Tag Archives: rants

apartment + cable deals suck

Published: 9 March 2010
In searching for apartments, I found one place that I was really pleased with. It was in my price range; had a dishwasher, washer, and dryer in every apartment; and was in a generally pleasant area of town. I just found out that they’re working out an agreement with a local cable company [...]
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cheap apartment not worth the rent increase

Published: 28 February 2010
I’m so annoyed right now. I found posted in the hallway of my apartment several copies of the same notice saying that rent would be going up at the end of everyone’s lease. The rent for one bedroom apartments is only going up “by $55″ and we’ll somehow get “FREE high speed internet [...]
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the pain of Facebook application development

Published: 2 February 2010
For the past few days, I’ve been trying to create a Facebook application for interacting with Github. I hoped to spend my time mainly on the Github portion, figuring out how to post wall posts on Facebook about recent Github activity, etc. However, I’ve instead argued with the various Facebook APIs. I [...]
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TurboTax fail

Published: 28 December 2009
I received in the mail the other day a TurboTax install CD with an offer for free filing of federal and state tax returns. Neat, I thought, and I was initially under the impression that they were giving me TurboTax for free. Nope, turns out I still have to pay $60 for it, [...]
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why I’m not a dog lover

Published: 21 December 2009
I was just reading Rose’s post about her mom’s dog being mean toward male guests and it reminded me that I had aimed to write a post about why it is that I don’t really like dogs. I stayed at Jon’s aunt’s house a few days ago and they had two indoor dogs. [...]
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inflexible Adobe

Published: 8 December 2009
Wow, Adobe doesn’t make things convenient for you. I just called about their $199 offer for Photoshop CS4 for students, hoping that I could use it on my Mac or in Windows and perhaps be restricted to using only one at a time, but no. I can download it for Mac or Windows, [...]
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paper done and slow-ass clinic

Published: 7 December 2009
I finished my programming paper! I’ve sent a copy to Jon to review it and should hopefully mail it off to my professor tonight. After the semester’s over, I plan on releasing my programs for that class on here, probably under the GPL as I’ve done in the past. I’ll stick that [...]
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huffy Facebooker

Published: 1 December 2009
People online sometimes need to take a chill pill and not assume everyone they deal with is like an angry Fark commenter or 4chan poster. A friend of mine on Facebook said “Luna Nueva” in a wall post, and some other friend of hers responded about how the adjective comes afterward in Spanish. [...]
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AWOL RAM

Published: 19 October 2009
I really hate ordering stuff online because receiving it is always a pain in the ass. I ordered some RAM for my desktop the other day from Newegg and it departed on 10/13. I still haven’t received it and I wondered where on earth it might be, so I checked the tracking info [...]
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news flash: music on the radio sucks

Published: 22 September 2009
This may be a sign of my impending fogeyness, but several popular songs right now annoy me greatly. Mind, this is so often the case with rap music that I don’t even include it in “music on the radio that I might enjoy” (see A Short History of African American Music—thank you, Lil Wayne [...]
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