Turn Off Your Cell Phone

I'm at home enjoying a good horror movie. It's 100 minutes long. It is full of suspense, drama, gore and tension. Every moment in this movie brings the level of intensity up. This is only with the first 50 minutes of the movie.

Somehow this movie lasts 150 minutes. What accounts for the additional 50 minutes of the movie? It included 3 phone calls, a coffee break, and a washroom break. This has the potential to ruin any movie. It is so frustrating to watch a movie with my family. I wonder if anyone else goes through this?

Why plug the toilets?

I work for a very well respected company. The company pays it's employees well above the provincial average for technical support. The company does its best to respect its workers no matter what area you work in.

But for some reason some people think it's funny to flood the toilets. What they do is they fill the toilet with so much toilet paper it simply can't take it anymore. So the next person to flush it will flood the toilet.

We only have two washrooms for men making both of them very important. Yet every couple of days someone intentionally floods it. Why would someone do this? What if they have to go to the washroom again? Even they would be forced to wait for the one remaining washroom if they needed to go to the washroom again.

Note: I believe this should be a offence where the company should be able to fire you if they found out about.

When to use your car horn

I'm in Vancouver, BC and even though I vowed to not use my computer while on vacation I found I had to write something. This article will educate you on when to use your car horn. It's something that many people don't know. Read on to find out when to use your horn.

I have decided that their is only one good reason to use your car horn. To inform another vehicle of a possible hazard. It's a bad situation that could be avoided with the sound of your horn.

I'm going to list off a few possible reasons why you would want to use your horn. This is not a complete list but will give you a good starting point on why you should use your horn.

1) To warn a pedestrian not to cross the road as they have a no walking sign and could put themselves in harm ways.
2) To warn a car not to switch into your lane because you are in it and could risk a collision.
3) To warn a car that is about to go the wrong way down a one way street.

Now that you know a few reasons why to use the car horn, here are a few times when it's not useful to use a horn.

1) To grab someones attention (Ex. To let someone know that you are waiting outside there home. Ex2. To let a friend know that you are driving next to him).
2) To honk your horn at a biker because the biker is in your lane (Bikers have a right to the road. In some areas it is even illegal for them to ride on the sidewalk).
3) To vent anger.

Number 3 is the most crucial because most of the time when someone is using there horn it's out of anger. Angry because someone is doing something that they don't like and the only way to alert the world is to honk your horn. Their are alternate solutions to honking your horn in anger. I Would suggest people try them, because it's frustrating to see people abuse this potentially life saving device for their own pleasure.

Let's not assume the impossible

Everyday I come across people who make incorrect assumptions. Some of the assumptions are foolishly based on immediate impressions of the situations. Others can be drawn from past experiences that you may have had in similar situations. But that doesn't change that fact that most of the time they are wrong.

I myself am guilty of making incorrect assumptions. I have even taken it to the next level and taken these assumptions and made them factual. This is when I take one of my assumptions and use them as a comparison. This usually leads to some very stupid remarks by yours truly.

I guess it would come as no surprise if we were all guilty of this prowess. It's one of those horrible traits that I have picked up and am sure many other people have picked up. I would just like to say "thank you for being human".

Gathering ones thoughts is hard to do

I have now been trying to write something on my blog for 40 minutes and nothing is coming out. It's not that I don't have anything to write but I can't seem to gather my thoughts. Every time I come up with a good article to write I get discouraged a few lines in and erase it.

Something starts off as a good idea but the more I think about it the more I get discouraged. Or perhaps it's a bunch of scrambled thoughts thoughts that I can't properly put on the page. Or in some cases I can't properly describe my thoughts or feelings on a subject. Or I realize how un-interesting the idea was and send it back to oblivion with my delete key. Or I reread the article and realize that's not where I intended it to go.

I really lack courage and confidence when writing. It's probably because I have never been a very good writer. I even remember back in school I never got any encouragement to write. I would pour my heart into an article on to get it back receiving a bad mark. All my writers seem to follow this very article where it's a bunch of ideas that are just cluttered up that don't make sense.

I'll stop writing now because with every word I write I make less sense.

A convesation I had

Anonymous Person: Hey Ilan, should I buy a card with the gift for ...
Me: Yes.
Anonymous Person: But I don't want to buy a card.
Me: You're probably right, you shouldn't buy a gift card.
Anonymous Person: I don't think I will buy a card then.

Was this one of those rhetorical questions I keep hearing about? I've actually been thinking about giving this very instance a word for the dictionary.

Word Definition: When someone asks you a questions and already knows the answer. You are either wrong if you disagree with that person or you are right if you agree with them.
It's not a rhetorical question because this question does not have an obvious solution.

I just need to give this instance a word. Anyone have any suggestions for a new word that will fit this definition?

Irony at it best

I just finished a conversation with a buddy of mine about a internet service called 1&1.com. This conversation occurred at 11:55 on April 9th, 2007. By the end of the conversation I was really sold on their service. I was truly hoping that I could try the service to see what they really offer. So I wrote them a big e-mail asking them a few basic questions about their service.

After I wrote the e-mail I checked my inbox and I found this e-mail from 1&1.com. The letter is posted below.

Dear Ilan Silver,

After well over 3 years, the 1&1 Professional Preview Package is being
phased out at the end of this month. We would like to sincerely thank
you for being a part of putting 1&1 Internet on the web hosting map
in North America.

We started in September 2003 with a lot of enthusiasm, great ideas and
the desire to change the web hosting landscape in North America by
offering reliable web hosting at affordable prices.

If you would like to continue to be a part of the 1&1 family PLEASE
ACT NOW! For example, you can switch to a Professional Package,
which costs just $3.99 per month and includes all the same great features
and tools that are currently included in your package. This package is
only available to our Professional Preview Package customers.


Or log in to your Control Panel and upgrade to one of our many
competitively priced hosting packages. The process is easy and quick.
For detailed instructions on how to upgrade and to answer any questions
you may have about your package please visit our special FAQ at
http://faq.1and1.com/ppp

Your package will automatically deactivate on or after 04/10/07. At
this time your web space will no longer be accessible along with any
e-mail addresses and nameserver entries you may have set up. Additionally
we will delete ALL files from our systems and backup systems.

Please note that once the data is deleted it will be irrevocably lost!

We thank you for your trust and your support over three years and
invite you to extend this relationship indefinitely by upgrading NOW!

If you have any questions please contact our representatives at

ppp@1and1.com  (E-mail)
1-866-258-5299 (Phone)

Sincerely,

1&1 Internet Inc.

1and1.com

I tried to log in at 12:30 on April 10th, 2007 but my account was already deleted. I do remember just for the hell of it signing up for a free account 3 years ago. It was a special promotion that they had going on. Unfortunately I had completely forgotten about it.

If my friend told me about it just 24 hours earlier I could have previewed the service. Talk about ironic or what?