How come famous people on Twitter can ask OTHER famous people on Twitter questions and get answers, but I can't? I know it shouldn't, but that bothers me.

Also, great work on inventing Dazzler.  I'm sure Marvel appreciates the love.

Yes Heroes, because what we really need is to do is reexamine the same old characters again in a new light AGAIN. Oh and PLEASE more Madeline Zima, because she's not the MOST ANNOYING actress i've ever seen with her stupid face and her stupid voice.

So i'm watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. The crew is on another ship that has been badly damaged.  LaForge is examining a damaged console that also happens to be ON FIRE!  For whatever reason Riker and he casually discuss damage control options and i'm wondering WHAT ABOUT THE FIRE?!  I guess in the future, Fire is much less dangerous.

Apparently economic tough times have hit the burgeoning plastic silverware industry because the new Plastic Spoons I bought are a full inch shorter than the ones I used previously. I suppose the upside is I feel like I have HUGE HANDS whenever I use them, and you know what they say about that.

So today is the 57th Anniversary of the Barcode. So Google changed its "Google Doodle" to be a barcode. So of course, everyone wants to scan it in to see what it says.

Fortunately for me I have a laptop with a barcode scanner. So I'm pointing it at the screen of my LCD to scan it in:

Fail.

Try again.

Fail.

Try again.

Fail.

Frustrated i'm like "HOW CAN I GET THIS TO WORK". When it occurs to me, FAR later than it should.

PRINT OUT THE PAGE DUMMY!

FYI the Google Barcode says:

]C0Google

Dear Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright,
 
Couldn't you have just told the Stargate Universe Pilot story in Chronological order so my girlfriend who has never watched any Stargate before would have some clue as to what the fuck is going on?  Trying to get her to watch the pilot was hard enough without having her say "i'm confused" within the first 10 minutes!  Way to pick up new viewers.

In the future you should not:

Send Ominous emails to your rapid rewards customers telling them that TSA Changes to their Rapid Rewards accounts are REQUIRED

Then:

Provide error messages when your Online system suddenly receives thousands of hits that say "Your account is currently unavailable: Please contact Southwest Airlines for assistance."

Then:

Have 40 minute to 1 hour and 2 minute hold times.

Despite being told MULTIPLE TIMES by MULTIPLE PEOPLE at MULTIPLE numbers this morning that NO ROOMS were available at ANY RATE for Dragon*con 2010 at the Marriott Marquis, Rooms ARE in fact available at the full rate, and I now have one.  Thank you to the Director of Rooms Operations at the Marriott Marquis for the assist.

Timeline of events:
Sept 4th, 2009: Asked Marriott about renting a room for Dragon*con 2010. Was told rooms would be
available for booking for Sept 2nd thru the 6th on October 1st, 2009 at 8am.

Sept 9th, 2009: During a conversation with Nicole Seon regarding some issues with my room, I
reconfirmed that booking would be available October 1st, 2009 at 8am.

Sept 30th, 2009: Called Marriott Marquis Atlanta (404-521-0000) to verify that booking would be
available October 1st, at 8am I was told it would. When I inquired as to what Number to call to make
reservations I was told to call 404-521-0000.

October 1st.

At 7am Nashville time (8am Atlanta time.) 404-521-0000 was going directly to the voice mailbox of
“George Georgis”. Tried again, same result

7:02 am: Called 1-800-627-7468. I waited on hold for fivr minutes. I attempted to make a reservation
and was told that Dragon*con reservations can only be made DIRECTLY from the Marriott Marquis
Atlanta. I explained that I couldn’t get thru to them directly and asked if she could transfer me. She
said she could not and that I had to call them directly.

7:11 am: Called 404-521-0000. I was transferred directly to the voice mailbox of George Georgis.

7:11 am: Called 1-800-627-7468. I waited on hold for five minutes. Explained the situation, was told that
all reservations for Dragon*con were to be made thru the “Passkey” number. I was given the number
506-474-2009.

7:18 am: Try 404-521-0000 again. I was transferred directly to the voice mailbox of George Georgis.

7:18 am: Try 506-474-2009. Number is busy.

7:18 am: Try 404-521-0000 again. I was transferred directly to the voice mailbox of George Georgis.

7:19 am: Call 1-800-627-7468. I was on hold for Ten minutes. I explained the situation and was directed
to Customer Care. Customer Care informed me that the proper number for Passkey is 1-800-266-9432.

7:32 am: Called 1-800-266-9432. I waited on hold for eighteen minutes. When I spoke to a
representative, I was told that Sept 2nd 2010 was sold out but I could book Sept 3rd – 5th. During the
BOOKING process additional rooms became unavailable making it impossible to complete my
reservation. The Con rate requires a 3 night stay but during the conversation both Friday and Saturday
became unavailable. I discussed my options with the representative and was told that I should speak
to Customer care again. Transferred to customer care and explained the situation. Customer care said
they would contact the hotel directly. During this process I was disconnected from the agent.

8:18 am: Called 404-521-0000. Agent answers and informs me that all rooms are booked up and
absolutely nothing is available at any price.

8:22 am: Called Customer Care. Was told the same thing. No Rooms available, No rooms would
become available between now at Sept 2nd 2010. Hotel is completely booked.

What I want to know is why in none of my conversations prior to this was this Passkey number
mentioned? And why didn’t anyone at the 800 number know about it? Why did the Marriott Marquis
main desk number go to this George Georgis person? Why not just have a message clearly stating that
the number I should have been calling was 1-800-266-9432?
Better still was learning that people were just going directly to the website and booking a room while
I’m wasting all of this precious time on the phone!

you suck.. along with whomever jorge georgis is, and your fucked up reservations system.  i even called yesterday to verify.  you can shove passkey right up your fucking bottom for keeping it a secret until this morning

The Enzyte commercial says Enzyte is now offering a free t-shirt with purchase.. Because yeah, you want to let everyone know you A) Needed Enzyte and B) Were dumb enough to use it thinking it would work.

It appears very likely that Livejournal has finally jumped the shark.

So this weekend was my first big weekened with big crowds that I had my iPhone with me, and I have to say, what a disappointment. Oh sure, I was able to get it to do the things I wanted to do, MOST of the time. I'm not knocking them for having it not work when I was in the basement of a building. But come on!

The best/worst example of this was in the line at Starbucks. I was in line and updating Facebook, I literally (and I mean literally) I took two steps, and it dropped from the network.



At this same time I was able to observe Tonya on her Verizon Blackberry.. The entire weekend, not counting times she was in the basement of a building, she was only unable to access her data network ONCE.

So my question to AT&T is, how can you not be completely ashamed of yourself when I observe a competitor and find their service to be better? If you don't improve your data service you are certainly going to find a lot of people thrilled to find another data network just as soon as you lose iPhone exclusivity.

The age-old controversy revisited.

Dear Systech International.  If you want to have a REAL FAQ page for your Emissions Testing Centers, you could include somewhere on that page, in addition to the fee, if you take Credit Cards or not.  That way, you won't have to sound all exasperated when people call you up to ask you "Do you take credit cards?".  That is an FAQ, and that's why it goes on the FAQ page.

"No way! Magnetic Rocks?" - Shawn, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

This speaks poorly of our current education system. Does Shawn think that magnets are man made?