Ramsey Rants

I’ve been using Google Apps for a while. Well, sometime in the last 24 hours, google changed a setting somewhere that made E-mail notifying me of customer issues and orders on the shopping cart fail to get to me. When this first happened, I thought, OK, I’ll just contact Google Apps support, they’ll take care of it, that’s why I pay extra for it. 24 hours later, I haven’t heard a thing from Google other than a canned E-mail response. I thought Google was trying to provide business services, appearantly not. I was finally able to route around their change, yet I bet there are alot of folks out there that would be powerless to do anything. I hope Google knows that it would be unwise to start dropping the ball.

The netbook is a small laptop, used basically for web surfing, I have been using my Acer netbook since October and I love it. I sometimes bring it with me to lunch or to the bar to follow stats. But recently I have noticed an interesting trend. There is the amazing amount of beautiful young women who come up to me start a conversation about the netbook. Well, I’m single I have EVDO and now I take it everywhere. What’s great is that I could never figure out how to get a puppy or a child into a bar, but the netbook is always welcome. My guess is it will become the new douche appliance of the future and I will have to use it in private.

Last Saturday, I stumbled into the emergency room. What happened?
Well I had several wounds on my abdomen that I didn’t get medical
attention for. “I can treat it myself, I’ll take salt baths and put
hydrogen peroxide on it,” I thought. Well I am a complete moron, the
infection got out of control. I drove myself to the hospital. When they looked at my wounds they could not believe I had let things
go so far. I had to immediately go into surgery so they could cut out
the infected area. They then informed me that I was a diabetic which
explained why I wouldn’t heal properly. So now I am connected to a
wound vac with tubes coming out of me. I now have to stay home for a
couple of months while I heal, just because I was a stupid, stubborn
man.

We’re back at the Granada Theater for week 10 of the NFL season. John and Mark open their hearts to the football gods this week. They are joined by the Wookiee who helps pick week 11 games. Hilarity happens.

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I’d like to talk about an issue dear to my heart, the Dallas Mavericks. I have been a Mavericks fan since they began, a year after moving to the Dallas area when I was a child. They were the lovable losers. Now, if they lose with this much talent, it will be very difficult to love them. They will be the first first seeded team in NBA history to loose to an 8 seed. That’s correct, last year’s Finals meltdown will be eclipsed be another meltdown. Dirk is not the MVP, he has been exposed. Once the defense is cranked up on the German, he falls. It is very sad to see, there was so much promise. Now if the Mavs lose tonight it will be a sad day in Mavsland.

Watch the great comic James Inman go nuts in front of the Seattle City Council. Good times.

Here’s the video of the “terrorists”.

I saw the late show last night, Doug Stanhope put on a great show. He’s the most abrasive comic out there and he never holds back. Doug is moving to Austin and the Antone’s shows prove why the politically correct think he’s satan. The politically disappointed can now vote for Stanhope in ’08 as he is running for president as a Libertarian. I interviewed Doug a few days ago for the Tasty Logic podcast, take a listen to Episode 22. Here’s a video from the show last night.

I also took some pictures of the show, click on the picture below to see the rest.

Is this the horrible ice storm we were warned about? I’m really getting tired of Austin weather folks crying wolf. I know its a bit cold outside, but the local news made it seem like we needed to learn how to build igloos. Alarmist jerks.

Take a listen, Episode 11 is out! Check it out over at http://pigskinradio.com. Just a couple of idiots talking fantasy football, the nfl and with a bit of a tilt towards the Dallas Cowboys.