Okay, this is a continuation of the the posts here and here. In which I detail levels of suckiness as they have been predominant in my life lately. Yes, I have already admitted to this being very emo of me, but karma has been smacking me around.    more »

This is a continuation of the article found here and yeah, I admit to whining a bit, but this IS a blog and if we are not emo occasionally we may have our blogging rights removed.   more »

I have had several people asking where I, Kylere, aka Michael aka Stacy's lesser half have been. I have been summarizing just how thoroughly rotten the last few months have been in my head and thanks to a handy laptop and pain meds I am going to present SOME of how badly karma has decided to dump on me. As an important note, without my Wife, Mother, a few friends and really cool people at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Flint I would have to have given up on the very concept of karma...   more »

Okay, so I get a call on my phone and the number ID says it is 8102509252, I have no idea who that is, so I do not answer because if they do not leave voicemail, it was not important. No voicemail.

I am bored, and no voicemail and a mysterious number, so I do what any self respecting geek would do, I google'd it.   more »

You know, I am highly disturbed by the shortsightedness of my fellow citizens and have railed against short term gains for long term losses before. I spoke about Walmart and their rapacious greed, I ranted about Verizon and the rest of the ISP's wanting to break net neutrality so they can take every last cent possible from consumers, and companies like StarForce that have basically decided you do not need to have control of your own computer. This preface is entirely because I have found something to recommend, but do not want anyone daring to think I am a corporate shill because I'd like to recommend Flint River Ranch Pet Food.   more »

Why Atari Sucks! aka DDO is DDOn't

Okay, so I let an old guildmate from Everquest talk me into playing Dungeons And Dragons Online (DDO) developed by Turbine, Inc. I may in fact do a belated game review some other time, but in brief, it is not silly cartoons like the World of Lamecraft, nor is it 5000 people running around bragging about their Mitril Chain Panties they were able to craft after acquiring the skill from 900 hours of repetitive clicking like Everquest2. But they released DDO with about 20% of the content it should have had, and now they are moving to make it more like World of Warcraft at the fastest rate they can, this is sad because even though WoW has a high percentage of the market, the half it does not have are the players who want something more than Pokeman(tm) Adult.   more »

I want to restate that Comcast is a joke. They have zero customer service, and they are overselling, and underserving ...   more »

Wal-Mart is the favorite store of the middle-class trash-crowd because they are easily mislead by its bait-and-switch business practices. For example, Wal-Mart has been known to set very low prices on a cheap import item predominately located at each section of the store then jack up the rest of the prices in the department to compensate. Being ignorant, the trash that shop there do not care about the long term impact of the employee's low wages, rotten health care and the amazing imbalance of foreign goods versus American. The great unwashed masses of the ignorant never seem to notice that all their local shops eventually close down, then Wal-Mart prices do not have to stay so low.    more »

This place is a bloody freaking joke, miscast, poorly directed, poorly selected plays, dirty conditions, run down appearance, etc. Basically they are frustrated wannabe thespians who were denied real parts in high school. Now they are desperately seeking their second chance at any pathetic local fame they can achieve as they ruin the nights of theatergoers who would like to have a chance to see a production.   more »

February the 15th is very special to me, because three years ago I saw the lovely Sya for the first time after a long 15 years away. Finding her has changed everything in my life and given me the greatest sense of completeness and wholeness I have ever experienced. So for that day we usually plan something special, and time and day the 15th falls on help us pick what we do.   more »

Okay I will not deny being a Garfield (TM of some kind) fan and I always get a chuckle out of some of the strips, but I admit that over the years it has aged significantly, and not always for the best. A few weeks ago a observant fellow named MackJ posted his theory at the Truth and Beauty Bombs Forum that he believed that removing all Garfield thought bubbles would significantly improve the humor value, and increase the pathos of Jon. IMHO he was entirely correct. I would recommend a read of this fine thread for a laugh and a smile. You can see it at the Truth and Beauty Bombs Forum

Okay I am not a big TV fan, because lets face it, most TV is trash. I could care less about CSI:Hoboken, Hospital Drama 403, or any of the truly rotten reality/competition shows. I will not waste a lot of time directly attacking any lame shows but anyone with a room temp IQ thought American Idol was interesting but lame the first season, and it completely fell apart after that. The only way Survivor is going to start to be interesting is if they truly make it the last Survivor winning, and all other rules off. Three different CSI shows is a sign of bad television not good television. The fact that Dancing with the Stars is actually shown on anything other than direct to home video proves any point I could make about bad television.   more »

Something is going on that YOU need to be aware of, and I am sure that many of the people that visit this site already know this, but just in case I think it needs to be said. Recently several ISP's have begun to make noises that they want Google to pay them to keep a decent speed internet connection to their users. I have referenced this in the past here but recent developments make it even more interesting.    more »

Starforce is a firm that specializes in copy protection. In my personal experience their product has done nothing but cause issues with any computer I have ever been unfortunate enough to expose to it. I am not saying they are malware, but my experience has never been a positive one. Their "copy protection" schemes have even led to me rebuilding PC's to restore normal functionality AFTER I uninstalled the software they came with, and I find this unacceptable. I chose to vote with my dollars and have stopped buying ANYTHING they touch. Nothing should remain on a computer, especially a "virtual driver" after the game/software is uninstalled. They have never treated this in my opinion as a serious matter and it is what I feel is their greatest failure.    more »

"Canada's biggest record label, publisher and management company is helping out a family sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)for copyright infringement. The privately-owned Nettwerk Music Group is intervening, it says, because the songs downloaded by the Gruebel family include Avril Lavigne, a Nettwerk management client. Nettwerk will fund the Gruebel's defense."   more »