How much did it cost to kill this innocent kitten?! $400 to sew up a wound and prescribe antibiotics?! THEN they spend a ton of money hiring some PR bitch to handle this story. They have money for that but not to heal a kitten?!

THEN they tell the guy “hey, you can pick up a replacement when you are over it” HOW FUCKEN HEARTLESS AND INSENSITIVE CAN THEY BE?!

Here is the link to the story LINK

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When we needed our first can we went to the nearest Home Depot. The one in San Leandro off Davis Street. Here is a bit of trivia you didn’t know. This store is the worst in the nation. IN THE NATION. That is NOT personal opinion. I knew the Human Resources Manager and she told me! Anyway you probably already guessed I did not find what i was looking for. So we went to Walmart which is 200 yards away. Guess what, yup, they didn’t have it either. We really wanted this damn stain. So we went to the 24 hour Walmart in Union City. This place is awful but that’s another post. Yet again they didn’t have it either! We didn’t understand why this stain was so hard to find. Was it that unpopular that they carry very small quantities? We were now forced to wait until the next day so we could go to OSH (Orchard Supply Hardware). We went and finally found it but, the story doesn’t end there. We needed it mixed to get the Onyx color on their chart. We waited around 10 minutes until we finally went to get someone. If you have been to OSH you know that paint mixing area is easily seen from the all the cashier isles yet no one saw us to come over and help. The entire time i was thinking how easily i could do this myself. So someone came over finally after waiting another 5 minutes after we asked for help and he got the can of stain, put on his coke bottle glasses and proceeded to read the instructions…..?! I was thinking, “You can’t be serious?! He’s never done this?!” So he opens the can, i think he clicked on 3 options on the screen and puts the color in, closes it and then uses the machine to shake it. We finally had what we wanted!

We eventually needed a second can. Simple right? WRONG. We happened to be in Dublin, CA coming back from a family function when we remembered we need some more stain. So we went to the nearest Home Depot. Did they have it? NOPE. So guess where we go next, yup, the nearest OSH. They did have it. Amazingly the same exact thing happened. We waited 10 minutes before we went to go get help and waited another 5 minutes for someone to get there. So she proceeded to read the instructions…. Don’t they train these people?! She asks us, “What color do you want?” we said, “Onyx.” She had a very bewildered look on her face like we were speaking japanese to her and she tried her hardest to understand. She says, “What?” “Onyx” She still had that crazy bewildered look on her face. “Onyx.” Still nothing. “ONYX.” we said it louder but to no avail. So she had us go with her and point to the color we wanted. Maybe she thought we were making up the color. The torture doesn’t end there. She opens the can, puts color in it. Now the fun part of her trying to close it. This must have been the first time she tried closing any type of paint can in her life. She started with the mallet. She wasn’t even hitting the lid but the edge of the can. For some reason the can wasn’t closing so she starts hitting it a little harder. She now starts spilling some stain with every strike… wonderful. She eventually angles her strikes to start barely hitting the lid but she thought she was making great strides. So she starts going around the can but every strike made the previous spot pop up but that didn’t stop her. I was on the verge of laughing at her. She eventually angled her mallet strikes enough to barely keep the lid closed. Now it was time for the machine the shakes the can. I swore to my wife that the can was going to exploded in the machine and it will be a great site to see. By some miracle of god the lid stayed shut and we finally got to leave with another can of stain….

I really hope we dont need another can of Minwax Water Based WoodStain Clear Tint.

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I just went to this place on Monday because it was my birthday and because i love the food and atmosphere. Understand that i really LOVED this place. There are anime cells on the walls and anime playing on three screens. Anime figures displayed. It is a restaurant for anime dorks. I did enjoy it but unfortunately, i think the economic times have hit them hard too. I think they closed the one they had in Los Angeles near “The Magic Castle” (a fancy, members only classy club NOT Disneyland). They also cheapened their food, which was worst of all. One was the Ritsu Roll. They started using cheaper grade tuna thinking no one would notice. The tuna prior just melted in your mouth and had a wonderful flavor. The tuna they replaced it with certainly does not melt in your mouth and had a slight fishy flavor. I also noticed they changed their tempura batter. They went from a nice sharp and crispy batter to that soft and doughy type of tempura commonly associated with crappy buffets and cheapskate Chinese restaurants.

I also do not think they are properly advertising the place. Every time I go, i hope to see anime dorks but i NEVER have. It is all well-to-do yuppie douchebags. I am certain that if you asked them to name ANY of the anime playing or from the cells on the wall they would have NO clue. They may even have a “WTF is anime?” look on their faces.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the service was not good. The guy forgot the inari. I literally saw him write it down and then he repeated it to us and when we ask him about it says that he did not hear us! Then he brought us the inari an there was only two pieces when the menu says three. At least the inari was free…
I wonder if things get better for them whether they will switch back to the finer ingredients. Unfortunately, that usually is not the case.

I will now think twice about going there again. As much as i love the atmosphere of the place, the quality of the food does not deserve a 30-minute drive, a $4 toll and the time it takes to get a little dressed up. I will have to start exploring nearby sushi places.

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I went to the “Genius” Bar in Pleasanton because my sister’s iPod would heat up a little too much when transferring files then would freeze until the battery ran out. So we are talking to the Genius jerk, he transfers files to the iPod, and it went fine because there were only a few files. So he kind of gave us this “you guys are idiots look.” I told him feels like it get abnormally hot and so he transfer a huge file over and he have to sit there and wait.

While we were waiting, another person comes in to get his iPod fixed. Overhearing the conversation I found out he was referred here from another apple store 45 minutes away. Yet, instead of just helping this guy out after nearly an hour of driving to their store, all they kept saying to him was, “They didn’t fix it at the other place?” or “they should have fixed it there” or “I wonder why they didn’t just fix it there.” They did not even attempt to fix it. I think I heard them say those lines about seven or 8 times before the guy got pissed and stormed off. The best part was that all the “genius” bar people just stood there and looked at each other with a look of “what the fuck was his problem.” I felt bad for the guy because he wasted at least 45 minutes getting to the place only to be treated like that?!

Our iPod finally overheated and froze and so they gave us a refurbished one. All was fine and good until that one broke a few weeks later….

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I was going insane. I could feel my brain slowly losing IQ points. Eventually i started getting figety. Rocking in my chair, shaking my leg and then i ended up pacing in large circles down the hall for at least 2 hours.

So if you ever get called into jury duty, ALWAYS TAKE SOMETHING TO OCCUPY YOUR TIME FOR AT LEAST 8 HOURS! In fact, take something to keep busy or entertained ANYTIME you have to do government business like DMV and Jury Duty.

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I installed windows 7 on my asus striker extreme, core 2 extreme, 8 gigs of memory and 2 raptor hdds on a RAID0 128k stripe size configuration.

One thing i really hate is that i have to disconnect my 2 1TB storage drives on the motherboard because windows 7 (and vista did it too) bitches about something the hdd doesn’t meet the criteria or some crap. I dont know why it won’t just install where I SAY I WANT IT TO INSTALL. i dont need any lip from some program that thinks it knows better me. Installation seemed to take awhile but that was mostly the extraction part. after that it went through the rest of the install very quickly. Windows 7 had the drivers for nearly everything except my sound card. i actually dont care about stuff like that. all i need is for it to have network driver i need to get on the internet. after that i just go to all the manufactures site’s to get the latest drivers for my hardware.

The first think i did was remove all the theme garbage. I make my computer work and i dont need to waste cpu cycles and memory on making windows look “pretty.” I turned off system restore because i’m not an idiot. turned off windows defender because i’m not an idiot. turned off UAC because i’m not an idiot. turned off hybernation in command line since you can’t do it from the power management settings in your control panel. they really should have a wizard right at the begining that asks “are you a beginner, intermidiate, or advanced user” so when you click on “advanced user” it turns off all that crap designed for the idiot user. after turning all that crap off windows 7 was using about 800 to 900MB of memory. A VAST improvement over Vista.

i installed all my usual programs and all of them worked fine except for daemon tools. which sucks because i use that program ALOT and they will not make a windows 7 version until the official release. I have to use the program i abhor, poweriso.

i noticed they switched classic wordpad with a super crapped down version of word 2007. When stuff looked like crap on notepad because the format wasn’t right I would switch to wordpad and view it nicely but now i can’t do that with this new version of wordpad because their margins seem to screw everything up. i dont know what was wrong with the old version that they needed to “upgrade” it.

another problem that was also present in windows vista is that alot of hgames that worked with windows xp will not work on vista or windows 7 even by changing the compatibility mode.

overall it has been a pleasant experience. i do feel it performs faster than either vista or xp. i feel i could do personally better because i think the raid stripe size 128k is too big. i think i could get MUCH faster performance with a 64k stripe size but that would mean reinstalling windows 7 and i dont feel like going through the hassle of setting it up and installing all my programs again so soon. maybe in a few weeks i’ll do it and tell you guys about it.

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We changed their names to Jordie (LeForge) and Dante. Jordie is black with a white under belly and Dante is pure black and silky. We have noticed that Jordie has actually regained some eye sight. nothing major but we think he can see very blurry shadows and high contrast stuff. good think his brother is all black. Jordie occasionaly meows when he feels lost or alone and we just have to answer him and he feels better and stops meowing.

at first the two cats were scared and walked around crouching very low to the ground since they were very unsure about their surrounding. We had a box in the corner of the room and they both squeezed and slept there for the first three days or so. They started to get more comfortable and started running around. They use to shy away from us when we tried to pet them but that was also over around the third day. Now they run around like crazy, climbing all over the place (mostly Dante with some very limited climbing done by Jordie). They have also been farting up a storm. It’s like a punch in the face every time because the smell just suddenly appears.

We were given Science Diet Dry Kitten food for them. Not really the best stuff but it was free. They mostly use chicken by-products as their protein source and you can actually smell the deep fried chicken skin in the food! We went ahead and bought them some Science Diet Wet Kitten food. Jordie likes the food and Dante thinks its poo. Seriously. He smells it and starts pawing around it like he would his poo in the litter box! Love the Blue Buffalo stuff though!

I’ll be making a post about cat care later. let’s just say we have learned A LOT! Here is a little spoiler. If you haven’t been feeding your cat Blue Buffalo or EVO, you are only feeding him garbage food. that included science diet!

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If you read this make sure you tease her about it! :P

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Overall Dawn of War II is a great game. I liked that they changed it so you only have a few squads and you can level them up giving it a slight rpg element to this otherwise pure RTS. Unlike the previous game was like any other RTS when you collect resources and pump out troops. I liked the music. It was very operatic and manly. Like you would grow some hair on your nuts just by listening to it. I actually dont remember the music from the previous game to compare it. The sound effects were great. i never got tired of hearing that heavy bolter or my dreadnaught’s assault cannon. I would get a HUGE hard on when i used my dreadnaught’s hellfire on a huge mass of enemies. It would just unload moving from right to left to right again. and absolutely devastating EVERYTHING. Enemy’s bodies dropping and exploding everywhere! The story itself was ok. there was some confusion towards the end.

What i really disliked, i mean, HATED was the repetition of levels. you will find yourself fighting on the same level MANY times. I also disliked that i could only level up to level 20. The other squad members were stupid. the leader would go to where you clicked on the ground but sometimes the other squad members would end up going some crazy direction and end up getting killed. I also felt they could have done so much more with this game. they could have thrown in all the other races too.

How come they haven’t make a computer version of the table top game? Like a turn based game? Have all the material from the table top game put into the computer game. You would paint your own 3D model of a figure. you and an opponent would decide how many points you would use and you are given a set time to choose an army and it would all play out like the table top game.

another game i wish they would make is something like star wars: empire at war. You have the whole galaxy to play with. All the races and their territories, tons of planets to take over and protect. they should also have story lines for each race your are conquering. like the more and more you are wiping out say Eldar and taking their planets your specific story line with them progresses and until some huge climactic battle for their last planet they hold and you would do this with each race. this would make you play all the other races so you can see all the plot lines. you could probably play the game for months trying to see everything.

anyways, i highly recommend you get Dawn of War II.

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