iPower Web Hosting Provided by Monkeys

My daughter points out that LIE, LIAR and LYING are strange ’cause they’re all related and spelled a little differently. But did also you know when you mix these three and add STUPIDITY and INCOHERENCE you get the POS web hosting company that is iPower.  

Turns out I’m not alone in my low opinion of these guys. There’s even websites dedicated to telling it like it is. iPower Web Hosting Complaints is logging gripes as well as American Bad Business List (A.B.B.L.) 

Anyway I’m going to let you browse the more established websites to get a better idea of how iPower can screw you and your online business.

My HD Digital Cable Box and DVR Didn’t come with an HDMI Cable?

This past Christmas we sprung for a new TV. A 1080p 40 inch LCD. That may not mean much to some people, and before we bought ours it meant nothing to me. I can tell you one quick difference is that your plain regular cable looks shite so an upgrade to digital with HD channels is a must. Suprisingly (not) the cost difference between what we were paying for regular cable and the digital with DVR upgrade was pretty minimal… so we jumped in. 

The upgrade process itself was fairly easy. What I don’t understand is why Cox Communications does not include an HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) cable, or a component cable, or even RCA jacks. I get a cable box and that’s it.  I can BUY the HDMI cable for $30.00 which can be conveniently spread out over 3 billing cycles. WTF!

Dearest Cox… I’m paying you $130.00 / month for cable TV / DVR, Internet and phone. THROW ME A BONE and comp me an HDMI cable that makes the digital HD upgrade worth it! Dix…

TV at the Gas Pump

The price of gas these days SUCKS!  Okay… duh! 

Now we have television at the gas pump. Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a wonderful idea. I also think the price of gas could be knocked down a couple of bucks per gallon because of the advertising dollars generated.

If Chevron, Mobil, Exxon and the others are getting fat paid by the networks they should pass some relief down to the consumers. It would only help the economy, and I might have more appreciation for GM or Dunkin’ Donuts in the “you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” sort of way.

How about a choice? Two buttons on the pump… show me some advertising and cut my gas bill in half, or shove your ads I love high priced gas.

The Big Boys Failed Me, All at Once!

  

 

Last week the family started watching American Idol on Fox. There’s really some great comedy to be found in these first handful of audition shows. One word for some of these people sums it up… BALLS! Which is sort of a segue into how a small group of big players jumped into line to figuratively sucker punch me when I had one eye closed.

 

It goes like this. The folks at Fox and American Idol decide it’d be funny to show the one of the more creepy contestants. Guy writes his own song going on about how he’s gonna sneak into Paula Abdul’s house and try on her underwear etc. All the while a fiendish grin on his face. Anyway, Busta Rhymes proceeds to sing about if Paula was a bathtub he’d CAULK her…. Cue the laugh track.

 

Did I mention my kids are watching? Then it comes (wink) “what’s caulk” (wince) which we quickly defined, changed the subject and continued watching. 

 

Now my wife and I are not the naive types who think their 10 and 12 year olds don’t talk their fair share of shit on the playground, but I sorta feel I was tapped on the shoulder and hit before I could turn around.  This comedic event is not what prompted this post. It’s how the others seemed to get in line to follow suit.

 

It’s now almost a week later and my kids are singing that song thanks the brilliant memory of a child when my daughter realizes she didn’t get the answer she was looking for in our definition of caulk and decides to look it up in Oxford American Dictionaries conveniently located in the Dashboard of our Apple iMac. She’s a good speller and naturally types in COCK. There it is – a penis. My son goes on to ask again “what does that mean” when daughter armed with her new found knowledge puts two and two together (she’s also very good at math) and yells down from our living room “HE WANTS TO NAIL HER!”

 

DAMN!

 

So to sum it up, American Idol gets the finger for no warning system, the construction industry gets the finger for its slew of double entendres (but also a wink and a chuckle), Linksys sucks ’cause I have it on the “block these words” list but it still… slipped through. Apple and Oxford fit in there somewhere too.

I’m tweaked…