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Dell Computer Technical Support Sucks

September 29th, 2006 by Howard | 4 Comments | Filed in Main

My wife and I have purchased several Dell computers recently, and gave one to her parents. After six months of very, very little use, the hard drive crashed. Just crashed. Made this clicking sound, and the startup could not detect it. I checked the set up, I even yanked the hard drive out and reinstalled it to make sure all the connections were secure. Dead. Boat anchor. So, I called Dell Technical Support and spoke to several people in Bombay with 7-11 accents and middle America names like Sandy, John, Micky. After carefully explaining that the hard drive was deader than a possum in the middle of Biscayne Blvd, this was the “technical support” I was offered:

“Have you tried rebooting the computer?”

Gee, no, I never thought of that. You mean a dead hard drive can be revived by simply restarting the computer???

“You should try to restore your operating system using the restore feature.”

Since Dell is too damn cheap to provide restore CDs, how would I do that?

“Oh, Dell provides the restore system on your hard drive.”

Which part of ” Dead Hard Drive” don’t you comprehend?

“You may be able to obtain more technical support as well as updated drivers on our web page.”

Which part of ” Dead Hard Drive” don’t you comprehend?

“Would you like to purchase a hard drive from Dell?”

No, I just want you idiots to mail me the restore CDs that should have accompanied the computer in the first place!

“Would you like a slurpee with that?”

The final solution? No more Dells for us.
SCG

New SCG Policy
September 28th, 2006 by Howard | 2 Comments | Filed in Photography

On days when the news is just too friggin insane or my job trying to supervise 30 people in a non-profit environment too insane, photographs will appear instead of my cranky rants. This is for your own protection.

This is at a beautiful undiscovered and most likely unheard of environmental area in Highlands County Florida. It is called Royce Unit, and part of the Lake Wales Ridge.

This is a bird.

In the air

Free and unhindered

Peace out people.

SCG

CBS TV Show Jericho is a Soap Opera Piece of Crap
September 27th, 2006 by Howard | No Comments | Filed in Main

Holy crap. I am so desperate to find something that has a trace of science fiction to it that I did something I rarely do, turn on the TV. The premise of Jericho is that a small town in Kansas is isolated when the country gets blasted by several atomic bombs. The potential for an excellent hard core science fiction story is awesome. How do they survive? How do they find out what happened? What about food, about health care, and how do they deal with the after effects of the end of the world?

Instead, I tuned in to a really bad daytime crappy soap opera! The mayor’s kid is having an affair with the town’s bar keep, the stranger in town knows more than he lets on, the town tramp gets kidnapped by prisoners who pretend to be cops and they get trapped on a farm and so on. What about the science? Nada. That is a very, very small thread in this retarded piece of crap sex-filled scandal ridden baboon-assed trash written for small brained first graders with attention deficit disorder.

Holy shit, I could play a Daffy Duck cartoon from the 1950′s backward inside a jar of mayonaisse and it would have more science, a better plot and be more entertaining than this repeat of General Hospital.

The end of the world is just a backdrop for people screwing each other and cheating on each other and showing sexy gals in skimpy outfits.

I tried Battlestar Galactica when that came out a few years ago, and that too was just a friggin soap opera.

Science Fiction is fiction having to do with science. It is about discovery. It is about mystery. It is about adventure and exploration. It is about things that we can only imagine and wonder about. It isn’t about some blonde bimbo in a mini-skirt being carried over the shoulder of a mob kidnapper, or some bar tramp screwing the mayor’s son.

I should have known better than to turn on the TV.

It’s back to 1960′s paperback science fiction novels.

Peace out people

SCG

Fall in South Florida
September 23rd, 2006 by Howard | 1 Comment | Filed in Main

Yes, it is the first day of Fall. Temps hit 93 today. Late in the afternoon, with the sun’s rays fading, I photographed this guy dropping a peanut so he could pick up a different one. It may be Fall, but it is hard to tell that down here.Peace out people.
SCG

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