☄ Do I know you? If so, read this... ☄
Current mood: bored
Category: Life
Yeah. I'm gonna try the impossible task of keeping all my addresses together, & synch-ing 'em with my various e-mails and my phone.
If you think I should have your mailing address, e-mail address, home/cell/work phone number, birthday, IM name(s), anniversary, URL, or underwear size. Hit me up! Hell, I can even take pics to add to your *.vcf, too... so I can see it in Open Contacts and/or hopefully on my phone if I get it all synched up right.
Hit me back here, or drop me an e-mail if you have one of my addresses.
I haven't really been on MySpace much lately. I need to just wipe out & re-do my whole layout. It's boring.
Wedding pics from the photographer, friends, & family should be up in a better online album than the one on here some time soon.
Sprint & The Samsumg SPH-M520: Slowly driving me to the brink of insanity...
Current mood: frustrated
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
Since early June when I got my new SPH-M520, I've had to...
Reset my voicemail 3 separate times when prompted as I was attempting to simply check my voicemail... which had already been set up... each time.
E-mail customer service, visit the Sprint store (even to the extent of going directly back in right after leaving when the phone was reset because it SILL wasn't doing what they told me it would do...), & call the "tier 2" service number to resolve an issue with not being able to download game & ringer content. This was eventually solved after several reset/update tries in the phone, & eventually a 'factory default reset'.
E-mail & call tech support about this as-of-yet-unresolved issue where I get the error message "Info alert System Info Alert System Failure: Exception getting alert for rule pmltpm87" when trying to upload photos to my picturemail account, or send picture mail. When I try to access picturemail via the web @ http://pictures.sprintpcs.com, I encounter this error: "PM 87: Picture Mail access failure. Please call Customer Solutions".
Each time I try to get an issue resolved, I go through the same "reset this/reset that" set of steps until I'm told by e-mail to call the sprint service number, by the service number to go to the store, and by the store to call the service number yet again when all they've done is to call the service number in the first place while I stood there and looked at them?
Why do you have e-mail support and/or people in the store for customer service when all they're there for is to tell you to call the customer service line?
Can you please tell me why on Earth I should keep this phone/plan? (Besides the "we have your balls in a jar" early termination fee, which is a cool $250 about now...)
If my phone is reset (yet again!), I worried about losing my downloaded content like ringtones & games... since they inexplicably can't be saved to the MicroSD card or transferred to other Bluetooth devices? (Why am I not allowed to control/transport content that I paid for in the first place?) Thankfully, the d/l's are valid for 90 days, to d/l as many times as you need. You'd think this wouldn't be necessary, unless they anticipate tons of network problems...
I also had custom ringtones (Gasoline Dion & AiXeLsyD riffs, of course) that I created & got to my phone via Ventones.... they're of course gone, left for me to re-do.
I can't remember a time when I have dealt with any entity this inept at resolving an issue. Seriously. Would you personally accept this level of service from anything in life that you actually pay for?
If I email about more than one question at a time, typically I get a response to only one facet of my inquiry.
I made a visit to the Sprint store this evening to try and (yet again) resolve the issue by a 'factory default reset' of my phone.
They did the typical 'take my phone & tell me to come back in an hour' thing... I do... & they give me a post-it note w/ the 877-345-7895 "tier 2" service line number on it.
At this point, I just can't take it any more. I explain to the girl everything that I just stated above, and how I had talked to someone at the 877-345-7895 number the previous evening, & that they sent me in to the store for the factory reset.
She goes to get the manager, who is of course busy with other customers, so my name is added to the queue. Before the manager is done, a guy from the back comes out to help.
I go through him with all of the issues, show him the phone & online error messages, he gets on the phone with Sprint...
The final resolution is STILL to call the 877-345-7984 "data services" number & give them my Network Trouble Ticket Number.
They should have a resolution in a few days, I'm told... when this is the same department that I've dealt with several times previously.
At any rate... for anyone else with Sprint Problems, skip the that they give you... try one of these...
Sprint eCare: (888) 298-8892 Sprint Tech Support / Data Services: (888) 211-4724 Sptin "Tier 2" Customer Service: (877) 345-7859
And, if the webform is of virtually no use to you, try some (or all) of these e-mail addresses:
In comics, the Joker has been portrayed many different ways, with multiple origin & back stories. Who do you think captures him best on screen?
Cesar Romero - Romero played this roll like a nutball circus clown gone mad in the '66 Batman TV show & movie. His maniacal laughter inspired all Jokers after him... but he refused to shave his mustache for the role, and if you look hard enough, you can see it covered in white makeup. The Joker is goofy. Romero is goofy. Camp was the name of the game here. "Have you heard this one? It'll KILL you, Batman!"
Jack Nicholson - Nicholson's version of the Joker ranks 45 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 50 film villains. In Tim Burton's 1989 Batman flick, the Joker was as much of a focus in the movie as Batman himself. It was rumored that he'd reprise his role if Schumacher hadn't killed that 90's Bat-franchise. He brought insanity to the table, and scared the guano out of us. "Wait 'till they get a load o' me..." It was our 1st on screen look at how Evil the Joker really was. Nicholson always looks a little crazy, but in the Joker makeup, he looked like a killing spree waiting to happen. "Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
(Joshua) Andrew Koenig - Probably known best as "Boner" from Growing Pains, he's in what some people refer to as the Best representation of Batman on film, ever: Sandy Collora's Batman: Dead End. He's on screen for a few maniacal seconds. Does it work for you? Also, oddly enough, he's Checkov's son. Check it out if you haven't already!"Look at my face. This is who I am. My... 'mask' is permanent. You have a choice. "
Heath Ledger - The recently deceased Ledger has captured a Joker in The Dark Knight that is so sadistically and randomly evil, that it's giving the general public a "WTF?" moment. Director Christopher Nolan calls Ledger's performance "iconic". This Joker is not only a madman, he's a Psychopath. CLearly all involved did their homework, and read stories like The Killing Joke to get the mindset of the darker Joker of the comic book world. Clearly, he has stolen the film... and sets the tone for more dark Batman tales to come. "You just couldn't let me go could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible aren't you? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness, and I won't kill you, because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
I still need to post camp pics, I have some to put up, but all my video sucks quality-wise... So, I dunno if I'll have a decent copy of the song to put up at the Camp Counselor Song Profile...
Sprint is being dumb with my phone, and I still can't send pics or video right. Their network is all screwball.
Charging fully completed. ■███
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life
Well, another year at a week of camp Living Waters has come & gone. (Photos coming soon!) I can't get enough of that place. It's not only the beautiful & secluced location. There's a feeling of serenity that surrounds me as soon as I'm there. It's where I've met some of my closest life long friends, & even my wife. It's a place where I grew close with friends & family, blurring the line constantly so that there's no real division between the two.
This week was great. It's fun to have seen some of these kids grow up and to see where they are now in their lives, and where they're headed. It's fun to meet new campers, & hope that I've been a positive influence in all of their lives. I also think it's one of the things that keeps me young. (Mentally, anyway.)
The learing & discussion this week was pretty intense. I learned a lot just by listening to some of the discussions. Some of these kids had some great insight. I'm generally not very "in your face" with my religion. I'll defend my stance on things if it's called into question, but I don't feel it's my duty/right to beat others over the head with it. I think I'm more comfortable with my views on things, and with how I'm to act according to my faith. Not saying I'll ever be perfect, but that I know the difference between right & wrong. Sometimes, you need to step back & look at the bigger picture while you're addressing immediate concerns.
Highlights of the week included the "Get Smart" night game, making mountain pies (always reminds me of my dad), cooking 12 steaks on the fire after some campers went to bed, getting pizza one night (the food wasn't all that spectacular this year), helping the kids learn to shoot archery, remembering how to shoot again (...always wear an arm guard!), singing songs with our camp & the rec campers, hiking on new trails, and just being there in general.
I just upped soem more reception table photos too. Wanted to get them up before the camp pics. I still gotta go through the camp ones & turn stuff sideways & edit the color/contrast of some duds.
At any rate, I'm off to catch Ice Road Truckers...
Currently
listening
:
Have Another Ball!
By
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Release date: 2008-07-08
Some wedding photos up...
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Life
I have somewedding photos up. It's not nearly all the ones I have. Just a select few from family and the reception table photos. I'm only about a third of the way through with the table cameras. More will be up soon! Also still waiting fore some more pics form family & friends, & of course the ones from the photographer. Once I get 'em all up, I'll try to put them in some kind of order, too. Hard to believe it was only a month ago. Seems like longer than that!
Currently
listening
:
Collection II
By
Misfits
Release date: 1995-11-14
I know this was just posted, but I've fiddled around with this thing and there's a new updated release.
I went it and edited all the song files so that the volume was more even across the board, cut out silence at the beginning & end of some tracks, and played with some of the volumes in the songs a little. I also updated the included booklet including the cover, and added an html readme file with links to all the bands' websites. I think it's a slightly better overall product now.
Best part is, you can get it right from aixelsyd.com, no upload services or popups. Just click the pic to get it:
What's the deal with the name of the comp. & the paper clips?
Well, there's a word filter in the forum that alters most references to the male genetalia to "paper clip". Why? I don't remember why it all started, but now it's a running joke. Another running joke is to utter "It's about violence!" in response to... well, anything. Why? Well, read on:
MisfitsCentral.com wrote: We Are 138 Based on George Lucas's 1971 science fiction film "THX-1138," this song reflects the anonymity attached to living with a number for a name in a 25th century police state. On July 1, 1996 Bobby Steele e-mailed the following to the Misfits Bible:
"We used to have badges with a picture of a robot with 138 on his forehead. I wonder if Jerry has one, or remembers it... He [Glenn] used to tell us that if someone asked what it meant, we should just laugh, and in a mocking tone say "What? You don't know?" and sound real snobby when you say it. Make them feel like every idiot but YOU knows what it means."
Jerry Only told a similar story to a fan after a show on July 27, 1996:
"'138' is like people being treated as androids where you have a number instead of a name, so it's like the human number would be a 138... We had buttons made once, they were robots with '138' that looked like half human android kinda things, long before your Terminator or stuff like that."
Glenn Danzig summarized it in a Twec.Com interview on January 27, 2000:
"They didn't write it, and they don't know what the fuck it's about. It's about violence."
Where did this alll get started, & how do I learn more?
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(Joshua) 
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