This is the place where I rant about the world, life, and everything inbetween. WARNING: Not for the narrow minded.

• 14May 08

  5 Years to the day.....

  Yes, 5 years ago on this very day I signed up to Gamespot, but thats not what this is about. Its about the fact that I signed up on my birthday of all days. Seriously, how pathetic does one have to be, that they have nothing better to do then to sign up to a gaming website ON THEIR BIRTHDAY!!!! Ugh, I feel like I want to put a shotgun to my mouth and pull the trigger. Think of this though, whats more pathetic? Signing up to a gaming website on your birthday, or talking about signing up to a website on your birthday, ON YOUR BIRTHDAY?!?!?

  But, Im thinking that I'll be making up, for the fact that I will be haging out with friends at a stripclub Saturday. So I guess It isnt all that bad.

  I turn 24 by the way.

  • Posted May 14, 2008 6:53 pm PT
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• 30Nov 07

  Freedom of Speech.

  Yes, this is sort of about the firing of Jeff but more or less America in general.

  America, the land of free home of the brave, no longer applies in today's world. In this day of age of high speed internet getting information has never been easier. Google dominates the web searching engine, You Tube dominates the user video library, and Myspace is the best way of keeping in contact with old friends and making new ones in the progress. All this at your fingertips and a few click away.

  Everyone in this entire world has an opinion about something, but not everyone has the option to express that opinion in public. Think about it, when was the last time you could stand out in front of a store and tell people not to shop there without getting arrested? When was the last time you could stand out in front of the Whitehouse and tell Dubya that he sucks a big fat one without secret services bashing your head in? When was the last time you just straight up said to a person you don't like them simply because of their race, religion, etc, etc, etc, without getting smacked with a lawsuit or the very least punched in the face? If you have said "never" to any of these, that tells you 2 things, 1. Everybody has turned into a bunch of fems and cant handle someone's else's opinion and more importantly 2. Your speech is no longer free.

  So where can one turn in this time of need? THE INTERNET! [40's voice guy] Yes, the internet, the information super highway. The internet, where you can call somebody a name and they can't punch you. Yes, the internet, where you can be a racist bastard and not get prosecuted by Rev. Al Sharptan or Jessie Jackson. The internet, were you can bash Dubya and not get thrown in prison. THE internet, where you can surf for free porn!! THE INTERnet, where pedo's can find under aged kids to have sex with but only to find out that......

  "I'm Chris Hanson from Dateline NBC. Why don't you take a seat."

  .....ohh, ****!!![/40's voice guy]

  Yeah, something like that.

  So, with this recent news of a firing of a critic from an internet website, is the internet really a true form of free speech anymore? I answer, yes, but that is slowly becoming restricted by the government and being bought out buy the corporations....case in point.

  I really have nothing to say about Jeff being fired, he did his job, he gave his opinion. Edios fathead didn't like it and bought off Gamespot to fire Jeff.

  Money is power people and it's always going to be like that until you learn to stand up for what you believe in and get a group behind you that is just as passionate about it as you are. Example, be it a bad one, the Phelps Clan. They stand up for what they believe in, and they garner, not national, but WORLDWIDE press about it. True they do spread a message of hate but they are determined to spread it. I don't want to end this blog on a low note like the Phelps' so, moving on.

  Unlike most people, Jeff's firing is not going to lead me to cancel my account or spam the forums with a bunch of BS. Stuff happens; people get fired all the time. Yeah, it's a real lame how he lost his job but people have been fired for less. He should be so lucky.

  • Posted Nov 30, 2007 11:15 am PT
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• 5Nov 07

  Life is good.

  About 2 months after I lost my job , I got a new job as a janitor at the local middle school, I say "the" because it is THE only one in my town. That only lasted a month though as I was the new guy and didn't have the right connections to keep my job. So, I got laid off. This post is not about that job though. 2 weeks later I signed up with a couple of temp agencies. One of them found me a job right away working as a grounds keeper for the rest of the summer. Being a grounds keeper for those 6 weeks was probably the single GREATEST job I ever had.....but, alas, this thread is not about it either.
  
  I could talk about the other job I had after being a grounds keeper, where I worked at a printing company boxing up winter cards for Hallmark. Seeing the same stupid polar bear and his bowling pin shaped penguin, sledding down the hill, almost crashing but he doesn't because thats where the hologram on the card ends. You'd wish, YOU'D WISH, though, that just once, a tree branch was in the right place at the right time, and when that stupid polar bear jumped once more, his head would land 10 feet back from his body. I digest though, and alas, this post is also not about that job. Although on many occasions I have wanted to stab my chest multiple times while working there. Again, I digest.
  
  This is about the job I got recently, last Wednesday 10/31 in fact. The place that hired me...was the same place that fired me not but 7 months, 12 days, 6 hours, and some odd minutes earlier. You ask yourself though, "How the hell did this happen?!?" Well....if you even read my post up to this point, you might be asking yourself this question.....or not. How the hell do I know what you are thinking?!?!
  
  In the 7 months I was away from that place, the company name was changed to something different. My dad made the suggestion, "Out of curiosity to see what would happen.", that I apply there and I did so via online. I just left out the part where I got fired from there or even worked there for that matter. A few days later while looking in the paper for a job, I saw that they were having a career fair at a nearby workforce center. I went in, filled out a application, did a typing test, then waited for a interview, and waited, and waited, till they finally called my name.
  
  The interview went reasonably well, I pretty much bs'd my way through the whole thing. Gave out fake stories, fake situations, fake everything. Then she asked me if I have ever worked for them in the past or any affiliate of them, then she listed off all of the other companies associated with them. One of them was the company that I got fired from. However, I look her straight in the eye and without skipping a beat, breaking into a cold sweat, or batting an eyelash, I said, "No." She explained what they did there, then what I would be doing. After all of that, she just flat out offered me a job, and I went ahead and took it. I went ahead and filled out all the forms, signed the necessary documents, and walked out with a grin ear to ear.
  
  Now given the past nature with me and this company, I'd figure that they would find out who the hell I was, and that lied right to their face. So I just waited for the phone call saying just that and that I couldn't work for them.
  
  The rest of Wednesday passes: No phone call.
  
  Thursday passes: No phone call.
  
  Friday passes: No phone call.
  
  The Weekend: Get stupidly wasted for the fact that I will have to start working again on Monday, and still no phone call.
  
  That brings me to today.
  
  They know that I have worked for them in the past, they just don't care. I know this because I got my old badge back, the one I had to turn in when I got fired, so I can enter the building. On top of that, I am right near where I used to work in the building, so I got to see a lot of my old co-workers and supervisors. I even saw the supervisor that got me fired and she saw me. In that moment, I had a sense of....victory. When she became my supervisor, she did everything in her power to get me fired, and she succeeded. Here I was though looking at her straight in the eyes, and knowing that she can't do a thing to me now, I get a sorta sick satisfaction out of it.
  • Posted Nov 5, 2007 5:25 pm PT
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