I don’t care if barely anyone watches this show, it’s fantastic.
I’ve never felt more angry at evil henchmen than I do for Ravenwood. And it’s not often I’m genuinely sad for characters’ deaths and injuries on TV shows, but this episode was really powerful.
So, of course, the show’s gonna get canceled again after the next 3 episodes air. But, hey, at least we can see people singing songs next week! Everyone LOVES singing shows!!!!!!111
It looked goofy in previews.
It was far more goofy than I would’ve imagined.
It can be best described as Family Double Dare, except without the questions, and more elaborate physical challenges. And no Obstacle Course (boooooooooo).
The final elimination event was the wackiest of them all. One family was stationed at a turret that shoots gray, Nerf-like darts, and they had to shoot at window-targets worth either 100 or 500 points, and the opposing team’s dad had to block the shots with a tennis racket and a frying pan while wearing a catcher’s chest protector and face mask.
Note to self: get a TV Tuner card installed on PC so I can screencap shit like this and post appropriate pictures.
Oh, Mark Burnett. They all can’t be Survivor.
Horrible excuse for a game show.
I liked Mark L. Walberg from Russian Roulette (never saw Tempation Island though) and his performance is ok in this game, but the “game” is incredibly stupid for a television show. It feels like I’m watching a job interview.
Coming back from taping the State of the County address, I needed to stop for dinner.
I passed by a Checkers, which is a fast-food place that has only a few places on Long Island.
One part of me wanted to partake in Checkers.
The rational part of me wanted to keep driving because Checkers isn’t worth stopping in Central Islip.
Rational mind wins out, and Joe gets Chinese in a neighborhood that’s not Central Islip.
Our hero is called to diagnose a printer issue in an executive’s office. While in the office, another office worker arrives to meet with the executive (who has stepped out for a moment).
Worker: Joe, I need access to [executive]’s Outlook calendar.
Joe: Ask him for permission, and I’ll guide him through the process. (ed.: really, really simple process)
MOMENTS LATER: Executive returns to office.
Worker: [Executive], Could I get access to your calendar?
Executive: Sure, my password is [password].
Joe: *facepalm*
Was walking into a high school gymnasium filled with man high school freinds. They’re all lined up, sitting down against the wall. The coach gets everyone up against the wall to do jumping jacks. I notice one other kid and myself are the only ones in my area that actually finish the 20 jumping jacks.
For some reason, I know this situation isn’t right and I recognize this is a dream, and I somehow shock myself into waking up.
Lucid dreaming is fun.
… because they completely and utterly suck at it.
I was asked to look at a Compaq Presario desktop that’s gone bad. System turns on, but nothing on the monitor. Doing some quick checks and some basic troubleshooting, my first thought is “bad motherboard.” Check the support docs on hp.com, follow directions therein, but no change.
At this point, I decide to get an HP tech support rep on this, because I strongly believe the issue is hardware and that some piece of hardware needs to be replaced. The chat opens quickly (no queues = good), and one of the first things the rep asks me is (paraphrasing here) if I can feel a hard drive spinning sound. As it turns out, I am in fact capable of feeling sounds, seeing music and tasting feelings (or, if you prefer, hearing food. It’s all the same joke, really.)
The tech eventually determines that the issue could be the graphics card, which I agree is a possibility. She then asks if the “system is warranty”. Oh, online chat, how I love you, because I know if I had to speak with this person on the phone, I’d have a hard time doing one or both of the following things:
I respond to the script-reader that I don’t know if the system is under warranty as I don’t own the system and I’m only doing support for it. Apparently, I may have set off a red flag, because after 5 minutes of waiting, I get asked if there’s any other issue I have, and after responding “Nope, no other issues.”, I get the standard closing before she abruptly disconnects (which closes the chat window before I can copy and paste the conversation.)
Now, beyond the design flaw of force-closing the chat window without the user’s consent, there are 2 possible issues here. Issue 1 is: “If you don’t know if the system is under warranty, I won’t help you further.” Investigating into this, I found that unlike business accounts, there’s really no way to check the warranty status of a home or home office system online. While it’s annoying, I can at least understand why that’s the case (I’m guessing HP business accounts usually purchase direct from HP, and HP would keep track of the serial numbers of the units and keep track of the warranty info; home user systems would be purchased through a third party (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc.) and the warranty would have to be purchased by the end-user to establish a start-time for the warranty.) So while I can’t fault HP 100% for this issue, the rep gets a thumbs down for not explaining that without confirmation of active warranty, she can’t continue. It’s good to keep customers in the loop.
The second possible issue is “if you’re not the owner of the system, I won’t help you further.” Again, I don’t know if this is the reason due to the lack of information conveyed to me by the rep, but I would imagine tech-to-tech calls are not that uncommon and that it wouldn’t be unheard of for someone other than the system owner to call tech support.
All in all, a sour experience with a HP live-chat tech support representative. Moral of the story: DELL RULEZ OMGWTFBBQ.
I’m having a technical issue with this blog.
(Ignore the lack of meaningful content in the recent weeks. That’s just me being lazy.)
If you click on http://averagejoe.cc, you’ll get the blog main page, which contains the most recent posts and links and pages and all that good stuff.
But, if you click on any link that goes to either a post or a page within averagejoe.cc, the site will send an RSS feed instead of the requested page. But, should you refresh the browser at this point, the requested page loads normally.
I’ve seen this personally from many different locations with both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and across all recent versions of WordPress. I’m honestly at a loss as to how to resolve this. My readers (a.k.a. my dad, sister, cousin and maybe 5 of my friends) can’t read anything that’s not on the main page because of this, and it’s kinda frustrating.
Going to the WordPress support forums didn’t help, as they said they couldn’t replicate the problem. But it still persists even to now.
So… any ideas (from anyone that may know the first place to look) ?