They seek him here, they seek him there, those damn Frenchies seek Tim everywhere.
No posts for two weeks? What a bitch. In response to the wailing, nashing, emailing and general bitching from fans, conspirators and foes alike, I give you: some words I have written - now with vowels!
State Sponsored Goodness
Ah yes, thanks the State and it's legislation you have served me well.
Firstly the all singing all dancing act to rule them all the Consumer Guarantees Act (CGA). Ah it is good. I bought some shoes last year, I played Netball in them some and the sole came off in parts, I took them to the vendor and they opted to repair them. Sweet I thought. I played on with my fixed shoes. The fixing became unfixed.
Sod I thought. I took them back to the vendor who choose to (with my approval) replace my shoes with another pair of the same make and model. Sweet I thought. I played on with my replacement shoes. The replacement shoes failed in a simmilar fashion (actually worse than the first pair, with additional crappness in other sections).
Sod I thought. I took them back to the vendor who choose to (with my approval) replace my shoes with another pair of the same make but of a superior model. They are much superior, and I doubt the problem will occur as the newest shoes don't seem to suffer the design flaw found in the previous pairs.
Total cost to me $10, the difference in price between my original shoes, and the current ones. Yay the CGA, for it protected me from the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil (shoes).
Secondly, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is super fun happy slide of bubbles and goodness for people like me that have "accidents." No, not those kinds Dan, the other ones, where more than one person is invovled. Yes, those ones. I hurt my thumb a few weeks back playing Netball (hard man game and all that) and it really hurt, not broken or dislocated hurt, but enough. Then after some days and some ice it got not so sore, and I moved on.
However it still hurts, so after two and a half weeks I went to SportsMed and saw a physio, she shaved my arm (super) and taped up my thumb, and told me something about ligaments, etc. The point is that ACC had my back and I move on only slightly poorer (for the tape). Eat your heart out Americans, with your nonsense system and crap crap crap national health cover. Suck.
Smooom
For those with bandwidth, go check out the videos from Red vs Blue. they are funny and good (somehow at the same time).
In other Smoom section news, I saw this article and laughed.
The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.
The threat is being described by WHO insiders as tantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco lobby.
It sent me trawlling throught appropriate places for "Sweets and Sour Marge":
Marge decides to go on a crusade to stop the sugar onslaught on the town. She hires a lawyer and wins a class-action lawsuit against big sugar.
Marge versus "Big Sugar," Who knew, the threat is real. REAL! (Go here and listen, speciffically here, here, here and here.)
To continue running with my current arbitaty title Smooom, I give Ben another reason that Clones are btter than PS2 etc when it comes to games, and that is, people can hack the code on a clone, and can't really do that on a PS2, giving us multiplay GTA. Mmm Multiplayer pimping, thieving and general gangsta-ing
Matrix
Is apparently the name of one of the Netball teams I'm in. We rock. Also, there is a cool post on Kurzweilai.net about the physics and wig woms in the Matrix. Ha, my email from them bet Slashdot, truely, err, nothing. Anyway the article is pretty cool, wether or not you accept some of the discussion is not important, the answers such questions as "The Power Plant—can people really be an energy source? and Entering and Exiting the Matrix—why do the rebels need telephones to come and go?"
Which recalls to us Robocop 2/3(?), where a girl uses a funky vertical keyboard, well fear the keyboards in this article. (I just think the vertical one is funky) Running and jumping with Slashdot all the way, this is a nice little report on "where spam comes from" that discusses some ways to hide your email address. So there you go.
To those that read Transmetropolitan when Dan had it at the flat, go and ask him questions.
Suck: Xtra
I would have commented on the sucky job that xtra did on their "we will ownz your property," but luckily after Aardvark broke the story, he kept on hitting it, and hitting it, and other sources picked it up as well. Ahaha, Xtra, you suck the cock. If I had posted at the time I would have gone on about this, waving my "I theoretically know something about / care about intellectual property" flag, and this is a crock, or possibly my "I'm a raving loon who likes to criticise silly things" hat, but I delayed, and it has passed on. However it was good that some people complained, and shows that service agreements can have crap inserted into them. Damn lawyers, and or morons. Or is that perhaps redundant. No, it isn't.
Suck: Westpac (formerly Westpactrust (sic) (formerly Trustbank))Oh, yes I closed my account with the great bank of suck, Westpac. I had none of the trouble that Nic had when he closed his account "I'm sorry, I don't know it we can do that (close his account)," nor did I have them ask me why.
Which was a shame because I had a string of answers all ready to roll. I was even planning on pointing out that any bank that removes the word trust from their name is asking for my condemnation. Not to mention the hatchet job they did on the procedures and systems of the mighty Trustbank. I remember the good old days when computers didn't take holidays, and things happened quickly. Trustbank had it down. WPT took over and destroyed those computers, replacing them with computers that not only took weekends off, but also apparently lunch breaks, coffee breaks and "because it helps us screw you" breaks. What a crock.
So with great joy I gave WPminusT one final (probably not, but for now) Westpac Trust Salute, and was on my way, Overdraft free for the first time in eight years. Sweeeeede.
Tripping
Sara and I "did" the West Coast. More news at 6.
The revolution will not be televised, and it won't be a keyword.
Posted by luther at April 26, 2003 12:00 PM