Patrick’s Rants

I know, you don’t have that much time on your hands, so I will forgive you for not seeking out and finding the myspace account which goes along with Arul Casmael’s cult web site. On his myspace page he has the following (interjected with my own comments of course ):
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Apparently Costeau from channel 2 is moving to Bend, OR. Watch out Jake.

Can’t find any links – I was just accidentally watching the local news.

I like to joke that my junior high was 95% black, 5% hispanic and five white guys – I was one. I don’t really know how many white people there actually were, but it wasn’t many. The school was a adjacent to “chocolate city” the name locals had given to HUD housing apartments. Not a great area.

We had a “Gifted Program” which consisted of something like five or six “qualified” individuals, but only 4 tended to be in the class during any particular year – I was one. (more…)

A new commercial alerted me to an advertising campaign by CIT (http://www.cit.com) that states

“It’s Time Potential Became a Line on a Balance Sheet”

Have we learned nothing, nothing! from Enron?

Alright, I was skimming the front page of CNN.com for some posts that are overdue: Supreme Court rulings, PA election boards not wanting to guarantee that votes are actually cast for who think, etc. I ran across and entry about Amber Frey opening a day spa, categorized as law. What? Law? How about “barely news” or Who Gives a Rats Ass?”. And the story doesn’t say anything about how she benefited from the death of a pregnant woman whose husband she was sleeping by writing a book. It’s so stupid, I’m not providing a link. If you want to know that badly, look it up yourself.

Robin Williams is part Bill Maher, part Bev Harris, as a talk show host who runs for president in a movie that is part funny, part scary as hell. It’s a comedy to be sure, but a sick comedy that looks at how a single company (think Diebold) controls voting for the entire country and the consequences of unaudited source code and the complete lack of a paper receipt. Unfortunately for the American people there is a “bug” in the software that would have benefited the incumbent had a political comedian not entered the race. Attempts to bring the bug to the attention of management by a lone programmer are futile.

It’s a movie to make you laugh and to make you think. But you have to watch it to find out how the bug works and whether Williams will become an unwilling “Dubya” or whether he really is one of the good guys, who like Maher, best serves his country by being a straight shooter and asking the hard, if funny, questions.

Crawford, Texas (APJune 19, 2007)

A tragic flood this morning destroyed the personal library of President
George W. Bush.

The flood began in the presidential bathroom where both of his books were kept. Both of the books have been lost.

A presidential spokesperson said the President was devastated, as he had almost finished coloring the second one.

The White House tried to call FEMA, but there was no answer.

Bush Deserves a Fair Trial

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one contacted over the weekend of June 2, 2007 by “Arul Casmael”. Not only did he send me his rambling letter of shame, he emailed a much less reserved critic, who also happened to blog it – although not the email itself. He uses such eloquent terms –

“this whackbiscuit is a racist sot”

– to describe Arul. He also “outs” him by posting his “real name”: “Partholon MacPharlain” which I chose politely not to do at the time.

And we were not the only ones engaged in written exchanges with him over that weekend. Over on myspace he got called a village idiot.

And remember that whine about being a cult leader? Nobody seems to be listening to him. We all see him as the “leader” of the Na Astaraichean cult, although nobody is really sure of the size beyond him and his wife – and perhaps a single lost Mormon girl who wandered down from Salt Lake City. (“Sister-wife ad on Yahoo personals”*)

Hall of Shame denouncing Arul Casmael’s cult.
*Just in case it got taken down, here’s a screenshot

Looks like I get first place when you search for Arul Casmael. What an honor!

As a follow up to: Round and Round the Support Bush
and: Dell Again comes: 22 Confessions of a Former Dell Sales Manager.
Then consumerist.com got a “take down notice” of sorts. And then Dell Changed its mind, but apparently didn’t tell consumerist.com
It’s good that Dell has admitted making a mistake. It’s also good that they claim they have or are stream-lining some of the issues from the first post. The question is, why do companies wait until extremely public complaints before acting on them?