The 6th Day with AppleCare

It has come to my attention that a very common problem with Apple laptops is a hard drive crashing. The little folder icon appears instead of the Apple logo, with a little question mark right in the middle. It's sort of a way of your computer saying "what the fuck?" My first experience with this happening was to me personally. I lost all my files due to faulty time machine installation(that was my bad) but ended up getting a new hard drive and didn't mind starting from scratch.... then it happened to my co-worker, then my sister, then my best friend, then my girlfriend, then a business partner as well as many unhappy people on apple forums. Well due to some light bickering on a friend's Facebook status i have decided to voice my opinion.

If anyone has seen The 6th Day with Arnold Swartzen-heimer then you'll know what im talking about. A big rich dude (who looks exactly like Bob Saget) has a company that makes clones, the only thing is, whenever they make a new clone for someone, they implant it with a disease secretly. This ensures that when that clone is on their death bed, they will return to that cloning company to ensure that they have a position in this world once their present body passes over. Hmmmmm, sounds a little familiar. I mean, this is nothing new, car companies have been doing it for years, but just that fact that Steve Jobs can sit on his money chair in his g.d. turtleneck and click his little keynote clicker at our faces while selling us poop juice equipment is a little depressing. An argument i heard on facebook is that all apples and pc's use the same hard drives and it is "hilarious" to blame the problems on the hard drive itself. Im sorry but i don't see Intels or Western Digital internal hard drives for sale for a Mac, nor do i see SATA or IDE ready to be shoved into a PC.

A year ago when this problem happened to me i didnt know what to do. The only help i had was 40 yr old men telling me to reset the pRAM 400 times. Most of my friends (not including me)get the lovely AppleCare. I hear it comes with a box of chocolates and a bouquet of roses, and a guy even comes and wipes your bottom when you make a poopy. Although those roses, chocolates and bum wipes run for about $200. What a certain someone did instead, was went and found a new internal drive for about $75, installed it himself, and just dealt with finding new music to put back on his laptop. I guess when you feel someone is sticking it to you, the best remedy is to get unstuck. I mean, if you buy a Swiffer wet jet, you're also going t have to commit to buying Swiffer wet jet wipes.....that is unless you find an equal alternative such as taping a wet napkin to the end of your $25 stick. Of course Swiffer didn't make the napkin, but it will work just as good, and maybe even better.....for cheaper!

I will admit, i own a Macbook Pro, i own an iPhone, i own an iMac (As well as a PC which has lasted me longer than i can remember, while simultaneously being up to date and very functional). But the bottom line is, where is the longevity? I see all these crashes, where does that leave me as a consumer to keep buying these products? Apple has become it's own monopoly, no one else can run Mac OS Anything, leaving them to raise prices to whatever they want and dish out a quality which they determine, and all we can do is suck our thumbs and have Mr. Jobs stop by with a rose every now and then a sprinkle some baby powder on our bum rashes.

Although, i will admit..... visual voicemail is the shit.

Can you smell it?

Yesterday was a greeaaat day. I started it off by waking up in a house that wasn't mine and eating a grilled cheese with no hesitation. Then a nice trip to the worlds biggest thrift store with Rosenthal where i acquired  half of my halloween costume (more in a moment). Then a trip to Costco turned into a trip to Its A Grind to visit my friend, get a free drink, and THEN go get Costco hot dogs. After that i completed my hunt for my dad's birthday presents. Feeling very accomplished i then played a good show at Dipiazzas with my band, followed by a lovely party at my friend Jon's house. A very good day overall, and i must say, the smell of Fall was present the entire day and i loved it.

But back to my costume. My family takes halloween very seriously, in all aspects. I guess we just love to dress up/dress things up, i mean, my mom has won the costume contest at her work twice in a row(not specifically reserved for halloween).

Well if anyone knows me they know i am obsessed with the 90's. Mainly television in the 90's. Mainly Nickelodeon in the 90's. Anyways, as another halloween rolls by, my only choice in a costume is something from the era i love the most. In 2007 i took no hesitation to dress up as a Legends of The Hidden Temple contestant with water shoes and all. This year i felt the need to pay tribute to a show i loved none stop and only till now realize how genius the show really was in it's entirety. Pete & Pete was one of the best written shows on the Nickelodeon afternoon 90's lineup. This is why on my trip to the thrift store yesterday i had to find a red turtle neck and red sweatpants to successfully transform myself into Artie, the strongest man in the world in 30 days. Granted, i didnt find any sweat pants BUT i did find the perfect turtleneck that will be caressed with blue stripes as soon as i find the time. More updates on my progress soon to come....super detailed ones, like how long it takes till i find sweats....and how i will be posing all night on halloween.....details.

Halloweevil

If you've been to my house, you'll know that my roommate (for privacy purposes lets just call her "Mom") puts out seasonal chocolates in our bathroom. For example, during Valentines day we have hershey kisses with cherry filling, easter we have little hershey kiss eggs and so on and so forth. Well, being that it is 2 days to the first day of the month containing the wonderful holiday of Halloween, our lovely candy dish in the pooper is filled with little black and orange wrapped hershey kisses.....which got me thinking.

When i was a kid and read my 10 page books, one that i would read annually was The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat. A simple book about halloween and two carnivorous mammals who decided to go trick or treating for halloween. One thing i always noticed was the way their candy was distributed. They would always dish out handfuls of candy corn and gum balls and peppermints in no wrapper, right into the children's bag. Now i don't know about you but i was always told to be cautious about strange people handing out candy that looks like its been tampered with. Charlie Brown seemed to have this sort of shady neighborhood too. Didn't they have parents that told them not to eat these potential sugar balls of death? I know every year as a kid my dad would always have his "sifting" time with my candy. Although it usually involved him saying "oh this one might be dangerous.....*munch*......oh ok we're safe" on numerous occasions. Maybe the Berenstain Bears lived in a happy go lucky town where everyone knew each other and trusted each other and there were no razor blades in any circus peanuts or roofies in pez dispensers.

Lets go back to the good old days. I vow to only serve candy that i have bought in a bag, opened the bag, and dumped into a dish. It'll be like the sweetest complimentary peanuts you have ever had, and only for one day a year. I mean, if they do it in a cartoon it must be good for you.

PS: i always thought it was Berenstein Bears....not BerenSTAIN. I guess they are a little less jewish than i thought

The deed is done

I clicked the button, pulled the trigger, released the trap door, flushed the toilet.......whatever you want to call it.

I finally made the big commitment and bought my new 150cc Lifan engine for my scooter. My second biggest purchase of the year, im going to need to pick up a few more paper routes to pay this baby off. Also the fact that i need to buy a few modification pieces is a little depressing. My dream of getting my engine in the mail and jamming up my bike's rectum and riding it down the street is smashed due to the fact that i have to get the engine, and THEN scope out all the moding areas. The main difference between the old engine and the new one is the exhaust, i dont understand why every other Honda Trail bike has the correct exhaust flange EXCEPT my honda ct90. Which is why i also purchased a ct70 exhaust which will need to be welded to my old exhaust and blah blah blah. I wasn't feeling to hot about buying a new ct110 exhaust......and no one was selling a used one, except this jaggoff from pasadena who wanted full price for his used exhaust....jerk. Getting the 110 would have saved me on the whole welding part, but im not looking to spend more of the money i dont have.

and yes i know that if you dont know about honda bikes this means nothings and is actually quite boring. yea? well....yea! ok! fine! jeeez! more updates to come

INFJ

I treasure my alone time.....alone time = art time......i treasure my art time.


My new project has begun

Mitzy

Here is the anniversary gift I made for some good friends of my family. Mitzi, their bull terrier

Buying milk to drink it

[man walks up to liqueur store counter with a 1 quart carton of milk. Man working behind counter is finishing his last conversation with customer walking out the door(bell rings). New customer places carton on the counter]

Clerk: hey there

Man: hi

Clerk: some weather today huh? [clerk scans the carton]

Man: uh, yea

Clerk: just the milk for you?

Man: yup

Clerk: Nothing else?

Man: no, just the milk

Clerk: oh alright.....cause we've got other things to go with milk......cereal....uhhh

Man: i just want the milk

Clerk: just the milk?

Man: just the milk

Clerk: is this your weeks supply? because we sell gallons, just above the ca.....

Man: all i want is the carton

Clerk: oh, well if you buy 2 gallons you actually save more than buying the carton alone

Man: all i want is this one carton, right now

Clerk: you baking something at home? somethings that needs milk?

Man: no

Clerk: no pancakes?....or...

Man: no

Clerk: .....a cake?

Man: no

Clerk: a baby?

Man: what?

Clerk: a baby?

Man: am i baking a baby? is that your question?

Clerk: no, are you feeding a baby? with the milk?

Man: no this milk is for me

Clerk: for you?

Man: yes for me

Clerk: just for you?

Man: yes

Clerk: not for you annndddd a kitten?

Man: no, no kittens

Clerk: the entire carton's for you?

Man: yes, i am going to drink this carton of milk

Clerk: with some coffee or something?

Man: no just the milk

Clerk: all at once?

Man: i am going to buy this milk, get in my car, and drink the entire carton of milk

Clerk: really?

Man: yes really. what's so hard to believe about that?

Clerk: i just don't understand, it's a lot of milk

Man: so?

Clerk: especially to drink all at once. You know we sell smaller amounts of milk

Man: yes i know

Clerk: you wouldn't prefer a half pint?

Man: no, a quart is fine

Clerk: a quart is a lot of milk

Man: i just so happen to like milk

Clerk: yea but i mean, a whole quart?

Man: can i just buy the milk please? how much do i owe you?

Clerk: what's your time frame for this whole carton?

Man: the label said $2.38

Clerk: i mean, is this an entire day thing? or....

Man: here's $3 [sets money on the counter]

Clerk: .....do you plan on drinking the whole thing up right now?

Man: just keep it [walks out with carton of milk]

Clerk: ....because milk goes sour you know [shouting as man leaves] well have a nice day sir

Man: jesus

[bell rings]