Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)
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Gary Oldman is a chameleon. He has so many different looks in the roles he plays.
The sinister face of neutrality. Go ahead and profit from that plundered gold and other treasures. Your secrecy laws will only hold up for so long when the war crimes trials start.Hear, hear.
Team Cooler!
You cut me to the quick.
I am a man of small means who enjoys the simple pleasures of life like swimming laps for my continued good health.
@CloneLawman, I find your petty pompousness to be tiresome and boring. You would dare to challenge the Prime Minister!!!!
Fine. Feel free to give me a call when the KCLuftwaffe starts dropping pongo bombs on London.
TEAM COOLER!
Better.
Yesterday I got a notice on my phone, something to the effect that only my contacts are backed up on the Verizon "cloud". Did a WTF because they have 5 gigs of free photo backup from your phone. Operative was did. Checked and 5 gigs of my photos were gone. Chat with some ******* at Verizon and they say they went to all pay for storage and I had a notice to buy or download your stuff before they deleted it. Boxster was SUPER pissed. Especially the BS part that "We went to all pay since not that many people were using/accessing the storage." Like, WTF cheat sheet are you reading off of? Got a new phone last spring and a replacement for it in the summer so not much on my phone. Hundreds of previous pics, including Europe, we only on the "cloud" and not on my current phone.
Remembered late yesterday that my old Samsung I junked a year ago was still in a drawer, had a failing screen and a faulty plug that didn't allow direct phone to computer download but figured I'd see if I could get it charged up and connected to wifi. Could hardly read the screen but got it fired up and internet connected to wifi and saved the photos to Google. FTW! And **** you Verizon!
Yesterday I got a notice on my phone, something to the effect that only my contacts are backed up on the Verizon "cloud". Did a WTF because they have 5 gigs of free photo backup from your phone. Operative was did. Checked and 5 gigs of my photos were gone. Chat with some ******* at Verizon and they say they went to all pay for storage and I had a notice to buy or download your stuff before they deleted it. Boxster was SUPER pissed. Especially the BS part that "We went to all pay since not that many people were using/accessing the storage." Like, WTF cheat sheet are you reading off of? Got a new phone last spring and a replacement for it in the summer so not much on my phone. Hundreds of previous pics, including Europe, we only on the "cloud" and not on my current phone.
Remembered late yesterday that my old Samsung I junked a year ago was still in a drawer, had a failing screen and a faulty plug that didn't allow direct phone to computer download but figured I'd see if I could get it charged up and connected to wifi. Could hardly read the screen but got it fired up and internet connected to wifi and saved the photos to Google. FTW! And **** you Verizon!
This, among many other reasons, is why some of us old guys are skeptical that cloud computing and cloud storage are the answer.
I was doing my taxes and despite my better judgement I was going for the cheaper doing it online thing rather than springing for the more expensive download of the software. I stop for a few minutes in the middle of itemizing a bunch of donations to help the daughter with a homework problem. I return to find out the system has logged me out for inactivity so all of the entry I had just done was gone with the wind.
Oh, and they send you a new verification code to your email address that you have to enter every time you log in. A new email and code every time you log in even if they just logged you out two minutes before! Since my crappy CenturyLink internet service and email is less than reliable this is another cause for rejoicing.
Visiting Pants is starting to look more and more desirable.
eFile Express is a cheap download that works for Minnesota. It's not as totally easy as some more expensive ones but I've used it like 3 or 4 years now. It's free except for the electronic filing charge and that was really cheap.
Not sure why a lady who almost t-boned me after looking at me 3 different times waiting to turn would flip me off... I was driving up a 2 lane boulevard, in the left lane, near a school. Normal speed limit is 40mph, but school was letting out and traffic was thick so I slowed down to about 30. Nobody in front of me, I see this truck waiting to turn left out of the school driveway, which is to the right. This lady starts inching out, coming to a stop so she is blocking the right lane. I figure that she might gun it so I slow down even more, but she starts to roll out into my lane so I have to slam on the brakes and swerve. Then I'm the one who gets the finger. My sister would have needed another hip surgery if we got hit. I'm not going to stop in the middle of the road with cars behind me just because you're in a hurry.
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