| seconds to make negative, impossible to make possitive |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|11:27 pm] |
So Google still thinks there is something "dangerous" on my website and it is blocking people even though I went through and did everything they said and removed everything.
So now I went through and deleted EVERYTHING accept the index HTML. There will be broken pictures everywhere on all the sites and stuff and in LJ and everything until i can get this resolved but I'm tired of then telling me there is something wrong. If i have one single HTML page that has nothing wrong with it, then they can NOT possibly continue to block me.
I guess in the mean time I'll try and upload as many pics as i can to Flickr or something but i just hate the idea of using a separate source for pics when i have perfectly easily accessible space to upload my own stuff.
If this doesn't work, I'm going ot get a new web site and host my own web server and to hell with all this crap.
grrrrrr.
Frustrating when you haven't done anything wrong and some company that won't even respond to e-mail or tell you what the issue is or anything is responsible for screwing your stuff up and you have to try and make them happy because that is the only way it will work out in the end.
*sigh*
I like google. I really do, but their business - customer relationship sucks.
-j- |
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| President Barack Obama Action Figure |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|10:34 pm] |
This is exactly what our president needs. Katanas, and a kung-fu grip.
Now if he had light sabers, he'd be unbeatable!
-j- |
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| Recession? What Recession? |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|12:36 am] |
Just when I thought i had seen every example of American Excess, I present to you . . . .
A camper pulling a slightly smaller camper.
Like, what is the idea here? You drive to someplace central, park, and then take the other camper out on shorter camping trips using the first as a home base? I guess if the first one breaks down you have a back up.
NO clue why this one makes any sense.
-j- |
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| Shooting Candy Into your Mouth |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|10:36 am] |
So apparently back in the 70's, the Pez candy company thought it would be a good idea to make a gun shaped Pez dispenser .
Yep, just stick the barrel of the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger for a sweet treat.
I love it when ideas like this get all the way to actually being produced without anyone saying "Hey, wait a minute."
-j- |
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| Third times the charm |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|10:59 pm] |
Some times I catch myself complaining about something trivial as though it is such a big deal. Like say, complaining that I have too many bills to pay, and that I don't have enough cash. Even though that is true, I have a nice a apartment, a decent car, lots of food in the house, a good job, and I am capable of paying all those bills. There are people who haven't eaten for days and would love to have a few dollars to buy food. You get the idea.
Whenever I feel like I can't handle my "problems" anymore, I often happen across an excellent example of someone who actually HAS been through a lot and who accepts it and keeps on going in such a way that is hundreds of more times important than me and my little problems.
I think I may have found the leading example of a person like this.
Meet Tsutomu Yamaguchi , a man that survived the bombing of Hiroshima AND Nagasaki!!!! In fact he is still alive and trying to help others in understanding just how bad Atomic weapons are. He was in Hiroshima for a business trip and after surviving the blast and receiving some medical attention for his burns, he decided it was not very safe there and returned home to Nagasaki.
There is no moral to learn from this all (Aside from perhaps the obvious about war), it is just an interesting story.
-j- |
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| Decapo-flago-phobic |
[May. 25th, 2009|09:55 pm] |
Does anyone else get just a little freaked out when Perkins (or some similar place with a huge flag) puts their flag at half mast?
I keep thinking its going to whip down and decapitate someone.
-j- |
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| Things that are wrong with America #247 |
[May. 19th, 2009|09:52 pm] |
So i was at Fleet Farm (A hardware store in da north here hey) picking up some bolts and stuff to fix a chair when i remembered I needed cat food. So i went over to their huge pet supply/ barn animal feed area and found the below item.
Yes sir that is 960 lbs of cat food. I figure if i get a pallet of cat food now it will take 6.75 years for both of my cats to eat it all (since it takes them about two and a half weeks to go through the 7 lb bags i get for them now. (Which i used to think was a lot.)
Seriously. Aside from possibly the humane society, or a pet store, who needs a palette of cat food?
Maybe crazy old cat lady, but where will she come up with the SALE price of $471?
Oh well, if they didn't offer it, I'm sure someone would complain or ask for it.
I almost bought a pallet of Peeps once, but I settled for an entire case. (Hey, 10 cents a box after Easter. That's cheep enough (no pun intended) to throw entire flocks of Peeps in the microwave to see what happens.
-j- |
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| Hacked |
[May. 3rd, 2009|11:21 pm] |
Well my sits got hacked. www.jswiggum.com and www.bofcomic.com will show up in Google as being malicious and all.
Getting stuff taken off and starting over on some things.
all no fun. i just love it when i have to go through all this trouble just because some shmuck wanted to have his ads pop up on peoples computers.
*sigh*
it's enough to make you lose trust in the internet.
-j- |
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| Spring Storing |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|11:38 pm] |
So I got myself in a cleaning mood. And it seems that most of what I have is books. So I'm looking around the apartment thinking "wow i really can't think of anyplace to put shelves anymore. So now I'm looking at my hallway and thinking "It can be 12 inches narrower." So i made some measurements and made up this drawing to see how it would work.
Before
After
The "beams" on the top are for support to brace it since i have an apartment and can't really screw things into wall 2x4s or anything like that.
I might do a little with it to make it look more stylish, but guess I'm mostly looking for functional.
now to just figure out if i will actually do it or not.
-j- |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 14th, 2009|07:11 pm] |
My new fun piece of electronics, the LG Banter . The name sounds lame to me (even though I do understand the idea, I just think the sound of the word is gawky.) But teh phone itself seems pretty nice. Nothing great as far as camera, no video, but it has the slide out qwerty keyboard which is new to me. Plus I get 30 days to see if I like it or I can return it with no extra charge for a different phone or go back to my old one so why the heck not?
-j- |
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| Quadruple A |
[Mar. 18th, 2009|11:28 pm] |
My friends will often point out that I don't play video games stating that I don't like them. This is not true. For the most part, I don't play video games. Never played Everquest, or World of Warcraft or anything like that. I use to like SIM city, but not the tons of games it spawned. And most recently someone introduced me to Portal which I adore.
The truth is that I actually like video games and if I ever got into WoW I know it would suck up my entire life. Case in point, I like Axis And Allies, but none of my friends like playing the board game. I have the 1998 video game, but it won't run on Windows XP with the latest service pack. So i found an clone of the game called Triple A which is done well enough to be very much like AaA. I sat down yesterday evening to play a "short" game that only had Germany against America, Russia, and Britain thinking that it would be simple and not take long. 120 rounds later at 3am (on a work night) I finally had the hundreds of ships i needed to defeat America who had been quietly stock piling people, artillery, and tanks as is evidenced below.
If I would try to play other games, I would definitely become a Zombie tied to the Computer.
No, I like video games, but I like being productive and staying awake at work more.
-j- |
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| Amerika is Optical. |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|05:00 pm] |
So I sat down to eat at a buffet for lunch today and I saw the following sign.
"We would like your Cooperation in preventing the waste of food. Please take what you want, But eat all you take. We reserve the right to charge $5.00 extra for excessive wasting of food. Thank you for your Cooperation."
Ah yes, only in America do we throw good food away sooooo often that we need to be threatened with a fine in order to get us to think "gee, maybe I shouldn't grab everything and eat only a bit then throw the rest out."
I think they should have the ice cream in a separate place that only the waitresses have access to and change the sing to read "Clean your plate or you don't get any ice cream!"
On a different note, has anyone taken apart a mouse lately? I took mine apart and I was quite surprised to find out that the scroll wheel is Optical. The wheel has little tiny spokes and it cuts through an infrared light source and a detector. I had always assumed it was mechanical.
Now I know.
-j- |
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| God Wash Me |
[Feb. 16th, 2009|04:08 pm] |
I took a picture of a back of a mini van yesterday.
If you find it hard to read, the bumper sticker says :
"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you . . ."
- God
To which someone replied
"Wash me"
- God
Proving that God does have a sense of humor, or at least a sense of cleanliness.
-j- |
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| Clerks 2 and .15 seconds of Fame |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|11:27 pm] |
So a while ago before Clerks 2 came out, Kevin Smith was running this offer where the First 10,000 people to sign up and friend the official Moobies, Clerks 2 MySpace thing would get their names in the end credits. Well i didn't think I got mine in because it seemed like there were certain things you had to do and i didn't think i got in the first 10,000 and I just sort of forgot about it.
A friend of mine brought the movie over yesterday and we watched it and after the credits ran there is 12 minutes of four lines of names just zipping by too fast to even tell what letter they are alphabetically on. Thanks to the wonders of the DVD machine I got curious and sure enough, Alphabetical by last name . . .
MY Name, JEFF SWIGGUM, is on the List of names on the Clerks 2 DVD!!!!!
Just a small bit of funness to share.
-j-
p.s. I'm told this will not count to increase my Bacon Number =\ Oh Well. |
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