Cable Sucks

So i was watchin a little TV today and after watching a few shows and flippin through the channels I started to notice how bad Tv has become since I was little. all of the good cartoons have been canceled and replaced with dramatic teenage sitcoms with no originality. The more adult stations like comedy central, sci-fi, or real.....have so many commercials selling useless products and services, like weight-loss pills, and cheap plastic devices that will give you "lean toned hardened muscles in three weeks" , all of the pills they advertise, and most of all, since its now a law that you must have car insurance to drive, we have to see all the damn car insurance commercials(and i have no idea who their target audience is there, no teenager is gonna find those stupid "esurance" commercials to be cool). Its getting ridiculous. One of the much more irritating things i have noticed is the painful increase in volume when certain commercials air. Then i noticed its not just tv thats gotten bad either, the news advertises the "worst" news as the top stories. You don't usually see something good on the cover of a newspaper anymore, its usually a car accident or how much more gas prices are despite any change of anything, (personally i think somebody's milking this gas bull for all were worth). magazines talk about the latest celeb drug/sex gossip......what happened to the encouraging cartoons that disney use to make or the good news making the cover story, or when magazines use to talk about all the great movies that good actors where in......."my o my how the times have changed"....

New Laptop

So i got a new computer the other day. It is an Asus EEE laptop. For those who have not heard of this yet, it is a new laptop that Asus has built to be cheap, ultra portable, and easy to use. When I opened the box, I was pretty happy to see just how small this thing was, it makes regular laptops look like monsters. Its just a little to big to fit inside of a "leg pocket" of a nice pair of cargo pants....but anyway, I purchased the 4G (which means it has a 4 gig hard drive) which seems pretty small, but it has a SD card slot for more storage space. It also has built in wi-fi, a web-cam, web-mail/e-mail checker, instant messaging, games, office software (open-office), firefox web browser, and several other niffty programs. The O.S. is a modified version of xandros (Linux instead of windows), and dont let that turn you off. It uses a desktop manager to make everything easy to use and operate, and because it is Linux it will boot in ~15 sec. and can be sold much cheaper than an equivalent pc with windows. However it can be installed with windows XP if you must have it....the user manual has a step by step process on how to do that.
PROS.- very small/light
- fancy little OS with pretty good hardware support(printers and such)
- fairly reasonably priced
- good for making your friends jealous
CONS.- personally I could use a little more battery life(mine runs 3.5 Hr.)
- can get a bit warm/hot sometimes(not scary hot yet)
- ive had a little bit of trouble connecting to networked computers(to share files/printers)but that might be unrelated to the laptop

Overall 8.5 outa 10

Stressfull Day

well, today was a bit stressful to say the least. we received 5 pc's yesterday to be custom built, and after building them we hooked them up to get windows loaded on them..... unfortunately only one of them worked. come to find out, of the 5 pc's 3 of them had faulty BIOS chips, 1 simply would not boot at all and instead would just make multiple long beeps (most likely bad mobo), and the last one luckily seemed to work fine. So we ordered some new boards from a different company with our fingers crossed. Another thing that really bothers me at the shop is...... no matter how hard it is raining, some people find it absolutely necessary to bring their computers into the shop dripping wet( with no cover or plastic bag over it). which means if they just brought it in for a quick software fix and the rain water (unnoticed) fry's their mobo they will blame us for it. anywho this is my first post and i intend to post some more so feel free to comment....