More bullshit from another asshole with a blog

Long time, no see
07Jun07

Posted by wafwot

big headed baby Holy fuck, it’s been a month and a half since I’ve updated this little waste of time. I have no excuse, except being exhausted from work… that, and I’m a lazy dick.

As most of you who read this bullshit already know, my days are hella long, but shorter than they were last Nobember. I’m up at 4:00am (commonly referred to as o’dark hundred). I leave the house just before 5:00am, get to work by 7:30am, leave work at 5:00pm, and if there’s no Asian drivers or left lane vigilantes, I’m home by 7:30pm. Bedtime rolls around at 10:00pm and I get to do it all over again in 6 hours. I hate this, but it wasn’t too bad, as open tickets in my department were usually completed by mid-afternoon. I was able to start an update during lunch, possibly complete a rough draft during the slow afternoon, and put the finishing touches on it before going to sleep. That all changed when the company that employs my sorry ass purchased an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar (as I mentioned in my April 10 update oh so long ago). My department handles all the issues from domain registrants. While things are starting to calm down, it’s still a huge drain on my time. I’ve probably spent a total of 8 hours looking at the Hosting ticket queue since the Registrar came online in late March. It feels that all my time is monopolized in the Registrar queues, which are usually filled with an assload of spam, sprinkled with a smattering of “English only from the knowledge of retarded registrants it comes from the translator.” Sometimes it’s like talking to Yoda‘s retarded European cousin, Yodaski. “Goodly English I speak not. My domain name, renew I must or expire it will.” So, I guess what I’m saying is… I have an excuse. Laziness aside, after a day at work lately, I don’t want to go near a computer… weekends are spent sleeping… and sometimes this blog feels like work, and I can’t have that.

Speaking of work, things are going swimmingly for The Company. I don’t know much about it, and I probably shouldn’t talk about it anyway… so I’ll only mention that they signed a big contract that promises to take The Company to a whole new plateau. It’ll be nice to see us grow, even if we become something resembling an aborted Comcast fetus. Maybe us indentured servants will see a modest pay increase out of it all. It sure would be nice, since the price of gas is robbing me for all I got… like a ten dollar whore in a by-the-hour no-tell motel. Fuck, I need a low interest, long term loan just to pay my share of the carpool gas… goddamn raghead terrorists and their gas-peddling pusher refineries! At least the price is dropping some… I spend $45.00 at the pump now instead of $46.30. Time to buy a Pepsi.

Funny that I mentioned fetuses, because it’s definitely fucking spring. I have a house full of parrots that are full-swing into their springtime (albeit masturbatory) humping cycle. There’s more birdy jizz in those cages than in Lindsay Lohan‘s stomach after an all night bender… and that’s a lotta jizz. Nearly every woman I know seems to be in their springtime mating cycle, too. Jesus Christ! They either just had a baby, are pregnant with a baby, want to have a baby, or being called “baby.” It’s like a fucking barnyard, man. I swear I heard Marlin Perkins narrating in my office last week. “We’ll wait here while Jim passes out some protection, and I’m not talking about the kinda of protection you can get with an insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha.”

The picture of Nirvana‘s Nevermind cover was photoshopped (although I used GIMP) by me to be a crude representation of a newborn in our office. The baby was actually a girl, but the news was the baby was “6lbs 14oz, 18″ long, 14″ head full of hair!” Now, I’m a bright young old man, and I know the 14 inches referred to the circumference of the head, but I couldn’t help think of a baby with a giant head, and a 4-inch body. It made me laugh. Speaking of Nevermind, the baby in that picture was three months old in 1991, and the parents were paid $200 for the shoot. If you want to feel old, take a look at this picture of Spencer Elden (that’s his name) in 2005. Goddamn, I’m ancient! I remember the day that CD came out! I wonder if girls giggle and want to see his wiener for comparison purposes. Punk-ass fucker probably gets more trim in a year than I’ve seen my entire life. I’m not bitter.

Is anyone sick of all the Paris Hilton coverage on every fucking news outlet on the planet? It’s absolutely incredible that her in and out and in again prison fiasco is monopolizing the headlines. The bitch was born with a gold-plated platinum spoon wedged in her face. If her last name was Green, or Smith, or Nahasapeemapetilon… and she worked at a nail salon, McDonald's, or a Kwik-E-Mart she’d be just another dumb, talentless cunt with small tits. She’d be living in a mobile home with a cocktail of cum from every mullet-wearing hillbilly in the trailer park oozing from her orifices. She literally has nothing to contribute to society. Seriously, do you think the world would miss her if she fell into a well in Midland, Texas, never to be heard from again? I say we take her, Nicole Richie, and all their socialite friends, cut off their heads, arms, and legs, toss the body parts in a bus, fill the bus with concrete, and send the whole goddamn thing into space on a collision course with the Sun. Or we could just kill ‘em.

Okay, now that I’ve probably startled the shit out of you with my overworked imagination, I’ll wrap this update up and call it published. Let’s hope it’s not another six weeks before another diatribe graces this site.

420
20Apr07

Posted by wafwot

Cingular 8125Yesterday, I got a new cell phone. Well, I ordered it Tuesday, and it arrived yesterday… so I guess, I really did get a new cell phone yesterday. Seems like I get a new one every year. Last year I bought a v635. This year it’s a new smartphone. The Cingular 8125 has one major flaw; it runs Windows. However, I can over look that glaring technological pimple for all the other cool shit it does. It’s got bluetooth, Wi-Fi, infrared, USB, a miniSD memory card slot, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, a QWERTY keyboard, and a 65k-color quarter VGA screen. Oh, did I mention it’s a cell phone? It’s freakin’ awesome. I can surf the ‘Net for porn, use jabber to chat with my two friends, or shell into my Linux machines or the servers at work… and I can still make calls to order calzones from Pizza Factory. Imagine that! The picture here is a shot of my phone, which I also uploaded to Wikipedia since the article for the HTC Wizard needed an image.

I had, just had, to run an errand in town today. I still had the nebulizer I used to inhale the medication I needed when I had pneumonia. It had to be returned to the medical supplier or I’d have been the next Jim Carroll, sucking dick in the men’s room for money to pay the goddamn bill.

My 5am-to-8pm daily commute has made doing things in town a fucking production, requiring a scheduled day off, an official Congressional order, and a high level of coordination rivaling that of Cirque du Soleil. If we need to run even the smallest errand in town, we have to burn a vacation day (or feign illness) in order to complete that errand. The amount of bullshit we’re forced to eat when asking for a schedule change is out of hand. There’s a really long story that goes behind all this, but I don’t want to get into it. Let’s just say that my carpool was asking to have “work-from-home” Fridays that would allow us to telecommute. So earlier in the week, I requested today off if (and only if) we were still driving to Seattle. If telecommuting was approved for Fridays (and all of us were working from home), I wouldn’t need the day off. Okay, let me simplify this as if you were a 2nd grader: I was to have the day off if we’re driving, or I would work from home if we weren’t driving. And as predictable as the rising cost of gasoline, the word came down yesterday that telecommuting was denied, and we would not be working from home. Bastards!

So, I was working from home today. I was logged into the support queue with my X-Lite softphone, tunneled into the company’s VPN, and connected to our jabber server. I was handling my tickets and doing my thing. One of my pet peeves about the jabber server is chat etiquette. It drives me crazy that the people I work with have to start off a conversation with a stupid question — “You there?” Jesus fuck, people! If my online status says I’m available, there’s a high goddamn likelihood I’m at my desk. Just spit it out! There’s no need to ask for my fucking twenty. One of my co-workers asked me this question shortly after 3pm today, and I replied accordingly. They’re jealous nappy-headed hos because I was working from home, and they had to drive into Seattle. They campaigned, via broadcast message, for everyone to send me a jabber message… “hey, you there?” As you can see by the clips of my jabber log below, everyone who asked got the same basic response, regardless of who they were. It was all in good fun, though.

<Twigg> hey you there?
<Twigg> hahahahahahha
<wafwot> fuck you
 
<Ocelot> hey you there?
<wafwot> I’ll say to you what I said to Twigg…. Fuck you.
<wafwot> C’mon…. get the boss to ask me.
 
<mike> you there?
<wafwot> fuck you
<wafwot> LOL
<mike> your number one too!!
 
<mermaid> I’m to harrass you
<wafwot> Okay.
<wafwot> Just don’t ask if I’m here.
<mermaid> I was told to but I dont want to go with the crowd
<mermaid> I’m cool like that
<wafwot> ‘Ata girl!
<wafwot> Coolest in the whole building!
<mermaid> I know I know
 
<All> Hey u there?
<wafwot> fuck you
 
<wafwot> A broadcast messgage?
<wafwot> You ass.
<Ocelot> hahahahahaha
 
<paul> hey, you there?
<wafwot> Ffffffuuuuuuck You!
<paul> hehehe
 
<the boss> ‘hey.. you there?’
<wafwot> fuck you
<wafwot> lol
<the boss> Ouch hhaha you would not like it
<the boss> what a nice guy.
<the boss> where is that pen I sign your check with? hahah

I so wish I had the wit about me to mention to “the boss” that he doesn’t sign my checks… they’re automatically deposited. Muhahahaha!

Just before lunch, my new phone rang. It was Ditech. He took the day off to move car parts from his garage to Bellingham. I think he took the day off to celebrate 420, but I could be wrong. It’s been known to happen one or two… hundred… thousand times before. After work, I drove out to his house and helped him celebrate the “holiday.” During the 45-minute trip, I realized the “Spring 2007 Hey You There” campaign took to the highway. My carpool buddies were now sending “hey you there” text messages to my cell phone. It was pretty goddamn funny once I had a good buzz kickin’.

As we passed the pipe around just outside the door of Ditech’s basement, he told me they were fixing up the house in order to put it up for sale soon. He told me that the carpet in one particular room is haunted by a mysterious piss odor caused by a former owner, and no amount of cleaning has removed the stink. This was highly funny to me in my state of bakedness. He told me most of the time the carpet in the room doesn’t smell. But sometimes just walking into the house, the stink hits you so hard, it makes Ike Turner seem tender. I couldn’t help but laugh. Not in a mean way. Phantom smells are not something you take lightly. If I’ve learned one thing in my 40+ years on Planet Earth, it’s that jocularity and noxious clouds of urine shall not be fucked with. I don’t make this shit up, people. No, I was laughing because my THC-induced imagination went immediately to a new direct-to-video movie of Scooby Doo and the Lethal Piss Stink of La Conner” (No, I’m not talking about the Swinomish Tribe. That would be mean.) I couldn’t help but picture Shaggy and Scooby, clinging to each other in a quivering embrace of gayness in the back of the Mystery Machine because they saw a Specter of Pee floating towards them, laughing like Ed McMahon. Fred, Daphne, and Velma solve the case, but Shag and Scoob bumble through and somehow expose the true identity of the Pestilent Pee Phantom as Old Man Meriweather… who of course would have gotten away with it had it not been for those meddling kids. We had a girly giggle over that. I was hilarious! Ditech was worried his tale of tinkle stink might make it to my blog… but I wouldn’t do such a thing for the same reason I don’t make fun of the Swinomish. It was after 9pm by the time I got home from Ditech’s house… thanks to that period of time you have to wait before driving while stoned… so you don’t draw attention to yourself. Paranoia is a stoner’s barometer… or something.

So, that was my 420. Hope your’s was twice as fun. Pass the bong. And the lighter… dumbass.

April Ramblings (Miscellany, Part 4)
10Apr07

Posted by wafwot

Internet Map It’s the return of the crappy blog title! Run away! Flee! If you have a better suggestion for a title… keep it to yourself or start you own fucking blog.

Before you go clicking on the image in this update all willy-nilly and shit, be advised that this image is 4000 pixels square, and fully 11+ megabytes in size. If you haven’t joined the rest of us in the high-speed 21st century, it may take you while to view the full-size image. But if you’re on dial-up, and you simply must see the full-size image, go ahead and click on it, then go masturbate to the bra and panties section of the J.C. Penney catalog. Hopefully the download will be finished before you are… If you’re wondering what it is, it’s an Internet map showing a visual representation of the whole network… as of 2003.

I picked that image because it deals with work, and work is a pain in my large, pasty white ass lately. The company I work for recently bought a domain name registrar. So, we’re no longer reselling domain names for some registrar; we are a registrar! We’re now like the drunk hillbilly brother of Go Daddy. Being a domain name registrar brings a whole new class of customers. Domain name owners make Hosting and DSL customers look like members of Mensa International. Many are from other countries who write emails in their native language perfectly… but English? Not so much. Thank Douglas Adams for the Babel fish. “Am achieving swapping of name server in the dominion example.com, yesterday hice is changing and still not itself live.” What you say? Havening to breach a language and technological barrier should garner me some hazardous duty pay, I swear to fuck!

Ninety percent of their issues are renewing their domain name because they let it expire. They get pissed off because their shit is broke, and it’s somehow our fault. They bitch because their domain name expired and they never got a notice. Do they think we can’t check email logs? We can tell them the exact minute on the exact days and to which email addresses the four different renewal notices were sent.

My favorites are the domain names that expired more than 30 days ago. These domains are so far past the expiration date, they’re placed in a redemption status and no longer in our database. To restore a domain name in redemption costs the owner $99. Oh my God! You would think we kidnapped their baby and was demanding some outrageous dollar amount as ransom. “Pay up or the baby dies, motherfucker!” They get so pissed off! I own 7 different domain names, and you know how many times they’ve expired? Zero! I have never let one of my domains expire accidentally. I had a dispute with a couple of them because of a milquetoast cocksucker and his Sleestak wife, but that’s a story from the past that doesn’t deserve even this many words in my blog. Of course, that’s just my opinion… I might be wrong.

Speaking of my domains, December marks 10 years that I’ve owned wafwot.com… the domain name this blog is published at. And just in case you’re a complete dee dee dee, “wafwot” is an acronym for What A Fucking Waste Of Time… Hence the name of the blog. Pretty goddamn brilliant, eh?

Since 1997, this domain name has been a mail server and a testbed for various open source packages and web page designs… and a conglomeration of useless shit I’ve shared with people from time to time. This blog is the longest wafwot.com has been used for anything useful… and I kinda like it. Now if I just had the time to update it more frequently. This update took me four fucking days to write. I started it on Saturday afternoon as I was watching The Masters, but I’ve only managed thirty minutes here, an hour there, or forty five minutes during my lunch hour…

For anyone that gives a tiny seahorse-shaped shitlet, I’m feeling much better after my latest bout with pneumonia, or “new-moan-ya,” as my Dad used to type. I’m still only getting about 2250 ml of air with my incentive spirometer, but I admittedly haven’t been using it much. Of course, I feel like shit (but for a different reason) after I received the bill from the hospital; a whopping $1371! Those shit-wiping, pill-pushing, vomit-mopping, over-priced bastards! My insurance should cover all but about $350 or so…

Okay, that’s all I have for the time being. Sorry for the long delay between this update and the last. My commute and work schedule being what it is, it’s difficult to find the time to write.