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Sunday, July 25, 2004
Wow, I...Wow, I hate AOL even more now. I created my screen name TBoneFever under my AOL account. I recently switched from AOL to Juno. Since AIM appeared to be independant of AOL in terms of not needing an AOL account to create a screen name, I assumed that after the account cancellation, my screen name TBoneFever would remain intact. I was wrong. 2 days ago, TBoneFever was officially a suspended screen name. This is what AOL says about suspended screen names:"Screen Names that were previously used on AOL but have been cancelled or suspended, can no longer be used on AIM. This includes both master accounts and sub-accounts. In order to continue using this Screen Name on AIM, please reactivate the account on AOL."What the fuck?! I've been TBoneFever for 3 years now, and now AOL is telling me I've gotta be something else. I don't want to do that! This is like someone forcing you to change you name because you moved out of your parents house. This is such a horrible, cheesy thing AOL does to chain its customers to the service. But what can you expect from a selfish soul-less company that charges its users nearly $30 a month for the almost archaic dial-up internet connection when you could just as easily pay the same price for high-speed access. Fortunately I can use my .Mac account name as a screen name on AIM. My new alias on AIM will be TBoneFever@mac.com until I can think of a better one (probably not). The thing that really pissed me off is how I can't even import all my buddies from my TBoneFever account to the TBoneFever@mac.com. All my buddies are stored on an AOL server somewhere. Here's the kicker... And because this happened at the same exact time I got my new powerbook, and at the same time my old laptop's hard drive crashed and got erased/replaced, there's no way I can locally restore my buddy list. I lost about 30% of my buddies; most were saved because of me using iChat instead of AIM. iChat ingeniously stores AIM information with my addressbook's contacts. All I have to say about that is "Fuck yeah!" All I have to say to AOL is "Fuck you!" Wow, I just participated in yet another DDR tournament. How'd I do? I came in last place ...again. The good news is that I performed about 100% better than my last tournament. But shit! Last place? Even though, I was competing against people who have been playing 1 to 2 years longer than I have, I held my own (yes, I'm talking about my penis). Um, I beat the supposedly 4th best DDR-er in South Carolina at a song! I got 30-something greats, he got 40-something greats. But, it wasn't absolutely fair. I picked a song from the Extreme mix; a song he had never done before. But does that really matter? If you're the 4th best DDR-er in the state, aren't you suppose to excel in sight-reading a song for the first time? I don't know. This only proves my theory: it's all about playing a song over and over and over again until it's perfect. It's all about memorization and repetition more so, than just pure skills. Being the best is all about wasting tons of cash at the arcade and spending a ton of cash for a PS2 and metal pads and traveling all over the country wasting tons of cash to enter tournaments (even though you'll lose) AND trying to get to know other DDR players only to learn of their weaknesses so you can beat them in tournaments. That's how I unofficially feel about DDR in a nutshell. Officially, it fucking rocks!!! and um, some of the people I meet rock! But you know what? I want to be the best. This time next year, I'm not going to be in last place - I will be the shit, and people will fear me. That's my goal at least. Oh yeah, I'm black. People already fear me. Wow, I fucking love my powerbook. Nuff' said. Wow, I am the best GA (game advisor) at my job. I feel great about that. I have been complaining about how much they were fucking me by only giving me 10-11 hours per week; so in retaliation, I worked harder: I became extra friendly to those Georgian racist hicks, I made myself even more enthused whenever a manager would tell me to do something, I made a bigger effort to sell those damn subscriptions, I ran at customers to ask if they needed help, and finally I started wearing looser boxer/briefs so that my bulge was extra bouncy. Finally, all of these changes paid off. Last week, the big boss issued this policy "GAs that sell the most reserves (reservations of the latest games) and subscriptions get the most hours."This week, I'm getting a hefty 15 hours (yeah, it's still not much) - the other GAs are getting 10 and 8 hours respectively. So kickass! But it sucks you know, just when I've found my mojo [at Gamestop], I've gotta go [back to Charleston]. Boo hoo //sarcasm. So gooooo Gamestop for sucking a little less now. No more deepthroating for Gamestop - it'll stick to licks and cock teasing (just the way I don't like it). ¶9:59 PM e-mail me (4) comments Tuesday, July 20, 2004 What this week will bore me (& you readers) with.Yeah, it's been a while since a new post, but it's all good. The last post remained dominant because of the crazy talk in the comments section. Sorry, guys, you can finish your conversation about religion and semen in this post's comment section - or(!) P.Dr.D CAN GET AIM!!!!! Get AIM, Get AIM, Get AIM!!!! Um, anyway - tomorrow I'm driving down to Atlanta to purchase my powerbook (the one I briefly mentioned below). Once I settle down with it and get it customized how I want it and whatnot, THE COMEDY WILL BE BACK IN BUSINESS! Comics, animation, and FINALLY MORE WALLPAPER!!! I can already feel my creative juices beginning to flow again. What's this? Do I sense I new site design coming soon??? My god, I think I do. Life still sucks, but in a happy way (hey! I'm new to being optimistic so bare with me).News? - job still sucks, however more hours :-) - DDR tournament this saturday at noon, however there's no way I'll win - new games: tales of symphonia (GC) kicks ass!!!, splinter cell pandora tomorrow (GC) kicks more ass!!! looks amazing, sonic mega collection (GC) is ok but hard as fuck, mega man anniversary collection (GC) kicks a little ass! but again hard as fuck, fire emblem (GBA) kicks major ass!!!!! challenging as shit!, front mission 4 (PS2) graphics suck but story kicks bootay, rogue squadron3 rebel strike (GC) gave it to a friend because i'm not that big of a star wars fan - new dvds: office space, the last samuri, all access E3, iron monkey 2 (uh...it's kung fu) - watching Catwoman sometime this weekend. It's probably suck, but come on!!! It's halle Berry in leather with a whip. I pay for a $7 ticket just to see that - I like to think of the rest of the things in the movie (like its plot and action and uh, everything else) bonus. If you look at Catwoman with that kind of mentality, how can you not like this movie? When I get my new computer I'll be on AIM more often. AIM name is (you guessed it), TBoneFever. And you're a bitch if you guessed that wrong. I want the new iPods so fucking bad, but sadly I can't afford to get another one at the moment. Maybe I'll sell my current one on EBay or something. But I don't like EBay so I'm fucked. I want to sell my fucking iBook but my parents want to keep it. It probably would have gotten me an iPod and some nice speakers with some cash still left so I can buy some RAM. Oh fucking well. I, Robot rocked!!!!! I've seen it twice already. Avoid King Author at all cost, it's such a let down. Anyway, overall this is going to be yet another forgettable week...filled with things I do everyweek: watch movies, play DDR, go to the movies, play video games, and go to my lousy job. FUCK!!! I GETTING A POWERBOOK!!!!!! A FUCKING POWERBOOK!!! THE FASTEST PORTABLE MAC AVAILABLE ON THE MARKET AT THE MOMENT!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME? THIS WEEK IS GOING TO BE AMAZING! uh, excuse me. update. One of the best things about getting a Mac is not the actual machine itself. but the box it came it. Apple designs its boxes with the same level of aesthetics as its machines. There's something special about it. If you don't believe me, read some of the countless articles dedicated to just opening a Mac box: The unwrapping story of a PowerBook 17" (excellent pictures!), Fun unwrapping my powerbook!, iPod Packaging Wins Design Distinction Award (check out the comments!). Okay, so maybe there aren't countless articles about it, but there's articles like these for everything Apple makes. I can't wait until I get to unwrap that sexy black box...Mmmmm. (Yeah, I'm a Mac freak.) ¶1:09 AM e-mail me (8) comments Monday, July 12, 2004 Family Reunion Was Alright, BUT There's Bigger ProblemsYeah yeah yeah, my family reunion turned out okay. Sure I had a horrible time in Six Flags, but that was because I was in a goup that was 10 members large - not becuase I hated anybody. No one could make up their goddamn minds. Anyway, like the title suggests, there's bigger problems. My 700Mhz G3 iBook's hard drive has once again crashed. It does it every fucking Summer (at least it's consistant). Yes, I admit: an all powerful Apple computer has problems. Don't misunderstand me though; this is not a software problem, this is an hardware problem. This hard drive was made by Toshiba, so it's not even Apple's fault. My iBook is pretty much dead. The only solution is to erase everything and reinstall the OS again. I'm working on it. But I've got good news. Meet my new baby:   I'm pretty excited about it. It's a 15.2' 1.5Ghz G4 Powerbook. It's carrying an 80G 4200rpm hard drive, a slot-loading "Superdrive" (burns DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R. CD-RW, oh! and plays DVDs and CDs), a beautiful 15.2 inch screen, backlit keyboard (when it detects low light, it'll light up the keyboard accordingly), wi-fi built-in, bluetooth built-in...this is lust at it's greatest. This laptop will surely meet all of my programming needs, web designing needs, photoshop needs, iTunes needs, everything. This is the computer that I've needed for a long time. I'll be able to do so many creative things now that I was unable to get into with my slow 700Mhz G3 iMac. All of this comes with a price though. A very high price. I'll need to get a job while I'm in college to help cover the financial aid I'll lose purchasing this $2400 beast. My grades will have to be straight A's as well - just to justify getting this vs. getting another cheap iBook. One of my many arguments to my parents is that a lot of the things I need to do (or want to do) take too freaking long to accomplish on my iBook; w/ this Powerbook, multitasking is elegant. I'm probably most excited about having a DVD burner. I have so much media (no! not just porn) that I can finally backup more efficiently. I'll also be able to backup all 30G of my music on 6 discs. All my Anime on 10 discs (which will give me more space to collect more)- and since we're at it, all my 15G of porn on 3 discs. And I'm going to fall in love with the 15.2 inch widescreen screen - I'm incredibly tired of the small 12 inch screen of my currently disabled laptop. I'm getting old. (In 10 years I'll be an bald old geezer.) Uh, we're getting this laptop next week sometimes, so I'm pretty excited. Hopefully, this pro-user computer will last me 4 years at the least. ¶3:08 PM e-mail me (24) comments Friday, July 09, 2004 FAmily Reunion Time.I'm leaving for Atlanta (going to Six Flags) in 30 minutes, so no time to talk really. 3 days of family goodness //sarcasm. I'm expecting the experience to be a mixture of hell and insincerity. I'll let you know all about it either Sunday or Monday. The people reading this who are not going (pretty much all of you) are lucky bastards. Later. ¶11:20 AM e-mail me (2) commentsSunday, July 04, 2004 Job problems.Finally I'll get to see Fahrenheit 9/11. It's now playing at my local theater (the one I use to work at). I've been looking forward to seeing it. (I saw Spider-Man twice in one day...go see it.) My job sucks. I hate how competitive it is. Not only do they only give me 10 hours a week, but within those hours I've gotta sell discount cards and make people reserve shit. Last week, I just happened to be scheduled on slow days (I only worked 2 days last week...sunday and saturday!), so I only managed to get 1 reserve. The average seems to be 2 reserves and 3 discount cards per person. The people selling the most are naturally the folks who get to work there everyday. I only get a meager 10 hours, they get 20-50 hours - of course they'll have more opportunities to sell. This week, I only work today...on a Sunday...ON THE FOURTH OF JULY! Do you think we'll get a lot of business? Hell no we're not. How the hell am I suppose to do better if there's no one coming in to buy stuff. This is pretty horrible. The problem isn't me, the problem are our customers - I live in SC but I'm working in Hartwell, GA. People down there aren't used to seeing black folks working anywhere but McDonald's. How am I suppose to make these people buy things when most of them go straight towards the white worker for all their help? I get nasty looks all the time - and yet, I'm suppose to be nice to them and make them buy what I want them to buy? My coworkers have an advantage because a majority of them are just like the customers. Of course they're going to sell more. All in all, this job isn't worth shit. I enjoy it a lot, but it's not worth stressing over. I can easily find another job when the time comes. They'll probably fire me if I don't do better, or just want hire me back (like AmStar did). I really don't care about it this time around because this job sucks. And screw our employee discount! How the fuck am I suppose to buy game at our store if they give me 6-10 hours a week and pay me 5.15 an hour? That's just gas money! The benefits are useless to me. ¶11:05 AM e-mail me (6) commentsFriday, July 02, 2004 Aim Conversation: Eunuchstbonefever: sight is overrated, lolstephen: it is our most used sense ... imagine one day that you were blind ... then imagine having to live that way for the rest of your life ... it'd suck man ... you know that one blind guy on campus ... needs one of them sticks ... and even then, he has ppl help him around ... some of 'em are fine girls too ... too bad he can't appreciate their superficial outward beauty tbonefever: sad but funny. tbonefever: Being blind would suck. But there's always somethign worst. stephen: ... being dead? tbonefever: no! worst! tbonefever: living without a penis. stephen: i think they're called women tbonefever: that's worst than death in my opinion. stephen: yeah, they make up most of the CofC population tbonefever: maybe I should be specific. being a man and having no penis. stephen: actually, i think most of 'em get enough penis tbonefever: lol stephen: a eunuch? yeah, poor things tbonefever: a eunuch, not by choice. tbonefever: a eunuch still has a penis though stephen: what use is it if he has no balls to drive him to want to use it? tbonefever: at least he can be identified as a man with a penis, lol stephen: Matthew 19:11,12 tbonefever: ok. tbonefever: lol stephen: "But He said to them, 'All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given: For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.'" tbonefever: a eunuch is a man without balls. A man without a penis and balls is still a eunuch, but he's something more... tbonefever: a man without balls and a penis! stephen: man ... lovely conversation material over a Bible verse stephen: lol tbonefever: lol tbonefever: the oh so versatile bible. stephen: lol stephen: you should read the Song of Solomon tbonefever: so I can learn about ball-less men? stephen: no ... apparently you've never heard of the Song of Solomon ... Acts 8:26-40 is about another eunuch (made one by man) ... Paul is a eunuch of sorts for the kingdom of heaven's sake ... he was celibate ... but the Song of Solomon is also known as the porn section of the Bible by Muslims ... like a romance novel really ¶5:19 AM e-mail me (8) comments top September 2002 / October 2002 / November 2002 / December 2002 / January 2003 / February 2003 / March 2003 / April 2003 / May 2003 / June 2003 / July 2003 / August 2003 / September 2003 / October 2003 / November 2003 / December 2003 / January 2004 / February 2004 / March 2004 / April 2004 / May 2004 / June 2004 / July 2004 / August 2004 / September 2004 / October 2004 / November 2004 / December 2004 / January 2005 / February 2005 / March 2005 / April 2005 / May 2005 / June 2005 / July 2005 / August 2005 / September 2005 / October 2005 / November 2005 / December 2005 / January 2006 / February 2006 / March 2006 / April 2006 / May 2006 / August 2006 / October 2006 / December 2006 / April 2007 / August 2007 / September 2007 / November 2007 / January 2008 / February 2008 / March 2008 / April 2008 /
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