Archive for the ‘Gripes’ Category

Gah! No Smallville for RJ

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Man I am disappointed. Smallville is my only real guilty pleasure. I know the show is crap but I love it anyways. So I faithfully watch every episode ON TV, mind you. I am that faithful to the show. I watch all the CW’s stupid commercials and everything. Then today! (Smallville comes on at 8pm on Fridays now) I turn on my TV and what do I see? Major League Baseball! What is up with that, baseball? If there is one thing I hate on TV it is baseball. Baseball has got to be the most boring sport ever made by man (golf is not a sport it is a game). And they had to put it on this friday from 7pm to 10pm. What is up with that?

But you know what the worst part of it is? I have no idea when I can watch this weeks episode of smallville because after looking at the guide it is not rescheduled and everything online says it is airing tonight. So those of you on the west coast will probably get to watch it but I am SOL. wtf man this is so unfair. I was looking forward to this all day long and now I am disappointed. oh well. At least I have other things to keep me occupied.

I’m Pissed at Alaskan Airlines

Monday, August 24th, 2009

So I am headed to New York today (august 24th 2009) and as I am checking in do you know what I found out? Of course you don’t you’re not the Shadow (watch the Alec Baldwin Shadow film if you don’t get the reference). Anyways I found out that I had to pay 40 dollars to check my bags!

From this day forth the ranting Jamaican will boycott Alaskan Airlines. Maybe I will fly with them again if they stop charging for checking bags. I could understand if my bags were overweight but they weren’t WTF dudes. No more Alaskan and the same goes for all other airlines that charge extra for baggage.

I think the real reason that I am pissed is that adding a baggage checking fee really makes it a lot harder to choose which flight is the cheapest. If the website had a little pop-up that said “this airline charges a fee to check baggage” when I was comparing prices it would be extremely helpful. But as things are now you have to either just know or spend extra time looking these things up.

I wonder if when they added these baggage checking fees 2 years ago, or whatever, they lowered the prices. I hope they did. Because then it would sort of make sense because if you don’t check bags then you get less service therefore you should pay less. In that sense perhaps every airline should charge to check baggage as long as they take the price of checking baggage out of the cost of the plane ticket. Then there would be no confusion and everyone would just know that there is going to be a baggage checking fee regardless. But oh well that will NEVER happen.

Peace out ya’ll

Back to the US for RJ

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

So as you all know, from my last entry, I am now back in the US. And boy oh boy am I glad to be here. Sheez, I couldn’t even get good orange juice in Taipei. Jeez. But I never really knew how much I depend on the little things such as red vines, red bull, and orange juice haha.

I am very happy to be back but I was not happy to travel back. Jeez a 12 hour flight! for those of you who have not done this before it is the worst experience ever. All you can do for 12 hours is watch a bunch of crappy movies here is what I watched:

Echelon Conspiracy (crap)
Dragon Ball Evolution (crap)
The first 15 minutes of that Hannah Montana Movie (new level of crappiness)
Eureka Episode where the house goes crazy (pretty good)

And then after that I still hade 7 hours to kill! since I was tired of crap movies. God I really want to take a supersonic jet. I bet one of those concord Jets could have gotten me home much quicker and more comfortably. The only problem is I would have to give all of the money that I earned in the last year to get on one. I really don’t understand why they have to make flying economy class so amazingly uncomfortable but that is the way it is. and 12 hours of it is just too much. I hate flying.

But yes, so what have I been doing since landing in the United States of America. Hmm Hmm Hmm. Well I have been completing www.hendeavor.org. Yes I did that. Well there is a graphics designer doing the…graphics and someone else created the content. But I am the one that put it all together. That’s right! I am the glue.

Other than that I have been playing with my new Palm Pre! I really really love it. There are two problems that I have with it though. First, it has very low processing power. It takes forever (forever=2 second load time) to load up apps. And Second I think it is slightly too small but for some people that would not be a problem. Other than these two minor issues the phone is amazing. It is like an iPhone except I don’t have a hateful relationship with it. I don’t feel like it is furthering some agenda to get itunes on every PC in the world so that somehow Apple can take over the world and spy on everyone (like in Echelon Conspiracy).

I love the Pre though. You want to put music on it? plug it into your computer and drag the music over using WINDOWS EXPLORER or whatever the mac thing is called. No random application between my computer and the phone. If I want to do more than one thing at a time I can do it! If I want to take out the battery I just pop off the back and take off the battery.

The last thing I love about the Palm Pre shows that I am somewhat of a tech elitist. I like how it is not all that intuitive. If you don’t know the gestures to move around within an application your pretty screwed with the phone. I like that haha. I want people to have to know something in order to use the phone. Apple makes things too easy! but whatever.

But yeah I’m back! in my home country it’s wonderful.

If you are new to my blog, which you probably aren’t, you are probably wondering why the US is my home country but my blog is called the Ranting Jamaican. Well both of my parents are Jamaican and therefore I am. But I have actually never even set foot on that little Island called Jamaica. But that is an issue I hope to rectify in the near future.

Anyways! Peace out ya’ll and the best part of traveling is coming home!