Racialicious
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under General
So all this Obama For President talk on the forums I read online seems to have opened up the racial divide in this country even further. Yes, I am voting for Obama despite the fact that a year ago I was convinced that a black candidate with a name like his would not win the Southern vote in my lifetime. Mine is as much as a vote against Hillary as it is a vote for him.
I think he messed up big time by not distancing himself from this preacher when the campaign first started. It’s stupid to leave these things hidden so they can come out in the last few weeks of the voting. I think he’s really scaring people off who think he believes the crap that guy was saying…and maybe he does to an extent. I did meet a black woman last year who was 100% convinced there was a cure for AIDS somewhere in Belgium but they were hiding it to kill off more blacks. I’ve never been big on conspiracy theories personally and I don’t think The Man is keeping us down, although I do love to joke about it.
Anyway, I’m getting off track. There was an entire thread discussing whether white people will be a minority by the year 2050 if the borders stay as open as they are now. The conversation bordered on the ridiculous. Let’s get something straight, people. Just because your percentage falls below 50% does not make you a minority all of a sudden. Let’s say Caucasians drop to 45% while Hispanics are 25%, blacks 20% and the rest Asian/Native Americans. Until there is another single group larger than you YOU ARE NOT A MINORITY. Get it? Got it? Good!
1and1 = Zero!
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under General
About a year ago we decided to outsource our web site in addition to Exchange services. We had been running it on a server in our office but our building’s power supply left a lot to be desired.
Once they told us they would be doing some maintenance over the weekend. What they didn’t tell us was that power would be off for an hour, far exceeding the capacity of our UPS systems. Not only was our website down but people couldn’t work from home until I realized the problem and went in to fix it. The people that run the cafe downstairs were even more upset. They had a lot of food go bad since the refrigerators were off.
On the advice of a friend I made the switch to 1and1.com. We have a tricky setup in that our domain is registered by one company, another company handles DNS, and yet another handles Exchange services. I did not want to transfer DNS control to 1and1. This didn’t seem like a problem since they have a spot in the control panel to plug in your own DNS. In fact things worked quite well for months.
This past November we switched our phone system to VOIP, which involved getting a T-1 line to replace our DSL connection. This also meant moving our DNS services since our ISP provided that service for us up to then. Unfortunately this is where things went south with 1and1.
They started sending me emails that said the following:
It has come to our attention that the name server settings for
bristolassoc.com are incorrectly set to:
DNS1: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS2: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS3: ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS4: ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com
With these settings neither your website nor your e-mails can be reached reliably via the mycompany.com domain.
For the domain to work properly please make sure that following name servers are set:
DNS1: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS2: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
Ohhhhhh-kay. They’re telling me to set my nameservers to what they already are. What to do? Well I did the logical thing which was nothing. WRONG ANSWER! After ignoring the emails telling me to do nothing for two weeks 1and1 actually removed our website automatically. I put it back up only to get the same emails again. Every time I called tech support I got a different answer for why it was removed. Tech support is in Singapore which was another problem. I’m sure the country of Singapore has contributed many wonderful things to the world despite the fact that they outlawed chewing gum, but I still don’t want to speak to any Singaporians/Singapornos/Singapornites/whatthefuckevers when I need help. They spoke English but without common sense. There was nothing I could to make them understand what I was saying. They ended up taking our site down three separate times before I finally said enough is enough.
Bottom line is I switched the web site to Intermedia and they have been spot on ever since. 1and1….I hope a meteor hits all your data centers at the same time. The most useless excuse of a company ever.
My Roommate got Office Spaced
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Uncategorized
She’s always been somewhat difficult to get along with. She’s had four previous jobs since I’ve known her and she’s left every one of them because there was somebody she just couldn’t get along with. Some jobs she quit, some she was let go from but always because of a conflict with someone. It’s never a performance issue because she’s a very hard worker.
She’s like that fairy tale where the princess can feel a pea under 15 mattresses stacked on top of each other. She just has no tolerance for any sort of discomfort whatsoever. As for me if I don’t like somebody I work with I just avoid them or keep my interaction with them efficient and as minimal as possible. She can’t do that. If she doesn’t like someone she has to tell somebody about it…and usually I’m the one she tells.
Now at her current job she’s been moved downstairs away from the other administrative dept people. She’s now sharing an office one other lady nobody can stand to be around, which is probably why she got moved down there to begin with. She’s now threatening to quit if they don’t move her somewhere else. That’s probably what they want. I call it being Office Spaced because in the movie Office Space that one fat guy kept getting his office moved until he was finally in a closet or something.
25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under General, Jokes
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 a.m. is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of “hook up” and “break up.”
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.”
10. You’re the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won’t turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald’s leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You take naps.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good shit.”
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. “I just can’t drink the way I used to” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again.”
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate them instead of asking “Oh shit what the hell happened?”
Bonus:
26: You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn’t apply to you and can’t find one to save your sorry old ass.
Then you forward it to a bunch of old friends ’cause you know they’ll enjoy it & do the same.
Bitter Much?
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Amore & Vita
So I’m sitting at my desk on the computer since…well, that’s what I do. I’m a Sys Admin. About every six months or so I get into “I wonder what happened to…” mode. I try to find somebody I went to school/played sports/hung out/was involved/worked with. Apparently my friends are all part of some conspiracy against technology. In all this time I have managed to find exactly ONE person I went to high school with…also named Steve. He’s an on-air radio personality in Atlanta.
Anyway, a few months ago I looked up a girl I knew from an AOL chatroom about 12 years ago. She’s on Myspace like everyone else on the planet except people I went to school with. She was from Northern California but going to school in Nevada at the time. We chatted online and talked on the phone once in a while. She ended up moving to Atlanta for a summer job and I guess she thought there was more to our friendship than there was. While she was here we went out onnce and spent the night together. We talked online after that but I never called her or pursued a relationship with her. One of the few “hit it and quit it” encounters I’ve had. It’s not my nature and I felt bad about it but there just wasn’t much we had in common really. This did not sit well with her apparently.
I sent her a message that was part ‘how are you’ and part apology…not that I truly needed to. I had never said anything to her that would’ve indicated I was interested in us becoming a “we”. She responded, said it bothered her for a good while and was glad I apologized. That was the end of that. I didn’t follow up with her. Then last month I sent a happy holidays type message via Myspace again. She never responded to that. Apparently despite my apology she’s still angry. For chrissakes how long are you gonna let something that happened 12 years ago bother you? Get the fuck over it. I know she’s had much worse happen to her than that. I would never let something eat at me that long. Somebody needs a therapist.
Most all relationships/encouters end on a bad note. Are you gonna beat yourself up over all of them? Dang! I’m just sayin…
Addition to the Kill List below…
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Social Issues
Reverend Al Sharpton. He should be killed. Now he’s got his panties all up in a wad because a white female commentator jokingly used the word ‘lynch’ in reference to Tiger Woods. Tiger has known this woman for over ten years and apparently he wasn’t bothered in the least. However Rev. Al once again took it upon himself to be offended for all of Black America. He insists they fire the woman…for one single word. A word that wasn’t even used with any ill intent. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Why are you sooo offended when Tiger himself wasn’t?
Half the reason we still have racism in this country is because of Civil Rights dinosaurs like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
cry wolf so often that the rest of America tunes out whenever those two show their faces on tv. Why the fuck does Al still have a job after that whole Tawanna Brawley thing? Why does Jesse Jackson still have a job after referring to New York as “Himey Town” back in 1984? You cannot be serious?
We need to get off this “White man keepin us down” victim shit. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863. If your black ass is still on the plantation it’s your own damn fault. I got news for you, General Custer…the cavalry is not coming to save you. You need to pull yourself up and take your future into your own hands.
People I’ve never met but would like to kill anyway
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Work
1. The public restroom toilet paper roll designer guy – Through what reasoning did you determine that 1.8 squares was enough paper to wipe your ass? You sorry tree-hugging Al Gore wannabe bastard. I feel like global warming your balls with a flamethrower. I hope every toilet you use for the rest of your rotten life works that way.
2. 1and1.com – our website host. Every other fucking day you send me an email stating the following:
It has come to our attention that the name server settings for mycompany.com are incorrectly set to:
DNS1: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS2: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS3: ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS4: ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com
With these settings neither your website nor your e-mails can be reached reliably via the mycompany.com domain.
For the domain to work properly please make sure that following name servers are set:
DNS1: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
DNS2: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
Soooooo, what you’re telling me is I need to change my DNS settings to WHAT THEY FUCKING ALREADY ARE!!!!! Nevermind that our website works fine and has for 8 months despite your apparent cluelessness. And why is it every time I respond to say these emails aren’t necessary your tech support dipshits give me a different for why I need to make the non-existent changes anyway? I hope your office toilets give out 0.9 squares per pull. Please die.
