eric: oh man, what’s andy dick doing on [the teen choice awards]? they shouldn’t let him near those kids. he’ll be pickin’ up on the girls. …or boys! …or both!!
kara: …is he gay?
eric: i…i think he’s a little bit country…and a little bit rock ‘n roll…
via one of my new favorite blogs, drawn!, i came across a guy by the name of steve wolfhard. he’s an animator/illustrator/cartoonist/drawer/whatever and he has some excellent sketches. he also has a weblog, and this one entry was so funny i actually snorted some of the soup i was eating up into my nose. it was tomato and it burned.
update: i just re-read this and against all possible reason…it made me hungry.
‘point break’ comes on right after csi and the opening credits begin:
[waves crash on a beach]
eric: hey, this movie starts just like ‘american history x’!
[cut to guy surfing]
eric: well…not now. but it would be great if they edited this into the beginning of ‘american history x’! desaturated it and slipped it in there…
kara: …
i just noticed that i’ve hit 1001 photos posted to flickr. for those of you that aren’t quite as hopeless as me, let me point out that 1001 is all ones and zeros. it’s binary. converted to the decimal system it equals ‘9’.
nerd, party of one?
p.s. – i like how the title of this entry is all numbers and if you have the proper font for my h3 tags, the numbers are slightly shorter and the tail on the 9 descends below the baseline. hm, if only i knew of some typography nerds who read this website and could tell me the proper terms for all of this…
i’m not saying i except tech support people to be gods. i don’t expect them to know everything about everything. but when i go to a tech support guy at a hosting company with a question, the last thing i expect to get in return is the dude asking me how i figured out what my php config settings were in the first place.
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i mean, maybe the guy just doesn’t know php. maybe he’s more into like, the intricacies of IIS or apache or asp.NET or something. actually what i mean is: i hope php isn’t his normal milieu, because if it is, this hosting company has to rethink its hiring practices. isn’t looking at your php config pretty much a programming basic? you know, along the lines of reading out the values of an array or writing a loop or looking at the source of a webpage? fellow nerds? am i right?
update: the guy admits he’s not a php expert, then proceeds to tell me that his superior says OperationX just flat-out doesn’t work in the way that i said it does. in the way that i KNOW it does, since it works on two other servers at two other completely different hosting companies. the best he can muster is that maybe those other companies are using an older version of php. they’re not, it’s the same, and one of the first things i checked. then he tells me that they don’t support ‘coding issues.’ am i talking to myself here? the EXACT SAME THING works on at least TWO INDEPENDENT SERVERS at TWO DIFFERENT HOSTING COMPANIES.
so thanks for nothing, tech support. guess i’m moving the client to a different hosting company. you do not live up to your company’s name.