Fuck Those Dudes
Joelle's new life motto is so appropriate to my situation with Yahoo!. Fuck those dudes.
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I agree with the motto and agree that you should dispute the charges. Geocities definitely should have notified you about the billing. I hope you don't have to pay the bill, but thank you for reminding me that I need to cancel the extra charges on my old website, complete with animated gifs and the horrors that are initial web-design. I'm embarrassed that thing is still out there. Hope all ends up ok... And indeed, fuck those dudes.
Posted by Traci at April 2, 2004 10:03 PM
Such a versatile motto, too. Are they being assholes? Well, fuck those dudes. Are they hot? Yum...fuck those dudes!!
Personally, I think we should all adopt such a motto.
Posted by QC at April 6, 2004 11:31 AM
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Yafuckinghoo
I went online today to pay my credit card bill and was puzzled by a charge of $173.25 from Yahoo! Geocities. I called Yahoo! and apparently, despite them not even having a current credit card, they've been charging me for hosting for my old Geocities site that I don't even think has been updated in four years. When I signed up for Yahoo! Personals this month and updated my billing information they hit me for the last thirty-five months of hosting.
I asked to speak to a supervisor and he told me that since I hadn't actually cancelled the service (and who knows if I did or not? It's been three freaking years!), they've continued to bill and tough shit, I have to pay it (paraphrasing here, but he was an unhelpful jackmonkey). I hung up on him and called my credit card company to dispute the charges. Their friendly customer rep said that Geocities was responsible for at least notifying me of the billing, so I hope I have a leg to stand on when fighting this charge. I certainly don't want to pay $200 for a website that has animated gifs and embedded midi files everywhere. Jackmonkeys.
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what morons!
I had a similar thing - about 2 years ago I went onto an ecard site, then every year after that they would change their recorded expiry date and bill me again.
This year I caught onto them, I disputed the charge and my bank allowed it to be reversed with a minimum of trouble.
You shouldn't have too much trouble :)
Posted by kathryn at April 1, 2004 07:50 PM
Holy cow! I can't believe they did that!
Posted by D at April 1, 2004 08:03 PM
I keep forgetting to tell you. In Firefox, your comments popup doesn't show a background image/color, nor does it have any scrollbars. I'm able to get past the entry to the comment fields by tabbing, but I have a feeling it's not supposed to work that way...
Posted by D at April 1, 2004 08:11 PM
more importantly, what's your the url to your y! personals profile? :)
Posted by jon at April 2, 2004 04:17 AM
I just got hit with a $250.00 cell bill..umm yea my talking will be cut down to a minimum. Asstards!
Posted by smoores at April 2, 2004 07:50 AM
I hope you can fight that. They should have notified you that tehy were billing you. They suck.
Posted by Kat at April 2, 2004 12:43 PM
Ugh! That sucks big time. Does the link still even work? I would fight that thing link mad - you think they could have sent a letter or something. Wrong. Just plain wrong and bad customer service.
Posted by eve at April 6, 2004 12:16 AM
That just ain't right! Hope your bank helps teach 'em a lesson!
Posted by robyn at April 6, 2004 12:29 AM
I had a similar problem with AOL, though not quite that much in charges. And when you try to get help you get nothing but snots on the phone. Makes you just wanna 
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Posted by Christy at April 9, 2004 09:01 PM
dude. i wanna see the site now. animated gifs and midis? it's gotta be horrible!
Posted by mikey at April 10, 2004 02:25 AM
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Paging Mr. Glass, Mr. George Glass.
Anyone need an imaginary boyfriend? Then feel free to go bid on my brother.
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so can i use him as a tool of jealousy to my other boyfriend? What happens if my boyfriend wants to beat up the new boyfriend?? :)
Posted by chinh at April 1, 2004 05:12 PM
Ahh.. George Glass.. I remember that episode of The Brady Bunch :-)
Posted by Pam at April 3, 2004 09:09 AM
Damn, I think they pulled his auction. Man. I wanted to see how high the bidding had gotten up to!
Posted by Christine at April 3, 2004 04:32 PM
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Mnemonic Devices
Last night while at Christine's house, the original version of Trivial Pursuit came up. I was thinking about it on my way home and was pretty sure that it was called the Genus Edition (it was). That made me think of genus species (the name that all creatures have to identify them; humans are Homo sapiens, you know) and I flashed back to freshman honors biology with Mr. Borg. I remember having to know stuff like that for tests and it made me wonder if I could remember the entire nomenclature. Suddenly the phrase King Phillip Comes Over For Good Sex (we learned it as Spaghetti, but being high school kids, changed it to sex) and I knew it was kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species. Talk about a good mnemonic device! I remember that from almost fifteen years ago.
At the last Tiara Happy Hour, though, I was talking to Mac and a few other people (I think one of them was Natalie) about how Mr. Air Force had given me directions to meet him the first time which included north and west. I told him, "Hypothetically, let's say that one doesn't know which directions north and west are. What would that be with lefts and rights?" (Hey, I wasn't in the Air Force; I have no idea. I still have to make an L with my left hand to make sure I've got left and right correct despite having a genius level IQ.) That discussion brought up how, in third grade, our teacher taught us Never Eat Soggy Waffles (going clockwise) to remember which way the directions are. To this day I still think of it and that was twenty years ago or so.
Anyone else have any mnemonic devices they use?
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Katie Put Catsup On Fuzzy Green Spiders and Never Eat Shredded Wheat for the two you mentioned. In piano lessons we had some, but I can't recall those. Something about cows and grass.
Posted by NinaKaye at April 1, 2004 05:10 PM
Nelly Eats Sour Watermellon
I swear I'll never forget that! :)
Posted by D at April 1, 2004 05:56 PM
I alwasy use NSWE in my directions too along with L & R. I prefer both so that the masses would understand ;-)
Posted by irfan at April 2, 2004 10:45 AM
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls
Black - 0
Brown - 1
Red - 2
Orange - 3
Yellow - 4
Green - 5
Blue - 6
Violet - 7
Grey - 8
White - 9
Color coding for resistors. Three bands of colors, first two for numbers and the last for number of zeros following. i.e 800 ohms would be Grey/Black/Brown
That's from 30 years ago...I can't remeber the clean version, so please forgive me here, I was an 18 year old sailor then.
Posted by Brian the Red at April 2, 2004 08:43 PM
Roy G. Biv (the colors of the spectrum, in order of length: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo violet)
The musical ones were like Every Good Boy Does Fine for the lines on the treble clef and FACE for the spaces.
We had one for the planets, too, but I don't remember it, so it must not have been that good.
Posted by kalisah at April 2, 2004 10:55 PM
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets for the planets, I also heard Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge for the lines on treble clef. You left out Family in your scientific names, though. For some reason, that one always stuck in my head with the actual names, no device needed. Odd. Mickey Gave Pluto Some Puppy Dog Treats is the 7 guest service guidelines at Walt Disney World, but I don't think I could remember what they all are.
Posted by Crankydragon at April 2, 2004 11:47 PM
George Eli's Old Grandfather Rode A Pig Home Yesterday (geography)
HOMES to remember the five Great Lakes
Posted by grace at April 5, 2004 03:23 PM
i still remember how to spell "mediterranean" by singing the letters to the tune of "yankee doodle"...
Posted by dljpdx at May 16, 2004 02:04 PM
well i know one very common one known for math......a hard subject..SOH CAH TOA..which sounds like saok a toe....
Posted by Launa at November 23, 2004 11:01 AM
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Casa dela Big Pink Cookie
Last night, I called Christine to see what she was up to. She was out running errands, but readily agreed to me coming over to see her new house (which is just gorgeous and really huge, so I think I'll be moving in with her and Mike soon). I met her up at Best Buy and then we trekked over to Wal-Mart so she could get some plants and I could get some pantyhose. Of course, we both spent about $80 a piece, but who can go to Wal-Mart and only buy one thing?
We used to go to Wal-Mart a lot on our lunch breaks when we worked together, but we haven't shopped there together in about a year. Needless to say, we went through most of the store and had a good time shopping. We saw maroon bluebonnets (Who even knew there was such a thing? Of course, it immediately made me think of Mac), scary lingerie sets, and I found a really cute hat that I didn't buy since I couldn't figure out where the hell I could actually wear it.
While wandering past the games section, we saw the Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture DVD Game and decided that two people would be the perfect number for a game, so Christine threw it in the cart and we were off to her house.
She'd also stopped at the liquor store before I came over to buy margarita mix, salt, and tequila (grand total - $77), so after picking up some food at Sonic, it was time to make some margaritas. We ate and drank, watched some tv, and then it was Trivial Pursuit time. Since I am a fount of useless information, it came as no surprise to me that I won both games.
Turns out that Christine has the original Trivial Pursuit game in the blue box (I do too - somewhere) so I've challenged her to an original TP grudge match at some point. I rock at that game.
I finally got home at about 3:30 this morning, but the late night (and face it, I would have just been sitting up playing on the computer anyway) was well-worth it. Good times.
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No margarita mix in those margaritas, baby! Gooooood tequila, Cointreau, and limeaid. Yum!!!
Thanks for coming over - you need to do that a lot more often! And we'll have new furniture next week!
Posted by Christine at April 3, 2004 04:37 PM
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Happy Belated Birthday, Promo!
I feel like such an ass, but I forgot that Monday was Promo's birthday. He's a wonderful, sweet guy that who's a hell of a friend, so go give him some late birthday lovin'!
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Tiara Pictures
Pictures from the latest Tiara Happy Hour (number four for those of you counting along at home) are beginning to show up. You can view some here, here, here, and here.
Update: You can see some more here, including some of our cute waitress and my favorite picture of Emily and I (me and Emily?).
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Sarah also put hers up yesterday....
Posted by Mac at March 31, 2004 08:48 AM
Leave it to the fish to consolidate all the picture sites in one central location -> The Fish Bowl. ;-)
Posted by irfan at March 31, 2004 01:08 PM
Am not going tonight. Sorry I didn't answer, but Maison Pants was a third world country and I was clean out.
Posted by Sarah at March 31, 2004 02:59 PM
Emily and me. ;)
Posted by emily at March 31, 2004 07:09 PM
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Tell Me You Love Me (Or At Least Say Hi)
As Christine pointed out, it's International Blog Comment Week, so be sure to say hello.
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Woohoo I'm first! Hi there Kymberlie!
Posted by Christine at March 31, 2004 12:58 AM
Hola! from sunny (hot) california!
Posted by eve at March 31, 2004 01:17 AM
Hi from NJ. Love your fishbowl!
Posted by Deb from NJ at March 31, 2004 07:10 AM
hello
Posted by daisy at March 31, 2004 08:06 AM
Hey there from rainy CT!
Posted by Margie at March 31, 2004 08:34 AM
Hello!
Posted by christina at March 31, 2004 08:38 AM
Hey girl! *waves* 
Posted by L Parrish at March 31, 2004 08:49 AM
Dang it, why won't it log my correct nick?
Posted by Hey Lisa at March 31, 2004 08:52 AM
Your site is beautiful! It's making me want to revamp mine completely.
Posted by jo at March 31, 2004 09:16 AM
Hello from the foreign land of New Jersey!
Posted by KB at March 31, 2004 09:23 AM
Hello from VA. ;)
Posted by nastybastard at March 31, 2004 10:31 AM
Hi from The Bahamas.
Posted by Melanie at March 31, 2004 12:19 PM
Hey cutie!
Posted by Ash at March 31, 2004 12:30 PM
Hi.
Posted by kdeweb at March 31, 2004 12:49 PM
Hi, from Broaddus, Texas.
Posted by NinaKaye at March 31, 2004 02:31 PM
Hi there!! I hope your having a great week!
Posted by Pam at March 31, 2004 04:09 PM
Hi!! 
Posted by Rebecca at March 31, 2004 06:22 PM
Yo!
Posted by Adelle at March 31, 2004 07:34 PM
helloooooooooooo dearest :)
Posted by ericalynn at March 31, 2004 09:12 PM
Hi Kymberlie! Have a great day...
Posted by cybertoad at April 1, 2004 09:58 AM
Hi!! :)
Posted by Andrea at April 1, 2004 10:12 AM
Hey you...I'm smoking cigars today in your honor...
Posted by cigars at April 11, 2004 05:35 PM
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Audblog Question
Let's say, hypothetically, that one was Audblogging from a bar and that one has had a lot to drink and the place is really loud, so it's almost an impossibility to understand the directions on how to post. When you login to the site, you can view that you have posts from that evening, but clicking on them gives you an "object not found" error. Is there any way to ever get those to post or are they just lost for good?
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sounds like someone lost a juicy aud-blog entry!
Posted by irfan at March 30, 2004 04:43 PM
Hmm. I wonder when that would've been.
Posted by Natalie at March 31, 2004 07:28 AM
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Burn It Reminder and Sign Up Form
Just a reminder, but your Burn It CDs for the Winter Edition should be mailed out tomorrow afternoon (mine are going to be a bit late, but I promise to send out both this and the last group's very soon). Also, if you'd like to sign up to be notified when I'm going to be doing the next exchange (it should be pretty soon), be sure to enter your e-mail address in the space below.
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I signed up. I will be expecting junk emails, adult porn, get rich schemes soon.
Posted by irfan at March 28, 2004 10:58 PM
Mine were all mailed out on Friday! 
Posted by Christine at March 29, 2004 03:31 PM
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