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Went out to the Post Office in Zero Beach today to pick up the Mooby’s shirt I ordered from Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. (I wasn’t around when they delivered it, as they needed my signature.) Now I have a costume for that “Octoberween” party at work. Fuckin’ A.

In addition, I have a Technoranti listing, which is here.

Also, I’ll be updating both the Battlestar Wiki Blog and my own personal blog with the new WordPress. Boring, eh?

Woulda had a great day if I didn’t walk into that shithole today to give money for the walkathon. (It’s a walkathon on muscular distrophy and altzheimers. It’s supposed to happen on November 4th or something.) No good deed goes unpunished.

Oh, BTW, if you see me on GTalk and you don’t receive a reply from me, don’t get offended. I often leave my gmail/gtalk window open, simply because I’ve been really run down lately and I’m running around trying to juggle my online life (read: Battlestar Wiki), work life, and my own godsdamned life.

I’m also feeling like I’m getting sick: I’m hoping its not a damned cold virus; I don’t need it now.

While at work yesterday, I get a call from my brother, who is bitching about the LCD monitor my parents bought with their new computer. Anyway, this phone call nearly resulted in telling him not-so-politely to go fuck himself… in the classical tradition, of course… as I was in the middle of helping a customer.

However, I was in the midst of helping a customer, so that wouldn’t have been such a wise move.

Bear in mind that this is the weekend and I am starting to feel the onslaught of the holiday season.

So when I went home I simply unplugged the power cord and replugged the cord; it suddenly worked again. Something that took five seconds to fix resulted in a nearly three minute, one-way bitch-session.

The reason I bring this up is because this kind of thing reminds me why I don’t fix people’s computers any more. I don’t care to hold people’s hands when it comes to this sort of shit. Also, what spurred this entry was the fact that I’m going through and cleaning out the hard drive of my Powerbook, and came across this document. It’s a mockery of the “lifestyle sheets” used in some Best Buy locations — though I haven’t actually seen one, since my location never used such a thing, and I find such a thing idiotic beyond my ability to eloquently comment. Apparently, the “lifestyle sheet” is a cheatsheet for sales people who can’t actually sell.

It’s really rather funny, and I’ve uploaded it for your review, since it primarily deals with selling computers and what the Worst Buy people view as “non negotiables”. I don’t know exactly where I got this from, but I believe it was a LiveJournal user who used to work for BBY.

The only reliable news source in the world — the BBC — posted the following story regarding the Internet Governance Forum’s warning that the internet would likely be broken up.

Given the growth of the internet, particularly in Asia, this doesn’t seem all that surprising to me. Here’s the scoop:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6037345.stm

I’m on the lookout for a reasonably authentic Mooby’s uniform/costume from Clerks 2. I just need the shirt, namebadge and hat.
I have found absolutely nothing on eBay, but I assume someone may have created one, or that these articles exist.

So if anyone can give me any leads, that’d be great.

As for “why?”, I made the off comment that I’d like to dress up as one for Halloween and since there’s a Halloween party going on at my work place (although we can’t call it that, since it may “offend people”, so the name “Octoberween” has been created for the politically correct crowd), I’d like to dress up as one.

It’s either that, or a Circuit Chitty employee.

Or, barring that, I’d like to get my hands on a Battlestar Galactica costume. Perhaps one of the simple green deck/maintenance uniforms.

Update: I got the nametag and a Mooby’s hat from Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. They apparently have pre-orders for the shirt, so the whole shirt-thing might be a problem, unless I can find a reasonably authentic one from somewhere else.