 for each blog entry that mentions this stuff, and then so you can download it for free! freaking A mannn
99.99999 of you won't give a shit, sorry guys
-matt
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Napping
Scene:
Sitting in posvar hall, next to a recently finished turkey sangwich, cup of sierra mist, and a bag of original lays potato chips (there is no replacement for the original, I have recently rediscovered, although, I will undoubtedly continue to buy the baked version when available), there is a guy, in a chair, passed the fuck out. Sitting there in his "a little too tight shirt to be comfortable" (oops, I was in a rush this morning), and his shorts with no cargo pockets (which are nice sometimes not to have that extra material around), and his head balance delicately on the plam of his (due to lack of bloodflow) now asleep arm, is itself, asleep. Man, that feels soo good.
I'm writing to tell you that I really like something about myself - my ability to fall asleep damn near anywhere, the noisier the better, actually, as long as the noise is constant, and random. Don't get me wrong, silence works too (usually better for long-term sleep), but noise is nice for a nap. Of course, as Claire can tell you, napping gets me in trouble sometimes, especially more recently. I've been taking them more often, right around class time, and when she sees my screename doesn't go back to that soothing "a-person-has-touched-that computer-in-less-than-10 min" yellow, she knows something's up. She gives me a polite but stern, "Matt, did you fall asleep?" "yes..." "OK, well, I think you have class in 8 minutes... maybe you'd better go ;)" The one napping event that I've been trying to master, is napping at work. Usuaually I'll get an hour for a lunch break in the afternoon at Public Abstract, and sometimes, on nights that I returned home at around 4 AM from being out doing absolutely nothing (which is amazing, I might add :) ), the day after has been primed for the taking for a lunch-hour nap. I try to do it at a bench in the "lobby" which is better than actually in the office, and sometimes my co-workers see me out there, and laugh and joke about it later in the day. But, perhaps this summer I will take the holy grail of napping - doing it inside the office. And I'm not just talking about desk napping, or even napping while standing in line at the clerk's office (which cannot be done by the way, I'm convinced standing and sleeping is physically impossible -- after much effort trying, don't you worry about that), I'm talking about all out, on-the-floor-with-your-coat-as-a-pillow-napping, which I witnessed my co-worker Keith do once. He said after getting up, "man, I really, Really, needed that." That's what I want. That is great. That is, the best nap ever.
Sitting in posvar hall, next to a recently finished turkey sangwich, cup of sierra mist, and a bag of original lays potato chips (there is no replacement for the original, I have recently rediscovered, although, I will undoubtedly continue to buy the baked version when available), there is a guy, in a chair, passed the fuck out. Sitting there in his "a little too tight shirt to be comfortable" (oops, I was in a rush this morning), and his shorts with no cargo pockets (which are nice sometimes not to have that extra material around), and his head balance delicately on the plam of his (due to lack of bloodflow) now asleep arm, is itself, asleep. Man, that feels soo good.
I'm writing to tell you that I really like something about myself - my ability to fall asleep damn near anywhere, the noisier the better, actually, as long as the noise is constant, and random. Don't get me wrong, silence works too (usually better for long-term sleep), but noise is nice for a nap. Of course, as Claire can tell you, napping gets me in trouble sometimes, especially more recently. I've been taking them more often, right around class time, and when she sees my screename doesn't go back to that soothing "a-person-has-touched-that computer-in-less-than-10 min" yellow, she knows something's up. She gives me a polite but stern, "Matt, did you fall asleep?" "yes..." "OK, well, I think you have class in 8 minutes... maybe you'd better go ;)" The one napping event that I've been trying to master, is napping at work. Usuaually I'll get an hour for a lunch break in the afternoon at Public Abstract, and sometimes, on nights that I returned home at around 4 AM from being out doing absolutely nothing (which is amazing, I might add :) ), the day after has been primed for the taking for a lunch-hour nap. I try to do it at a bench in the "lobby" which is better than actually in the office, and sometimes my co-workers see me out there, and laugh and joke about it later in the day. But, perhaps this summer I will take the holy grail of napping - doing it inside the office. And I'm not just talking about desk napping, or even napping while standing in line at the clerk's office (which cannot be done by the way, I'm convinced standing and sleeping is physically impossible -- after much effort trying, don't you worry about that), I'm talking about all out, on-the-floor-with-your-coat-as-a-pillow-napping, which I witnessed my co-worker Keith do once. He said after getting up, "man, I really, Really, needed that." That's what I want. That is great. That is, the best nap ever.
Monday, April 03, 2006
macZOT?
Yeah! macZOT - sounds like pretty cool stuff. better get me some macZOT when i get a mac
http://maczot.com/
check it out
http://maczot.com/
check it out
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
machines with brains?
Short and sweet:
I went to buy a candybar during the break between halves of a night class. I had a hankoring for a bag of reeses pieces, so I inserted my dollar, and pushed E6 - 85 cent item. It said "make another selection" - wtf. Why, on earth, do I need to make another selection. Ok, maybe it doesn't have 15 cents to give me back. But I try another one - Giant Ass Kit Kat - E8 - 85 cent item. It said, sure thing buddy, here ya go. What's up with that? Maybe it knows how many of each item there are in there, and it has some sort of ulterior motive to sell equal amounts of each candy bar or bag of chips, so that the machine looks more full, more of the time. Maybe it's just totally fucked in the "head." Maybe it sized me up, said "hm, a big ass kit kat has less calories in it than the bag of reeses pieces, so maybe I should do it a favor and give him something that'll help his waistline."
Or it's a glitch. Whatever, you decide. I like to the last idea, personally.
I went to buy a candybar during the break between halves of a night class. I had a hankoring for a bag of reeses pieces, so I inserted my dollar, and pushed E6 - 85 cent item. It said "make another selection" - wtf. Why, on earth, do I need to make another selection. Ok, maybe it doesn't have 15 cents to give me back. But I try another one - Giant Ass Kit Kat - E8 - 85 cent item. It said, sure thing buddy, here ya go. What's up with that? Maybe it knows how many of each item there are in there, and it has some sort of ulterior motive to sell equal amounts of each candy bar or bag of chips, so that the machine looks more full, more of the time. Maybe it's just totally fucked in the "head." Maybe it sized me up, said "hm, a big ass kit kat has less calories in it than the bag of reeses pieces, so maybe I should do it a favor and give him something that'll help his waistline."
Or it's a glitch. Whatever, you decide. I like to the last idea, personally.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Oh I'm sorry, all I heard was, "Knock Knock Knock, we're annoying neighbors!"
So whilst trying to sleep the other night, the neighbors upstairs were making quite a bit of noise. It sounded much like a team of elephants playing football against a team of rhinos. What's up with that? So after about 10 minutes of this going on, I decided to stand up on my bed and knock. So... [knock knock knock] I did. And what did I hear in reply?
"What's that? Someone's knocking? [STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP] hahaha!"
Wow, how rude. Now, I can understand that if I was trying to be nice, I should have gone upstairs, knocked on their door politely, and asked them to please keep it down a bit because I'm trying to sleep. But they were the same people that had, last semester, come down while we were playing mario kart and asked us to turn our music down. As Tony, who had answered the door asked what music they were talking about, she was already in the doorway to the stairwell going back upstairs. There was also another issue with loud music, which wasn't all that loud in the first place.
So, if I'm a little less willing to be nice and kind to them, it's because of that. It just strikes me as incredibly rude for people to act in such a way in response to a gesture that keys them into the fact that they were being loud! What would you do? Would you stomp back and laugh if someone knocked on your floor from the bedroom beneath you? Craazyness.
In other news, I need to express my dislike of the state of the union address, simply because it falls during the hour that both scrubs episodes are normally scheduled. Wtf?
"That was easy."
"What's that? Someone's knocking? [STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP] hahaha!"
Wow, how rude. Now, I can understand that if I was trying to be nice, I should have gone upstairs, knocked on their door politely, and asked them to please keep it down a bit because I'm trying to sleep. But they were the same people that had, last semester, come down while we were playing mario kart and asked us to turn our music down. As Tony, who had answered the door asked what music they were talking about, she was already in the doorway to the stairwell going back upstairs. There was also another issue with loud music, which wasn't all that loud in the first place.
So, if I'm a little less willing to be nice and kind to them, it's because of that. It just strikes me as incredibly rude for people to act in such a way in response to a gesture that keys them into the fact that they were being loud! What would you do? Would you stomp back and laugh if someone knocked on your floor from the bedroom beneath you? Craazyness.
In other news, I need to express my dislike of the state of the union address, simply because it falls during the hour that both scrubs episodes are normally scheduled. Wtf?
"That was easy."
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Slacker
I was watching Back to the Future 2 the other day on tbs. That's the one where Marty and Doc go into the future and somehow the old Biff gets a hold of an almanac that tells the future of all sporting events from 1975-2000. He brings it to the past, gives it to himself, and changes the world forever. So when Marty and the Doc go back to 1985 and they find that it's changed, they run into some interesting people. Like the old principal wasn't the principal anymore because the school burned down, but he was calling everyone slackers... as he shot students who drove by to pepper his house with bullets with a shotgun, and called them slackers. He even called Marty a slacker and he didn't know who he was at the time. That's what I've been for a while, as far as blog entries go.
My mind's been feeling very sleepy lately. I actually went to go write a blog entry a few times, but I just had nothing to say. My mind feels dry. Even in conversations with real people, I just feel like I have nothing to say. I look around at people having conversations in class, in extracurricular activities, online - I just have nothing to say. I need to wake up again. Someone set an alarm clock for 10 min ago, cause i'm sick of this.
On a brighter note, my parents are coming tomorrow. They haven't actually even seen the apartment since I moved in, so that'll be fun for them. I'm excited to see my sister and give her a hug for getting into 4/5 colleges that she applied to. The 5th one is John Carrol, which she has an interview at tomorrow afternoon (they stop there first, then come to pittsburgh). Fingers crossed for her ;) Should probably clean up around here though... maybe I can borrow sarah's vacuum to pick up some of the big shit.
I went searching for apartments with simon this past weekend, claire came too to give us her input as well. Most of the places that we're looking at have tennents that aren't going to be out until around may or june, and so we have to wait till like march to call them back, to find out if they're going to renew their leases or not. I think that we have enough places to check that we'll find a decent place for our senior year pad.
Anyway, if anyone has any techniques for mentally stimulating one's self, let me know, and suduku is not an option, btw. Mmm... maybe I should start playing not pron again....
-Matt
My mind's been feeling very sleepy lately. I actually went to go write a blog entry a few times, but I just had nothing to say. My mind feels dry. Even in conversations with real people, I just feel like I have nothing to say. I look around at people having conversations in class, in extracurricular activities, online - I just have nothing to say. I need to wake up again. Someone set an alarm clock for 10 min ago, cause i'm sick of this.
On a brighter note, my parents are coming tomorrow. They haven't actually even seen the apartment since I moved in, so that'll be fun for them. I'm excited to see my sister and give her a hug for getting into 4/5 colleges that she applied to. The 5th one is John Carrol, which she has an interview at tomorrow afternoon (they stop there first, then come to pittsburgh). Fingers crossed for her ;) Should probably clean up around here though... maybe I can borrow sarah's vacuum to pick up some of the big shit.
I went searching for apartments with simon this past weekend, claire came too to give us her input as well. Most of the places that we're looking at have tennents that aren't going to be out until around may or june, and so we have to wait till like march to call them back, to find out if they're going to renew their leases or not. I think that we have enough places to check that we'll find a decent place for our senior year pad.
Anyway, if anyone has any techniques for mentally stimulating one's self, let me know, and suduku is not an option, btw. Mmm... maybe I should start playing not pron again....
-Matt
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