Merry Christmas!!

I’d like to think that I don’t have many things that annoy me. I’m generally a very laid-back easy-going guy, but I have been known to be vocal about things that get on my nerves. A relatively minor, yet fairly significant, pet peeve of mine are people I refer to as “yeah-yeahs” and “huh-huhs”.

You know the types: the ones that when you’re having a conversation with them, they’re making so much noise aknowledging what you’re saying that you sometimes wonder if they heard what you actually just said, especially considering the fact that they’re usually louder than you are.

For example, there is one girl who waits for the same bus as I do to head home at the end of the day (in fact, I just saw her this evening, which is what prompted this post), and if I see her waiting there, I’ll either opt to wait for the next bus, or take the streetcar. She is THAT annoying. She is a “huh-huh”. If she happens to have a conversation with anyone on the bus that she knows, and judging from previous rides she knows a lot of people, while they’re talking she is constantly laughing, but not a “haha” sort of laugh, rather, it is an annoying “huh-huh”. The entire bus is subjected to this loud seemingly-fake laughter, and perhaps I’m the only one who finds it irritating as hell, I don’t know. She isn’t the only person I’ve met that does this, so it’s not a one-off… which is unfortunate. Thankfully I almost always have my headphones with me, and I never go anywhere without my iPhone.

Then there are the “yeah-yeahs”, the ones who keep saying “yeah” after each sentance you speak, I guess with the intent of letting you know they’re following your every word, yet resulting in usually throwing you off and trying to remember what the hell you were talking about in the first place. I knew someone in Calgary that did this (no, it isn’t anyone I am still in contact with, Calgarian friends, so it isn’t any of you), and she was so annoying that I tried not to get roped into any conversations with her… or even hear ones I wasn’t involved with. Once in a while I hear a “yeah-yeah” on the TTC, and that’s when the headphones come on.

Anyway, there’s my long-overdue rant. It’s bothered me for ages, and yet I’ve never said anything about it… so why not post it?

So, I needed to get the MAC address for my manager’s laptop to grant it access to our wireless network in the office, and didn’t quite know how to do that in Vista. At the time, I didn’t know that Vista actually did still have a (limited) command line interface like in XP, so I *could* have run “ipconfig”, but I digress.

Anyway, without knowing the above, I Googled how to determine the MAC address for a PC unfortunately running Vista. The specific command to display all the MAC addresses for the network interfaces in Vista, and apparently in Windows in general, made me chuckle:

Oh how very amusing.  

This is SO bad that I’ve watched it at least five times… and laughed my ass off each time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQQJ1OhARWk

“Wat-SON.”

“Wassup Holmes?”

So, everyone is getting their panties tied in a knot about this massive storm headed our way. It’s all anyone has been able to talk about for the last two days. Warnings on TV, radio, and all over the internet state that we’re in for about 15 to 20 centimetres. It’s like they’re forcasting the End of Days.

Don’t worry! We’re Toronto! We can always get the Canadian military to dig us out again! Hah! 

Anyway, here is what all the hooplah is about:

Yeah, that’s fairly large, and it just so happens that it is going to pass directly over Toronto, but it’s only going to dump snow on us, and we’ve had a few days to prepare for it. That doesn’t mean that the average driver isn’t going to revert to the mentality of a squirrel behind the wheel and get into all sorts of accidents, but for the most part, when we’re worried about getting hit with a large storm, it usually turns out to be nothing more than a fart in the wind. People like to complain about what a horrendous inconvenience the weather is. Pffft. Come on.

Still, we’ll see what tomorrow is like. Personally, I’m looking forward to the snow. We’ve been screwed out of a white Christmas far too many times as of late, so for those whiners out there, quit yer bitching, or I’ll pummel you with snowballs!!