Thursday, March 9, 2006

Gee....I Didn't Know I Could Be So Nice....

You Are Fozzie Bear

"Wocka! Wocka!"
You're the life of the party, and you love making people crack up.
If only your routine didn't always bomb!
You may find more groans than laughs, but always keep the jokes coming.


Tommorrow I'll reveal just how mean I can be (HINT: Trust me, it's SCARY).

Friday, March 3, 2006

Pat's Podcast Episode 27


Topics featured:
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User-friendliness of the iRiver

The nice spring weather

Re-launch of The Pat Cook Show in Podcast form (As well as TV show in Video Blog format)

Remembering when the mailman used to arrive in the morning

The local mass transit company & its persistent lack of accessibility and respect for the physically disabled issues.

And MORE!

Promos Run:
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PodCacher (A little distorted due to technical glitch)
Diabetic Feed (Partly because I am a Diabetic myself)
NBX Ultimate Sports Challenge Network (Not exactly family safe. Last promo in episode)

All this plus podsafe jazz music courtesy of Music4iPods.com and (another new feature) a 78 RPM from the Internet Archive and its78 RPM Collection.

CHECK IT OUT!! :D

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Pat's Podcast Episode 26



Topics featured:
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* The UAE and our ports - Is Bush SURRENDERING to Al Qaeida?

* Lazyass Bums vs. Working Class people - Who should get the breaks (A response to comments made by Dan Tencer on The Dan Tencer Show

Plus a mashup rendition of "Let It Be", a Ham Radio PSA and more! :)

CHECK IT OUT!! :)

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Friday, February 3, 2006

Pat's Podcast Episode 25



This is the second podcast with Mom in tow. :)

Topics included are a trip with Mom to HER Doctor's office (On a FREEZING day no less!), Bush & his hypocritical comments on America's "addiction" to oil, A rant on Drivers who seemingly get their license out of a Cracker Jack box (With the so-called "skills" to match) AND MORE!!

NOTE: This is FAR from the best audio quality for someone using an iRiver due to my not ensuring the clip on mic was actually plugged into the MIC jack instead of the headphone jack AND slipping the iRiver UNDER my coat, thus making it difficult for the built-in mic to capture audio properly.

Basically...It's all due to MY STUPIDITY!! :} *Look of Embarrassment*

But if you REALLY wanna download it....GO FOR IT!! :)

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Thursday, January 26, 2006

RANT ALERT - Bad Customer Service

Don't you just get FRUSTRATED TO NO END when you get a Customer Service Rep (doesn't matter from which company you do business with) who either....

A). Has to look up the "how to" on a fuckin' manual before they can even attempt to help "troubleshoot" your problem OR...

B). Would love nothing more than to see you go away simply because you use something (in this case for me, it was Mozilla Thunderbird) which the company they work for (In my case, Comcast ) neither officially supports nor allows their employees to use on the job?

Well, you might say that earlier today, I got one that was BOTH as I had problems connecting to Comcast's newsgroup server and couldn't figure out why (Mozilla Thunderbird had been running all night and I hadn't done anything to it before attempting to refresh my newsgroups for the day).

The first time I called (yes there was a first time), I got someone who knew WTF he was doing and ACTUALLY took the time to help me (I sing nothing but praises for him. As such, he is NOT the subject of this post). But it was just my luck that our conversation ended without knowing with absolute certainty that my problem had been resolved (He did give me a ticket no. though). Not even a minute later, I called back and THAT is when I was connected to the ROBOT who is the subject of this post.

Once I gave him my ticket no. (which he almost forgot to jot down because he was so wrapped up in following that damned script of his), the idiot during my callback (He didn't even recognize that I had just spoken with the other representive JUST A MINUTE AGO), told me the ticket no. had been closed by some "higher up team" who basically said the problem was not their's (of course, it never is 'cause their machines never break - Yeah right).

And as if THAT wasn't enough, this moron was also firing questions faster than I could answer them. I mean, it was as if this idiot was more interested in meeting quota than actually helping me.

And you'll never believe what the proverbial "cherry on the sundae" turned out to be...

He HUNG UP BEFORE giving me a new ticket no.

That, more than anything else, just pissed me off. FUCKIN' JERK!! YA YOU EGGHEAD!! (Assuming he even reads blogs)

Anyway, the whole thing turned out to be Thunderbird just simply forgetting my newsgroup server username & password, but c'mon peoples (looking squarely at Comcast). Mozilla is a force to be reckoned with. Don't you think it's about time you start offering support for it??

Just my rant for the day :)

Friday, January 6, 2006

The RIAA Is Losing Control

Peer-To-Peer has gone to a whole new level now that the Internet is slowly going wireless. This is exactly what the RIAA doesn't want, but is getting nevertheless.

That (in a kamakaze fashion) leads me to this....

Found this picture on the Osprey Network Website and find it so fitting (and in it's own way, kinda funny too), so I decided I'd put it here too (Hopefully it won't be too big!).



I'll leave it up to them to kill me later if they so choose. :)

Either way.....In any case.....I say FUCK YOU RIAA - UP YOURS!!!!

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Pat's Podcast Episode 24 - Holiday Show 2005



Topics featured:
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* My most memorable Christmas story as told in text format here (With some dramatic dramatizations of course :) )

* Announcement of the return of The Pat Cook Show (which will perhaps be better known as Pat's VideoCast instead, but hey, it's all good).

PROMOS RUN:
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Gabber Jaw's latest :70 second promo

PODSDAFE MUSIC PLAYED:
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None (But I promise some for next year :) )

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