screw you brighthouse

once again my computer wants to update and my virus software wants to update and sure enough, brighthouse decided i can't use the service i pay way too much for... so the computer will not sleep because it keeps trying to connect to the internet to update itself and so it distracted me enough to stay awake and complain about the crappy way too over-priced service brighthouse provides it i was not paying more than $1,800.00 a year to connect to the internet and have tv on in the background i might tolerate it... any of you young enough to remember when tv was free because advertisers paid for it?... now we pay the advertisers to sell us their product... it's like paying taxes on your taxes... but then, that's the american way, greed wins, people lose (except the few greediests who will do anything to take as much as they can cuz that's how you get ahead in this world)... thanks for fucking up the computer for another night, brighthouse... you abuse the word friend, brighthouse...

if only there was an equivolent alternative...

pro sports

typical of why i do not like nba pro basketketball these days... player scores 54 points and is announted as great, but his team loses... same player gets a technical foul which would mean an automatic suspension for one game which would mean he doesn't play the final game of the season which his team needs to win if they wish to make the playoffs and the news media is talking about the league rescinding the technical foul because they already did that for this same player once before this year... when is smells like cheating and manipulation is is cheating and manipulation and while most of the time there is only some obviously biased calls in games at critical moments, this would be a blatant league decision to overrule a referee in order to help one team make the playoffs... bullshit is not sports, it is theatre, scripted like wrestling... so many things are wrong with the nba, the spoiled multi-millionaire thugs so many players either are or portray themselves as and the culture calls them heros, but the scripting may be the worst of it all... i wonder if all the gamblers get inside trading information...

much cooler to see a 21 year old kid set all kinds of records at the masters or any other sport where critical calls by refs and artibtrary decisions off the court by league officials do not determine outcomes... in a team sport, an individual success means nothing if the team loses except to bring solace to the individual... yet in a team sport where sharing the ball is essential to winning, a player who scores a lot does not help his team win, in fact, he hurts his team and he only helps his ego grow... enter san antonio if you do not understand... the talented players come and go, the great teams endure... this rant was brought to you by the national basketball association... rebroadcast in your own words...

narf :)

goodbye google

after finally having enough of google chrome, i switched over to opera... chrome just does not work with blogger (and sometimes not with youtube either) which is odd, since google owns all of those products and companies... apparently google has gotten too big for it's own good and their left hand is not working with their right hand or other parts and they lost a once loyal user... maybe i'll try google products again down the road, but for now, google doesn't work for me...

brighthouse does it again

the on-going saga of horrible brighthouse service continues and continues and continues... i am sitting here watching a movie and suddenly a screen comes on telling me that my set box is downloading new software and twenty minutes later the box is still rebooting and i have no signal and the movie i was watching, who gives a fuck, right friend?... i can see a saturday night live or radio program sketch of a drunk guy calling brighthouse during one of these episodes of blatant disrespect for a customer demanding to know what happened at the end of the movie, but showing up at the brighthouse offices with a shit bomb is more to my liking at the moment as i wasted time again trusting brighthouse to provide the service i pay $130+ a month for... so i wrote them this billing issue complaint:

I was watching a movie and you decided to pull the plug by downloading software in the middle of the movie. I want credit for today deducted from my bill. I pay about $4 a day. Friends do not turn off friends TVs in the middle of a movie.

and it gets worse, as usual... the cable box is now in an error loop and has been for a couple of hours... so i called to set up a service call and it's been an hour with three cut-offs and my friends at brighthouse are still too busy to help provide the service they cut off with their failed attempt to upgrade in the middle of my movie... so once again i am working for brighthouse fixing their crap equipment and crap service because they interrupted their service... after two hours i hung up the phone as they apparently screwed up so many customers tonight they have no 24 hours support reps available... brighthouse has to be one of the most poorly run companies anywhere...

sick of tv sports

the most honest professional sport may be wrestling because it doesn't pretend to have any ethics, integrity, sportsmanship, rules, or fairness... the so-called major sports, multi-billion dollars corporations, are ridiculous examples of a corrupt culture pandering to the lowest common denominator of sleaze... and anyone with any sense in this world laughs at the few moments of self-important talking heads yelling their nonsense as they change the channel or turn the tv off... this culture has become a pathetic parody of a meaningful life where villains are created in order to bring some illusion of unity to a populus torn between apathy and selfishness... we create fifty million dollar athletes just to tear them down for losing control when we pay them to live above the rules... the average human being cheats whenever possible for an advantage over other humans, it's survival of the fittest, get over it... unless you'd really rather make a fool of yourself playing a self-righteous asshole complaining about the very thing you pay people a fortune to do... not your team?... cheaters, of course... your team?... it's called a double standard, which is cheating yourself out of truth, justice, and a meaningful life away from the soap-opera tv wants you to buy...

get the folk from the big bang theory on the case, they'll figure it out...

and probably be more real doing it...

narf! lol :)