Daniel E. Renfer’s Blog

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. We did.

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SATA Claus

A mystical being, who once a year goes around, hits people from behind, and blames it on the paladin

Who would you rather trust to build your ZPM’s, Energizer or Duracell?

I can’t wait untill future anthropologists scratch their heads trying to figure out how obesity became a beneficial survival trait. (Thus it’s occurance in natural selection.)

Apperently, google is such a good search engine, they know what you’re going to search for before you even type it.

(tipped off by Wacky Neighbor)

Ever be just about to go outside, and wonder to yourself “Do I need a jacket?”. Go here to find out.

Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Show a man where you keep your fish, you’ll find that you’re out of fish at the end of the month.

I hope that Darla doesn’t have to be an indoor cat all her life

About all those things I said I would never make my kids do when I was seven… I’ll probably end up making them do them

I am glad that Andy gave me a copy of the CD, DJ Kritikal - Data Jocky. Without it’s case, I would never be able to scrape off my windows to get to work.

The CD is pretty good too.

What the hell? You cut your hair. You freaking un-hippy.

- Rory

Don’t refuse to go through the troubleshooting steps, and then get mad when it doesn’t get fixed.

My work recently put up a whole bunch of decorated clocks everywhere you looking in our lunch room. I saw the first one and thought “Gee, that’s cool. There’s now a clock right in front of the back door right at about eye level. I’m sure that’ll come in handy, but isn’t it a tad excessive with two clocks in this room already?”

Then I noticed that there wasn’t just one of these (cheaply made) clocks, but many, and all over the place, and they’re covered in tinsel, and they’re all set to different times, and they’re not even real clock, but rather made out of cardboard and paper. This is apperently some sort of holiday decoration.

What a whole bunch of clocks have to do with Christmas is beyond me.

A tip for dealing with customer support: Do not lie. I know you might want to streach your story to gain extra sympathy from the tech, but when you lie, and are directly countered by documentation, you lose credibility. When you’ve lost all credibility by claiming things that are blatantly not true, you’ve become just another asshole. The tech will do everything they can to shut you up, but considering that your demands are more than likely unreasonable in the first place, don’t be suprised to hear “Tough shit, sir.” Don’t be suprised to hear it again after threatening to call the Better Business Bereau.

If Eric loses his job, unless he can come up with another one right away, has got to go. It is not fair to me, that since he’s been here, he has not made any effort to better himself. He has been here over 3 months, has held 3 jobs in that time. (this one being the longest, at just over 2 weeks)

I have a baby comming soon, and really need to start getting my own affairs in order. I can’t do that if I need to take care of a 29 year old baby that can’t be trusted to do anything besides sit on the couch and play Final Fantasy on my PS2. (Which is using my credit card.)

I don’t mind helping out people that need it, but there comes a point where you need to stop relying on other people and start solving your own problems. Since he’s been here, he’s made no effort to do that.

I wonder how much the yenta factor comes into play when determining the sex of a child. As it stands right now, we do not know the sex of our future child. A good portion of the people that we meet will give us their interpratation of what they think the kid will be.

Given all the children that are born, where the general consensus has favored a particular sex, how does that compare with the actual sex. I wouldn’t be suprised if a study like this concluded: “Everybody is wrong about half the time.”

The general opinion of people who are told that Amanda wants a girl is, “It’s a boy. I can feel it.” It will be interesting to see how this prediction compares with actual results.

The Last Gang-Banger

A young man, after acheiving the high score in Grand Theft Auto is abducted into an alien spaceship. The aliens explain that they are in desperate need of someone to drive cars really fast, deal drugs and kill people. The entire state of the Galactic Union is in desperate peril, unless they could find someone to carry out the responsabilities of their interplanetary crime syndicate. That’s why they sent out copies of that game, as a test. After initially rebelling, the young man kills 42 people with an AK-47 and saves the day.

If Duke from the G.I. Joe picks up Cobra Commander’s gun and fires it, what color are the beams?