Category Archives: Rants

April 2, 2012
Twelve Comcast Technicians, Five Days, and $200 later. I still don’t have cable. [UPDATE]

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When you know every Comcast support prompt, you’ve been on the phone for too long. I called Comcast seven times tonight. Here’s a summary of how the events played out. I don’t pirate content. I’d like to pay for it. So, a year after canceling cable, I’m back. Not because I care about the evening [...]

February 3, 2012
Mandy Jenkins leaves ‘young person’s job’ of social media editor

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via Poynter: After guiding Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and more since 2008 at the Cincinnati Enquirer, TBD (where we worked together) and The Huffington Post, Mandy Jenkins is moving on. Congrats and that’s impressive. Why move on? Mandy Jenkins: It’s just a time to move on. I’ve been doing this for a while and it’s [...]

January 18, 2012
Customizing my new Alienware PC. I give up.

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Steve Jobs, “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.” These two [...]

January 14, 2012
I should have gone snowboarding today.

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Elizabeth and I were going to go snowboarding today. She ended up going and I stayed home. The reason is that after 6 days without any solid food, I’m not confident that I can snowboard and stay conscious. I’d rather not push myself. The bad news is that I find out 5 YouTube personalities I [...]

December 15, 2011
“Horseshit”

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  It gets under my skin because it is a pompous, privileged, insulting, and myopic viewpoint which reeks of class warfare — and it is indicative of a growing sentiment I see amongst people in the tech community.   And… it’s a shitty way to think about other people. Josh Topolsky of The Verge.   [...]

December 7, 2011
Goodbye Gowalla

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via Gowalla’s Blog (which is inconveniently hosted on Tumblr which goes down often and could go away one day so much for data longevity and this blog even being around 1 year from now): Gowalla, as a service, will be winding down at the end of January. We plan to provide an easy way to [...]

December 7, 2011
My Issue with Mashable, Huffington Post, Business Insider and every other up modern news site

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Each day, I go out of my way to find the original source of a news article. As soon as I hit a page that I know doesn’t employ reporters and isn’t known to actually report original news or is a site that simple writes blurbs about every hot topic in order to get search [...]

December 6, 2011
On Paypal and Social Media Riots…everyone sucks

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via Paypal’s Facebook Wall: Try being less “asshole” and more “forgiving.” It’s absolutely appalling the crap you guys are pulling with Regretsy. Congratulations on successfully screwing families out of some much-needed donations because you’re greedy bastards who care more about red tape than people. I hope the Karma carousel comes full circle and hits each [...]

November 16, 2011
My Thoughts on iTunes Match

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There’s a reason why I own so many Apple products and there’s a reason why the iPod and iPhone halo effect has been a catalyst for success in the last decade. The logic is that once a customer buys an iPod, the chances that they’ll buy other Apple products is high. When faced with a [...]

November 2, 2011
K-Cups and The Death of America

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K-Cups. You’ve had coffee via this brewing method and you may have a machine at home. If not, you’ve certainly seen them in stores, online and heard of the popular method in conversation with friends. Tonight, I was ranting a bit on Twitter about how evil these little plastic pods are when most of the [...]