Personal - FSCK COMCAST!

Comcast.
COmcast.
COMcast.
COMCast.
COMCAst.
COMCASt.
COMCAST.

COMCAST!!!!

Last month my bill more than doubled. It was $120 for tv, internet and phone, but they started billing me $270.

I called and told them to get bent, that the service wasn't worth the $120 I was paying and it sure as hell wasn't worth $270. He claimed that was what the service was "worth" and that I had been getting a promotion price for the last 18 months.

After two days of calls to management, the guy said he'd re-issue the bill and put us back to the $120 price.

He lied. They never re-issued the bill and they withdrew the full $270 bucks. When I called to complain, they claim there was no record of that two day ordeal on my account. No notes. No records. Nothing.

To top it off, for the last three weeks the phone and internet service has been off more than it's been on. The morons, of course, kept blaming it on my configuration or the modem, but it's their lines that are the problem. (I had a tech out here today that confirmed that for me.)

Thanks to the illegal monopoly that Comcast has setup with the city I live in (the city gets a kickback to keep other cable co's out) I have zero options and Comcast has zero incentive to do anything to fix their broken system.

My next step is to contact the Better Business Bureau and the states attorney General to see if I have some recourse.

FSCK them.

FSCK them all up their stupid asses with a big rubber dick.

Humor - If I don't laugh, I'll cry

Q: What's the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?

A: George Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.

Politics - 2008... time for REAL change!

Bush, George H.W. 1989-1993
Clinton, William J. 1993-2001
Bush, George W. 2001-2009
Clinton, Hillary R. 2009-2013

Really? Still think we don't have a problem in Washington?

Stewart/Colbert 2008!

Personal - A Picture Share

Guess where I was on New Years Eve?

Personal - A picture share

Morning in St. Louis.

Personal - In memory of WJK.

Personal - Is there a required uniform?

Three... three of my frelling neighbors are mowing their lawns.
At the same time.

It looks like some kind of... sick lawn mowing club or something.

Personal - Star Trek Meme

Your results:
You are Worf

You are trained in the art of combat
and are usually intimidating.


Worf

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60%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

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60%
Chekov

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60%
Jean-Luc Picard

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55%
Uhura

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55%
Will Riker

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50%
Deanna Troi

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45%
Geordi LaForge

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45%
James T. Kirk (Captain)

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45%
Data

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42%
Beverly Crusher

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40%
Spock

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34%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)

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30%
Mr. Scott

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25%
Mr. Sulu

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15%


Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...

Personal - A Picture Share

Current events - Rocky Anderson

"Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism." - Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson

Media - WTF, SciFi? Why you gotta do that to me?

I've avoided Stargate (all incarnations) since it left Showtime (ok, a bit after season one, really).

So what do the evil bastards at SciFi Channel do? They go out and get Ben Browder and Claudia Black from one of my favorite all time scifi shows.

Ok, I can do this... still not watching.

Not easily swayed, the maniacs have now gone and persuaded the most beautiful companion in the frontier territories, Morena Baccarin who played Inara from another of my favorite all time scifi shows, Firefly.

DAMN YOU, SCIFI! DAMN YOU!

Science - RIP, Pluto

Via AP Wire by way of the Kansas City Star

Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.

News flash: Plutonian scientists have downgraded Earth from "planet" to "annoying bunch of pricks who think they are so important." More on this story as it develops.

Current events - Comprehensive Iraq war timeline

Via Think Progress

We're officially involved in Iraq longer than we were involved in World War 2.

Current events - Eisenhower

A great quote from Ike, via a blog called, Get In Their Face!

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Current events - NSA Wiretapping Program Unconstitutional

But we all kind of knew that, didn't we?

Via Think Progress

Fox News reports a federal district court in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration’s NSA warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.

No way the shrub will let this stand.

Personal - RIP

I like to get out of the office on my lunch break. It helps break the day up and makes it pass quicker.

Generally, I take my sandwich, yogurt and apple over to a park near the office and just enjoy the alone time.

Yesterday, as I was heading back to work, I saw a really pretty german shepard mix dog walking along the street. He had a collar and tags on and stopped to watch me drive past before continuing his stroll. I noticed a city employee in a truck pulling over and talking on h9is radio while trying to get the dog to approach him. I figure, Ok, hopefully the pup will be back with his family soon.

Not so.

Today at lunch, I found this beautiful animal dead on the side of the road. He was apparently run over.

I can only assume that the city guy couldn't get the dog to come and that animal control didn't get there in time to catch him. Maybe the dog took off into the nearby woods.

I hope it was a quick death and he didn't suffer.

Humor - Why beer is better than religion

Via Brewstraveler.com
Reasons Why Beer is Better Than Religion

10. No one will kill you for not drinking Beer.

9. Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.

8. Beer has never caused a major war.

7. They don't force Beer on minors who can't think for themselves.

6. When you have a Beer, you don't knock on people's doors trying to give it away.

5. Nobody's ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured over his brand of Beer.

4. You don't have to wait 2000+ years for a second Beer.

3. There are laws saying Beer labels can't lie to you.

2. You can prove you have a Beer.

1. If you've devoted your life to Beer, there are groups to help you stop.

The Web - Is Firefox prefered by aliens?

Via Linux Users Group - Oregon State University

Firefox Crop Circle

Personal - Mr. & Mrs. Beaglebot have a son!

Welcome to the world Logan!

(Check the wonderful world of Fuzzytopia at the link on the right.)

Humor - Are you ready?