this one comes from my Friends and Co-workers at Custom Web Apps  Pinku (said wife/CWA’s Graphic designer) and Neuro (Pinku’s Husband/PHP Programmer/CEO of CWA ).  no offense to either of them as I repsect and admire both of them but I could totally see this scenario playing out just as it states in the image.

Here is another thing I took from another site. this one was from twasink.net I thought this was funny when I first read it,  now that I’ve left the custom web development industry it’s even funnier because it is 100% true!  I blame the fact that people have seen costs for buying a new house,  paying for home repairs or remodeling,  they also see how much a Hollywood movie costs, thus when dealing with these things they have more of sense of what it will entail and cost. sadly nobody outside of the industry has a good concept of how much something will cost to develop so people get pissed when you can’t deliver them a myspace/google/amazon.com/youtube site  all rolled up into a slick package for under $100.

So without any further delays,  to those not in the web industry welcome to a glimplse of their life!

Dear Mr. Architect:

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.

Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don’t have nearly enough insulation in them).

As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)

Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.

To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, make certain that you contact each of our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of these options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any choices that you make.

Please don’t bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet.

However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.

Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.

While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population in my area that they like the features this house has. I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor’s house he constructed last year. We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularly the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.

Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.

You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can’t happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.

PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I’ve given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can’t handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.

PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon as possible if this is the case..

hello again I’m back!

It’s been a long time since anyone has posted here. Since that time I have left the tech industry behind me. Now that I am no longer a “computer guy”  I felt I should put this on Ubergeeks call this a rant calls the top 10 it’s sadly true. He warned I stole this from another site. The site is www.lifereboot.com

now without further ado, here is the top 10 reasons it’s sucks to be the “computer guy”:

Reason #10 - Most Of Your Accomplishments Are Invisible

The computer guy never hears anyone tell him, “I just want to let you know … everything is working fine!”

The reality is that people call the computer guy when something is wrong.

As a computer guy, if you work really hard to make everything work the way that it should, and things work fine, then people believe you don’t do anything. Everything you manage to get working correctly or do perfectly will forever remain unnoticed by computer users. They’ll only ever notice that you do anything when something isn’t working correctly, and you are called upon to fix it.

Reason #9 - Every Conversation You Have Is Roughly The Same

When the computer guy dares to mention what he does for a living, the typical response is, “I have a question about my home computer…”

Or when the computer guy first hears about a widespread problem within the computer network he’s responsible for, he can barely begin to assess the problem before a dozen other people call to report the same problem.

Or when the computer guy explains a certain process on a computer to a user who is incapable of retaining the process, he will inevitably need to reinstruct the user of this same process — indefinitely.

Reason #8 - You’re An Expert Of Bleeding-Edge Technology Products, Aren’t You?

The computer guy often finds himself in situations where someone is asking him for advice on a pending investment of the technological variety.

“I heard about (some hardware or software product) that can do (something desirable) for me. I brought you these (advertisements/reviews/printouts) because I wanted your recommendation. Which would you buy?”

Although the inquiring person sincerely trusts the computer guy’s judgment over their own, in almost every instance the real objective of these meetings is to ensure their own immunity from making a risky purchase.

If it turns out to be a bad investment, and they cannot get (the hardware or software product) to do (anything desirable), then you will be their personal scapegoat — “But honey, the computer guy said I should buy it!”

Reason #7 - Your Talents Are Forcibly Undervalued

Thanks to the constantly declining price of new computers, the computer guy cannot charge labor sums without a dispute. If he asks to be paid what he is worth, he will likely be met with the “why not buy new?” argument.

That is, desktop computers are always getting smaller, faster, and cheaper. It’s possible to purchase a new desktop computer for under $400. If the computer guy spends five hours fixing a computer and wants $100/hour for his time, his customer will be outraged, exclaiming “I didn’t even spend this much to BUY the computer, why should I pay this much just to FIX it?”

Reason #6 - You’re Never Allowed A Moment’s Peace

The computer guy is so prone to interruption that he rarely finds an opportunity to work on his own problems. This is because:

1. Computers never sleep.
2. Computer problems aren’t scheduled.
3. Every problem takes time to diagnose.
4. The computer guy can only give one problem his full attention.
5. Each user believes their problem deserves attention now.

Consequently, the computer guy has a 24/7 obligation to keep critical computer systems running, while simultaneously juggling everyone’s problems. He’ll often need to forfeit any opportunities to tend to his own needs for the sake of others — because at any moment, of any day, he can be interrupted by someone who wants to make their problem his problem.

Reason #5 - People Ask You To Perform Miracles

The computer guy is often mistaken for someone who possesses the combined skills of an old priest and a young priest. I’ll sum this up easily by example:

“No, I really can’t recover any files from your thumb drive, even if you did find it after it passed through your dog.”

Reason #4 - Your Assumed “All-Knowing” Status Sets You Up To Let People Down

There is no common understanding that there are smaller divisions within the computer industry, and that the computer guy cannot be an expert in all areas. What makes things worse, is when the computer guy attempts to explain this to someone asking for help, the person will often believe that the computer guy is withholding the desired knowledge to avoid having to help.

This is somewhat related to the next reason:

Reason #3 - You Possess Unlimited Responsibility

The computer guy is expected to solve problems. It is difficult to determine the boundaries of that expectation.

Some of the oddest things that I’ve been asked to do include:

1. Use pirated software to undelete important company files.
2. Create an Intranet, after explaining I didn’t know how to.
3. Teach someone how to hide their pornography collection.

Solving problems can range from replacing batteries in a wireless keyboard to investigating why the entire building loses power at the same time every morning. Resolutions can necessitate weaving a 50-foot cable through a drop ceiling, or wriggling under a house on your belly to add an electrical outlet.

Reasons #4 and #3 boil down to this: no matter how often you want to play the role of a hero, there will always be circumstances that test the limits of your ability to be one. It’s difficult to judge when helping someone means doing something immoral, and it’s even harder to admit you are unable to solve someone’s problem — and chances are, that someone will view you as incompetent because you were unable to help them.

Reason #2 - A Life Of Alienation

People only talk to the computer guy when they need him to fix something. Also, when the computer guy approaches a user, they’ll hop up out of their chair under the presumption that he’s there to fix something — as if it would never be expected that he only wants to strike up a conversation.

The fact that the computer guy never gets a moment’s peace can also practically force him to withdraw into solitude. His co-workers don’t understand that he doesn’t want to hear about their computer problems during his lunch hour — he does that every other hour of the day. That’s why the computer guy eats lunch alone with his door closed, or goes out to eat every day — not because he’s unfriendly, but because he needs to escape the incessant interruptions.

Reason #1 - You Have No Identity

It’s an awful experience when the computer guy shows up at a neighbor’s doorstep with a plate of Christmas cookies, only to have the child who answered the door call out, “Mom, the computer guy is here!” He begs for an identity that is not directly associated with computers, but “the computer guy” label walks ahead of him — it simply cannot be avoided. I was given a name and I’d love to be addressed by it.

Having read these reasons, you may believe that I’m complaining. It’s true that I was upset with many aspects of my life as the computer guy, but I’m past the point of complaining.

I took a good hard look at my existence and realized that things were not likely to change in the line of work I had chosen. Instead of just complaining, I took action and began making positive changes in my life.

Working in the computer industry isn’t for everybody. It wasn’t for me. I’ve compiled my reasons for putting it behind me and placed them here, so that anyone who is unsatisfied with their life working in computers might recognize it’s not for them either.

Tea was introduced to Europe in the mid-1600’s. By the 1700’s, it had replaced beer as the beverage of choice at breakfast.

Now this makes some sense to me as water conditions back in thoses days were not so great in fact a lot a sewage got dumped into the streams and rivers around that time.  Still it’s kinda funny to hear beer as the breakfast drink of choice. still happens today for some people but usually those people are thought of as having a “drinking problem”

Good Ole Rockstar Games is making GTA 4 for the ps3 and it’s set in ilberty city again which is where gta 1 2 3 and libertycity stories were set. So gta 4 is set in liberty city which is supposed to be New York and the mayor of New York is pissed about that he said quote: “to have a game like GTA set in none of the safest metropilitan cities in america is like having halo set in disney land I don’t want a game where people kill cops, sell porn to kids, and solicite prostutes in order to progess through the game to represent New York”

Now I got four things out of this:

1. Maybe I don’t play much GTA but I’m pretty sure there is no part where you sell pron to kids.
2. Why wheren’t you complaining about the last 4 games set in the same area.
3. New York City isn’t a trademarked thing  anyone can make some game on an island city in the U S of A with a big statue in on another island  and you can’t do anything about it except for whine and moan sucker fish in the imortal words of the evil genius YOU LOSE!
4. Halo in disneyland!?!?!?!?!? I will SOOOOOOOOOOO BUY the xbox 360 and become a major microsoft and halo Fan boy if they make that game I just hope they would have like the theme park style mickeys minnney and goofies as enemies at some point.

On the next post of overkill I give you the wonderfully terrible Energy Drink called Zip Fizz.  the Main Man at the Mart Monte just started carrying this stuff,  and should you be lacking some B12 in your diet this has enough to make up for it. this stuff has 41,667% of the daily value of vitamin B12 per serving.  Yes that is not a misprint or an exaggeration it really has 41,667% of the daily value needed,  now I’m all for a bit of crazy overkill, but wow! This far exceeds even my levels of going overboard.

The Boy Scouts have a motto: “Be Prepared” now some people like to carry around a nice utility tool whether it be a small swiss army knife ala McGuyver or a leatherman type of multipurpose tool. but if you know me you know I like to goo “a little” oveer board and by that I mean taking things to the EXTREME!!!! so let me intorduce you to the Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife™ V1.0

This bad boy has 85 Implements 110 Functions is crazy unwieldy and can be yours for only 12 grand. This ladies and gentlemen is overkill at it’s finest.

I’m going to start this with the most feared words in my verbal arsenal…….

I don’t know if you know this but……. You heard of Fan films? if not let me give you a semi brief definition. A fan Film is a home made film by fans of a show, movie, books, games, etc. Most common and famous are the Star Wars ones, you can see these on the site TFH. but I got to say I never thought I see the day that someone makes a live action Pac Man fan film.

Yes Folks you heard me right their is a bunch of people making a pac man movie, they are taking some major liberties with the Pac Man lore, but what ever this thing is freakin sweet! Check it out here!