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Netflix you should be ashamed of yourself

  • Jul. 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Me3
Netflix, you should be ashamed of yourself. Ashamed because I have been paying you happily since 2001. Ashamed that I paid when you raised the rates for Blu-Ray the first time.. Ashamed that I once again paid when you raised them A SECOND TIME. Ashamed because since Ghostbusters came on on Blu-Ray on June 16th I have had it in my queue and the availability has been "Long Wait". Ashamed because I JUST WALKED INTO A BLOCKBUSTER AND RENTED IT NO PROBLEM.

Well, SOMEONE at Comcast cares..

  • Jul. 1st, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Me3
Wednesday July 1st, Comcast Cares contacts me regarding my issue. Puts me in touch with local representative who is nice enough to explain the problem and give me her contact number if I have anymore issues. Problem, according to her, stems from updates regarding "Copyright Flag" used by the Cablecards. Comcast has sent the flag to prevent what you can transfer off of your TiVo device to products like TiVo 2 Go (Such as TrueBlood and Bill Maher) so that they can no longer be transfered either between TiVos or to a laptop for later viewing. I inqured as to the likelyhood of "Storage limits" being set, which is also a Copyright flag.. This flag would limit the number of DAYS you can store a program, and would be the fastest way Comcast could make me a DirecTV customer. The rep promised to get back with me.

Comfusion

  • Jun. 30th, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Me3
June 30th, 4:30 pm.. Cable is mysteriously working again.. Calls to Comcast lead to no explanation as to why, what happened, or if it will happen again. Technician admits she is as much in the dark as to I am as to what is going in.

Comcast Adventure Continues

  • Jun. 30th, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Me3
June 30th, 12:28. Called Comcast for a status update. Technician felt as though problem should have been resolved. Suggested restarting TiVo. Restarted TiVo. Problem not resolved. Comcast is rolling a Technician to my location on Friday July 3rd. Promises to credit me for 3 days of interrupted cable service.

The adventure continues...

Comcast Timeline of Nincompoopiness

  • Jun. 30th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Me3
Tuesday June 23rd - Awake to discover that cablecards are stuck on the Paring screen. Call to Comcast requres resetting all 4 cablecards. Problem is resolved

Thursday June 26th - Discover Comedy Central, Bravo, and several other channels are not being recieved. Calls to Comcast meet confused answers such as "just wait and it will come back" and "There is a problem at the headend". Comedy Central remains off for almost 10 hours before returning

Tuesday June 30th - Several more channels, such as HBOHD and DiscoveryHD mysteriously go missing. Comcast says Cablecards need to be reset again, but reset does nothing. Customer Care rep takes Cablecard info AGAIN, says they will call back at 8AM. 9:30AM. I call Comcast to find out what is going on. Comcast states that "Cablecard Engineers" are "working on the problem".

To Be Continued.

Har Har

  • Jun. 29th, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Me3
Oxygen's new weight loss show is called "Dancing Your Ass Off" Har Har.. Youtube offers to let you "Watch in Widescreen".. Oh the jokes just keep coming.

Yes, I'm complaining again

  • Jun. 22nd, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Me3
My letter to the Starbucks District Manager Te'sh (thats what is on the business card):

Dear Te’sh,

 

I am a frequent drive thru customer of the 3005 West End Ave Starbucks and am confused by a recent decision this store has made.  Until recently there was a Trash Can that was accessible to the drive thru customers.  Without warning one day, it had been moved away from the Drive Thru area and was no longer accessible. A few days later the “Scoop” portion had been removed to make it look like a normal trash can.  When I inquired to the staff as to why this was, the answers I received ranged from “I don’t know” to “It was being used too much”.  I’m no expert, but to me isn’t the very point of a trash can for drive thru customers be that it IS used?  Now I try my hardest not to generate a lot of trash when I solicit the drive thru by never asking for a receipt, but generally I get a Frappuccino, which at the very least will generate that left over paper from the straw.  I usually get looks of incredulity when I ask the staff to throw these away, but they always exceed to my wishes.  Is there any possible way that this trash can might be returned to its former position of glory with access for drive thru customers?  It would certainly make me happy and somehow I doubt I’m the only one.

  

Jun. 1st, 2009

  • 2:41 PM
Me3
Dear Canada,

I didn't want to visit you anyway, so you can shove your passport requirement right up your boot.

Subsidized

  • Jun. 1st, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Me3
I guess GM now stands for Government Motors?

May. 29th, 2009

  • 8:51 AM
Me3
Dear BBC America,

Its cool that you have your stuff on xbox live now, because there is some really great Doctor Who on there, but REALLY? you make people pay 160 spacebucks for EACH PART of a Jon Pertwee Doctor Who episode? Some of those things are 8 or 10 episodes long! do you really thing someone is going to pay 1600 spacebucks (roughly 19 dollars) to pay per view Doctor Who?

Oscar Winner

  • May. 28th, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Me3
Matthew Lillard in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege tale.  The role he was born to play.  A performance so subtle and nuanced that a hammer and chisel could take lessons

Notflix

  • May. 26th, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Me3
I think netflix is up to some shenanagains with this Blu-Ray Availablity business. If the expected availabilty of four new movies is "Now" why did they skip over ALL FOUR of them to send me three movies that I don't want. Its called a QUEUE, not a "Random list of movies from Netflix to pick from"

*Edit:

Netflix just sent me this:

Dear David,

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan: Disc 1 was not available from your local shipping center. Fortunately, it was available from a shipping center in another part of the country. It's on its way and should arrive within 3 to 5 days.

You'll notice we also recently sent the next available DVD from your Queue to enjoy while Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan: Disc 1 makes its way to you.

Your Queue now shows this extra DVD rental. Enjoy.

So I guess they made good!

duh

  • May. 21st, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Me3
Yes dummy, the reason your PC is so loud is because you blocked the vent with a box of tissue paper.

Really Mac? No annoying updates?

  • May. 19th, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Me3

Really Mac? No annoying updates?, originally uploaded by sudrin.

The most recent disingenuous "Mac vs PC" Commercial inspired me to post this in an effort to debunk the "Macs need no updates like those pesky PCs do"

Sighville

  • May. 14th, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Me3
Really? That brooding 47 minute pile of shit was the Smallville Season Finale? That was how they brought all the events of this season together?.

ExTREEme

  • May. 10th, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Me3

IMG_4440, originally uploaded by sudrin.

InTREEgingly the Tree in front of my Apartment decided to fall down today.

When Kingons attack

  • May. 8th, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Star Trek, Enterprise
I hate to admit it, but the KINGON ads kind of amuse me:

Kingons from Burger King

Ruination

  • May. 5th, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Me3

I have to say it this year, as I do every year:

They're ruining Cinco De Mayo.
 
;)

May. 4th, 2009

  • 12:21 PM
Me3
Dear Clearwire.

I'm not interested, you can stop sending me hundreds of pieces of Junk Mail a month.

*I hope this post isn't too hip for anyone, or offensive any Clearwire employees who may feel i'm taking food out of the mouths of their family members.

May. 2nd, 2009

  • 4:17 PM
Me3
Do deaf people really have such an identity with deafness that they would turn down the ability to hear? It seems like a huge gimmicky hollywood thing and it annoys me