Rantings, mostly…

Ah, don’t worry. That’s about as deep as I’ll be getting in this post.

I was just a mite bummed out about 12 hours ago (7PM yesterday) when I called the local fire department and the conversation went a bit like this:

Fireman: “City” Fire Department.
Me: Hi, who am I speaking with?
Fireman: What?
Me: Sorry! Who am I speaking with?
Fireman: “City” Fire Department.
Me: Oh. Ok. Well, nice to meet you “City” Fire Department, I’m toe.
Fireman: Alright.
Me: I was wondering, what measures do I need to take or what do I need to arrange with you cats to snag this CRT monitor off my hands and dispose of it eco-friendly like.
Fireman: Say what now?
Me: How do you guys get rid of computer monitors?
Fireman: We don’t.
Me: You don’t know how to dispose of computer monitors or you don’t offer that service?
Fireman: Neither I ’spose.
At this point bear in mind that I full well knew that improper disposal of a CRT monitor is a seriously environment unfriendly action.
Me: Do you know if there is anything special I should do before throwing it away?
Fireman: No I don’t believe you need to do anything but set it out for the garbage man.
Me: Alrighty then mister. Thanks.
Fireman: *click* He hung up.

Besides the fact the exchange between me and the hillbilly fireman was absolutely mind numbing I find it amazing that a fireman anywhere doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to dispose of something like that.

Even worse is my local chamber of commerce said to “check with them, they’ll know.”

Pocket SharpMT - not exactly sure of the origin of the name, but so far a decent utility.

Assuming this is posted correctly that is.

UPDATE: Which — it didn’t. Actually, it works nicely and has a much nicer UI than MoBlog. However, it failed to upload the image I inserted via the XML-RPC/WordPress API. *shrug*

The painful truth is that out of all the various ailments that plague my mind and body — procrastination is above all the worst of them.

I think back on the year’s events thus far and I am deeply disappointed at my personal results.

Let me put some aspects of this into perspective and show you a few numbers.

Projects: 17, Completed: 0
Snippets: 80+, Completed: 12
Single-Use Applications: 20+, Completed: 0
School-Related Projects*: 4, Completed: 0

* These are those projects that required a certain amount of effort. The effort I gave was much greater than what was expected, but only enough of my effort to achieve an A+.

And in general things that just sort of die for no reason. For example, this lame excuse for a blog.

I’ve plenty of things to say so it must come down to pure laziness and/or procrastination.

Anyway, I plan on officially listing an entirely new set of steps I plan to follow to become more efficient. I may however start an entirely new blog or project to do it.

Man I sure have some poor management skills. Oh yeah… and I’m lazy.

After being swamped with offers and requests for this domain I have finally sifted through all 4 of them.

Yep, four.

• Declined
• Violation of DreamHost’s TOS
• Never replied to initial correspondence
• Accepted

The final of which being a friend who offered to share the costs of this site and provide some experience elsewhere.  So there you have it.

Oh wait.

She wants me to continue blogging whenever the hell I get around to it because it is therapeutic.

*shrugs*

And not a single one of them used the comments.

I think I am fed up with what toebot.com has become.  Not so much in that I hate it, I don’t!  I just cannot for the life of me keep up with the mundane aspect of updating a blog about absolutely nothing.

Therefore I’ve decided to allow ANYONE to use it for ANYTHING they want provided it does not violate DreamHost’s TOS.

The other provision I have is that if the site provides you with any amount of income, monetization, or advertising revenue then I am to reap a modest 10% on top of whatever additional bandwidth charges you may incur.  I do not really see you having to pay extra for bandwidth, but we’ll discuss that if/when the time comes you see fit to take over toebot.com.

I will still have full access to the site in some form or another, but you will be given full domain access via the DreamHost Control Panel and will be able to do anything you like with it.

• Add or Remove MySQL Databases
• Run any server-side script allowable (which it is extremely lienient), including:
  PHP
  Perl
  Python
• And I believe there is another one or two, but I’m too lazy to check.
• Create hundreds of e-mail aliases.  whatever@toebot.com
• Unlimited sub-domains.  http://whatever.toebot.com

To summarize:

• I will always own TOEBOT.COM.
• We can have something legally drafted and agreed upon before proceeding (or you can trust me, I don’t care either way).

  You can even choose the attorney to draft the original contract.  You’ll note that I will use my own attorney to review the contract and modify where necessary.

• The site is yours for as long as you wish to own it.  I don’t care if you park it, load it with advertising, or host dolphin porn.
• As long as we both[1] agree on the terms and length, have a blast.

[1] Unless there are multiple persons involved in the acquisition of toebot.com.

And yes I reserve the right to say, “Sorry, but no.”

If you are at all interested, simply leave a comment.  You do not need to put personally identifiable information in the comment.  I can always view the address you made the comment with and I will contact you from there.

Yes you can inform me of your desires and purpose for the site in the comment.  You can also indicate whether or not you wish for me to tell you an immediate answer via the comment.

Anything else that I have left out or is unclear, let me know.

Eh, not so hot, but definitely cool.

No more forgotten thoughts, ideas, or other miscellaneous garbage that no one cares about, anymore.

Yay!

EDIT: Um… sure would have been nice if it worked. The entire body of the e-mail — the post’s content — was not posted.