I’m listening to this recorded call about a humongously amazingly moronic customer service nightmare. Apparently, up until last month, Verizon did not recognize the difference between $0.002 and 0.002¢. You must listen to this and be amazed. These people are out there and doing your taxes. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Thanks to bmenyuk on …
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Even NASA Screws Up Occasionally
That was tongue in cheek, by the way I guess NASA’s Astronaut psych evaluations can miss things occasionally. From CNN: Astronaut arrested on attempted kidnapping charges. Read the story. This is pretty off-the-wall stuff. What really drives home the screwiness is this line. Inside the car, police found a half-dozen latex gloves, MapQuest directions from …
Useless News Sites
I used to live in Lubbock Texas. You may have heard about it last night on Heroes wherein our chirpy protagonista Claire is supposedly skipping school to visit the aquarium there (Aquarium? Lubbock? Bobby Knight must have brought it with him). Apparently, there’s been some excitement recently. Enough hit the AP wires at least. A …
If only…
…my TiVo were hooked up to my network. Then I could rip a shot of the car that George Takei’s character from Heroes was riding in. License number = NCC 1701
This Monday in Traffic: 5 Feb 2007
Vibrating Bluetooth to Keep Drivers Awake This item would be much more up close and personal than the rumble strips that saved my butt outside Buffalo, NY one fine afternoon. Windows Vista Windows is apparently getting into the congestion alerting system. LiveSide is a Vista plugin that will allow you to monitor traffic in US …
Blog as Business
OhCash.com dropped into my feedreader this morning and caught my attention with this first sentence. Traffic is the single most important thing when you build a website, even more than content itself. What?! Huh?! What a minute… Of course, if you read the rest of the article, which I wrath-righteously did, you notice that the …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, July 21 2007
The publication date is set! I’m stoked.
This Week in Groundhogs/Traffic: February 2 2007
Happy Groundhog Day! Groundhog Central Sun Prairie, WI, claims to be Groundhog Central. Parking Enforcement by Camera Street Sweeping parking laws will be enforced by cameras mounted on street sweepers in Washington D.C. I like it. They should do the same thing with Snow Emergency days, except you wouldn’t be able to read the license …
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