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bigmacbear) wrote2002-03-10 12:35 am
bigmacbear) wrote2002-03-10 12:35 am
Of computer crap, bear contests, etc.
Okay, I guess I'll fill y'all in on the ups and downs of the day. ;-)
Computer crap: First off, I wasn't sure my color printer was going to work when I needed to make certificates for our bear contest this evening (about which more later). But it went better than I anticipated, all I needed to do was replace the ink cartridges. Kewl.
Flush with that success, I went to check our club e-mail account and found we can't seem to get our mail delivered to two of our members because the ISP they use keeps rejecting our messages. So I sent their postmaster a message asking what was up, and of course that bounced too. OK, I thought, there should be some method of contacting them on their Web site, and there was -- there's a fill-in form for their tech support. After filling it in, I was quite pissed to find they don't accept mail from there either unless you are a customer of theirs. Bastards. So as a last resort I sent the message as "feedback to the Webmaster". Let's hope somebody is working on it -- I'm at the point where I'm saying "dont make me go over there".
Bear contests: There has been a great deal of traffic on the Bears Mailing List accusing some folks of taking these contests just a bit too seriously. I don't think ours is in any danger of that, however. I would be there now, but a gay bar is no place to be if you have even a hint of 'the trots' as I do at the moment (ah, this too shall pass, so to speak ;-). But I'm sure the other guys will have a great time at it.
By the way, the music is from Lord of the Fries -- a bunch of parodies (political and otherwise) by the Capitol Steps (for those of you in the Great White North, they're the US equivalent of the Royal Canadian Air Farce).
Computer crap: First off, I wasn't sure my color printer was going to work when I needed to make certificates for our bear contest this evening (about which more later). But it went better than I anticipated, all I needed to do was replace the ink cartridges. Kewl.
Flush with that success, I went to check our club e-mail account and found we can't seem to get our mail delivered to two of our members because the ISP they use keeps rejecting our messages. So I sent their postmaster a message asking what was up, and of course that bounced too. OK, I thought, there should be some method of contacting them on their Web site, and there was -- there's a fill-in form for their tech support. After filling it in, I was quite pissed to find they don't accept mail from there either unless you are a customer of theirs. Bastards. So as a last resort I sent the message as "feedback to the Webmaster". Let's hope somebody is working on it -- I'm at the point where I'm saying "dont make me go over there".
Bear contests: There has been a great deal of traffic on the Bears Mailing List accusing some folks of taking these contests just a bit too seriously. I don't think ours is in any danger of that, however. I would be there now, but a gay bar is no place to be if you have even a hint of 'the trots' as I do at the moment (ah, this too shall pass, so to speak ;-). But I'm sure the other guys will have a great time at it.
By the way, the music is from Lord of the Fries -- a bunch of parodies (political and otherwise) by the Capitol Steps (for those of you in the Great White North, they're the US equivalent of the Royal Canadian Air Farce).