Mel

compliments to fatalfastlane for sending this in.

Yes, it's old news, Mel "crazy man" Gibson spoof, overdubbed

I thought I was gonna pee myself



Fenix



***STRONG LANGUAGE***
http://www.break.com/index/mel_gibson_hates_jews1.html

Tough guys

This is one of the macho techs that we have working for us. You know the kind! The ones that sit outside and talk about their latest conquests and how much ass they've kicked.

He did say "kicking" ass right??

Never agitate the Fenix :)

You got the wrong idea

C'mon, you couldn't see this happening to me?



Via: VideoSift

Babysitter blues

When I stumbled upon this I figured I'd try to throw a new idea to everyone. Let's try taking some of the video's and posting them through the blog



Via: VideoSift

pain in the neck

Doktor gave muscle relxrs for neck pain. feels good. not alot of updates today I think

should make a phone call.........

ello, Free? Dude....you wouldn't believe the size of the......whatdoyamean don't call you at work?! I can bang a what?!?! I don't even think that's possible freemo.....fine, bye

Maybe I can call mom. Mom's always make you feel better.....

ello mom?.......hey, yea, pulled a muscle in my neck.....NO, that is NOT how it happened! you got the wrong son!......listen, i just wanted to talk. ya know. I got these pills and they make me feel funny .....*click*.....mom?.....mom?

Fenix

It's finally happened

Oh sweet googly-moogly

My mom has finally started her own blog

http://kamelsblog.blogspot.com/

I'll put a link in the links section first chance I get. Everyone will also be happy to know that the great Fenix will be back next week. My long work week is finally over! The check should be nice. And I got a raise (1 of 2 he said), so things are looking up. I'll do what I can this weekend to get some new vids up even if it's a few older ones.

Fenix

They just won't go away!

AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers.

AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company believes are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke’s parents on two acres in Medfield, Mass. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL’s plans.

AOL won a $12.8 million judgment last year in U.S. District Court in Virginia against Hawke but has been unable to contact Hawke to collect any of the money he was ordered to pay. AOL accused Hawke of violating federal and state anti-spam laws by sending unwanted e-mails to its subscribers and won its case in a default judgment against Hawke, who didn’t show up in court.

“I don’t care if they dig up the entire yard. They’re just going to make fools of themselves,” said Peggy Greenbaum, Hawke’s mother. “There’s absolutely no reason for them to think that Davis Hawke would be stupid enough to bury gold on our property. My son is long gone.”

She said her husband and father intend to challenge AOL’s plans to dig on the family’s property and search the family’s 3,000-square-foot home. She said AOL’s lawyer notified the family that the company intends to use bulldozers and geological teams to hunt for gold and platinum on their property.

Greenbaum said she has not talked with her son in more than a year and complained about the embarrassment and humiliation he brought to the family.

Greenbaum said the family believes Hawke buried gold in the White Mountains 130 miles north of Boston. She said he once confided to her that he bought gold — rather than expensive homes or cars — because it would be more difficult to seize in lawsuits.

“We don’t know where is he,” she said. “We certainly wouldn’t allow him to put any gold on our property.”

AOL defended its efforts.

The dig isn’t something out of “Treasure Island,” AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said. “This is a court-directed, judge-approved legal process that is simply aimed at responsibly recovering hidden assets.”

To win a judge’s permission for the search, AOL submitted receipts reflecting large purchases by Hawke of gold and platinum bars, Graham said. The company indicated it believes Hawke buried the loot on his parents’ property using a shovel.

AOL said it will try to accommodate Hawke’s parents by not being too obtrusive.

A former U.S. prosecutor described AOL’s efforts as highly unusual. Marc Zwillinger said his law firm has seized plasma televisions, jet skis and other gadgets in unrelated spam and piracy lawsuits.

“But I’ve never had a case digging up gold bars and bullion,” Zwillinger said. “That’s definitely unique.”


Does AOL have any morals left??? They send those damn disks everywhere, just boot their DSL subscribers, email their dial-up subs and let them know that they are raising rates higher than broadband, and basically releasing any peice of information that they have on you. Stop the insanity!!

Fenix

Stupid is as stupid does

Karolyne Smith has to live with a permanent billboard on her forehead after she accepted Goldenpalace.com's offer of $10,000 for the 'advertising space'. She needed the money to send her son Brady to a private school.

Karolyne said: ""I really want to do this. To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like a million dollars."

"I only live once and I'm doing it for my son. It's a small sacrifice to build a better future for my son."

Karolyne did not take the decision lightly. She discussed it for more than three weeks with her boyfriend Jeremy Williams.

Smith's eBay auction attracted more than 27,000 hits and 1,000 watchers. Bidding reached $999.99 before Goldenpalace.com, an Internet gambling company met Smith's $10,000 asking price. Goldenpalace.com also gave her another $5,000 for her trouble.

I love my kids. But I'm pretty sure I can find a grant or loan or something other than doing this!!

Fenix

Poor Sony

Poor poor Sony.
10 years ago they where at the top of their game. Lets look back:

PS 1 - cutting edge gaming
Trinitron - The bar for TV standards
XBR - Raising that same bar
XBR2 - Brought television to a new tech level
Satelite recievers - Stand alone boxes with preformance from Sony
Walkman - Gotta have portable audio device
SVHS - 500 lines on a VCR (vcr currently only can do about 340 lines)

Today, notsomuch:

PS3 - Still vaporware in my opinion. Looks good on paper but even developers are balking at the restrictions, and lets not even start with BluRay
TV - Sony started losing ground with Mitsubishi but with LCD's and Plasmas Samsung is pulling in the numbers and getting better reviews
Satelite Recievers - Not to many Dishes out there. But you'd think they'd jump on the DVR bandwagon!?
Walkman - MiniDisk never caught on, (I love it though) iPod rules them all so Sony is taking the walkman to the cell phone. Might work.
BluRay - It will work, and will be a good idea but I think it's still needs some years. Their rushing to get it out and the disks look like something that was made on the executives laptop at the office!

BluRay has issues
The root kit problem
And now Dell has to recall almost 4 million laptops due to the sony batteries exploding!

Oh what has happened to Sony????


Fenix

Society today

This is a press release courtesy of the Portland Police Bureau


On Sunday, August 14, 2006, at 6:26 a.m., Southeast Precinct officers and members of the East County Vehicle Collision Team responded to a serious injury collision at the intersection of Southeast 12th Avenue and East Burnside Street.

Initial witness statements indicate that an Isuzu Rodeo, traveling northbound on Southeast 12th Avenue, collided with a TriMet bus traveling westbound on East Burnside Street.

The collision forced the Isuzu into a Ford Focus and Chrysler minivan that were stopped at a red light facing southbound on Southeast 12th Avenue.

During the collision, a 36-year-old male was ejected from the Isuzu. He then sustained life-threatening injuries when he struck the minivan after being ejected from the Isuzu.

After the person ejected from the Isuzu collapsed on the ground, 66-year-old Marvin Lewis, who was walking nearby at the time of the collision, took the victim's wallet from his pocket.

Arriving officers arrested Lewis and recovered the wallet. Lewis was arrested on one count of Theft in the Second Degree and transported to the Justice Center jail. The Identification Division will send out Lewis's photo as soon as it is available.

It's time some of us get together.

Let me say first, I could care less about a given pro team, but I love to go to sporting events. I have four club level seating tickets to the Titans/Ravens game in Nashville, November 12th, Sunday at noon. Our favorite Titans fan - Splash Titan - has claimed one. There are two up for grabs, the ticket is free, but you have to get there ( I will gladly pick anyone up in atlanta, chattanooga, or nashville from the airport). I would love to go and hang out

If you want to take a road trip and meet some of your xbox friends that would be awesome, if not I will sell the other two at the game for beer money (no shock there I am sure).

I really couldn't pick and choose who else to ask about the 2 tickets, so first come first served.

Later.

Free

The Dependants

Here ya go. The pics of the dependants

Your welcome zing.


Fenix

Slackin

I know I've been slacking. Work has been tough. Over worked and VERY VERY underpaid. Will be working 6 days this week as well as 12 hours per day.

What can I say. You can probably catch me during the days on chat or at night, until I fall asleep, on Xbox.

And in saying that, I want to thank everyone that listened to me sleep and snore on Xbox UNO last night. And a side note, my MOM of all people might be linking over here from HER OWN BLOG!!

She will ruin me I'm sure. All sorts of stries about my childhood. I really wasn't that bright growing up.

Fenix

More work rant

I'll add

"Can you do me a favor" - which will NEVER be repaid

And lets not forget my fearless leader. Who said to me today "Put in an ad for a dispatcher and tech"

Ok, can you give me more information?

"Look, I'm not a boss that sits around the office all day, I go out and work" and he left.

I have no idea what pay rate, hours, what office. Soooooo here's what the ad will be so far:

"F****tech LLC is looking for a dispatch and field service technician. Call 555-5555"

I love my job


Fenix

This could be trouble

I can't make this up.

A car garage in Hobokin NJ is run by robots. They move your car into spots and it works very well. Well the city and the Florida based company that designed the software have had a bit of a contract dispute recently. As usual, the suits think they can put one over on the geeks. no no. A "software bomb" so to speak was built into the next upgrade. I guess the geeks could see this coming. So when the contract was up and the suits decided to drag their feet the machines stopped working. Cars stuck, no one can get their cars in or out. The police were called. The Florida company got an extension in their contract over the next three years.

Geeks 1
Suits 0


Fenix

Things I hear everyday.

Ok, I get to hear at least one of these a day, usually 2-3, and on a really great day most, and when the planets align all of them.

“Are you in your office?” - after answering my desk phone.

“Quick question.” - inevitable followed about something involving their home computer.

“Are you busy?” - sitting with someone working on something or elbows deep working on a machine.

“Have you had a chance to look at my computer?” - followed by "No, did you leave me a voice mail or email about what was wrong - followed by "No, do I need to?"
(Mentally, "no I really am a mind reader and I am just f'ing with you." Spoken "Well, it would help, but since you're here what seems to be wrong?"

“Hey, I got locked out of SAP and it told me to email Laurie somebody a request to reset my account, can you do that for me?” - "What, send the email or reset your account?” - “Reset my account.” – “No, you will have to email Laurie.” – “Oh, well can you send the email?”

“Can you fix ______” (fill in the blank with any electronic item you might find around your house that is not a computer, including but not limited to cell phones, digital cameras, LCD TV's, DVD players, MP3 players, etc. - "I guess it doesn't work and it is out of warranty?" - "Yes." - "Yea I'll give it a shot for $20.00, no guarantee though." Surprisingly, I make $100.00 a month on average to throw people’s broken crap away for them.

“Hey did you get the message I left you?” – as I am unlocking my office first thing in the morning.

“Have you ever used _______?” – fill in the blank with any obscure software unknown to most of mankind.

“Do I need to renew my anti-virus/spyware subscription?” – “Only if you want to keep your computer running.”

And my all time favorite…

“Do you know anything about computers?” – “No, they just pay me to sit in this room and make sure the computers in here don’t assemble themselves into a killer robot.”

WWDC 2007

Ahhh, like Christmas for us mac people.

If you haven't had a chance, or where curious about Apple. Now is the time.

In all my years I have never heard Steve Jobs rip on any company. Ever. But the WWDC was no holds barred against microSoft and Vista.

If you have the time and want a good laugh, check out Steve's Keynote. Side by side comparisons of Vista, and lets not forget the Apple commercial that you will NEVER see on Tv


I love my apple

Fenix

I just look poor.

So, kids decide that it is a good idea to put every piece of dirty laundry in at one time. I mean they must have had the little kids jumping up and down in the machine to pack what they did into it. Well, add that in with a hundred pounds of water and a spin cycle, you get several bust supports which makes for a washer that literally shakes itself to pieces.

Off to Sears I go. I love Sears, don't know why just a lot of good childhood memories I guess. Before Wal-gonna take over the world-Mart, that was were you would go to get what you needed. Not to mention the lifetime replacement on Craftsmen tools. Found a busted channel lock pliers in a ditch one day, the word "Craftsmen" barely visible, took it in and received a no questions asked replacement. But I digress...

Standing there in my frayed cargo shorts and old t-shirt ( you know the one that could possibly disintegrate the next time you wash it), with all the kids, and in 10 minutes at least 5 different "sales" people walk by and don't ask if I need help. Eventually this old guy, Mack, comes in, I assume from the heavy presence of cigarette smoke he just finished taking a break. He walks up and I procede to get a new Kenmore super capacity washer and a Dyson vacuum (which is every bit as good as they say).

For kicks I went up stairs and came back with about $500 dollars worth of clothes for the kids. Mack must of went on break again, but at this point all those people who walked by the first time were hounding me to go ahead and check out. I politely said to each one, "No thanks, I wasn't good enough to help earlier so I will just wait on Mack."

Needless to say, he made his commission for the day, and was VERY happy.

Bloomberg TV says that the New York Post is now reporting that Microsoft is delaying the video portion of its Zune device which is to take on the ubiquitous Apple iPod. Bloomberg’s Bernard Lo in Hong Kong interviewed John MacLellan general manager for finance at Microsoft Corp.’s Asia-Pacific operations who stated that the Zune would be out sometime in the next 12 months.
MacLellan discussed the Zune’s WiFi functionality as being an advantage over competitors.

Well, until Microsoft actually launches Zune, I don’t know what advantage he thinks they’ll have over Apple’s iPod considering Microsoft doesn’t have a clue as to what Apple will be launching this fall.

Then again they're also pulling features in the Zune just like Vista. I hope these products are done beofre my kids go to college


Fenix

crickets

News Flash:

AOL anounces that it will now going to a "free" service similar to Yahoo.


.................hmmmm

Does anyone even care? I mean really. If it wasn't for their domination in the instant message market, would they even be around.

In recent news, our friend, the Senator from Alaska has tried to be a little sneaky.

The good senator was attempting to get the Net Nuetrality bill passed by calling a emergency vote.   Can't remember the name of it but what it does is lock the members that are there into a vote without the rest of the Senate.  The problem with this is that almost hall have gone back to their respective states and a large amount of the ones that are still there happen to be the ones that wil vote the Senators way.

Not to worry.  The (wait for it) INTERNET clued people in to the good Senators shananagins.

"No no no, I never did that"  and the soon to be infamous "My staff told me about the blog news"

Way to get Senator.  Still not using the comuter huh? Guess the tubes were empty that day.  

Metallica

Oh sweet googly moogly

Metallica has finally given in and gone digital. Big f'n deal.

Here's my problem with this. I worked in Radio for many years as a DJ. I followed this band when no one would listen or play them. They became famous by fans trading tapes of live shows. They finally get a great record deal and come back (after the loss of Cliff Burton) to come out with ...and justice for all. As a musician, this is one of my favorite albums. It's raw, and it allowed the band to musically deal with Cliff's death. I also cheered when they won a Grammy (think it was the grammy) for the song "One" which got NO radio play from any major stations. There were some college stations and a few lucky folks,like myself, who could play it but only after 10pm or on a specialty show.

Then came Napster.

I was using napster at the time and it was REALLY great. Better than ANYTHING out now. I also understand that it is illegal (not at the time though) but what chaffed my butt was that Metallica was at the FRONT of this attack on Napster. As a muscition I understand that you need to protect your property. Cool. But after they announced the court order Napster exploded. Most of the original people were gone at that point.

My bitch is that with them making all that money from word of mouth I felt it was very "sell out" to handle it the way they did. Being at the for front. If I read their name on a list of other bands then I wouldn't be mad at all. But since that I haven't purchased any of their music.

With that said.

They still are, and always will be, the definition of heavy metal. (IMHO)

So here goes the next rant.......

in iTunes music store, if you check out Metallica's section the most popular downloads are all the new stuff!! Damn kids, try learning music the right way!! Start with the early albums and see what the meat of the band (any band) is about. The mainstream stuff almost always sucks. From my time in radio I cannot tell you how many bands either right one or two songs specifically for the radio or they hire a writer that will pen a radio friendly song.

So please, kids, stay away from "some kind of monster" and "unforgiven" and grab "seek and destroy" or "ride the lightning"

your friend
Fenix

Updates

Hello all my faithful foll......FRIENDS yes.

My lawyer said I need to stop refrencing the peeps as "followers" or I'll have the FBI knockng. And we KNOW how they knock! Big ass tank through the door is how!
Check out the downloads. Got some new stuff there as well as some oearls of wisdom from the Fenix hissself.

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FENIX