:: The Bitch Girls ::

:: Monday, July 31, 2006 ::

Down again. Oh so much funness that is being a Dreamhost customer right now.

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:: Bitter 4:42 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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For the record:

I bought a Schick Quattro for Women the other day. This morning, I pulled it out of the plastic as I was rushing to get dressed to take care of the underarms quickly. That thing is amazing. I actually noticed better results in fewer swipes of the blade. Very happy. Let's see how it tackles my legs tonight.

I also intend to do a full post on wonder that is the Remington Trim & Shape. Best $20 I ever spent. It was to replace this older model of Trim & Shape that had far fewer heads. Good head(s) is (are) hard to find. (Believe me when I say I could not stop myself from that awful joke.) The old one also didn't survive the fall into the toilet. Oops. But I did get an enormously huge laugh out of watching it buzzzzzz under the water.

Why does it cost only $15 less for a Brazilian wax than to get the entire length of both legs waxed? It's a much smaller area and takes far less time. Granted, I have not had the entire length of both legs waxed, so I don't actually know how long it takes. However, having had other areas of the body waxed, I can make very educated guesses on this matter. But it is a smaller area so they use far less product. I'm not saying it should be a cheap as say getting the eyebrows done, but it shouldn't be nearly as much. And please don't argue that it's because the waxing chick has to look at areas she probably doesn't want to see because it's far more em-bare-assing to be the one actually getting waxed and having to get into all sorts of awkward positions to have the work done if it's a true Brazilian. At least I'm assuming...not that I would know.

I need to find a new place to get my eyebrows done. The last two times I've gone it was after periods where I was very busy with work and didn't have time to get to the salon. I keep them under somewhat reasonable control between visits, so it's not like I'm looking like Cousin It from the forehead down or anything. But the woman made fun of me the last couple of times, making cracks about how I obviously haven't been in a while. That and the bitch told me to try threading once. How fucking painful! I was in tears it hurt so bad.

That wraps up this edition of For the Record: Female Body Hair Issues. I'm sure you boys learned far more than you ever hoped to know about women and their body hair concerns.

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:: Bitter 3:28 PM [+] :: (3) comments
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Hey, let's talk about how Dreamhost is down again. Can't even get to my control panel to request help. No major outages reported at their status page. Lack of communication is the problem. And I was going to talk about tassles. Little red tassles.

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:: Bitter 3:16 PM [+] :: (2) comments
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I've tried to pass word along that I'm blogging over here for now. I doubt most people know. But oh well, what can you do?

I'm actually going to stop for tonight and possibly in the morning because the longer I'm looking at the Blogger homepage, the angrier I become over this issue. If they would even acknowledge my support tickets, I would be irritated, but not ready to bail. At this point, it would take a miracle to make me stay. It's the lack of customer service that's the problem in this case. When you can't keep your servers up throughout even one day, I'd say it's time to bring in extra help to cover the phones so-to-speak when customers want to know what the fuck is going on. I got a lot of space for relatively little, but I think I'd rather give up the perks and have the service.

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:: Bitter 9:54 PM [+] :: (1) comments
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Closing in on 20 hours with not even a note to say, "We got your request and are looking into it. Thanks for putting up with our shitty service as of late." I put in a 2nd request nearly 6 hours ago that they are also ignoring. I'm glad to know that listing something as a big fucking problem and explaining that the lack of the communication is my biggest beef still generates absolutely no attention from Dreamhost.

If I don't have a huge fucking apology or solution in my inbox by the time I wake up in the morning, I'm finding a new host. This is bullshit to have this many problems in such a short amount of time and not put extra tech support folks on to handle the volume of customer issues.

I was patient while they had more than 700 help tickets, but I've watched hundreds get resolved over the course of the day and noticed the number drop steadily. Amazingly, they can't be bothered to include mine in that. You'd think that being considered a "new" customer on my own account, they'd give a damn about looking like they have halfway reasonable customer service.

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:: Bitter 9:46 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Hey, it gave me a laugh this Sunday evening. But maybe that says more about my mood than anything.

KFYE-FM hasn't budged from the Fresno-area dial, but it's about as far as you can get from the Christian music, sermons and Bible stories it was broadcasting until about a week ago.

Now it calls itself "Porn Radio" — "all sex radio, all the time," with a suggestion that people under 21 not listen.

Songs with little in common except suggestive titles and lyrics fill the playlist, including "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" by The Beatles, "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye and "Nasty" by Janet Jackson. Tamer songs are heated up by adding recorded moans and groans.

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:: Bitter 8:48 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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How typically female that I actually think I might consider stopping by this exhibit.

A new exhibit opened on July 13, 2006 in the Department of Commerce's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Museum. “Shoes: Innovations at Your Feet” highlights shoe technology past and present. Visitors to the museum can learn the history of patented footwear, view stylish innovations, and see how people customize their shoes for work. The exhibit is an entertaining view of all kinds of footwear that incorporates 19 th century models of patented inventions as well as recent accomplishments of today's footwear industry, especially many brands in the areas of children's shoes, work shoes, comfort and fashion.

Link stolen from Manolo.

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:: Bitter 8:44 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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19 hours and the blog gone for than 20. Still no contact from Dreamhost. I have two tickets, and the 2nd one has been in for more than 4 hours.

I'm beyond pissed right now. I've been reading about other customers who can't get responses for hours, either.

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:: Bitter 8:34 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Well, I don't blame them. They created the monster.

About 40 lawyers from across the country have signed up for the National Lawyers on Longboards Surfing Contest scheduled during the Aug. 3-8 American Bar Association convention in Honolulu.

But the ABA has pulled out of sponsoring the surfing competition. The event organizer says the lawyers are afraid of being sued. ...

“It’s really funny - the ABA won’t officially sponsor it for liability reasons,” said Lea Hong, a Honolulu environmental lawyer and surfer. ...

About 10,700 lawyers in all will be in Honolulu for the ABA conference.

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:: Bitter 8:30 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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18 hours and Dreamhost still won't respond to my two tickets.

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:: Bitter 7:16 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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I think this is a complete waste of money.

Mobile Voter, a San Francisco based not-for-profit, has started a voter registration drive program through text messaging called Txtvoter. The program, which is intended to register younger voters, was done with grants from GWU’s Young Voter Strategies and the Pew Charitable Trust. Oh yeah, and it’s pretty much free.


Here’s how it works: Mobile phone users can text the word “voter” to short code address 75444 and answer a series of questions via text message to complete the voter application process. A few weeks later, a completed voter registration form arrives at their doorstep. The user just needs to sign it, date it and send it back. Mobile Voter, for better or worse, keeps track of the mobile user every step of the way. If they see you haven’t finished the registration process, they will send you a text message reminder. They even have “planet coding” on the snail mail envelopes to see when your voter registration is sent back in the mail. The final step? Txtvoter will send you an email on Election Day remind you to vote and where your precinct location is.

I can't imagine it would have any influence over people who weren't inclined to vote anyway. Maybe it might remind people about small local elections, but then you'll have more voters who are uneducated on the issues or candidates. I don't know that it's a good thing. But for larger elections, come on.

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:: Bitter 3:17 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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I've been pretty busy the last few days, so I haven't been reading a lot of blogs. However, I am catching up on end of the week posts at Hit & Run. Seems like porn and sluts were popular topics.

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:: Bitter 2:52 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Well more than 12 hours, still no website and still no response from Dreamhost. Getting pissed now.

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:: Bitter 2:51 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Okay boys and girls, the Blogathon is over. Those of you who sponsored will get an email with the direct link to the payment plan soon. Those of you who did not, well, do it already. You still have time. Help the hungry people.

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:: Bitter 8:59 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Hey, at least they won't kill her for it like Miss Indonesia.

The winner of a planned Miss Cambodia beauty pageant may have to take a crash course in swimsuit posing if she competes abroad.

The government has ruled out skimpy attire in contests at home, organizers said Friday.

The country will hold its first Miss Cambodia competition in more than a decade starting in September, with the final to be held three months later, said Kem Tola, marketing manager for Planet Communication Ltd., a Cambodian events management company.

(I would provide a link to my coverage of the Miss Indonesia thing, but since Dreamhost is being a bitch right now...not possible.

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:: Bitter 8:31 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Fun times in Texas!

As officials attempt to crack down on rowdy behavior during traditional summertime tubing river trips through the city, a San Antonio topless club is planning a tubing excursion featuring strippers.

Trey Maddox, a manager at Palace Men’s Club, said Sunday’s excursion - during which men can pay $25 to join the strippers - isn’t meant to fly in the face of the city’s new rules.

“We’re not hookers, dope dealers or Mafia thugs,” he said, noting that the strippers will be appropriately dressed. “We’re just coming to have a good time.”

That's a nice little summer promotion. Of course, being Texas, someone is always willing to rain on their parade.

City Councilman Ken Valentine isn’t so sure.

“I’m really disappointed that this is going to occur on Sunday, when people should be in church,” he said. “I hope they behave themselves and keep their clothes on, but I’m not sure they will because strippers are trained to take off their clothes.”

I'm not so sure that Ken Valentine will ever be able to stop being an asshole because that's what he's trained to do. I'm so glad that this government official is making public statements telling citizens they need to be in church praticing a religion. Not that he'd prefer they were in church based on his beliefs, but that they should be there.

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:: Bitter 7:58 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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There's nothing like taking a relaxing break by a stream during a long hunting trip.

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:: Bitter 7:32 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Nice boots...

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:: Bitter 6:51 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Pissy this morning. Dreamhost has been down since around 2am. I emailed the "monitor" for my site with the Blogathon and didn't hear back until I started bugging again around 6am. Anyway, I don't know if I'm getting credited with coming back online via this method or not since I was off for so long even though I couldn't get answers to my question about how to handle it. I'll upload the gun porn for you guys that was meant for the overnight hours.

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:: Bitter 6:44 AM [+] :: (1) comments
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