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Feb 05, 2006 at 04:45 PM |
Last week the quiet little city of Okemos was struck down by an unspeakable horror. A horror so... horrorable... that... well it really sucked.
An employee of Comcast had just been fired. For reasons unknown instead of him just sucking it up he decided to be an ass and take his anger out on the customers.
That day, over 32 people in our peaceful city lost their cable. I can tell you that for them it was a horrible expierience. I know this because I too was cut off from the interweb for almost 56 hours.
For years I have depended on the interweb in order to maintain my sanity. I had grown accustomed too its existence. I had felt that it would always be there for me when ever I needed too escape from reality. Frankly, I had taken it for granted.
The time was 2:40PM. I had just got out of school and was looking forward to playing Diablo 2:LoD and getting my character to level 80.
I arrived at home and turned on my box. Ten seconds later I was logged in and clicked the D2:LoD icon on my desktop. Five seconds later my dreams of level 80 were shattered with the following message:
"Unable to resolve connection to battle.net. If you are using a modem, please connect to your ISP and try again. Vist support.battle.net/errormessages/ for more information on this message."
I didn't know what to do. I checked my ethernet cable to see if it was connected. It was. I checked my router to see if it was on. It was. Finally I checked my cable modem. Too my horror the incoming signal light was a steady orange. Those basstards cut my cable.
I thought to myself, "This isn't a big deal... I can make it through this... I'll just play single player Diablo 2...". Unfortanately I was wrong, I couldn't make it through. And the rest of that night I had to read. *sob* All because of that damn disgruntled cable guy...
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Last Updated ( Feb 05, 2006 at 08:52 PM )
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Written by The Judge
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Jul 20, 2005 at 02:02 AM |
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Well? starting Thursday, I?m apparently on strike. According to my union anyway. As far as I?m concerned, I?m NOT on strike and I will be coming in to work just like every other day. It all started with the expiry of a contract. And of course, the union and the employer sat down at the table to talk. As usual, the union made idiotic demands and the employer refused. And as always, this union called for a strike vote and selectively invited members to vote as far as I?m concerned. According to this "democratic" vote, I should be on the picketing on the streets in two days.
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Last Updated ( Jul 22, 2005 at 01:09 AM )
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