Vinh Pham

The other day on Law & Order, they had a show about an evil pharmaceutical company in cahoots with a University professor to test unsafe drugs on college students. The drugs caused healthy students to get depressed and eventually kill themselves.

Anyways, I thought the story was kinda stupid, and that it was just “sensational” television.

But surprisingly, when I listened to NPR the next day, they ran a story about a drug company who did just that. They had a depression drug that they tested on healthy people. The subjects got really depressed and killed themselves. The drug company hid the results of the study claiming its “trade secrets”. They then marketed the drugs as something else.

Shocking… Thank God I don’t have any conditions that require pills. My drug of choice… poker…

I have this sick fondness for sappy Asian movies about love. You know, the kind of movies about undying, unbreakable love. The kind of love where the guy rather stabs himself in the heart than hurt the woman he loves. Or the kind where two people love each other and spend all day dreaming about each other, but circumstances keep them apart so they save them self indefinitely for that one person.

That’s why I am up at 1:30am. I was watching this Japanese movie about two sparing tribes who had members who love each other. In the end the dude basically killed himself because he didn’t want to have to kill the girl. Then the girl plucked out her eyes. Yea… don’t ask me why…

Anyways, I guess I like these movies because they are close to my own heart. I live in this weird world where love is everything. If I was a fierce Samurai, a good hearted Mafia member, or a skilled soldier I would be a lead character in some really sappy movies. But sadly, I am just a computer geek who has an unhealthy appetite for crawfish…

OK, this is definitely the strangest thing I have EVER seen in life. Not ONE of the strangest, it IS THE strangest.

This dude has warts growing all over his body. For some reason, these warts look like a freaking tree branch. This is absolutely, jaw dropping, crazy! I still can’t believe what I just saw.

In Google Docs, you can email the word documents, but you can not email the Excel files. It would be great if they allowed you to package excel files into PDF format and then email them like the word documents.

Also, when you email a document, there should be a place that keeps track of your email history.

I am a big fan of Google documents and I use it for everything. I find it weird when people get all scared because they think Google will violate their privacy etc… etc… Sure it is a legitimate concern, but honestly, I would sacrifice that for the convenience it has brought me.

If you don’t know about Google docs, try it out. Its a great way to free yourself from carrying a usb stick, or if you are like me, emailing documents to yourself.

I am watching a coverage on CES (consumer electronic show) and it makes me think that we are all retarded. They have all sorts of electronic gadgets to let you do all sorts of shit, but if you really think about it, to run that piece of shit, you need about twenty other gadgets.

For example, they have all these devices to help you transmit your tv, youtube, pictures, music etc… so you can watch them wherever, whenever. Ok.. so you buy a tv, a computer, a digital photo frame, a mp3 player, and now they want you to buy a device to help you broadcast that shit so you can see it in more than one location? WTF? why the hell did you buy all that in the first place?

Funny.. They have photo frames that can receive pictures from phones so that you can see what your friends are doing instantly. Ok WTF, call me old fashion, but why don’t you just save that money you are going to spend on that photo frame and actually just go out with your frae3king friends!!!

Seriously, everything in life is hella complicated now. You can’t even going out hiking without thinking about buying the right shoes, shorts, tshirt, and even the damn water bottle has to be considered. What ever happened to just taking a damn walk in your boxers???

Man.. I swear, sometimes I just don’t get it. I don’t understand all these “enhancement” we stick up our asses, only to find out we need more enhancement for those enhancement. Why HD tv? why smart phones? why satellite?? why not just go DO SOMETHING!!!

Why not just go to concert if you want music, play a sport with friends if you want HD-espn, or sit down a fun-filled board game with friends instead of turning on the wii??

I am in NO way free of this electronic bondage. I have a lot of baggage that goes a long with my life, however, I do dream that one day we can just ALL go outside and say hi to our neighbors, sleep under a tree, and sing songs around a campfire!

Ok so let’s say your phone number is 415-555-1234, but you live in a 916 area code.

If you call 1800COMCAST, with your phone, they will automatically detect that your phone number is a 415 area code and transfer you to the 415 call center.

The computers at the 415 call center pulls up your account and realize you live in the 916 area code and tells you to call the 916 call center phone number, gives you the number, then hangs up on you.

You call that number, the 916 call center computer answers and detect that you are calling from a 415 area code phone.

They immediately tell you to call the 415 call center and proceeds to give you that number.

Now you are stuck in a Comcast customer service infinite loop.

They are a multi-billion dollar company and some how their programmer is too fucking retarded to realize this little conundrum?

I told them about this and they actually told me to block my caller ID before calling them so the computer won’t detect it. Then when it asks for a number, put in a random number with the correct area code.

Wtf? Why do I have become a spoofer just to get some customer service??