Angel on my main shoulder tellin me remain sober

While reading about the impending approval Real ID, a soon-to-be federal ID card, I recalled an incident on the boat this weekend. The one consistent answer that I give to the question, 'what irks you,' is the 'absence of common sense.' Now I completely understand the need for a company to offer services for a fee, but some muthfuqers just don't need to be running scams like it's free crack day.

For starters, don't oversimplify your explanation of a technology service to a fuqing technology guy and then have me realize that it was all bull. So basically, here's the situation. I'm trying to print some quick copies of some photos that I had taken that night before. I've got them on my SD card from the digital camera and had also already trasnferred them to my laptop and could move to a USB drive as well. So I ask the dude at the 'Internet Cafe' how much for the prints and what equipment was he wrking with. So after getting the gist of his explanation as being 'we have a card reader', I go upstairs to get the joint and run back down. Mind you, I skated on dinner because this was a rush job. And we hadn't even started with the appetizers yet.

Well lo and behold, I get back to the Cafe nd pop the SD card intot he card reader. For the unclined technologists out there...the card reader is connected to the computer. Just so we are all on the same page. There is also a printer, which is connected to all of the computers that they have networked in the Cafe. But the card readers is only hooke dup to this one PC. So anyways, after a few awkward seconds of me feeling like a clueless dummy, dude comes over and we go at it for about 5 minutes. That's all it took. I really am an extremely nice and personable person. Because some muthafuqers need their jaws rocked.

In summary, they expected me to first pay an activation fee to use the PC, then pay a connection fee to connect to the Internet, and pay a set rate by the minute for my airtime. The Internet and airtime is important here because the only way these geniuses figured they could configure their system was to have users upload the pictures to their email accounts, and then download the files to the computer so that they could be printed. Yes...all of you tech-savvy readers can collectively yell WTF right now. Go ahead...do it again. So me beign the tactful diplomat that I am opted for the high road and just shook me head in deisbelief and did not feel like spending any more time on my vacation explaining to some random muthafuqer who should know what the fuq
he was doing that I should be able to print directly form the card reader to the printer without all of that other bullshit. But alas...he was retarded and I had to wait until today to print my pictures. Mind you, I know several dozen engineers who would love to run an Internet Cafe for a cruise line. But I digress....

Here's a flick of the Orlando sunset this past Sunday as Song/Delta flight #2014 sat on the runway 5 hours after its scheduled departure and an hour before it was cancelled. And for the crate diggers, the title is from "1-9-9-9" with Common and Sadat X on the Soundbombing 2 album.