the everyday adventures of sabrina

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so i have had my checking account for a long time. it used to be at wingspan bank, which was one of the all-electronic banks back 8 years ago or whatever, which was nice because i pretty much never have to go to an actual bank to do anything. i could transact whatever i needed […]

i hate ebay jerks

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i have been trying for weeks to find a used kitchen table. every weekend, i pull up ebay (among other sources) and browse and see what they have. i am of the opinion that when it comes to used things (especially common things like used formica dinettes) if something is not perfect i should let […]

Dear United States Postal Service: You may or may not know this, but I generally try not to be “that” customer. You know the one. The one who calls screaming if something is a day later than promised, demanding remuneration. The one who writes furious letters about how you ruined Christmas because you should deliver […]

it is easy to buy my vote

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ctaalerts: Blue [line subway] at 6mph Div[ision] -> Grand until furth notice. Dear All Chicago Mayoral Candidates: I’ll vote for whichever one of you will let me punch Frank Kruesi in the face. love, –sabrina

<niqui> FUCK YEAH <niqui> this is how awesome snmpd is <niqui> in order to show a failure that it gets from an external script, i put this in the config file: <niqui> exec SOMEARBITRARYNAME /path/to/script arg1 arg2 <niqui> but it expects an immediate response, so since my script-to-see-if-a-database-is-being-updated takes minimally 10 seconds to run, i […]