Tell me how pathetic this is, I’m 18 and a Nickelodeon/Nicktoons aficionado—I mean, I know em all from the “Backyardigans”, to “Rocko’s Modern Life”, and even some of the more obscure Nicktoons, like “The Mighty B!” and “The Secret Show.” Basically, I’m a 9 year old at heart and you can imagine my anger when I found out my local Cable company is pulling the plug on ALL Viacom channels (this includes Nickelodeon, MTV, Noggin, TV Land, etc). While I don’t paticularly care for MTV, TV Land and the few other Nickelodeon “sister stations” are frequented while I’m coding.
At 12:01am on January 1, these stations will go black and we’ll be stuck with Disney *gag* and the Time Warner’s own shitty news and entertainment stations. Now before you go and pull the “You still watch TV on TV?!, I must say that I am going to miss the Nicktoons talking in the background as I work and not having to worry about clicking “Next” or “Continue” when watching shows—not to mention getting my cartoon fix without breaking the law.
Either way, it should be interesting to see what the eighteen viacom channels will be replaced with, but I can almost guarantee it’ll be shitty…
EDIT: Well, it looks as though Time Warner Cable is still broadcasting Viacom stuff—fourty-five minutes after the supposed cessation at 12:01. Either way, I’m gonna
hope it sticks around.
Not surprising, I have very little going on worth the effort to “blog” about so you can probably skip this entry and move on to something more interesting.
Anyways, I have been working at Best Buy since late July and despite its negative connotations among the geeks of the world, I have to say I enjoy it. I started off selling computers but lacked the, erm… immorality needed confidence to sell the service plans. I was then moved to receiving (and came close to quitting). Finally, two days before Black Friday (November 28) I was moved to Administration (checkout and returns). I do admit I like it better up there and thankfully I didn’t take the rash action of quitting.
Now some of you may be wondering what the hell happened to Dunkin Doughnuts, well simply it was the most tedious and irritating job I have EVER had. Nothing better than being screamed at for too little (or too much) sugar or cleaning up puke in a parking lot.
As for college, I am in my last week of this semester and I am looking forward to being done with my classes for a few weeks. Overall I am doing well with my lowest grade being around an A-. My only issue is attendance, surprisingly driving 20 miles to class every day got old, who would’ve thought!. Next semester I managed to get most of my classes online so I should have the attendance issues… hopefully.
And finally, I managed to get Zeisu (you know, the project I was working on for a couple years, killed and restarted numerous times, and generally bugged the shit out of people with) to a working state. The irritating Beta page is gone and registration—through openID and username/pass—is open. Feel free to play around and attempt to destroy it look for holes and report them to me. Also be sure to post any features you’d like to see.
And before I get a rush of emails, I am well aware that the last thing the world needs is another social network, but give it a try. The amount of customization should be to your liking. 
So that about sums up the last few weeks, or months rather. Now lets see if I can get back into the habit of posting more than twice a year… 
