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COPS on Maplehurst!

Last night we had our own episode of COPS in front of our house! Sadly, it wasn’t as exciting as it sounds. There were no escape attempts or guns pulled or even much yelling. Cops do feel the need to be LOUD, I’ve noticed. I tweeted the whole thing as it was going on, so I’ll just give you the tweets:

Woo, we got some po po action in da ‘hood! Dekalb pulled over a white caddy and then hauled off the driver. 3 cop cars? Must be a slow nt!

Too bad all this is in front of my house, so we’re compelled to watch. It’s not COPS action fer sure. Boooring. And loud. :-(

And now: FOUR cop cars! Oooo I think the brothas are having a bad night. They are currently arguing w/the fuzz. Never a good idea!

Heh, the cops have called the tow truck. I think all the crackheads have been hauled off. Cop said it was simple traffic stop until…

The crackpipes were found! Oopsie! I’m just happy the cops are actually patrolling my street!

(we can hear the cops and perps – this is right in front of the house, FYI)

We could hear some of the louder conversation, like when the cop was demanding to know if one of the crackheads owned the car and the crackhead was arguing. We also heard the cops talking to each other about the crackheads being scared when they realised they’d been busted. The whole thing lasted about 20 minutes. 3 crackheads were hauled off and the car was impounded, naturally.

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PSA re: comments

In case you’ve forgotten, I do NOT publish comments from trolls. If you have something relevant to say, I’ll put up the comment even if I don’t know you. If not, you’ll get flamed by me via email and/or published for mockery.

If you leave an irrelevant comment like “you sound dumb” with nothing else to support this assertion (boogerpicker500, how appropriate!), then I’ll berate you via email and your brilliant comment will never see the light of day. If you have the brains to make a point, then it’ll be approved.

So, get creative and have something relevant to say or STFU.

Now, get off my BLOG!
//end PSA

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Happy Groundhog Day 2010!

We got Phil saying more winter, but we got Chuck and Beauregard saying SPRING! Yay! I love the silliness of Groundhog Day, which is why I think it should be celebrated thoroughly! :-)

We are getting our Con schedule put together for 2010. The events calendar on the right has everything we’re confirmed to do and is updated when we add stuff. Connooga is our first con of the year and I hope it’s worth going to. We’re rolling the dice, but the cost is very low due to Dave’s employee discount at Hilton. I don’t have very high hopes as far as the comic goes, but I do hope to have some fun.

I’m trying not to get stressed out about the cons and our total lack of readiness. The book is still just an idea and we’ve no merch. ::sigh::

Hope everyone has a great (if rainy) Groundhog Day!

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New Tech smell!

Ahh! New technology! Makes me feel warm all over! Apple announced the iPad today and it’s SWEEET! We don’t need one, but we may have to GET one. Just because we can! We need it for cons, right? RIGHT! Write offy goodness! :-)

Now I need to rant for a sec:
Too bad the afterglow of the announcement has been somewhat tarnished by the retards on FB. Man, there are some seriously dumb people on that network. One ‘tard was bitching about the price for a “slightly re-engineered” iPod Touch, insisting it’s “$100s more than the iPhone for the same stuff”. Um. No, it’s not more than the phone and uh, there’s LOTS more “stuff”. Then there was the brilliant PC dude who said “yah, but MAC [sic] is just not as flexible as PC for word processing. It’s more for art!” OMG. How can such completely outdated info STILL be believed?? HOW??

It’s not MAC. It’s Mac, which is short for Macintosh, whereas MAC is short for Media Access Control (or MAC cosmetics). And if you PC people think that your piddly little version of MS Office compares in ANY way to Office:Mac version, you are sadly mistaken. The Mac version of Office will make you CRY it’s so much better than the PC version. Seriously. You. Would. Cry.

It’s ludicrous that people STILL believe that there is actually a software gap.
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It’s great that complete luddites feel they can contribute to the convo, but DAMN. At least have a tiny little clue, people! At least read the specs for the device! At least have a vague idea about the platforms before saying something as dumb as that PC guy.

Reality is that this device, the iPad (yah, the name certainly could be better, but WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE?), is the next in a long line of innovations from Apple that the rest of the tech world will emulate. Apple is the tech world’s R&D department and I think they should get 100% credit for it.

All the bitchers and naysayers seem to fall into two main groups of lusers: PC people who are clueless in the first place (as in: office workers who don’t know what “Windows” is and the like) and broke muthafuckahs who can’t afford anything great, so they feel the need to bash.

All I got to say to you guys is: hey, enjoy your knockoff (read: CHEAP) tech. It’ll trickle down to you in a coupla years when the rest of us are on to the next great thing. And don’t be hatin’ those of us who appreciate it NOW.