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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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6:02 am - via anildash
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| Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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9:47 pm - i'll keep you my dirty little secret
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Heard this song on the radio this afternoon and it got stuck in my head.
Never seen the video before today! It's totally right up the alley of anyone who likes postsecret though. :)
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| Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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10:06 pm - chips and salsa
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| Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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9:41 pm - i sit near a lot of people
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| Thursday, February 14th, 2008
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1:45 am - pillowfight
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| Friday, January 25th, 2008
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1:07 am - warranties
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So we had to buy a new dryer the other day, since the one we have has given up the ghost. The dryer comes with a one-year warranty. My mom joked that she'd love to have a one-year warranty, as long as she can pick the start date. I know I (and several people) always joke that things break the day after the warranty is up, so this made for an interesting question.
If you could pick any one-year period to be covered by a warranty, how would you decide which one-year period to pick? Assume you don't actually have data on "this computer tends to have a lifetime of 2 years, etc", just the same information available to you currently. For added excitement, assume you're buying a vital appliance of some sort, so you can't just say "I'll wait six months to repair my dryer" or whatever.
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| Monday, December 10th, 2007
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12:09 pm - 60s music monday
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| Saturday, December 8th, 2007
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6:42 pm - britney spears
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| Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
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2:08 am - iphone pilots, via tehdely
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Ask the pilot On one of the frequent-flier blogs, an airline pilot writes that only moments after informing his passengers of a weather-related ground hold affecting their flight to Memphis, Tenn., he and his captain received a call from one of the flight attendants. Seems an iPhone-wielding customer in the back had a challenge. "Some guy with an iPhone says the weather is good," the flight attendant says, "and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?"
I like that, "real reason." The implication, as always, is that the carrier is lying or otherwise withholding some critical information. There must be some dangerous malfunction they're not telling us about. After all, "the weather is good," so obviously there's no reason we can't depart immediately.
Reportedly, the captain responded with a public address announcement that was sharp enough to elicit audible laughter from the cabin.
"If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough," he began, "to use it to check the weather at our alternate airport, then calculate our revised fuel burn due to being rerouted, then call our dispatcher to arrange our amended release, then make a call to the nearest traffic control center to arrange a new slot time (among all the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones), we'll then be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the flight attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multimillion-dollar aircraft and its 84 passengers to safely leave."
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| Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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1:22 am - another nother confession
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Photo Booth started acting weird recently. Like, it seems my iSight's lens got horked, so any pictures I took were all fishbowly and broken. This started around when I got a new cleaning thingy for my screen, so I figured I just horked it and sighed a bit and moved on. (It's not like I really use it all that often. So, no big loss.)
I was talking to stilldavid tonight and I told him how my arms bend backwards a little, and I offered him photographic proof. I told him he'd have to discount the effects of the distortion, and he made a fishbowl comment. So on a lark, I go into Photo Booth's settings, and hit the "Normal" filter. And it works fine now.
This is why they call me a computer engineer, folks.
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