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Comments by: YACCS

 
ANOTHER GREAT IDEA
I know, I know, I've had "great" ideas in the past. This one actually is a great idea though. Okay, maybe not great, but still a pretty good one. We all know that one of the biggest pains about owning a car is the maintainence, whether the regular stuff, or the unexpected. Whether it's the time it takes to get things done, or the cost, whether we do it ourself or not, it's still kind of a pain. And probably one of the biggest pains is the standard 3 month/3000 mile oil change. I had an idea to take away at least some of that pain: at home oil changes. You call the company up, and they come out to your house and change your oil. You don't need to worry about finding the time to get to some place to have them change your oil, you don't need to worry about finding the time to try and do it yourself. They come to your house, and you can keep on going with your life, while it gets taken care of for you.

This actually occurred to me awhile ago, when I was driving back up from Columbus, and I saw a truck on the freeway. It was for a service company that did that sort of thing for businesses. I don't remember exactly what the company was, or what the did, but I remember seeing something about service like that on the truck.
And I was reminded of my idea the other week, when I was changing the oil in my car, and the car was winning. (I finally got the oil changed though.)

If I actually had the skills and knowledge to pull this off, I might almost think about trying to launch a business like this. Unfortunately, the best I can do is change the oil on my car. I could probably adapt that to most other Toyota makes and models, but I'm not sure about anything beyond that.
Maybe one day I'll be able to start the company and run it, and let others do the dirty work.

11-2-03 HELLO PEOPLE!!
Okay, direct question time, since nobody has said anything yet. Is this a good idea? If you had something like this available to you, would you make use of it?

posted by Obee at 12:40 AM

 
GHOST WORLD
At work, I periodically run certain reports for one of my coworkers, as requested. It's been about 5 months or so since the last time I've run the reports, and I need to run multiple reports for each month. So, today, I get the request to run and print the reports. The print jobs combined are amounting to a few thousand sheets of paper. So after all the print jobs are finished and I delivered them to my coworker's cube, I left the following note on top of the stack:
I AM COMMUNING WITH THE SPIRITS OF DEAD TREES TO FIND OUT WHICH ONES YOU KILLED FOR THESE PRINT JOBS, AND WILL SEND THE APPROPRIATE GHOSTS TO HAUNT YOU WHEN I HAVE CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED THEM.
HAVE A NICE DAY.

posted by Obee at 12:22 AM

 
FOR THE LONGEST TIME
I was listening to the Billy Joel song For The Longest Time and it struck how perfect it would be for a Muppet version. There's bass playing in the background, so we can have Floyd. The backup vocal can be provided by the guys from Seasame Street, the ones that always do (did?) the song where all the words rhyme. You had the one guy with the long white hair and beard, who would always pop in the screen from some weird angle, while the other 3 or 4 where harmonizing in the background. Those guys. We'll use them for the background vocals. For the lead, I figure on Gonzo. A) I like Gonzo, and B) it just seems very much like a Gonzo type of song.
What do the rest of you think?

posted by Obee at 2:56 AM

 
I HAVE NO TITLE AND I MUST BLOG
I know, I know, no posts last week. But hey, there are nifty new updates along the side. My links are now opening in a new window, they're all centered rather than right aligned, I've got the revolving saying (hit refresh a time or two if you haven't already). Hopefully I'll get the image working soon.

Let's see...
Was fencing last weekend. It was an epee tournament in Columbus at the replica of the Santa Maria (Christoper Columbus' ship). We had the regular tournament right on the dock, and a 1-touch tourny on the ship itself. My pool bouts were okay. Could have done a bit better, but overall, not too terrible. I won my first DE 15-10. I lost my second DE 15-8. I don't feel too badly about that, since my second DE was against the person seeded first going into the DEs, and who ended up fourth. I ended up 17th out of 20 in the tournament. A 1-touch is pretty much what it sounds like, you get touched and you're out. I won my first bout there, and then double touched out in my second bout. Interestingly enough, my second bout was against the person I lost my DE too. Hey, I might have been taken out, but I took somebody with me. It was a fun day overall.

This past weekend, I went and saw Kill Bill. It was pretty good. A bit weird at times, but not too bad. Definately not a movie for everybody though. If you've seen Quentin Tarantino's movies before, and didn't like them, don't bother going to see this one. Tarantino fans will really like it, I think. I do want to catch it again, preferably at a daytime show. I had people on both sides and behind me talking during the movie. Directly on my right, I had people talking, but they actually shut up when I shhhhush'ed them. (Unlike, saaaay, a couple of audience members at Seabiscuit ;D ) Unfortunately, the people on my left were a couple of seats over, so I couldn't say anything to them without making more noise than they were. And then there's something that really annoyed me. After the movie was over and I'm getting up to leave, I look at the aisle. Heading down the aisle was a kid maybe about 10-11 years old. This is *NOT* a movie you take a 10 year old kid to see. Hellooo??? It's an R-rated movie. (A well earned R too, I might add.) What sort of moron takes a kid that age to an R-rated movie called Kill Bill? It ain't frickin' Disney, and it's pretty bloody obvious why. Hell, you don't even have to see the movie to realize that it's not something kids should see. Seeing a kid that old there makes you realize why society's in the shape it's in.

posted by Obee at 2:55 AM

 
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Since I go by ObeeKris around here, and that's probably what a number of people think of me as, you may be wonder where the name of Pinky came from. Well, grab a drink, pull up a chair, and I'll tell you about it.
Let us take a journey back in time, nearly a decade ago (nine years ago, actually). Within the past day or two, I've made the acquintance of a rather cute, long haired brunette, and we've become fast friends. In the midst of a conversation about something or other, she looks over at me and says "Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?" I, without missing a beat (and in a reasonably good imitation of Pinky's voice), respond with "I think so Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking? What would the children look like? Narf!" With other people present for this conversation, we promptly receive nicknames to which we are both still known to this day.

Not quite as epic as you were expecting, huh?

posted by Obee at 2:10 AM