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• watch less television
• play more video games
• ride more motorcycles

Get a haircut hippy. Get a job. Goto school, tune out and drop.

contemplating games

Xbox Originals: 1200

Psychonauts

Jade Empire

Indigo Prophecy

Grand Theft Auto

Arcade: 400-800

800  Castlevania: SOTN

800  BC: Rearmed

1200 Castle Crashers

800  Prince of Persia

800  Ikaruga

800  Heavy Weapon

800  Duke Nukem 3D

800  Marathon

800  Metal Slug 3

800  Mega Man 9

400  Sonic The Hedgehog 2

800  Street Fighter II' HF

1200 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

letter to gamefly

I find it disappointing and unfortunate that I have to start my gamefly rewards system over again. I have read the terms and conditions and understand that when an account is canceled, the gamefly rewards system will be reset.

My situation involved using a bank that had issued me a credit card which I used to pay my bill with gamefly. Washington Mutual was taken over by Chase and all of their secured credit cards were shut down with one weeks notice to all of their customers. They did not provide any alternatives for credit cards and I had to go to a different bank in order to open a new credit card with which to pay my gamefly account.

Gamefly did not have any other options for payment and there was really no choice in the matter from any of the parties involved as to what happened. The account needed to be canceled because there was no valid form of payment. The only choice that *can* be made is whether or not gamefly chooses to resume my gamefly rewards where I left off. I was just about to reach the six month point.

It seems that resetting the rewards system is a useful tool for gamefly in order to reward loyal customers who continue to use their accounts month after month. This would indicate to me that gamefly wants to reward those who made an active choice to continue being loyal customers. I have made this choice and I am being active about it and would like to retain my rewards that I had previously earned.

The cancellation of my account was beyond my control and beyond the control of gamefly but I believe that the rewards system is still within the boundaries of choice. Please let me know if anything can be done. I chose gamefly over the other two game rental companies I was looking at for several reasons and the rewards system was a major selling point for me. I would be very disappointed if I had to start all over again.

Thank you for your time

outlook out of office assistant error - command not available

This was the most painful error I have found. The error occurs when trying to turn out of office assistant off and you get an error that says "command is not available". Following the suggestions in Office Helpfile do not resolve the issue and following microsoft KB Q327353 does not resolve this issue.

Fix as is follows:

• Help -> About -> Disabled Items
• Enable any items that appear in this dialogue by selecting the item and clicking on Enable
• Close
• OK
• Exit from outlook
• Start Outlook and out of office assistant should now be available

Letter to Mindy K Davis

hey dipshit

Listen, I’m done being patient with you. You’re a stupid fucking bitch and you need to get with the program. I have no more patience left for your games or your ignorance or your stupidity or your selfishness.

I don’t care what you think anymore or who you think is going to “protect” you. Go ahead and try to get a protection order you dumb bitch. You gave birth to a child for purely selfish reasons. You wanted to get some sort of resolution for your ex taking off with the baby that you both planned to raise, you wanted to have the easy life and have an excuse for why everybody should give you free shit, you wanted a fucking toy to show off to others, you wanted to have control over another human being by using a human child as a hostage.

You are disgusting and I feel sick to my stomach every time I think of you. And I think about it every day. Everything you are doing is wrong. Your life right now is a lie and your life always will be a lie. Nothing can change that.

There really aren’t many other words available to describe the filth and the trash that you will always be. I wanted to hope for better from you but I realize that even with professional help you will never recover. Your mind and soul are lost to the world because you sold them for a chance to let everyone else in your life provide for you and take care of you because it’s true, you are disabled. You’re a retard and nowhere close to being human. You gave up being human a long time ago when you decided you would rather be molested so you could get sympathy from others.

I don’t care anymore, I know you’re never going to change and you will always be a dumb cunt. You will never progress in life, you will never learn anything new, you will never be able to provide or or be there for another human being.

The only way you or anyone else is going to keep my daughter from having me as a father is if I am dead. So get to it. Give me your best shot. I want to see how dedicated to evil you are. How far you are willing to go in order to deny our daughter some basic human rights. She has a father who actually wants to be there and can actually provide for her. Except in your selfish delusions, you think that keeping her from her dad is the only way you can keep your paycheck which is the sympathy of others that you gather by lying to them.

Nothing will stop me from seeing her. As much as you disgust me, I will have nothing to say to you unless you can learn how to be human again. I don’t care for you and you are not worth my time to even argue with. You don’t even understand rational thought. So make up whatever excuses you want. I never have and I never will lay a finger on you and as much as I want to raise my voice at you now I realize it falls on deaf ears.

I *will* be a part of our daughter’s life and that is final. There is nothing you can do or say to keep us apart. I will follow her to the ends of the earth. I will raise her to respect and love you despite your mental handicap and you will have to decide if you want to be a part of that or not.

If you are not forthcoming with any information as to your whereabouts or what is going on, I will have to take it upon myself to find out on my own.

xbox360 and netflix

Hello, I have just purchased an Xbox360 60GB model. I think I may have jumped the gun on purchasing the xbox because the whole reason I bought an xbox instead of another product was because of some hype I found floating around on the Internet about being able to stream my Netflix to my xbox.

This is partly my fault for not researching it further before investing my money. However, I am still extremely disappointed that I will not be able to participate in this venture because netflix tells me that the functionality may not be ready until late fall.

I am young and impatient and desperately in need of a more promising solution for the consumption of my media. Streaming is the only way to go. Digital and physical storage are both bulky, costly, and a pain in the butt to manage.

I was under the impression that the xbox360 would be the answer to my needs. At this point in time I feel differently. If there is anyone who could provide me with any more information about what is going on with the partnership between netflix and Microsoft I would very much appreciate hearing from them.

Until then, I feel I may be forced to find a different solution to my media and gaming needs. The Xbox360 right now is not fulfilling my wants and I really could use that investment toward a more practical solution that would better fit my needs.

This is an opportunity for Microsoft to shine and set an example in customer service. My *minimum* expectations are that I will receive a reply from somebody who can at least smooth talk me into being happy with what I already have but I fully expect that this issue immediately be escalated past your first level of support as I doubt Microsoft has given them the tools to resolve my issue.

One of two things can happen here. I can be contacted by somebody with greater lee-way in dealing with unsatisfied customers or I can receive an auto response or template email telling me marketing information about the netflix deal. I will change from an unsatisfied customer to a passionately angry customer if the second of the two is what happens.

I hope for the best and I would have faith that Microsoft will want me as a customer enough that some care will be shown in handling this situation.

Thank you for your time, Holden Caulfield (yes, it is an alias)

this email was sent through the E-mail live support feature found on help.xbox.com/eform
this email can also be found at http://keldwud.blogspot.com/2008/08/xbox360-and-netflix.html

Television Pie

Stole this from wired.

Take a closer look at that pie:

• Besides Bravo and Sci Fi, NBC Universal also owns USA, the highest-rated ad-supported cable channel; MSNBC; CNBC; ShopNBC; Oxygen; Telemundo; and one-third of A&E Television, itself a conglomeration that includes A&E, the History Channel, and the Biography Channel.
  
• Disney owns ABC, ESPN, SoapNet, ABC Family, its own one-third share of A&E, and half of Lifetime. It also, of course, owns the Disney Channel, the top-rated basic-cable outlet of any kind.
  
• Viacom and CBS, though now traded separately on Wall Street, are both controlled by one man, Sumner Redstone. CBS owns Showtime, the Movie Channel, and half of the CW. Viacom’s list of properties includes MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Spike TV, BET, and Comedy Central.
  
• Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. owns Fox, Fox News, FX, and, well, everything with the word Fox in it, from Fox College Sports to the Fox Reality Channel.
  
• Time Warner owns the other half of the CW, as well as CNN, TNT, TBS, TCM, HBO, Cinemax, the Cartoon Network, and TruTV (formerly CourtTV).

mmm pie.