Yeow, the profits this week just got eaten up by a toner cartridge. Cancel the Sunday bike tour. I would charge people by the page for printing if I had any mechanism to keep track of usage. There are a few customer ones who bring their own paper and think they are saving me money. I had to explain to them the cost associated with that, and further, that my hourly fee is for using the computer. It does not even matter whether you log onto the Internet, my cost is the same.
I wouldn’t call the day exciting, but I wouldn’t call this whole area that either. It is dead everywhere, so I snapped this picture of a retail store, in this case Office Bunker. The aisles should be full, this is a big shopping day.By mid-afternoon I was working on the finest Apple computer I’ve ever used. This skinny dude needed a few hours of fast lessons. As noted at the Apple store a month or so back, it is clear Apple has adopted a lot of the worst aspects of marketing from IBM and Microsoft. Don’t we all just love those IBM ads with the shaved bald half-naked man doing a hand-stand. I mean, just who is the target market for that kind of appeal?
I know a lot more about Apple than I did. Those units just never make it in for repairs so I haven’t used one in years. I did not even know the browser was called “Safari”. The regular office programs don’t seem as “industrial strength” as the Microsoft counterparts. The keyboard has a toy feel to it. I definitely want one some after I score a job. I also looked into a cantenna since I cannot pick up any useful wireless signals from a hundred feet away. I also need to know if one wireless router can transmit to another or act as a relay station. This is the type of information that is very hard to find on the Internet. The Internet is like 10 million classrooms, all of them teaching only Grade One.
Other than work, the day kind of got away on me. Nothing to show for all morning, although Cowboy Mike did call and we’ll be finishing up his music transcripts very shortly. The worst part of this flu is I still cannot taste anything. I was at the library for an hour and the place is surrounded by people waving signs. My stance is that politics should be outlawed in modern society. They had banks of pre-teens, far too young to comprehend anything, chanting slogans. Sick, just sick.
Here’s a gem. A lot of people ask the fair question concerning what it is I have against AT&T. That’s easy. When I first needed a phone, AT&T was the only game in town. I had to fill out a credit application, and it was evident I was not going to get a phone without a two year work history. I made stuff up. AT&T said they had a privacy policy, so no big deal. That history has since been published on the Internet. (No, not just my name, address and phone number.) Now every job interview I go to, I have to explain away that false information. Up yours, AT&T.
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