Archive for the ‘Rant’ Category
Vietnamese people are shameless and have no class
Last week I went to the Ikea’s Crawfish Party in Sacramento. I was really excited, and had dreams of eating mountains upon mountains of crawfish. But sadly Ikea was ill-prepared for the onslaught of us Vietnamese people and our fishsauce. The place was filled with Vietnamese people, and every one of them used these Ikea [...]
Why is the Lowes website always down?
Dear Sys Admin of Lowes.com, Can you please fix the damn site. That shit is always lagging, or down. You are making want to go to Home Depot! Great site, solid features, but damn, just about every time I’ve wanted to browse your sites for products, it is dragging, or displaying system errors. Come on [...]
The Curse of Furniture
Unfortunately I’ve witness to many “moving” events, both personally and professionally, and I have come to the conclusion that moving furniture is a horrible waste of time and resources. Unlike my wife, who insists on hoarding tons of heavy furniture and knick-knacks, I hate owning anything that I can not pick up with my bare [...]
Why do people eat old expired food?
It’s not uncommonly for you to hear someone say “I hope I won’t regret eating this X day old Y”. Replace X with an expiration time frame, and Y with a food item. I just don’t get it. If you are forcing yourself to eat old/expired food because you are on some sort quest to [...]
How to apply for financial aid in California
The reason some students don’t get financial aid is because they don’t know to apply for it… Seriously? Like Seriously? The government is giving you free money, through programs like the Pell Grant, and your excuse is you don’t know how to fill out the application? Check it out: How to Apply
When coding is not fun
You know what sucks. Staying up until 1 in the morning trying to figure why some code you wrote will not work, when every piece of documentation you read seem to suggest that it should work. Then you find out its because the codebase you are working with has some custom extensions that overwrite the [...]
Grocery store basket and cashiers
So, can someone tell me why cashiers at the grocery stores always take your grocery basket and spill it all over the counter before they scan it? I don’t understand that. What is so hard about gently picking out each item and scanning it individually?
I hate Grey’s Anatomy
I wrote I hate sex in the city and it was a big hit. Let’s try to reproduce that success here. Let me tell you what I’ve learned from Grey’s Anatomy: The hospital breakroom is for sex – be careful next time you go in there – clean it well All doctors are gorgeous people, [...]
Photographer Websites
Been looking at a lot of photographer’s websites lately. Here is one piece of opinion for all you photographers out there Please, for the love of humanity, stop using flash. Using flash is a terrible way to display your photographs. 1) It takes forever to load. 2) The photos are small and often cannot be [...]
TigerDirect sucks
So I ordered some items from TigerDirect. Then this is the screen I see. Hrmm, ok… Who the f*ck needs to know my SSN? You can’t be f*cking serious. I already paid you, and you want me to give you my Social Security Number? Can someone tell me if any other sites do this? I [...]