Lemons

Dell tech support has now devoured about 7 hours of my life. Each call is like another wave of infantry storming a beach already blistered by repeated assaults. Each time we get a little farther toward the target, but we still have pick our way amongst the debris and the fallen on the way there. After explaining the problem to five seperate people and then doing what they robotically spit back, we have finally exhausted all the normal tech support procedures and we're now into "let me research this and I'll get back to you." I have a feeling that this will end in a box heading for the service depot, but we'll see. Even if that has a likely degree of success, I've lost a lot of confidence in what has been, up until this point, an excellent piece of hardware. Spending $3000 for an ultimate gaming machine that stops playing games after 6 months doesn't seem like a sound investment.

Still more buyer's remorse: I found out today that Congressman Steve Rothman, whom I voted for, voted yea on House Joint Resolution 10: "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." Fuck him.

For those of you keeping score, if this amendment passes the Senate and makes it past the states, Rob Cordry's political satire on the Daily Show would be constitutionally prohibited. Thank God, because in this age of terrorism, war, widening social inequality and environmental degradation, the ONE THING WE CAN'T AFFORD is some jerk shitting on a piece of nylon.

Update: Buyer beware. I ordered a delicious chicken sandwich today and when I got back to the office I found there was no chicken on it.