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Christmas Clothing
With the holidays now coming to a close, I’m sure many of you are cleaning out your closets to make room for the snazy (or fugly as it often is) new clothing that friends and family bought you this year. I know myself I got a pretty good selection this year…and a bunch of socks. I think I’ve been wearing this hoodie the most lately, love the style of it.
But like every year, you know there are some cool things you see that you just don’t get. For instance, lets start with these Freehands gloves. What makes these different from other gloves on the market is that both the pointer and thumb part of the gloves can be easily folded down. This is a great idea allowing those that need to use their fingers for things like texting and typing while outside this winter. No more need to take off the gloves (or type with your nose!). I’ll be getting a pair of these myself, they look fantastic. How about you?
But now with warm hands you need a warm head. How about throwing some top secret tunes in there as well with the Headphone beanie from ThinkGeek. What’s cooler than being able to listen to music at work? Tricking people into thinking you can hear them of course.
And last, but surely not least, you have your jacket. I’d suggest a jacket from Ardica [Via Gizmodo]. Not only do they come with built in heaters, but they can also charge your electronics while you wear it. What better way to stay warm while waiting outside the movie theater for the next superhero film right?
So that’s my quick winter recap. So what did you guys get for Christmas this year? Let me know in the comments below.
Problogger: The Book (Review)
Recently while browsing my local Chapters book store I came across a small soft cover book, among all the ‘big bad books’ on programming, with a strangely familiar name:”ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
For those of you who are unaware, Problogger is one of the leading (if not the leading) blogs about blogging tips. The site is maintained by Darren Rowse, who is likely one of the best educated people on what needs to be done to get a blog off the ground and keep it there. With he updates daily, you can bet I’ve been a subscriber to his RSS for some time.
In this book, Darren (and co-writer Chris Garrett) go through the process of explaining how to set up a blog and make it work. They do a great job of setting forth introductory steps of choosing a topic (Niche), available platforms and how to write to your audience. Some of the more in depth topics that they go into are different kinds of advertising, networking and community building.
Though short (210 pages I believe) they pack it full of tons of information in an easy to read tone. I throughly enjoyed it and recommend it anybody looking to start out blogging, or even those just looking to do it better.
What’s your best customer service story?
Everybody has their ups and downs with customer service, usually down. But how about those times where you get off the phone and think “Wow, that rep was freaking awesome”. Given that I work in a call center, I usually try to leave the customers thinking that as much as possible. But when the shoe is on the other foot, it rarely happens. What is the best customer service that you’ve received? Here’s my latest.
On my way home from work, I had to catch a cab so went to the bank to get some money from the ATM so I can pay him: It was rejected because “Couldn’t process. Contact Service”. Twice. Turns out I had just enough on me to pay the taxi fare ($0.26 cent tip!). Then it was rejected at Wendy’s. When I came home, I decided to give them a call and find out what was going on with my card.
I called up my bank, expecting to have to go through a million automated messages and never get to anybody to help me out. I put in my card number, it told me it couldn’t be processed and the next thing I knew Michelle was on the line. Michelle was awesome. It was 9pm and she sounded like she had just woken up. I asked her what’s going on, and she said my card was put into ‘deposit only’ because fraud thinks that one of the places I used it at might have duplicated it. It’s not likely, but whatever. I just have to go into a bank and change my PIN on Wed (my next day off). That whole conversation took 5 minutes, tops.
She then asked me if I had the funds to last me until Wednesday, I said I’d just use my VISA the next two days if needed, I should have enough change kicking around for coffee. We then talked about coffee and debating the whole ‘quantity VS quality’ between Tim Hortons and Starbucks. Needless to say, on Wednesday I guess I have to go buy a “signature hazelnut hot chocolate with a double shot of espresso”. I never was very good at debating with females. But it was a great conversation, and is awesome to see a place with real people on the other end of the line. TD, you’re cool. Michelle, you’re fantastic, thanks for the chat.
Post your best customer service story below, the one I think is the best will win $1 via paypal in 2 weeks from today. Cheers!
Come along, you belong!
Feel the fizz, of Coo Coo cola.
It’s the cola for makin’ you proud
Take another sip and be one of the crowd
You belong with Coo Coo Cola.
Now for those of you NOT totally cool, that is one of the songs from one of the coolest shows EVER Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers. To be more precise, this is from from The Case of The Cola Cult (Part 1, Part 2) which is one of the best episodes ever.
Because of that, I decided to use the song as my ring tone. Bet nobody else will have that one on their phone. Unless of course you click the big picture at the bottom of the post, which is totally cool too.
And don’t forgot to buy it on DVD. Or Just Buy it for me!
Come along
You belong
Feel the fizz of Coo Coo Cola
Get to the store and take all you can carry
We got the flavors- orange, grape and cherry
Feel the fizz of Coo Coo Cola
Come along
You belong
Feel the fizz of Coo Coo Cola
It’s bottled in Pensacola
Come along with Coo Coo Cola
You belong with Coo Coo Cola
T-Mobile Goes Gangster
T-Mobile recently put in place a policy where reps no longer have to say their rep IDs, and in many departments not even their real first names. I’m predicting the future and thinking we don’t even have to talk in real sentances. I’m going ahead of the pack and redoing my intro statement:
“Welcome to T-Mobile, T-Mobiles where it’s at, Some people call me Cougar ’cause I’m slick like a cat.
So hit me with your problem, tell me what it be. Quicker we get done, you get back to watch TV. Ya kick it!
*this is the part where I dance around like Vanilla Ice while the customer tries to figure out what the hell I just said*”
It should be fun, I have the attire ready and everything.
Thanks mom, knew I’d wear this someday!
Women: Another Piece
of ass the puzzle! By George I think I’ve got it, women like it when you look like crap. Have a really rough looking beard growing in? Keep it. Have a really nice shirt on that you just took out of the laundry basket? Wear it. Haven’t showered in a week? Well, that’s kinda gross. Long story short: Women like you looking horrible. No, hear me out.
Example 1 (Bulk barn girl): Hadn’t shaved in 3 days had a huge pimple on my forehead and was wearing one of the geekiest hats ever. I was really tired and buying 10lbs of candy. I got a phone number and discount on candy.
Example 2 (Holly the Holy): This young lady approached me while I was at the bus stop (because all high class people hang out there). I now haven’t shaved in about 2 weeks, I took the shirt out the hamper, just got off a 12 hour shift, was in a car accident on the way home and now am over full from eating at Denny’s: So I looked and acted like a lifeless hobo (I was even yelling at stray cats. Ok that’s a lie I’m sure they had owners). She introduced herself and asked if she could talk to me about Jesus and since I had 15 minutes before the bus (and she is totally my type minus the whole Jesus thing) I said sure. Apparently God wants this attractive young woman to hold my hand, tell me how soft it is and that I smell like pancakes (which were in my bag). Oh, and that Jesus will let you get away with anything. I gave her my number for something or other, she gave me her cell number.
This brings me to two conclusions which should narrow down what women look for in the opposite sex:
1) Something to fix. It’s not hard to get somebody to shave, wear a clean shirt and get rid of a zit. Nor is it hard to make them commit to something which has very little importance to them anyway (in this case religion) but it ‘looks good on the resume’. Just tiny tweaks.
2) They should have, smell like or BE food. This doesn’t need explaining.
And before it comes up saying I’m just a complete stud of a man and a total babe magnet with a huge…income; My numbers over the last year doubled since I started looking like garbage. Those are some badass results. The code is cracked, just like the women who use it. Boo ya!
Call of the Wild Gummi Bears
Today children, I have a love story for you.
*Note: I was wearing my hat with a big yellow ” ! ” on it, a symbol of quest givers in Warcraft*
Today I decided to go to Bulk Barn (where you can buy candy in bulk) to get Gummi Bears and planned on paying around $1/lb. Well they were only $0.66/lb so I decided to buy twice as much. I got up to the counter and there was this cute blond cashier, Allison, there and she rangs it up and said “Wow, 10lbs of Gummi Bears. How about we say there is 5 lbs and I send you on the quest to call me?” I replied “That’s a good reward for such an easy quest. Is it a daily?” and she laughed. After a second of comparing our stats some old bat got in line behind me and I had to run because I was out of mana.
End Game: It cost me only $4.32, I looted 10 lbs of Gummi Bears, a phone number of an attractive young nerd-girl and got the spring-in-step buff. And people say candy isn’t good for you? I beg to differ.
I eat eggos like you for breakfast
I woke up this morning, like I’ve done a million times before, and decided “wow, I haven’t eaten since I went to sleep last, I can use some food”. Now given that I went to McDonald’s for breakfast yesterday, I thought I’d just have Eggos today.
Fair enough, I go make 2 Eggos and eat them. I then think to myself “They were good, I’ll have some more”. Of course, I have to open a new sleeve of Eggos since I had just finished one off. The next thing I know I’m ripping and tearing at this wrapper trying to get it open, yelling at the Eggos saying things like “Are you kidding? I eat Eggos like you for breakfast!”. It wasn’t until I said “Oh so you like it rough? Fine! I’ll cut your package off then eat you!” followed by “Yes, I know that it would be easier if I did it in the reverse order!” that I realized the two most important things:
1) I’m not only talking out loud to my breakfast, but yelling at it.
2) I make a lot of sexual references when I talk to my food.
I think from now on I’ll skip breakfast and just have a coffee.
No Blolgathon?!
It’s true and it’s completely blown my mind. True, I haven’t been blogging quite as much as I hoped due to work, but Blogathon is still always going to be a day worth booking off to do. Unfortunately the Admins of Blogathon decided that they weren’t going to be able to do it this year. Horrible, right?
However, Jen has stepped up to provide an alternative titled Day of Blogs. She hasn’t put together too much info yet, but I’ve contacted her and thrown my hat in the ring to help out any way possible. A year without Blogathon is a summer without air conditioning: Possible but it just ain’t gonna happen.
So I’ll start blogging again here with details of it, and we’ll see where that idea goes. And yes, the other posts are still coming stay tuned.
Bell is blocking my tubes
This is an older post, created in January. I’m going to start blogging again, working on writing up new drafts of some posts so cleaning out these old ones. -Jeff
Well I’ve had enough of Bell Sympatico, they really are assholes. I’ve been having problems with them for months and every time I call them they either A) ‘fix’ it (meaning it seems fast since they disconnected my net completely for 30 minutes) or B) Hang up on me. You might be asking me “Well why didn’t you switch?” The answer is because the only other option is Rogers/Cogeco, and they have a $99 installation fee.
Today, however, I decided to take action on my shitty service (when it takes over an hour to download 200mb when there are over 2000 seeds, there is a problem). Also, the fact that I was clued in to Bell admitting to lowering my transfer speeds during ‘peak times’ set me overboard. I had spent hours on the phone and them ‘not knowing what is wrong’ when really they’re just fucking with me. If I’m paying full price for a full service I want that full service all the time, not just outside ‘peak hours’ cock gobblers.
Where was I? Right, I called up Rogers and asked them what they could offer me for around the same price range. The answer I got:
- Waived installation fee
- 7mbps Download / 1mbps Upload
- 61GB total limit/month
- $44.95/month ($3 off for 6 months, so $41.95/month)
Current package with Bell:
- 5mbps Download / 512kbps Upload (though highest I’ve ever gotten was 3.1mbps download)
- “No total limit” (however my charge seems to fluctuate by $3 every month and they refuse to send me a paper bill)
- $47.99 – $51.00/month
In short, I’ve been getting screwed around lately. I’m going to call up Bell and given them the option of cutting my bill ALOT (I’m talking $30/month max) or I’ll be canceling it come the end of the billing cycle.
UPDATE: I did call Bell, and they gave me a $80 credit on my account. I accepted it but am still planning on switching to Rogers to see how well they can service me. (yeah, had to say it that way, it made you laugh admit it)
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