Many thanks to Jim over at www.stlrecruiting.com, yesterday he called me up for a quick interview and today he posts an article about me!
If you're looking for my Technical posts, check out my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/. Just heads up though, for any posts you find that may seem odd ;), I use my blogs to do a lot of SEO work, so some posts may not seem to fit, but they all have a...
I've had no luck with Charter and Directv Customer service over the past month.Here's a letter I sent to Charter this morning via their website. "I'd like to know how Charter is going to make me a happy customer. Here's my story.During the storms in July I lost my Directv service. They were unable to come out and restore my service in a timely manner, totally missing an appointment. I called charter, was told I could get a DVR, Digital Cable, and HD service installed at my house the following week, all for a good low price based on the fact that I was leaving Directv.Fast forward three weeks, that's today. So far all I have is a digital cable box, no HD and no DVR, and a $350 bill from charter. When the technician came to install the DVR and Cable box he showed up without either piece of equipment and told me I would have to go to charter's offices myself. I went there, and was told I couldn't get the DVR. That $350 bill includes charges for the DVR, cable service, and $100 of installation charges. I was told when I signed up my installation would be waived due to me switching from Directv.I'd love for someone from Charter to call me and schedule an appointment for my DVR to be DELIVERED and INSTALLED. I tried picking it up myself two weeks ago and was told I couldn't as it had to be professionaly installed. Then, last week I was told they were out of stock in STL, though when I ordered they were in stock.I'm extremely unhappy with the level of service I've received thus far, and if these matters are not corrected, all the promised equipment installed and working by Friday the 18th of August I'll be cancelling ALL my services with Charter and going to SBC and Dish networks.Unhappily,Chris...
I'm in Lexington Kentucky this week. After meetings all day with the client myself and another consultant headed up to Georgetown, KY to see the Bengals Training camp up at Georgetown College.
I've never been to an NFL camp, so it was definitely an interesting experience. First thing I wasn't expecting was the $12 parking fee! Next, I was surprised at all of the people!
The parking area was packed, and the stadium itself was packed as well. If I had to guess there were a couple thousand people there watching. It was a darn hot da, mid 90s around 8pm), and just like my trip to Denver last week I didn't bother to bring my camera. So I was kicking myself yet again.
At least now I can say I've seen a...
http://www.slate.com/id/2146218/?GT1=8483
I'll be damned if I'm throwing them out though. Someday they'll be worth something again! I...
Over the past weekend we lost a brother of Lambda Chi Alpha, Robert Cook of Rolla Missouri was killed in a plane crash in Sullivan Missouri. Here's an article where one of the survivor's fathers calls Robert a hero, as he attributes Roberts actions to saving his daughter's life.
Thank Robert, we'll miss you. More information about Robert can be found on our fraternity site....
I took the oil pan off the L28ET motor tonight to try to get inside and see what all I could find out about the motor. I've posted a few pictures over in the 240 photo gallery, check them out, let me know what you think of what you see.
http://sccaforums.com/photos/christoc/category1053.aspx
Here are some of the recently uploaded...
If you're looking for some good Mexican food, DON'T go to Zapatas on Manchester Road!
We, the office, went there the day they opened, for lunch, to give them a shot. The food was horrible, no one enjoyed their meals. I figured, maybe, just maybe, that was just a bad day to go, the first day a place is open.
So, a month later, I tried it again last night. We went there for dinner. It was STILL HORRIBLE. The food is just very low quality, high prices and the chips both times tasted burnt.
So, if you are looking for a restaurant on Manchester road for some good Mexican, I suggest trying one of the other places. Senor Pique's (sp?) down near Sulpher Springs Road is a good start, I've eaten there twice in the past two weeks and it's been great food and service both times.
Don't eat at Zapata's, trust...
I finally got the 293 opening day photos posted!
Here are a few of the "good" ones, though I didn't go through them all.
Me walking into Cheers
Me and Auntie Carol after the...
I know I've been slow to post here lately! I'm finally processing the photos from opening day at Fenway.
What else have I been up to? Looking at Harleys, though I've decided that REALLY isn't a good option right now. Though, unfortunately tonight I may have been talked into an interesting project. More on that later this...
Apparently there is some actual justification for not allowing Cell Phones on...
ChrisHammond.com has gotten a long over due software update! With the update there are quite a few changes with the skins.
I'll be making more adjustments later this weekend, stay...
My sophomore year of high school at Maconoquah High School I got to perform in a band. We were called The Flying Gimps, and we performed a whole two times that year. Maconoquah had a talent show every year called Pow Wow.
Derrick Smallwood, one of the other members of the band got me a copy of Pow Wow 1993, and I've gone ahead and ripped the video to a WMV file. I've got two files, linked below. The first one is the original footage of The Flying Gimps performing Helmet's Unsung, the audio on this is horrible, but it's the original recording, I'm going to have to say the lack of quality is due to the positioning of the camera in front of the bass player's amp/speakers.
http://christoc.com/video/TheFlyingGimps-Unsung-93.wmv 18.4mb
The second video is what we should have sounded like! I've dubbed in the song from Helmet over the video.
http://christoc.com/video/TheFlyingGimps-UnsungDubb-93.wmv 19mb
UPDATE: I've moved them to a server with much better...
Found some old articles I wrote while working for The Sporting...
Just archiving a link for me to read...
XM Radio signed Oprah Winfrey to a 3 year deal worth 55 Million dollars. That's awesome, not that I will ever listen to Oprah, but that is a great move for XM Radio. Down with the Sirius and that dumbass Howard Stern!
Long live XM...
As in my previous blog post I ordered 3 Bags of Crap from www.woot.com the other day.
Today they showed up!
4 Panda Express Panda Bears 10 DVD+RW Discs and Cases 2 Packages of Fake Legos 1 Camo Gun that makes noise and lights up. 15 Feet of Air Packing Bags ...
Just a quick post to aid in a little bit of search indexing for...
I've been trying to track down a copy of Pow Wow '93 for the past few years, but have been unsuccessful in doing so. Pow Wow was the annual talent competition held at Maconaquah High School in Bunker Hill Indiana. I was in a band back in 93, my sophemore year, called The Flying Gimps. We performed in Pow Wow, playing Helmet's "Unsung". We ended up winning $100 from the competition. At one point I had a copy of Pow Wow for that year but it got recorded over by something a few years later. I've tried contacting the school, but the media teacher who ran the show for many years no longer works there and no one there has an archive of the old shows.
A few weeks ago Derrickfound me on Myspace.com. Derrick and his brother Sean were in the band as well, Derrick actually wasn't going to play in the show but do to some unfortunate circumstances had to take Sean's place and fill in. I asked if he happened to have a copy and he gratiously offered to dupe me a copy and send it over! It should be here in the next few days! I'm hoping to digitize it and get it online, as well as get a copy for Lindsy as she also performed in a different part of the competition.
More on Pow Wow...
If you're watching the Olympics this year, I hope you're watching it in HD!
It's amazing watching so far in HD on NBC or on...
Just ordered another 3 Bag of Crap items from Woot.com! ...
Charter is scheduled to come out tomorrow to "reconnect" the cable. Hopefully they call first, as I don't need them to come out anymore. I hooked up the cable modem and got everything provisioned tonight (should have started before 1:15am though).
I'm not paying any "installation" fees for this...
Tickets for The Phantom Of The Opera went on sale for it's St. Louis stay this morning. The show will once again be at the Fabulous Fox theatre here in St. Louis. I've purchased two pairs of tickets for a show on the 18th of June. Should be a good time! Though I'm not sure how many times I've actually seen the Phantom of the Opera? I think this will be the fourth time, and second time at the...
Google even tells me so!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=excellent+programmer <--currently 5th on the search results for excellent programmer.
I will be number one, I will be the most excellent programmer of them...
Well, it looks like I'm going to have to upgrade the site sooner than I thought. I just deleted 100+ comment spam posts from some jackass posting a link to his article. Luckily they weren't approved yet so no one else saw them, but it's a pain the ass for me to have to delete them all.
The next software upgrade with have some better controls to make sure it's actually someone entering a comment, and not an automated...
It looks like I (Chris Hammond) am back with the Cincinnati Reds again!
I still have some of the Chris Hammond rookie cards from when he started with the league, with the Reds. For more information on Chris Hammond the pitcher, check out...