Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

I’m currently debating whether to get a 12″ Apple PowerBook or the 15″. I get a little boost of confidence when I’m go through reviews of PowerBooks and I see a bunch of, “Cons: None”.

I had placed an order yesterday with Dell, but cancelled it a few hours later. I haven’t had too many problems with them (except for when I had to call them— they’ve out-sourced their call center to India), but it seems like a LOT of people have had problems with them lately. My girlfriend also has had problems with their laptops in the past, although her latest one seems to be working fine. I could be wrong… (I’m sure she’ll let me know if I am.)

This is why people who complain about stuff aren’t so bad. I guess I’m pretty well known for talking crap about people, places, and things— in my five years of writing for the web, I’ve done a good amount of complaining.

But I’d like to think it helps. I’d like to think it helps raise the bar for whatever I’m complaining about. Thanks to technology, people can talk crap at lightning-speed to a large group of people. Maybe this will help weed out shitty companies, services, products, people, music, movies, etc. at a quicker rate.

Maybe not.

They’re shitty. Their website is shitty, their online tracking is shitty, and their service is ultra shitty.

Down with The MAN.

My girlfriend spent the weekend and we had some legitimate fun (proof/”all I need in this life of sin”: me and my girlfriend).

Anyway, she brought her laptop and had AOL Instant Messenger running. I don’t spend that much time chatting anymore, but I’ve always had my sounds turned off on all instant message programs. So I heard the sound of someone signing off (which is someone shutting the door) and thought that they should implement another optional sound for when someone signs off: The door slam.

I remember a time when people used to be able to yell at someone and then slam the phone down. Now we have cordless and cellular phones where you just can’t get the same effect. Let us go back to our roots of ending heated conversations with a slamming noise. Give us the door slamming sound!

Scenario: “I slept with your man/woman, bitch!” followed by, WARN, WARN, WARN and ending with, DOOR SLAM.

So if you’re reading this and you just happen to be a developer for any instant messaging program… Give us the damn door slam sound!

I’m out this mother! DOOR SLAM

I’m in a rush to beat the expiration date on some foods this week. I basically live by myself and every piece of food I buy, I have to eat (by myself).

Because of this, I don’t like to buy things like loaves of bread because I’ll only get to finish half of it before I have to throw it out (if I stay on a strict diet of bread for breakfast, lunch, and dinner).

This also limits my ability to save money by buying food in bulk. I think my record is four trips to the grocery store in one week.

So to all the people out there living on your own: What do you do? The only solution I can think of right now is to buy a huge freezer and deal with eating lots of frozen/thawed food.

Another idea I had was to get some friends (or random people) together and split food like bread, fresh meat, etc. between each other, but it’d be hard to find someone who likes everything that you like (and vise versa).

So help me think of something. Before I eat some sort of contaminated meat.