After a very stressful day yesterday, I decided that I would go up to Plymouth to see some friends and gather my thoughts. So far, I got to hang out with Zach and Sara and play Guitar Hero: World Tour. I also went down to the Lucky Dog and have a few drinks and see my friend Steve. I went back to Vasken’s house and hung out while I added programs to my new laptop. I will be spending time with other friends and working on updating my resume.
I miss the Plymouth scene, but I don’t know if I could live here. Too far away from my family and Boston. However, I have a job possibility up here, so i don’t want to rule it out. It will be a good weekend that I can just relax and have fun.
There are certain things that I have got accustomed to over the past year while working for StudentCity.com. I loved my working environment, my co-workers, my responsibilities and the company itself. StudentCity is an amazing company with amazing people who give college students the experience that they deserve while on spring break. However, since the economy is horrible right now, a lot of parents can’t afford to send their son/daughter on spring break. Unfortunately for me, I was a casualty of this current economy.
The past few months have been very hard with losing my father to cancer, having to sell my childhood house and now losing my job to the economy, but there is a plan. Even though I am still having trouble believing it, I know that everything will work out. Not to be super religious, but God wouldn’t give me anything that I couldn’t handle. I will figure out my job situation and who knows, this job might even be better for my career in web development.
I am in no way mad at StudentCity for letting me go, but I am saddened by how much I am going to miss working there. I was at the company for a year and three months and loved every minute of it. If anyone reading this wants to go on spring break, go to StudentCity.com, book a trip and have the best spring break experience of your life. Let them know that I said Hi, have fun and as StudentCity staffers always say, “See you on the beach”!
Posted at: 11:47 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Sports and Leisure
Congratulations to the 2008 World Series champions, Philadelphia Phillies. They played very well except for game 2 which they lost. The entire postseason was amazing, but I wish the Red Sox were the ones taking the trophy.
Posted at: 11:55 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Sports and Leisure
The Boston Celtics, 2008 NBA World Champions, raised their 17th banner tonight and got their rings. Out of all of the players, “the truth”, Paul Pierce was very emotional because he waited so long as a member of the Celtics without winning one. Last year, the Celtics went from being the worst team in the NBA to being ranked 1st in the season and win another NBA title. It shows how well this team worked together towards one goal.
The Celtics beat the Cleveland Cavilers 90-85 at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston and it was a very interesting game. The Celtics were behind the whole 1st half of the game. They came out in the 3rd and 4th pounding away at the Cavilers and took over the lead. They went back and forth for a while, but finally the Celtics finished the game strong.
Can the Celtics repeat as champions this year? Can they regain the dynasty status? Only time will tell, but it will be a fun year to watch.
The following video is Barack Obama’s closing argument which just might put him into the White House while the Republicans are arguing between each other.
I have had the same cell number for more than 6 years now from Verizon Wireless. When I first signed up for Verizon before I went off to college, I was add onto my parents account. When I graduated, I was going to change to my own plan, but with everything going on, I never got a chance to. I have been meaning to go into the Verizon store to start my own contract since I am moving closer to the North Shore area. I always forget my father’s death certificate which they will require to be pulled off the account.
I have always been granted full control of the account both online/by phone. However, recently Verizon changed their security polices making it so the only person set to be account manager is the account owner. This made it hard for me to do anything on the account until I was on my new contract. When I got locked out of the online account, I called to have them reset it. Luckily they unlocked my online account for me so that I could still do things online, but to do any other tasks, I would need to have my own account.
Looks like I have to go this week to take care of it.
Tonight there was a mini marathon of SNL episodes making the night a lot better. The first three were the previous Thursday night political shows and the final being the live episode. Coldplay performed!
It started out with Joe Biden in Pennsylvania with Rep John Murtha where they are saying crazy things to ruin Obama’s chances at the polling stations. He talked about selling Hawaii to Saudi Arabia and selling Alaska to Russia. I don’t think we should sell all of Alaska, just Sarah Palin. Biden continued to say that if Obama is elected there will be a crisis. Also, they might burn down Washington DC and that Jesus is going to come back if Obama wins in November.
Jon Hamm from Mad Men was the host and he was trying to plug his show by saying there will be a celebrity dance contest, they makeover a home and the cast of CSI will be there. He mentioned that John Mcain and Barack Obama will be on the show smoking real weed. Sarah Palin is there too.
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Coldplay’s second song “Yellow” ended a lot differently than I remember when the song first came out. At the end, the lead singer Chris Martin screamed “Barack Obama” making it known where their allegiance resides.
Posted at: 11:45 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Tiny Paste is a tool that is used for twitter to allow you to type more than the 140 characters that twitter allows. You type what you want to say, hit submit and it will turn it into a tiny url that you can add into your tweet. Once the person clicks on the url, they will be able to read it from there.
There is also a firefox plugin for Tiny Paste which you can select the text you want in the browser, right click and convert it into a url. Very handy when you are trying to quote something and you need more than 140 characters.
A friend of mine told me about http://palinaspresident.us. You go on the site and you see the oval office with Sarah Palin sitting behind it. You can click on all the different objects in the office and they move or make comments.
For example:
There is a poster of the movie “Maverick” and someone from the Dallas Mavericks
Inside the door on the left, there are burning books
On the wall there are blank frames and if you click on them, she says: “Learning’s hard”, “Didn’t graduate”, “BS here I come”
If you click on the curtain directly behind Palin, she says “Where did Russia go?”
There is a 6 pack of beer on the seat that she calls “Joe 6 pack” and the light bulb she calls “Joe Light bulb”
I would highly recommend checking this site out for fun
The other day, my mother received a letter saying that she owed $1,000 to Sears for purchases that my father made. What we didn’t realize is that those charges were made 3 months after he passed away. Today, we got a letter with a detailed copy of our bill and the dates and purchase locations. I decided to call the number on the bill and have some fun with them since I had no intentions of paying.
A man picked up the call and asked me for my name. I refused to give it because they didn’t need to know my name. I gave the man, his account number and he asked how he could help me. I wanted to discuss some of the charges on the account and he told me that he needed to speaker with the account holder.
Me – {angrily but having fun} “You want to speak to the account holder? The one who passed away 3 months ago! No, you can’t speak with him”. Man – “I am sorry to hear that and I will write a note that he is deceased.” Me – “{mockingly and pissed} You should already have that in your records since “you” (the company) originally called, talked with me and said that you follow up on dead accounts.” Man – “Well you are still responsible for the balance on the account.”
I then asked him if this call was being recorded and he told me that it was. I explained that the charges were made 3 months after my father passed away. There were charges for an electric company in Arkansas and we live in Massachusetts. Also Progressive Insurance for $1,000 and other miscellaneous and fraudulent charges. The best part was that there was a payment made on the account for $1,132 on 10/8/08. If someone was going to steal his identity/card, why would that person made a payment for what they stole. Due to that point alone, I feel that it is a scam.
Finally I explained that they would not see a penny of that balance and that if they tried to pursue this bill, they would be speaking with our lawyer. I hung up the phone and had a good laugh with my mother standing right next to me.
Note: There is a part of me that wanted them to come after us and hope for some money to pay off my student loans.
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