Folks, the “Internet” as you know it is called the World Wide Web: you know that “www” before almost every website? There is so much more to the Internet than the web. Email, FTP, chat/IM, all that stuff is still on the Internet but they’re not all HTML: the language web browsers like Internet Explorer speak.

So the next time you say “the Internet is broken,” which by the way isn’t really possible nowadays, please consider the actual problem and help you to help yourself: perhaps your web browser isn’t working. Or just describe the symptom: “I can’t get Internet Explorer to work.” It’s communication like this that will help us get you the assistance you need quicker and more efficiently. Who knows, the browsing experience you save could be your own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Terminology

I’ve been looking for so long for a job that has… you know… things like health insurance and a wage that will pay for… you know… things like car repairs and dinner with my girlfriend and ... life.

A job that won’t slowly devour my soul.

Is that too much to ask?

Is it?

Come on now… employment… please tell me where can I sell my soul for a decent income?

Apparently having 98th-percentile smarts, a good work ethic, an MFA… all these things mean nothing.

Screw you, jobs. Hope. Career advancement. Let’s make crappy stuff overseas for Americans to waste their withering income on instead.

You can save for a rainy day but some day you’ll need an umbrella if it never stops pouring.

In addition to fetchmail, this script needs gcalcli.

Cool.

#!/bin/sh

PRINTER=BrotherMFC9840CDW

TMPFILE=/tmp/emailprint.tmp
cat $1 > $TMPFILE

if [ -f $TMPFILE ]
then
      sed -e ‘/^First Follow-up Call Action Taken/d’ -e ‘/^Follow-up /d’ -e ‘/^Conclusion/d’ -e ‘/^Use end date/d’ -e ‘/^Message-ID:/d’ -e ‘/^X-Forwarded-/d’ -e ‘/^Repeat Type/d’ -e ‘/^Repeat End Date/d’ -e ‘/^Frequency/d’ -e ‘/^Group/d’ -e ‘/^Satisfied with Results/d’ -e ‘/^Content-T/d’ -e ‘/^Mime-Version:/d’ -e ‘/^      /d’ -e ‘/^  /d’ -e ‘/^Message-Id:/d’ -e ‘/^Please look on Fastteks Solution Center/d’ -e ‘/^http:/d’ -e ‘/^Received:/d’ -e ‘/^Return-Path:/d’ -e ‘/^Received-SPF:/d’ -e ‘/^Delivered-To:/d’ -e ‘/^Authentication-Results:/d’ -e ‘/^X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-/d’ -e ‘/^X-Mailer:/d’ -e ‘/^Customer Number/d’ -i $TMPFILE
#    cat $TMPFILE
      lp -s -d $PRINTER $TMPFILE
fi

if [ -f $TMPFILE ]
then

      WHAT=`cat $TMPFILE | grep “A new appointment has been made for you by ” | sed -e ‘s/.*Brief Description //’ -e ‘s/\”//g’`
      STREET=`cat $TMPFILE | grep “^Address” | sed -e ‘s/^Address //’ -e ‘s/\”//g’`
      CITY=`cat $TMPFILE | grep “^City” | sed -e ‘s/^City //’ -e ‘s/\”//g’ -e ‘s/\,//’ -e ‘s/\(.*\) /\1/’`
      STATE=`cat $TMPFILE | grep “^State” | sed -e ‘s/^State //’ -e ‘s/\”//g’`
      ZIP=`cat $TMPFILE | grep “^Zip Code” | sed -e ‘s/^Zip Code //’ -e ‘s/\”//g’`
      DATE=`cat $TMPFILE | grep “^Date” | tail -n 1 | sed ‘s/^Date: //’`
      TIME=`cat $TMPFILE | grep “^Time” | sed ‘s/^Time: //’`
      WHERE=”$STREET, $ZIP”
      WHEN=”$DATE $TIME”

      CMDTXT=“FT: $WHAT at $WHERE $WHEN”
      GCOMMAND=”/usr/bin/gcalcli quick ‘$CMDTXT’”

      if [ -n “$WHAT” ]
      then
          sh -c “$GCOMMAND”
      fi

fi

if [ -f $TMPFILE ]
then
      rm $TMPFILE
fi