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Why I'm Mad Today: Video games.
Why I don't care:
It's fun to hate:
When Shadowtwin reigns supreme:
Music lost to history:
Alice Cooper is basically what Marilyn Manson has become. He sang about really taboo subjects at a time
when taboo actually was taboo. This particular tune is one that I began listening to after being dumped by the girl that I was supposed to marry
back in the early nineties. It is actually one of three songs that play back to back on most albums. Those three songs are, if memory serves,
"chop, chop, chop", "Gail" and "Roses on White Lace". I never really appreciated the other two quite as much as this one, but then I have
never hacked anyone to death, so check back later...
This song stands alone as being pretty cool just because it states the anger that I was having at the time (back in the '90s). At the same
time, it illustrates that Marilyn Manson is following the course of another very successful rocker. While Cooper's songs were not earth-shaking, they were provocative. That single fact
is what has led to Manson's success. I have never heard or read Marilyn Manson say that Alice Cooper was an actual influence on his
music, but here is an example of it from twenty years ago.
Obligatory Linkage: BlackChampagne.com- Without his site, my site would never have existed.
Yeti Sports-
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A screwy work schedule and some other miscellaneous personal stuff has kept me from wrting anything here for the last few days.
A quick look at my site statistics shows that both of my readers already know that, so let us assume that I added this last bit of information for later reference, like
when I am an extremely successful professional selling my system for a "low, low, price" on obscure tv channels in the dead of the night/morning. At which point someone might want to buzz through the
old archives to see what I had said in the past. However unlikely, I am going to go with that, so sue me.
• Work sucks, as usual. Life sucks, as usual. Possibly the reason that I have not felt compelled to type about it here is that it is all the norm.
Were I in a position where work on your average day was enjoyable, you know the type of job that you actually look
forward to going to, hell, even the type of job that you don't contemplate slitting your wrists every morning before you go, maybe if I had that type of a job
I would be able to write a lot of good anecdotes on some days, then bitch on others. Problem is I never have a good day, EVER.
The day in question, that being today, had this as my problem:
The boss then said, "Does it work right now?" A question to which I had to answer YES, since it was working at that moment. He then said, "it is fixed then." That was the
end of the discussion. No matter how many times I tried to bring up the possibility of future problems he would not listen. It was working, therefore nothing was wrong.
Fast forward a couple of years. The part that is in question did completely short out. According to the guy who built a duplicate of the part, some of the wires had gotten so hot that they had fused
together. Now it is possible that either the communications port in the PC is also burnt out (which really isn't that big a deal) or the rs232 port into the cash register is burnt out, that would be a pretty big deal, they don't use your average pc components
on these type of cash registers, and they certainly don't sell just the parts. You have to pay for the part and the installation as a package deal. If it is just a simple PC com port problem I can probably fix it in two minutes for a cost of about a dollar. If it is a problem
in the register itself, the tech can likely fix it in two minutes, for a cost of about 500 dollars. One must keep in mind that these techs are getting paid an hourly wage for the time that they spend in the car on the way over, as well as charging a trip fee, then charging (way too much)
for the replacement part and installation. It is practically extortion.
There still is the possibility that only the data cable got fried in the process so I will reserve judgement for a later date. I will just bring up the key points once again. 1) I told them that this part needed to be replaced or there might be future problems.
2) Once the thing was working again, even though a part was broken, I was told it was fixed, not to waste my time on it. 3) Now that it has come to be that something did definitely go wrong with the system, and all signs point to a short in the device that I told them to replace
a couple of years ago. 4) It is all my fault for not fixing it in the first place.
• So I have been playing a lot more of the damn Yeti Game of late. The major reason for this was the addition of the
Yeti Pentathalon. Yes, you have to do all five of the Yeti sports in succession. I assumed that this would make it so that one runaway high score wouldn't lead the world, since that score would have
to be factored in with the scores of the four other events. This has held mostly true so far, though there are a couple of scores that just seem a bit too high to have been achieved in a single session
by a single person. Still I must assume that it is all legit.
The problem is that I never really thought about the possibility that the opposite would be true. That is, I never have a good game in all five events. On the occasions when I really kick ass in one event
I will invariably bomb in another. Thus I am just as likely to make it to the leaderboard if I try to play one and hope for a great game as I am if I try to do all the events and pray for pretty good games.
Which all amounts to a hill of 1's and 0's when you think about it. I am not going to get an award if I reach the leaderboard, well, unless you count the fact that I will think that wasting fifty or more hours of my life to see my
initials on a leaderboard is an award. My god, now I remember why I gave up Asteroids.
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