I have three laptops right now. An IBM Thinkpad A50m (”crossbone” (or “bones”), which has never steered me wrong — it was unhappy with its hard drive earlier this morning, so I booted with init=/bin/sh, ran e2fsck with badblocks, rebooted, and it’s been chugging along all day per usual), a Compaq Presario V5000 (”widget”, Marie’s laptop, which has some issues), and a Toshiba Satellite which I’m too lazy to put down my cig and go look at to get a model number off of.
The Satellite isn’t actually mine, I’m just fixing it for a corporal of Marines.
Here’s the deal. (more…)
UPOC basically lets you set up a profile and message groups and individuals with your cell phone. Most of the stuff coming out of it is “a/s/l?” and “bottom looking for top in <city> tonite! msg me info” (sic).
The first message is a broadcast. The rest are privmsgs.
[Fr:me-joyous]To:USMarineCorp Hello anyone want to chat
[Fr:xcuervo] Hi
[Fr:me-joyous] Hi
[Fr:me-joyous] a/s/l
[Fr:xcuervo] … Never mind.
Are those actual Verizon employees following their customers around in the commercials?
If so, why are they not doing their job in their normal office-place?
I want to see a Verizon commercial where the customer’s call gets dropped, and they all scatter in a panic, trampling each other, nothing left of the slowest but bloody stumps of skulls and hard-hats.
