pandora.com's facebook link-up is awesome!

I don't know how many of you use Pandora Radio but if you don't you should. pandora.com use to be a decent site that I used sometimes and then that dwindled down to rarely and then not at all. Tonight I decided why not go there and listen to some music and see if I hear anything I had never heard before, maybe find a new band.
I was greeted with an awesome new feature I will most certainly enjoy! If you are signed into your facebook account when you go to pandora.com it will pull the bands from your music interest on your profile. I think this is a great feature because it used to be that you would enter a single band name or genre and you would listen to music based solely on the band or genre you entered, which after not too long can get boring. With this new feature, however, it pulls several different bands to compare music to. The result is much more vast, and varying musical possibilities. And that just makes for a greater and more enjoyable listening experience.

This is based on just going to pandora.com while signed into facebook on a separate tab. Not signing in or making an account. This will vary based on the amount of bands you have listed on your facebook.

Does Best Buy own the rights to the word "geek"?

Does Best Buy own the rights to the word "geek"? Surely not, but it's starting to look as if they think they do. I'm not one for big corporations myself. It's my long held belief that the bigger you are the less you actually care about the customer, or employees for that matter, and the more it becomes about huge money.

But Best Buy seems to be having it's way with all that big money- "Best Buy sent a legal notice - a C&D letter - to Newegg back on the 9th of June saying that the company had "infringed on its "valuable trademark rights" 
newegg's slogan is "Millions of geeks must be right!" & "Take it from a geek"


Really? All this over a century's old word that originally meant fool, crazy, (One who geeks out [that's mine]) 
You have to wonder, how long will it be before Anonymous and/or Lulzsec step in?
Maybe Best Buy is just trying to re-install the true meaning of the word buy geeking out with power.
Just because they're the biggest doesn't mean they're the best. And you can take a little power from them buy shopping other places such as:
Tiger direct / CompUSA
Newegg
Geeks.com
Rent a geek
Speak with a geek

Also there is this very funny video at the expense of Geek Squad:

A statue for the nerdy masses!

The time has come my friends! Nerds world wide rise and give thanks to the awesome Dice Gods! There will be a Gygax Memorial statue. For those who are not familiar with the name Gygax, he is credited with pioneering Dungeon and Dragons, and generally speaking role playing all together. Imagine a castle turret with a dragon wrapped around it and a bust of Gary Gygax a midst it's grandeur along the White River in down town Lake Geneva.
"Although we still need to get the exact location and design approved, the motion to erect of the memorial in Donian Park was  unanimously passed."
How many people do you think will l.a.r.p. around his statue? Beware the fifth level pigeon poop of Thyrose!


More info can be found at Gygax Memorial

A tribute to my parents Danny & Angela and all parents out there!

So, yet another week of 45+ hours. Even after being sent home an hour and a half early to kill over time. This has been going on for around about two and a half months now. At least I haven't had too many of those 50+ hour weeks, lol. I still really hate working every Sunday, Saturday, and closing 80% of the time.

Anyway more onto the point of this particular post.
During all this working the thing that keeps popping into my head the most is how my parents did this. I remember my mom getting up before the sun had ever dreamed of. Dressing me and my sister while we slept, carried us to the car and drove us to our grandmother's house where we later got on the bus for school. All the funky shifts my parents worked and never complained, at least not in detail and never very long, actually they just commented on how tired they were. And they were divorced so they did it on their own. No running around enjoying the single life, just working to feed, house, and clothe the kids.

I have a baby on the way, a six year old stepdaughter, rent, and bills to pay. This is what it's all about, family. Taking care of your family.
Having this experience has made me appreciate what they did for me. I know they worked their bodies into the ground in hopes I would never have to. Unfortunately I do. But their work was not in vein, I am a grown healthy man with my own family to do the same for and this makes me extremely proud. I may not be a doctor, a lawyer, a physicist, or an astronaut, but I am a man who will do what it takes to make sure his family is taken care of thanks to my parents hard work.

Thank you mom, thank you dad, for all you did for me to insure I had a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, and teaching me what's most important in this world.

Call your parents and let them know how much you appreciate what they did/are doing for you. And tell your dad Happy Fathers Day!!!

Feds Okay Monitoring Employees’ Internet and Social Media Actions

We all knew it was coming. For one, we already knew that some employers look up possible employees and current employees online like on facebook. But now it has reached an all new level of epic, and paranoid, proportions. Hide your half naked pictures, the photos of your bong or guns. Delete those hateful statuses. Because now employers no longer need to take this arduous task on themselves. They can hire someone to do it for them. That's right, it is now a career to facebook stalk.
OK, so not really stalk, but still this is a huge ball of retard-o b.s. Although I can see the idea of it. I wouldn't want to hire some half witted moron who appears good on paper and knows how to b.s. his way through an interview just to find he puts kittens in his microwave and posts pictures of it as art (extreme example, yes, but you get my point).
Still, I can't see how this is possible since when an employers calls a previous employer they have to stick to particular subjects such as attendance, time employed, etc. Not "is he a fan of 'Yelling at inanimate objects?'" Or "What is his religious/political standings?"
There is a good point. You have to sign a consent form just like with any other background check and  if it tends to be on the immoral side, such as sexual orientation, they may refuse to do it.



To be completely honest with you, I am biased, slighted, and even jilted towards this. If you would like to read the story and form your own opinion read it here