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Archive for May, 2007
TEH RABBIT HOLE
beware the lollerwocky!
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I need a new wireless data card (switched laptops, have new express slot instead of pcmcia). I currently have Verizon. I went to the Verizon store today prepared to pay full price for a new card on my existing contract.
My options:
- Get new card at 1 year contract with small discount and pay $20 “early upgrade fee”
- Get new card at 2 year contract with larger discount and pay $20 “early upgrade fee”
The early upgrade fee is non-negotiable. I could deal with re-upping my contract and slurping down bullcrap if the service were stellar, but its just so-so, so that upgrade fee sticks in my craw.
While doing research with help from Erik, I discovered two interesting but ultimately useless things. In 2004 and 2005, the PUC granted Californians the right to cancel service within 30 days if the service did not meet their needs. This makes sense given all the variables of cell coverage. Carriers threw lots of money at the assembly and got that right tossed out. There was much ruckus in 2006, with 87% of people surveyed saying they wanted this right restored. Senate passed it a restoration of this right, but ultimately the assembly voted it down. Suck it.
The other thing I discovered was that in February 2007 Verizon upped their text messaging fees and a limited number of people were rumored to have gotten out of their contracts based on “material changes to their contracts.” Verizon ultimately clamped down on this in various ways, semi-humorously crediting some folks’ accounts .30cents/month until their contracts ran out, thus negating the material change, while others were simply denied as the change was not considered material.
My third option: Pay a $200 early termination fee and go with another carrier. Is it expensive? Yes. Can I get slightly better data service elsewhere? Probably. Is it worth it to stick my foot up Verizon’s ass? Definitely.
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Another fabulous queer movie. I’ve seen this a couple of times, but tivo’d it again, and was still encutened by the experience. This one is the delightful story of a bunch of kids in summer drama/music/theatre camp. They explore their ambiguous sexuality, love, hate, support, and inspire each other and a burned out but talented alcoholic director/composer. Love love love it. And makes me a bit sad too… it very much reminds me of being a young musician, surrounded by other fabulously talented people.
Sphere: Related ContentSo, in conclusion, the White House’s attitude toward public opinion: claim public support for policies that do not have it; when challenged, explain that the public isn’t really saying what it’s saying; and when confronted with inarguable evidence of public disapproval, claim indifference. It’s quite a dance.
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I’m apparently catching up on really amazing queer films. I saw Kinky Boots tonight, and it was phenomenal. Cute story of a man who inherits a failing stodgy men’s shoe factory With the help of Lola, a successful drag performer and designer, he reinvents the business as a company that makes shoes for boys who dress like girls.
A+ for cute lead actor Joel Edgerton.
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Charles Nelson Reilly, who acted and directed on Broadway but came to be best known for his campy television appearances on talk shows and “Match Game,” died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 76 and lived in Beverly Hills, Calif. The cause was complications of pneumonia, said his partner, Patrick Hughes, who is his only immediate survivor. Mr. Reilly had been ill for more than a year, he said.
Long before moving west to become what he somewhat ruefully described as a “game show fixture,” Mr. Reilly was an actor and an acting teacher in New York City. In 1962, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Bud Frump in the original Broadway production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” (Read More)
I am a fucking genius. See previous recipe.
M and J took me to D’s BBQ yesterday. It was a ridiculous sausage fest. Monica was the only girl. All the boys were stupidly pretty (except for J, who is cute, but my housemate so idon’tlikehimthatway). M made lovely homemade salsa and storemade margaritas. She’s mexican so it was guaranteed authentic. Then D brought out the ribs.
I’ll eat just about anything cooked on a grill and made of meat. Usually lots. But I only had one. I didn’t think they were bad, but probably very very bad for me. THey had been smoked low and long, so I figured all the bacteria were dead. At least I hoped so since the meat (pork) was mostly raw. It was also was lightly coated in a yummy sauce that was a cross between a very sweet bbq sauce and lighter fluid. It was really good, but probably gave me cancer.
Oh well.
I decided to do my own today. I have yet to figure out a good and repeatable recipe. but I usually do ok winging it. Today the best looking meat at safeway was country ribs: mostly boneless, about the sze of a pork chop, LOTS of connective tissue.
The recipe today is like so:
- Wash and dry ribs (1 largeish package)
- Rub with oil
- Rub with steak seasoning (coarse salt, pepper, garlic, onion, and who knows what)
- Stack fat side up in dutch oven thingy
- Pour on random amount red wine vinegar
- Pour on random amount worcesteshire
- Pour on entire bottle of Cattleman’s BBQ sauce and massage into the cracks of the meat mountain
- Cover and put in 300 degree oven
- Check it in 2 hours and cook some more or possibly cook uncovered for a bit.
I am separating my personal and demi-professional blatherings. Professional stuff can be found at http://www.erikgibb.com/
I can now devote this, my personal blog entirely to bitching and whining and super foul language, where as the other one will discuss work things. That is all.
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