Hai! koko mo rant arimas ne! (yes! here is another rant).

Ahh.. where to begin where to begin! Lets jump on the war bandwagon!

PROTESTORS! Holy mother of god these people desperately need a clue. Apparently they dont already see that hundreds of thousands of OTHER PROTESTORS around the globe are in no way affecting the UNs decisons. I swear to god its like my old elementary school out there. There are like.. 10 kids on top of the food chain, and they do whatever the fuck they want, regardless of what the other students or teachers say/do/think. They rip off other kids lunch money (taxes? ;b) and just are a general nuissance. they dont contribute to society in any way, they just go and play in their little (global?) sandbox. *sigh*

THE WAR: It might sound totally fucked up, but coming from a guy whos worked tech support for 5+ years, i say if another country has a problem lettem fucking fix it themselves. If they want help, they should ask for it. They shouldnt assume that the US will always be there to fix their problems. As for finding known terrorists? Fuck man, why on earth be civil and humane? Everyone knows damn well that we’ve been sending out our little opsat ninjas to find and take out key people. the war is just being flashy and showing everyone the public side of shit. What really goes on is nothing that is ever made public. I mean seriously, if they told us what they were really doing people would flip out, and rightfully so. If i was ‘the man’ i would tell my goddamn moron public what i was doing. Theyd whine complain bitch and snivel and throw a fit. Course, id run shit different, but thats a different rant altogtether :)

CORPORATE AMERICA: a thought.. *ahem* “fuck you.” I hate corporate america. Ive recently have I been exposed to ‘monopoly’ as I like to call it. Corporate america (for those of you lucky motherfuckers that dont have to deal with it to get by) is basically just like being a model. It doesnt matter what you do, how you do your job, IF you do your job, or if you are even qualified. Corporate america is fueled by ONE THING and ONE THING ALONE. Deciet. It all comes down to some idiot in charge who shouldnt be there, or doesnt care about his underlings. All that matters is how you look, how you talk, how smooth you are, and where you can pass the buck, or somehow make yourself appear better in the direct eyes of your superior. Since my actual work ethics include being honest, doing my work, and not telling my superiors a buncha complaints and being a pain the ass, I dont fit very snugly in this perfect corporate mockery our society has created. I did the math this evening. 40 percent of the people that have been hired after me have been promoted for one reason or another. One or two of those promotions I can agree with. The rest were, in my opinion, COMPLETELY POINTLESS. Let me give you fellas some background : I work in a highly technical enviroment. I am required to know literally buckets of information to get by day to day. Every day I have to learn new things, details mostly to get the problems that I am presented with resolved. I have to be as resourceful as possible, because as our corporate structure has changed, my position puts me 4 hops away from the CEO (dont whip your dicks(or other misc genetaila) out just yet, its not a good thing). I have to dress up for work (even though all I do is field phonecalls). I have to support hardware and software that my company is not required to support (checkpoint firewalls, pix firewalls, sqlserver7/2000, linux, solaris, windows, hardware, etc) and I have to basically be mr. ubersmart consultant for every customer that calls. These customers are fucking vultures. If I was them, I would be quite so bad (mostly cuz I like fixing shit myself, not calling for help) but if they see any opportunity for them to get free support out of YOU(the tech on the phone) and not pay some consultant 300 dollars an hour to come in and fix every detail they dont like in their environments, they will. They will milk you till you want to kill yourself. My last personal anal violation was how I got to reconfigure some poor schlongs solaris server to run our install properly (the install shell script had errors, so i got to play mr coder too). That day I had one of my fellow techs come ask me how BIND is setup, and if I could help him with his customer who wanted us to troubleshoot his install of bind on solaris (he was getting bs errors in his logs, btw). Its absolutely appauling how much I am required to know for my superiors to think that i am “a good tech”. I got my annual review on wednesday(the 19th?) and lets just say that I am less than pleased. Ever since I started i knew that there were people that did less for the company than I did that were making significantly more than I was. At the time it didnt bother me too much because I told myself that ‘oh this guys got a degree’ or some other nonsense, and dismissed it from my mind. Here we are a tad over a year later, and these guys with degrees have been promoted, and are making oodles of money to litterally generate red tape, make the rest of the department miserable, and make it appear as though they are actually doing their jobs. Its my personal belief that KNOWLDEGE OF THE SOFTWARE YOU SUPPORT should be the number one thing looked at when deciding to promote someone in tech support. Its tech support, not sales. Theres no reason to promote someone to a senior tech unless they have the knowledge to be useful in that position. Currently we have 6 senior techs in my department. there is ONE TECH that I can go to in the rare occasion I have a question, because I know more than he does. As for the other 5? well, two of them come to ME and ask ME questions (why on earth did they promote these guys if they still ask questions you ask? hence my rant.). *groan* Its times like these that moral is shaken and one comes to the realization that no matter how hard he tries, there is a glass ceiling that is preventing him from getting anywhere. I remember once working for a company as a sysadmin. It was probably the most enjoyable job I ever had. I used to be able to say that my current job was the coolest, most information-rich and comfortable job that I had ever worked. I used to be able to. About 6 months ago, all that changed. Technological experience, detailed knowledge, and ability to fix customers is now no longer the key elements that make one a great tech. Sure they help, but the people that are good at knocking out phonecalls.. somehow never get promoted. They remain, and knock out phonecalls. hmm… i see a pattern developing.

INTERNET POP CULTURE: sheesh. I need to create a ‘links’ section on this site much like the quote engine. I get like.. prolly 5-20 links A DAY that I nearly piss myself laughing at, or would be cool to share. I also think I will be posting a lot more shit on this site, as my main focus used to be elevating myself vocationally to a position that would make the rest of my life easier (english? make more fucking money so im not broke all the time), but all the effort I had put in over the last year really didnt amount to even half of what I thought it did. It would appear that once again my priorties are seriously misaligned. I keep waking up to these facts months after its too late. I used to think that the golden rule applied to everything. The more you put into to something, the more it returns. The simple truth is that ‘everything’ is usually a company, a girl, a person, a car or something else. 99 percent of the time that ’something else’ is just as greedy as the rest of the planet, and will take what you give whole heartedly, get used to it, and expect it. If you give 110 percent all the time, they will come to expect it out of you, so when you decide ‘Okay, Ive done three times the work.. im going to take a break’ you get shit on for not doing what is now expected out of you. This at least for me has applied across the goddamn board. Its now time for me to be greedy. Its time for me to forcefully take what Ive spent months/years trying to earn. Im sick of sitting aside and watching the world pass me by as I do more than what is expected out of me and hope to get some kind of recognition or compensation out of it.

Carpe diem motherfuckers, cuz if you dont sieze it, some other fool will, and youll be dicked. Thats what it comes down to.

I think the ‘destroying shit’ gallery takes the cake. That seemed to win by a landslide, so from here on in, you may submit images to me. Ideally I’d like them emailed to me. dan@assnugget.org

Some quotes that come to mind in this particular time of crisis —

“Life is a waterfall. we’re one in the river and one again after the fall.
swimming through the void we hear the word we lose ourselves
but we find it all…. cause we are the ones that want to play
always want to go but you never want to stay and we are the
ones that want to choose, always wanna play but you never
wanna loose.” -System of a down

“Blink and you miss a beat, keep one eye open at all times.
Think that youre on the brink? the shit hasnt even begun to
hit the fan” –Incubus

“Will I ever get to, to where it is that I am going? Will I ever follow
through with what I… with what I have planned? I guess it’s possible
that I have been a bit distracted, and the directions for me are a lot
less in demand. Will I ever get to where I’m going? If I do will I know
when I’m there? If the wind blew me in the right direction. Would I
even care? …I would. I take a look around, it’s evident the scene
has changed. And there are times when I feel improved, improved
upon the past. And there are times when I can’t seem to understand
at all. And yes it seems as though I’m going nowhere really fucking fast.”
–Incubus

“Isn’t it strange that a gift could be an enemy? Isn’t it weird that a
privilege could feel like a chore? Maybe its me, but this line isn’t going anywhere.
Maybe if we looked hard enough we could find a back door. Find yourself a back door
I see you in line dragging your feet, You have my sympathy. The day you were born
you were born free. That is your privilege.
Isn’t it strange that the man standing in front of me Doesn’t have a clue why he’s
waiting or what he’s waiting for? Maybe its me but I’m sick of wasting energy.
Maybe if I look in my heart, I can find a back a door Find yourself a back door”
–Incubus

“one time a thing occured to me, what’s real, and what’s for sale? blew a kiss and
tried to take it home. it isn’t you, isn’t me, search for things you can’t see.. going
blind, out of reach somewhere in the vaseline.
two times and it has rendered me punch drunk and without bail. think I’d be safer all alone
flys in the vasoline we are, sometimes it blows my mind keep getting stuck here all the time”
–Stone temple pilots

“On a tuesday in the rain I never thought there’d come a day. if I put myself to the
test, would I ever raise a fist would I just shut my mouth, would I just block it out?
I’ve sworn a million times never to be left, standing with that feeling of hopelessness
just standing nervous in the alley. When all is said and through would I know just what to do
and if I put myself to the test would I ever raise a fist would I just shut my mouth or just block it out
I’ve sworn a million times never to be left, standing with that feeling of hopelessness, just standing nervous in the alley.
Is it a change of heart, that keeps us apart and you say it’s true and we know it’s true when all we have left is me and you and it’s so strange, when all I have left to say is I wonder what’s worth fighting for?” — Less than Jake

“When I think of how things are right now it feels like, it all feels like some kind of circus show.
and how this town it keeps you pinned down with the same old song from years ago.
and y’know this place will chew you up and spit you out before you go and when they drag you
kicking and screaming from the scene you know it’s time to leave. when I think of this town right now
it’s filled with speed freaks and assholes and all kinds of creeps and somehow every new face in every single case in a year or two will be erased. and to think of how I’m feeling right not somehow
I still remember how I felt 4 years ago and when I think of how things are right now it’s still the same
old song from years ago what do I know? that it’s still the same old song from years ago”
–Less than Jake

“and he just knows that time is just spinning by and life is passing him by so fast And sometimes I think I’m the only one that feels like going nowhere is like giving up. Al said to me a few days ago that he just thought for the first time in his life he feels the last 10 years were only a waste of time
and that it was only a compromise of what he always felt inside his declaration of independence
said to me under the orange street lights” –Less than Jake

*pant pant* Sheesh. okay I think that about covers things for the time being. Im sure tomorrow morning Ill get up and read this, and realize that im clinically loopy. Either way, everyone follows a
certain motto, and everyone has their own sayings. Right now im not sure where I stand, because
it appears everything I thought was true (or almost all of it) no longer applies, and I have to learn
everything all over again. It would appear there are two worlds out there. One for people younger
than 22 or so, and one for people older. Of course there are exceptons to the rule, but it seems
I have to ditch everything I learned in my life and start over in my new age bracket.

Again, picture submissions for the new gallery are being taken. THESE ARE THE CRITERIA: I dont want just stupid pictures you found on images.google.com of shit breaking (well.. unless theyre REALLY cool :b). I want pictures of *YOU* breaking shit.. or video.. either or. If you cant post it somewhere yourself, talk to me about it and I can likely post it for you. Lets make this gallery better than the middle finger galleries (number of entries, that is)

Links of the moment:
www.happytreefriends.com
www.drinkydrink.com
www.redmeat.com
www.masturbateforpeace.com
www.rathergood.com/gaybar/
members.rogers.com/kydaimon/images/wellprotect.jpg
www.sinfest.net/comics/sf20030320.gif
www.assnugget.org/pics/pringles.jpg

bai bai!

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