So Hugo died again not too long ago. The starter stopped (I will always find that oxymoron amusing). He’s alive now that my dad resurrected it. After two trips to Auto Zone and spending $180 on a new starter.
Basically, it wouldn’t start. Originally thought it was the battery that died, turned out the battery was fine. My dad’s next idea was that it could be the starter. And his way of diagnosing this was hitting the starter with a metal pipe and hammer.
Yes, he tried fixing the starter by smacking it with a pipe and hammer. My friends found that amusing too.
Apparently, if you tap the starter it sometimes helps it start. Smacking it sort of helped, since it almost caught. Unfortunately, the starter was beyond the point of no return and the only way to make my car run again was to get a new one. And that was how my dad fixed my car. By smacking things and spending a lot of money for a replacement.
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Tags: cars
Damn twiggy arms and tiny hands
I’m still alive. Really I am. School is just kicking my ass right now. Moving on.
I really like my hands. They’re small and slender with long fingers. I’ve been told many times that I have the perfect piano hands, and sadly I don’t play piano. However, they make life a little difficult.
I find it a little sad that I can’t hold an XBOX 360 controller properly because my hands are too small. I have to position my right hand at a weird and uncomfortable angle so I can properly push all of the buttons. I can hold Playstation and Nintendo controllers just fine since they’re a little more compact. Or at least the buttons are placed close enough for my fingers to press without resorting to weird hand positioning. As demonstrated here.
Crappy cellphone picture is crappy. Also trying to balance camera phone and the controller was apparently a difficult task for me.
Even if I position my hands the proper way, my right hand will always resume to the position as pictured above. I don’t get it either.
This also makes it difficult to find rings in my size given how small my fingers are. My ring finger is a size 5, which is pretty damn small for an adult. It’s also a not very common size, grrr.
And with tiny hands come puny wrists. Finding a watch that doesn’t look ridiculous on my puny wrist is impossible. Basically, I need a watch with a narrow band and small face. And apparently that is difficult to find. FML!
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Tags: I hate my genes, nonsense
And I want my scalps
Before going on with the review, the trailers for Inglourious Basterds were not what the film was about. In fact, it revealed very little about what the film was about. I was expecting something along the lines of a film about a bunch of vigilantes killing Nazis, which is what the film is about sort of but not entirely.
Obligatory spoiler warning after the cut.
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Tags: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds (2009), Mélanie Laurent, Quentin Tarantino, reviews
Pet peeves, I have many
As if I need more evidence of how neurotic I am. Most of these derived from either my parents or putting up with stupid people.
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Tags: pet peeves, stupid people
I have a Tumblr account now. It’s more of a place that I post stuff I come across that I like, but not really worth just posting a blog entry about it. It also makes a good depository for all of that stuff instead of having it take up hard drive space.
Don’t worry I haven’t abandoned you guys yet… the few people that actually read this anyways.
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Tags: blogging, internet, microblogging, Tumblr
And the Darwin Award goes to
Maybe we should have let evolution take its course and kill off some of the stupid people in society. And I’m talking about extremely dumb people that lack any sort of common sense whatsoever.
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Tags: Darwin Awards, stupid people, work
How to not be rude 101
When working in customer service, rudeness and stupidity is a daily thing. Like the people that don’t get the hint that the store is closing despite dimming the lights and shutting the music and still don’t get the hint to leave.
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Tags: fail, How to Not Fail at Life, nonsense, rants, stupid people, work
How to not be stupid 101
How to not be stupid will be a complicated one, since there are many varieties of dumb. In this course, it will be broken down into the following categories:
- Ignorance
- Lack of common sense/logic
- General closed-mindedness
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How to not be creepy 101
…you’re doing it wrong.
In my attempt to educate the masses (by masses, I mean the few people that read this blog), I will teach you in what I like to call How to Not Fail at Life series. Today’s lesson is how to not be creepy.
- Do not invade a person’s personal bubble if you just met them.
This should be self explanatory. The general rule is a minimum three feet radius. This also includes no touching, unless to shake hands.
- Avoid personal questions if you don’t know the person well.
This includes questions like “Are you from China?” and “Well, what are you then?” Not only is this rude, it makes you look like a complete moron. You also imply in the latter question that you are inquiring whether or not the person is human, and that’s just insulting. The person will then think you as a sub-human barely capable of breathing, let alone be worth their time.
And being that it is 3 AM, that will be the conclusion of the lesson. Good night.
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AT&T is a giant pile of fail
You would think an Apple nerd like me would have an iPhone… especially now that the iPhone 3G is now only $99. However, I refuse to sell my soul to AT&T which has Apple by the balls when it comes to the iPhone. I like my service at Verizon, thank you. It also helps that most of my friends use Verizon, so calling them doesn’t use up my minutes.
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Tags: 4chan, AT&T, censorship, net neutrality, stupid people, technology
