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well, can i see the future or what. not more than 12 hours after i posted my last rant, said jackass was let go from my company. HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my celebration was cut short by the fact that my boss was let go as well. the one individual who probably had done the most in moving the
company forward was one of the first to be let go. i just don't understand it.

the other reason why my overwhelming joy has subsided is that now i serve as sole web developer, database administrator, network engineer,
and system administrator but somehow am being paid the same amout of money. i'm doing the work of four people but only get paid for one.
corporate america beats the hell out of me.

night

ash

hey everybody, i'm back. i know i promised to ran
t about a guy i worked with, and well, i'm going to right now!!!

ok, i know almost everyone out there has a co-worker exactly like this. why is it that someone who is infinitely smart is also infinitely a
dumbass? i still haven't figured that one out. how can a person who has an iq vastly larger than my own also have a very small percentage
of the common sense of a 5 year old?

my example of this person is someone who professes to be an expert in his field and won't hesitate to give examples from 'back in the day'
or go into some obscure, detailed technical description that only the most supreme ubergeeks can begin to comprhend. with all this vast
knowledge and experience, it still baffles me how this guy cannot follow simple 4 step instructions for a procedure and then complain about
the procedure being flawed for not working correctly. the most amazing thing i've seen this guy pull off is when a project manager asked if a
task had been completed yet, the response he got was "Are you f*cking kidding me?" no bullshit. this sort of response would be ok in a laid
back, friendly environment, but believe me, the relationship between this guy and the project manger is less than friendly.

he also is the worst pessimist i have ever met. anytime an idea is brought up that requires any amount of effort, he begins to think of
reasons why it won't work instead of thinking of ways to make it work. one last thing that bothers me is how a task that any average intern
could do in a matter of minutes seems to take him a matter of days. if i was the HMFIC (head mo fo in charge), i would have found a
replacement for this person a long time ago.

i've babbled on long enough. i need to get my rest so i'm fresh and attentive when i go find out if i still have a job tomorrow. what? i'll save
that one for a later rant. for now, good night my children. dream of large women.

ash

i know that's its been forever since i've posted a rant., but i've been busy as hell the past month. i will say that i had an absolute BLAST at
the Rose Bowl. i'd also like to thank a certain student at Purdue University for returning something of mine that i misplaced while i was out
there. anyway, i'm going to try to start posting every night, kind of like a journal or something. i promised a rant about a guy i work with, but
that'll have to wait. sorry.

later

ash

hey gang, long time,no post.....anyhoo, i'm going to the ROSE BOWL this weekend. I'm hoping this will be the best new year's that i'll never
remember. football and massive drinking. doesn't get much better than that. i know this hasn't been much of a rant, but I pomise the next
one will be good. its about a real dipshit I work with....always good readin'

later

ash

i love football. i love to play football. i love to watch football. its the greatest sport ever invented. massive violence contained on a 100 yard
long patch of grass. it doesn't get much better than that. that's all

ash

i'll admit it, i have alpha male syndrome. What is ams you say? Well, ams is a condition in men where the affected male has a constant need to
be viewed as the dominant male in any situation. you don't necessarily have to be in charge or in control, but just respected as the man. ams
is a hereditary condition, as exhibited on my father's side of the family. ams is also displayed in suttle ways and is done subconsciously. ever
notice that guy who always squeezes your hand real hard when shaking it? he's got ams. i often display my dominance using my unique
intelligence to make others feel inferior. coupled with my physique, it makes for a very imposing show of force. the best part is, i do all of this
without even thinking that i'm doing it. i actually realized it the other day while at a bar talking to a couple of gentlemen that i had just met.
these guys were a couple of outspoken, brash young men. in conversation we were talking about wht we did for a living. one was a waiter,
the other worked in a factory. when i bgan speaking about my occupation as a web developer, i could detect a slight change in their tone
when they talked to me. they suddenly seemed a bit more tame and started talking with me instead of at me. i could tell that they felt a little
intimidated by me and, to tell the truth, it felt good. anyway, time to get to work.

later

ash

finally, the ash has come back to rant! not so much a rant today, just some observations. i've been gawd awful busy with work and have
neglected my blog. on with the show......

what is it that drives us to share intimate pieces of our lives with utter and complete strangers? so many people now use the web to reach
out to other people as if to say "hey! look at me! i'm right here!" i love the web in the fact that i can have a causal conversation with
someone in thailand while i'm playing quake with someone in sweden. however it amazes me that some get so caught up in this "sharing" that
they start feeling close to these people without really ever meeting them. i'll admit i have a close friend that i met back in an aol chatroom
some 4 odd years ago(sorry i didn't know about linux yet). i feel really close to this person, yet i've never met her face to face. i think its the
whole anonimity of it all that makes it so easy to feel like you know someone when you really have no idea about who that person really is.
just remember, everything someone posts on their website or types in a chat room is what they want your perception of them to be, not
necessarily who they really are. there is no substitute for actual physical human interaction. i'd much rather sit down and have a face to face
conversation with someone than chat on ICQ or send emails back and forth. anyway, my brain is tired and i must rest. let you brain chew on
that for a bit.

later

ash

hello everybody, i'm back. time for a rant on somet
hing i'll rant a lot about.........women.

i've been chasing the tail for a good few years now, and i still quite haven't figured out what the hell is going on up those brains of theirs. i
thought i had figured it out up until about two months ago, but this particular female pulled a complete 180 and dumped my ass out of
nowhere. how can someone who has everything they could ask for all of a sudden just throw everything away. you could say that i'm a bit
jaded on the issue, but i seem to always get screwed over in the end. a bit of advice for the fellas, don't ever completely open yourself up to
a woman because she'll take that and use it to her advantage every time. show any sign of weakness in front of them and they'll pounce on
it like lions on a lame gazelle. the worst part of it all is they do these things with no hint of remorse whatsoever. they punch into your chest,
rip your heart out, and throw it on the floor, the whole time having a small grin on their faces. why do we allow women to do these things to
us? sex. the single most effective weapon in the great gender war. in any situation, the woman can always play the p-card and be assured
the victory. even hinting at the possibility of getting at the p automatically puts the woman in the driver's seat. why submit ourselves to such
torture? i know that every man must "feed the demon" (thanks J) from time to time, but feeding it yourself gets a little old after a while and
requires a litle 3rd party attention. this is what starts the trouble in the first place. face it, women control us in every facet of our lives. if
we're not trying to impress women or get them into bed, we're doing things to keep them happy once we do get them. we as men are
pathetic. bretheren, it is time to rise up and take back our dignity! how do we go about doing this you say?

I have no idea, we're all screwed..............

later

ash