Month: February 2008
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Movie meme recap
Eeks, only now did I realize that almost half of these are John Carpenter flicks. 1) I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum. John Carpenter’s They Live. Only the awesomest alien movie that ever was, starring (Rowdy) Roddy Piper, as the main character, in an actual…
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Demotivational posters
So, while waiting for my boards to come back on Secret Project A and Non-Secret Project B, and for the guy at Company C to get back to me on diagnosing a crash between their Windows DLL and my software that is supposed to interact with it, I was…less than motivated, so I made some…
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Spinlock This: Less productive than reading slashdot all day! Film at 11.
1) Dude. Seriously. The display we’ll be designing into our gadget won’t be ready for 6 more months? You said it was ready a week ago, and that was two months ago. Our customer is crawling up my ass for the prototype we promised them in December. So you gave me this other one and…
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[meme] Movies
Stolen from Stormsdotter 1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies. 2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. 3. Post them here for everyone to guess. 4. Fill in the film title once it’s guessed. 5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions. 1) I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass……
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What does an OEM shipment of vibrators look like?
There you go, an inner pack of 96 electric vibrators. For industrial, scientific and laboratory use of course. The box is just over 1ft by 1ft, but of reasonable heft. It could be worse, a full case is 575 units. It would really suck to be the UPS guy then. PS. I was home at…
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Pics of previous entry
Me just a-standing in the stuff 200 Boston ‘avin a slash…oh, that knobbly bit in the wall that the water is streaming out of is a structural support beam. Lake Medford’s boat ramp…no, wait, that’s our loading dock. Sewer vortex in the parking lot Sewer vortex in video form
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Oil & water
First a plug to the folks at Lyons Fuel. This morning I get a knock on my bedroom door that the boiler quit working (no heat / cold showers); the gauge on the tank read almost empty (I don’t really trust the gauge), so I assumed the tank ran all the way empty and the…
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Trap?
So my girlfriend, who is awesome btw, has indicated that she’s not into the whole Valentine’s day thing (as in it kind of disgusts her a bit), and I shouldn’t do anything out of the ordinary on this day. She doesn’t like pink, excess sap, bad poetry, heart-shaped boxes full of chocolate (except to the…
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Take my money, please!
I mean it, guys, want money from me in exchange for services I’ve agreed to? All you have to do is ask. So apparently, if you ever dare to log into GMAC Mortgage’s web site and pay a bill “on-line” (using teh interwebs), even just once, they stop billing you. Neat, huh? Subprime house in…
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Salesdouche game for a bored day
Today was one of those little icky days where, after the fun and mildly arty process of designing a set of boards, the next step was to spend all day in Excel sourcing parts and getting all their prices filled in (and ripping up parts of the design where the part had gone non-stock, etc.).…
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Unique and beautiful snowflakes
According to The Great Google, I’m one of only three people on the planet who uses the term “backward-endian” to refer to computing platforms who store their bits and/or bytes in “little end first” order (aka. little-endian, where all the bits are stored least-significant-digit first and most-significant last, kind of like storing a million as…
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Woo Vista
I just had my first taste of Windows Vista, uninstalling the mountains of craplets pre-installed on a co-worker’s new HP laptop. Renaming a shortcut on the desktop required clicking “ok” to two authorization dialogs. ‘Nuff said.