Random thing you loathe right now.

I loathe the fact that a co-worker across the wall thinks it's okay to fly a radio-controlled helicopter 3 or 4 times a day. It's loud and sounds like a dentist's drill. Seriously considering buying foam missiles to shoot it down.

Gravey wrote:

Honest and not-snarky question (ignore my sig): do you still have a cellphone? If not, what will do you in a power outage/emergency? Do you have a regular old phone, or a cellphone to make 911 calls?

I live in apartment complex downtown, so in an emergency, I can either get my roommate or a neighbor to call 911. Also, I have no dependents, so I'm not super concerned.

I probably will get the cheapest possible pre-paid phone I can find to keep in my bag powered off for an emergency 911 phone call on the go. I can't imagine that costing more than 30 bucks or so.

When you're single without dependents it's surprisingly easy to get rid of mobile service. Throw in a partner or dependents, and it's a different story. That's one huge reason why phone companies can take such horrible advantage of people.

DSGamer wrote:

I loathe the fact that a co-worker across the wall thinks it's okay to fly a radio-controlled helicopter 3 or 4 times a day. It's loud and sounds like a dentist's drill. Seriously considering buying foam missiles to shoot it down.

If you buy a motion sensor USB foam missle launcher please do the GWJ community a favour and film the helicopter going down.

Bonnonon wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

I loathe the fact that a co-worker across the wall thinks it's okay to fly a radio-controlled helicopter 3 or 4 times a day. It's loud and sounds like a dentist's drill. Seriously considering buying foam missiles to shoot it down.

If you buy a motion sensor USB foam missle launcher please do the GWJ community a favour and film the helicopter going down.

Someone start a ChipIn for this.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Honest and not-snarky question (ignore my sig): do you still have a cellphone? If not, what will do you in a power outage/emergency? Do you have a regular old phone, or a cellphone to make 911 calls?

I live in apartment complex downtown, so in an emergency, I can either get my roommate or a neighbor to call 911. Also, I have no dependents, so I'm not super concerned.

I probably will get the cheapest possible pre-paid phone I can find to keep in my bag powered off for an emergency 911 phone call on the go. I can't imagine that costing more than 30 bucks or so.

I just want to make sure you don't get stuck in a tight spot without being able to call for help! /tapping into my inner mother

Gravey wrote:

I just want to make sure you don't get stuck in a tight spot without being able to call for help! /tapping into my inner mother

Gravey wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Honest and not-snarky question (ignore my sig): do you still have a cellphone? If not, what will do you in a power outage/emergency? Do you have a regular old phone, or a cellphone to make 911 calls?

I live in apartment complex downtown, so in an emergency, I can either get my roommate or a neighbor to call 911. Also, I have no dependents, so I'm not super concerned.

I probably will get the cheapest possible pre-paid phone I can find to keep in my bag powered off for an emergency 911 phone call on the go. I can't imagine that costing more than 30 bucks or so.

I just want to make sure you don't get stuck in a tight spot without being able to call for help! /tapping into my inner mother

I ran into this with a coworker of mine, and Comcast has a system for allowing calls even if the power is off all the rest of the equipment, just like the old POTS lines. You should call their customer service and make sure it's set up correctly for you.

momgamer wrote:
Gravey wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Honest and not-snarky question (ignore my sig): do you still have a cellphone? If not, what will do you in a power outage/emergency? Do you have a regular old phone, or a cellphone to make 911 calls?

I live in apartment complex downtown, so in an emergency, I can either get my roommate or a neighbor to call 911. Also, I have no dependents, so I'm not super concerned.

I probably will get the cheapest possible pre-paid phone I can find to keep in my bag powered off for an emergency 911 phone call on the go. I can't imagine that costing more than 30 bucks or so.

I just want to make sure you don't get stuck in a tight spot without being able to call for help! /tapping into my inner mother

I ran into this with a coworker of mine, and Comcast has a system for allowing calls even if the power is off all the rest of the equipment, just like the old POTS lines. You should call their customer service and make sure it's set up correctly for you.

And aren't cell phones required to allow you to make emergency calls even if you don't have a plan? Or what is that "emergency calls" button on my lock screen for?

The TSI Twitter CS guy who told me that a Motorola SB6121 modem was compatible with their plans. Of course, when I go to their website to sign up, it does not list that model.

Waiting on a response from them to find out the situation.

clover wrote:
Bonnonon wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

I loathe the fact that a co-worker across the wall thinks it's okay to fly a radio-controlled helicopter 3 or 4 times a day. It's loud and sounds like a dentist's drill. Seriously considering buying foam missiles to shoot it down.

If you buy a motion sensor USB foam missle launcher please do the GWJ community a favour and film the helicopter going down.

Someone start a ChipIn for this.

+1, then get Boogle to document the escalation of the arms race.

The damn bushy-tailed tree rats have decided that my attic is a great place to live. I heard the little bastards chewing their way in through a vent on the roof this morning, and my wife heard them running around up there this afternoon.

The Hobbit movie - looked fake and terrible, the fighting was uninspired, the cgi had no weight to it, and the dwarves looked like shrunken people. Worst part is that people seem to love it, so we'll get more equally boring crap movies. Common people, have some standards!

Strangeblades wrote:
Demyx wrote:

Flying to Florida to visit family.

Hello Owner-Of-Cute-Avatar.

Are you going to Florida for family emergency? No? Are you going to 'celebrate' the holidays? Yes? Then don't go.

I'm gonna stick my nose in yer bees-wax here. For me if family doesn't make me happy, I drop 'em. Family members have to earn my respect and affection.

That is all.

Sorry, uh, because I'm Canadian.

Too late, I'm already here. Doesn't mean it's not good advice though! Maybe next year.

mudbunny wrote:

The TSI Twitter CS guy who told me that a Motorola SB6121 modem was compatible with their plans. Of course, when I go to their website to sign up, it does not list that model.

Waiting on a response from them to find out the situation.

There are numerous customers using that model on their system right now. I know this for a fact.

My loathe today is that because I'm burnt out and my brain is mush, I completely forgot today was out office Christmas breakfast where we all meet and have breakfast at a nice place in Stittsville on the company's dime. I roll in to the office at my normal time this morning and wonder where all the cars are and why the door's locked and the alarm's set. I text my boss to find out and remembered right after I sent it. I am so done with this week, Hell this damn month.

Rezzy wrote:
edosan wrote:

The bad side -- the stuff I wrap for her looks terrible by comparison.

I am thankful for paper grocery bags and duct-tape. If you can't make it look nice, at least make it damn near impenetrable. Do that for a year or two and then you can probably get away with those gift-bags with some tissue paper stuffed in on top.

This is awesome.

My usual MO is to wrap the box in a roll of wrapping paper and large amount of packing tape to secure it. Now you have both a wrapped present and the entertainment of watching someone try to open it.

In addition to this morning's crap, I found out that tomorrow (which is the last day before our Christmas break), I might have to drive across town drive (once in rush hour) during a massive blizzard in order to facilitate something that was supposed to be done today and which could also easily wait until after the break. Nothing like putting myself in dangerous circumstances because of someone else's poor planning.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

The TSI Twitter CS guy who told me that a Motorola SB6121 modem was compatible with their plans. Of course, when I go to their website to sign up, it does not list that model.

Waiting on a response from them to find out the situation.

There are numerous customers using that model on their system right now. I know this for a fact.

Apparently, it is only compatible in Ontario. I live in Quebec. I really hope I am not out $100, as my father-in-law bought it in Florida.

Edit - Just got my response from TekSavvy:

No problem, we again apologize for the inconvenience, as suggested I would either attempt to return it or sell it on kijiji or sites such as that and you may even get more than you paid for it. Unfortunately that would be the best suggestion we could provide.

So annoyed right now.

If I were you, I'd tweet your experience to the various TSI executives that are on there. @TSI_Marc is the CEO and he takes stuff like this seriously. I doubt he'll be able to get you any compensation but he'll ensure it's beaten into the reps that you can't use those modems in Quebec. I feel bad cause I told you to get that modem. I just assumed they were used on the Quebec side.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

If I were you, I'd tweet your experience to the various TSI executives that are on there. @TSI_Marc is the CEO and he takes stuff like this seriously. I doubt he'll be able to get you any compensation but he'll ensure it's beaten into the reps that you can't use those modems in Quebec. I feel bad cause I told you to get that modem. I just assumed they were used on the Quebec side. :(

I also got confirmation from a TSI CS guy that I could use that modem. The list I provided and asked "which one" was a list I got from TSI when I asked them what DOCSIS 3.0 modems could I use, as they didn't list any on their 8MBit option.

I tweeted at @TSI_Marc, suggesting that he look into retraining the CS reps.

I have a couple of clients and co-workers in Ontario that I'm trying to convince to dump Bell/Rogers and go to TSI. If any of them bite soon, I'll see if you still have the modem and maybe you can sell it to them.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

I have a couple of clients and co-workers in Ontario that I'm trying to convince to dump Bell/Rogers and go to TSI. If any of them bite soon, I'll see if you still have the modem and maybe you can sell it to them.

No need.

Just got off the phone with TSI, and they are coming through big time.

I sign up (by phone) and give them the info for the modem I have. Then, I DM the CS guy my customer ID, and he will mail me a modem, on them, and I will mail them back the modem I purchased.

It was the screen shot of the tweets that did it. CS guy on the phone was, "Yup, we screwed up, and it isn't right that we had asked you to eat the cost of a modem that we said was compatible with the service you wanted." (Paraphrased.)

And that's why TekSavvy is the ISP the big guys only wish they could be. Nice to hear that worked out.

I would have been happy with an apology and a "you jump to the head of the line for installation appointment".

People who write their emoticons backwards.

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Tanglebones wrote:

People who write their emoticons backwards.

It's the only way you can make the stroke emoticon. /;

It's ok, I hate me, too.

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