I HATE POLITICS!!!

Dear Timothy Garrison, Pursuant to section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission require PayPal Funds to obtain, verify, and record the following information for each investor in the PayPal Money Market Fund: - Name - Address - Date of Birth (for individuals) - Tax Identification number (Social Security number for individuals, or employer identification number for businesses) As of February 27, 2005, PayPal will begin collecting date of birth information (for individuals only) for all existing investors in the fund who made their initial investment after October 1, 2003. This is required by Federal regulation, and is in addition to investor information (i.e., name, address and tax identification number), that has been previously collected, verified and stored for all investors in the PayPal Money Market Fund. If you consent to PayPal obtaining, verifying and storing your date of birth information, you do not need to take any action, and you do not need to contact PayPal. If you do not wish for PayPal to obtain, verify, and store your date of birth, you must redeem your investment in the fund and close your PayPal Money Market Fund account no later than February 26, 2005. To do that you must: - Log in to your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/ - From the PayPal website, click the "Money Market" link at the bottom of the page - The last sentence on the page reads, "If you wish to close your Money Market Account, please click here." Click the word "here" - Choose "Close Money Market" to close account - You will receive a message that you have closed your Money Market Fund Account successfully If you prefer to furnish PayPal with your date of birth information yourself, you must close your current Money Market account per the instructions above, and then sign up for a new Money Market account. To do that, you must: - Log in to your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/ - From the PayPal website, click the "Money Market" link at bottom of the page - From the Money Market page, click on the "Start Earning a Return Today" link at the bottom of the page Sincerely, PayPal

I'm trying to decide if I want to cancel it or succumb to the Patriot Act.

If you have a Paypal Money Market account, you might be a redne... er... terrorist.

There’s something in the way she explains to me Please be careful, I exist in someone else’s head Oh, no There’s something in the way that she makes believe Please be careful, Annie dreams that everyone is dead

Our Lady Peace - Annie

Dad and I had to run to Lafayette today, which is about an hour trip south. When we got just north of Lafayette on the Interstate, I got stuck behind some dude pulling a tree chipper. The chipper had no license plate on it, and from what I could tell at the time, neither did the truck.

After about 30 seconds of idling around 40mph in this 65mph zone, I saw something about the size of an egg thrown up in the air from his back left wheel. Since I had traffic on my tail and to my left, I had no choice but to keep going the same speed in that lane. Needless to say, the egg-sized object landed on my windshield, just below where the mirror mounts on, and now I have a pretty nice "bullseye" crack that is just asking to spider out across the windshield.

After the traffic around me got past, I pulled up beside the truck to confirm the lack of license plates, and to find there was absolutely no marking at all. Further inspection showed that the guy was not very friendly looking and would be stereotyped as a hot-headed redneck.

My windshield already had a crack on it that ran from side to side, but it was down below eye-level and didn't cause any problems. This new crack is going to spider out and be right in the face of both the driver and the passenger. I know from previous investigation that a new windshield would be about $150 installed. Now I just need to get the money around and get the stupid thing replaced.

The Windshield The Rock

So just as a random though, I threw my Gran Turismo disk in my computer. I ran a cat somefile.vol | strings | less on it, and the first line of the output said, "encoded by TMPGEnc b12c".

So I go to one of the forums that I'm a member of, and I see something that pisses me off...

A while back, one of the users on that forum was stupid enough to take my sarcastic advice and actually do it, resulting in him exposing the inner tissues of his mouth to extremely harmful chemicals. In order to protect myself, I created a disclaimer and placed it in my signiture on the forum.

A while after I did this, that user decided to copy me and create a disclaimer in his signiture. Frustrated, I replaced my signiture with a URL for this site.

Today, I see that yet another user has taken it upon themself to create a disclaimer in their signiture.

Coincedence? Yes, I know I spelled that word way wrong. No, it is not a coinscedents (I did that intentionally). This user has been doing the same thing to other users, "stealing" avatars and the like.

I have no problem with people respecting me, but when it gets to the point that they're trying to be JUST LIKE ME, it gets really annoying and aggravating.

I am not your bitching post.

Email Message To: rauu@skudd.com From: service@snapfish.com Date: 1/25/2005 8:19 AM Subject: Welcome to Snapfish!

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Hi T, Welcome to Snapfish! We hope that you enjoyed viewing your friend's photos which have been saved to your own free, online account. You can return to see them at any time as well as to order prints for yourself. Plus you can start uploading your own digital photos, sharing them with friends and family, and ordering prints.

1) I've never even heard of Snapbadger before 2) I have no reason to sign up on a site to look at someone's pictures 3) Who the heck is using @skudd.com for registering on sites?!

So I got the printer set up today, working with Samba.

It was a pain in the groin, but I was FINALLY able to get it all to work the way it's supposed to. It all boiled down to un-commenting some lines in the /etc/cups/mime.convs and /etc/cups/mime.types relating to application/octet-stream. I found the Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO - Sharing Printers With Windows PCs page to be of much help.

The thing that still bothers me is that the lights keep flickering, as if the printer is shorting out inside or something. I guess I should probably keep a fire extinguisher here in my room, just in case it decides to burst into flames.

So today I had to print out a 150+ page document for a project I'm working on. I went through the process as I normally would: Open the document in Adobe Acrobat, click File->Print, set my printer properties, click "Print", go to the bathroom, get something to drink, then go tend to the printer.

When I got done getting my drink, I noticed that the printer wasn't printing, and that the "On line" light was flashing. Not really puting much thought into it, I filled the paper tray again and waited for it to resume printing... It didn't.

By the time I got back to my computer, Acrobat had an error dialog saying "Printing failed". My first instinct was to restart the print job where it had left off, and the error popped up again. I went to the printer to see what the deal was, and it had printed an error message:

PCL6 ERROR - pstCoreSet->uw_page_copies < 1000
    POSITION : 0x2737959 (41122137)
    SYSTEM   : WSIP/xl_op
    LINE     : 125
    VERSION  : QPDL 1.14 09-28-2002

So, I did what any normal person would: I turned the printer off then back on. When I did this, Windows didn't find it again. Frustrated, I brought the printer to my room and attempted to install it on my computer with the same results. I took it back to the other room and plugged it back into Mom's computer, and Windows detected it as an "Unknown USB Device".

At this point, my frustration was up to 124%, so I brought the thing back to my room and plugged it into my development server (Linux), ran kudzu, and it worked right away. One thing I noticed though, was that while the thing was sitting idle, the lights in my room were flickering.

After I got my document printing, the printer started doing as all laser printers do just before they croak...

It would print a page, cool down, wait a few seconds, warm up, repeat.

So yes, I am VERY pissed at my $200+ laser printer that is now listed by the manufacturer as discontinued. I now have to figure out how in the heck I'm going to be able to afford a new laser printer.

Mom sent me an email this morning telling me that Cleatus, my dog, ate a dishtowel and was vomiting all over the kitchen.

Dad called me earlier today to let me know that he wasn't really doing any better, and that they had called the vet.

Mom just called me and said that Cleatus still isn't doing any better, and that the vet hasn't returned the call yet.

I get so sick of the irresponsibility around the house when it comes to the pets. If I'm the one to do the taking care of, then they do allright, but as soon as I leave, all Hell breaks loose. I would like to know how he got a dishtowel in the first place. I left for the weekend, so it's kinda not my responsibility to check the kitchen counters and floor before I go to bed.

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Edit: Subtotal: $242.01

Which File Extension are You?

You are Patsy, loyal squire. Your main job is to
hang around the King and make sound effects
since the budget doesn't allow for REAL
props...

Which Monty Python & the Holy Grail Character are you REALLY?
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Blast you people for forcing me to do these things... BLAST, I say.

So I just watched a program on the National Geographic channel about the Apollo program, and how the conspiracies are all rubbish.

I give them credit for trying to make valid arguments and comparisons, but give me a friggin' break; they were blatently wrong on 95% of what they said.

I am going to use some very basic graphics that I have created with some 3D graphic software to prove my point to you.

Two identical images on smooth terrain, single light source behind the "camera", casting identical PARALLEL shadows. On the program I watched, the idiot said the shadows, similar to these, were perpendicular!

Almost the same identical scene, only introducing a second light source. Now, we see that there are indeed perpendicular shadows, converging at the point of origin, otherwise known as the object casting them.

Same as the first image, only a rough terrain on which the shadows are cast. The argument was that the terrain will cause the shadows to be land in various directions, thus, appearing as though they are perpendicular to each other. WRONG!

There are many other points that I could discuss about the entire subject, but for crying out loud, do NOT try to tell me that 2 shadows are perpendicular when they are in fact parallel!!!