This article was published on Boston.com today. It hit several other news outlets as well and was forwarded to us by a couple of friends. As you can imagine, the general feeling was, “Don’t ever let Geoff go there now that this is law.”
Tag: inconsiderate jerks
We make the news for the most interesting reasons
Local people will probably see this on the news. Before you read on, Geoff was there but was not involved. He’s fine, he was just interviewed for the article.
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Looks like I will have no phone for a while
Well, as Kelly mentioned yesterday, I lost my phone. I am still not entirely sure if it was accidentally dropped and some random person picked it up or if it was actually stolen, but I did file a report with the Boston Police Department. The security software I installed was working properly, as we were able to keep the person who got it from using it. Plus we were able to track it, which was somewhat helpful but also a little annoying. Tracking does not help if the updates are only every five minutes (or otherwise intermittent) and if you are in a very crowded area (which I was). So even though there were times I was literally within 25 yards of it, maybe 10 yards, I could not find it or the person who had it. And the BPD were just not that interested in helping me recover it, which is just annoying. At any rate the battery is probably run down now and I doubt I am getting it back. So until I can get a new phone for next to nothing (June 9th at the earliest) I will have no cell phone. So please don’t call it.
– Geoff
Why we don’t have Facebook- part the second
Or Twitter for that matter.
This popped up on Boston.com today and horrified us both. This is why we have an open and public blog. If you want to know anything about us it is right here.
Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords
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Dear Phillies fans in the family,
You are forthwith forbidden from mentioning Papelbon to us.
Commerce on the Intertubes
Buying things off the Internet can be fun and economical. It can also be infuriating, frustrating, maddening, and make you want to throw furniture.
Compare and contrast, plus a heads up
It is astonishing the difference in customer service between Verizon and DirecTV. Lately we have been the victims of all sorts of technology failures: we have poor cell reception in our house; the DirecTV connection in our living room stopped working; my primary desktop PC is dying a slow death; and of course our Internet connection has been both slow and intermittent. The tech that came by yesterday was able to diagnose what was wrong with the DirecTV connection in our living room pretty quickly based on what I told him about the differences in signal strength between the two boxes. Imagine that. He actually listened to what I was saying. So he quickly found and fixed the problem (the jack in the wall had gone bad) and now we (meaning Kelly especially) can watch TV in the living room again.
Of course, the Internet connectivity problem continues to plague us.
Never mess with dog lovers
I guess I should amend that to, “Never mess with animal lovers.” For me it is a more accurate statement as I am neither a dog nor cat person but an animal person. But, it was the dog lovers who got Michael Vick sent to jail and fired by the Atlanta Falcons. Now he’s consigned to the Philadelphia Eagles, my least favorite football team. Is he still making money? Sure. But is he being watched like a hawk? Absolutely.
Also, dogs can tear him apart whenever they like.
Adele 6, Karl Lagerfeld 0
I first head Adele sing some years ago on SNL. I am old now and am not often up to watch SNL but that night for some reason I was.
I was blown away.
Thank you, Verizon, for proving my point
Today we lost our Internet connection yet again. It was off for at least nine hours until I got on the phone late this afternoon and managed to get them to fix it. I did not get any explanation worth a damn as to why it was no longer reliable, and I knew that it would go out yet again. So earlier tonight I tried using the online tech help assistance chat thingie since a few people had said they had better luck with that than on the phone. And the online tech apparently did not hear a damn thing I said. I am so not shocked. I tried to explain that the problem wasn’t that I didn’t have an Internet connection right that second, but that it was intermittent. Of all the techs we have dealt with, in person or on the phone or online, we have had only one who actually understood that. And so this time I tried to explain, and even let the tech connect to me remotely. Her response was to essentially play with my wireless connection. She disconnected it and then reconnected it, and was like “yay, your problem is solved!” Um, no, it wasn’t. I tried to say that it was only a matter of time until I lost my connection again, and it was like I was speaking a language she couldn’t understand. Like say, English. I thanked her for her time and then disconnected her. And so for a little while longer we had Internet access.
And then the Internet went out again for another three hours. It came back on within the past half hour.
Time to switch. And I am still so angry I am thinking about asking for a refund.
-Geoff
The Books are Taking Over... 