Amon Tobin yesterday :D

It was really huge, he did an awesome set...

Punchfunk this evening with chemicalfan, should be a good night again, any other forum members wellcome.

:'( I threw away my converse that ive had for 3 years :'( They've been trough so much with me :'( They went to all the continents , to all the parties , everywhere :'( But they are falling apart and they smell so bad :'( It hurts...

Jeanie Escribi�:

:'( I threw away my converse that ive had for 3 years :'( They've been trough so much with me :'( They went to all the continents , to all the parties , everywhere :'( But they are falling apart and they smell so bad :'( It hurts...

I feel your pain. There's very little in this world that is as heartbreaking for a woman than throwing out an old pair of much loved shoes.

i have had total pc rage today.



last night, working on a project and whoosh computer crashes. cubase wont start up. bollox. try uninstalling and reinstalling. doesnt work. try reinstalling over the top. doesnt work. try a system restore. doesnt work.



leace it till mornign and hope itll magically work. it doesnt. try different versions of it., doiesnt work. try manually deleting registry edits. doenst work.



give up and use windows repair disk. finally, 6 hours later it works.



now ive lost all my settings in windows though, which is a pain but at least i didnt have to reformat i guess.



bah.



}:-@

you know, I don't really get emotional about many things, mainly I don't fucking care, you know, unless of course I'm drunk, but I saw this picture with this caption today, and for some reason my eyes won't stop tearing and I want to light my office on fire.

From the Press Release: The British photographer David Gillanders (more of Gillanders photos here) is the winner of this year?s international photographic contest ?UNICEF Photo of the Year?. His photo shows a street child in Odessa. Yana made her way from Moldova, the poorest country in Eastern Europe, to the Ukrainian city. She died last Christmas addicted to drugs and infected with the HI virus. She was only 13 years old. Yana?s fate is a typical example for a lost generation of children and adolescents in many Eastern European countries. In no other region of the world does the virus spread as rapidly ? above all because drug addicts often use contaminated syringes. Approximately one per cent of the population is addicted to hard drugs. 1.4 million have already contracted HIV, primarily young people are affected: 80 per cent of all infected people in Eastern Europe are less than 30 years old ? every tenth of them is a child. See the other winners and the stories behind their photographs here.

the pic is here, it's rather huge, and rather depressing



http://www.unicef.de...res/1_Preis.jpg

^ Moldova.. :(



It's amazing what her addiction did to her. She looks like she was totally ravaged by long hard time even though she was only 13 years old.

you know one thing I just realized, that's so fucking upsetting about that picture, is that girl was a victim of the U.S. military industrial complex.



The United States started the fucking cold war and the arms race, and made it perfectly clear that when we had the military edge, we'd march into russia or just nuke the fuck out of it, and yet the american people were sold a story that russia and communism were threatening US, when the exact opposite was true. We forced the russians to bankrupt their economy keeping up, and destroyed their government, so now it's a place where thirteen year old girls can die of fucking AIDs in the fucking streets, killed by the same people who are even today making billions of dollars in US tax money funding slaughter in Iraq.

indeed very thought provoking and heartbreaking 8O

I thought of something that made me feel better about the whole thing:



"Center for Missing and Exploited Children? I enjoy missing and exploited children as much as the next guy, but I don't think I want to be seen there"

toomuch'stash Escribi�:

you know one thing I just realized, that's so fucking upsetting about that picture, is that girl was a victim of the U.S. military industrial complex.



The United States started the fucking cold war and the arms race, and made it perfectly clear that when we had the military edge, we'd march into russia or just nuke the fuck out of it, and yet the american people were sold a story that russia and communism were threatening US, when the exact opposite was true. We forced the russians to bankrupt their economy keeping up, and destroyed their government, so now it's a place where thirteen year old girls can die of fucking AIDs in the fucking streets, killed by the same people who are even today making billions of dollars in US tax money funding slaughter in Iraq.

Although I won't disagree with anything you said there ('cause it's all true), I genuinely doubt she would have been much better off under the system of government they had in place pre-1991. Both sides were complete assmagnets; the difference is the US won.

you're probably right man... somehow though, that picture just struck me, made me feel like I'm not only complicit in all the suffering in the world, but that it's somehow my fault

True that. There are so many problems in the world, both near and far, that it can get really depressing.

well, normally it doesn't bug me at all, I mean, let's be honest, I've taken so many drugs I don't really have 'emotions' or feeling like normal people anymore, I'm really just a twitchy bag of chemical influenced animal fight or flight instincts.... so when something does get to me, it's suprising more than painful... like, what the fuck, I thought I was beyond all that human bullshit.

Yeah, I hear you. Emotions can be a bitch. But it means something that it means something, y'know?

I finally had the first customer at my current job I wasn't able to talk down today.



When a customer's credit card declines, we send them an email. Well, one particular customer had his credit card decline for 3 items he won on our website, so we sent him the standard mail asking him to contact us and blah blah blah. So he calls, and I'm on my lunch break, so he calls again and speaks to someone else. This someone else is irritated (and understandably so since it's not techincally her job anymore) that she has to cover for me since me and my boss were unavailable. She calls the customer something along the lines of a bold faced liar, so he loses his shit and she hangs up on him.



Of course, he calls and leaves a sweet message on my voicemail, and me, being the unsuspecting employee, calls him back. He instantly lays into me. I let him hollar, then I ask him if he's done so I can help him. He launches into a foul mouthed tirade trying to insult me (you know the standard I-make-more-money-than-you-in-a-week-than-you-do-in-a-year, trying to make it personal, and all I can do is laugh because he then goes into how he's a truck driver and he's been truckin for years making loads of money) When he takes a breath, I tell him that in order for me to help him, he needs to calm down.



By now, my conversation had an audience - half the office. He tells me to shut up, and I say to him, "if you'd let me get a word in edgewise, then you'd have the right to tell me to shut up" he tells me to shut up again, and I threaten to cancel his account and relist his items and charge him a fee for the declined occurances (a lovely tactic we use for rough customers) Then he goes on and on about how he has money in his account and how we're at fault because his credit card is declining. I say cheerfully, "OK, I'll run the card again" Of course it declines, and he goes through the roof when I tell him ever so sweetly which really, really agitates pissed off people. He tells me "you people suck" and I tell him, "well that's a nice observation sir, but your abuse is not really appreciated" and because I'm acting rather stoic it's pissing him off to the point where I could feel him popping a vein in his forehead. "I'm going to cancel your account now" I say, and he tells me to suck his dick, with which I reply, "I'm very sorry sir, I cannot accomodate your request. Goodbye."



It should've pissed me off but it had me laughing instead because I cancelled his account and he loses his items he bid on.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

he tells me to suck his dick, with which I reply, "I'm very sorry sir, I cannot accomodate your request. Goodbye."

Oh my god is that awesome. The stoic approach is always the best approach. I love dealing with fuckers like that. Wicked job, Whirly!

and truck drivers don't really make a lot of money unless they are smuggling mexicans or drugs.

Independent operator truck drivers can actually make a fair coin, to be honest.



But, as this guy's credit card kept getting declined, clearly he wasn't too sharp with the finances.

that's fricken hilarious... Night of the Living Rednecks.