Tried to make an "Uncle Ben's Rice Bowl" for lunch. After I hit the START button on the microwave, I woke up under a large dent in the wall across the kitchen. Do I need a new Windows?
Today on the trademark front, Kleenex Corp. accounced that it is issuing an injunction against Adobe, Inc. for use of a confusingly similar name for their product.
The Kleenex spokesman, a Mr. S. Notball, had this to say, "These Adobe people have gone too far. Their giving this product a name that sounds so similar to our product can't help but harm our customers. Picture this, John Q. Consumer has a bad cold, he's not feeling himself and is a bit confused. He reaches for his KLinux, thinking that he's grabbing his Kleenex. And what happens? He ends up with mucus all over his mouse, keboard and monitor! We just can't allow this sort of thing to go on."
Ah, yes. @Home. I get service through Comcast Cable in Indianapolis. In trying to get them to actually provide service, rather than just leaving the modem, I ended up talking to a senior level tech. I had to tell her where I was, so I did:
@Home: Where are you located?
Me: 73rd & Hoover.
@Home: What is that near?
Me: About 1/2 west of Meridian St.
@Home: No, what's close to there on the map?
Me: It's Meridian, US 31, runs down the center of town.
@Home: I don't know where that is.
Me: The middle of Indianapolis!!
@Home: But what is that near?
Me: Plainfield, Carmel, Avon, it's a big city in the middle of the state!
@Home: What state is that?
Me: Huh?
@Home: What state is that?
Me: INDIANA!
@Home: What is that near?
Me: What the hell are you talking about?
@Home: We don't have any facilities there. What is that near?
Me: What? Do you mean what States are nearby? OH, IL, MI...
@Home: OK. We have service in Illinois. I put in a request for them to finish turning on your account.
Bear in mind that I called my LOCAL cable company for this support, and ended up, on the same call, talking to this wizard, who apparently flunked 1st grade geography, and was stuck on that asinine question, "What is that near?"
And it's fun, too. Makes people jump if I power on my PC with multiple Cheetahs while their around. PHBs get worried when the box powers down, due to the "down-shifting from fifth to first" whine it emits.
You ought to pass that book on to the MS Access developers. Does this sound familiar? "You are about to modify 0 records. This action cannot be undone."
The Outlook people could use some help, too: "This graphic does not do anything. For Help on an option, click tho question mark [?], and then click the option."
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Actually, I use Token 2 at my desk, but when I'm at someone else's desk...
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Or, for those of us who sometimes have to use the Win2000 telnet client, internal of course, which can't handle vi.
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Tried to make an "Uncle Ben's Rice Bowl" for lunch. After I hit the START button on the microwave, I woke up under a large dent in the wall across the kitchen. Do I need a new Windows?
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I would love to hear how Twiki would talk today. Possibly something like this?
"Bee-Dee Bee-Dee Bee-Dee, Bite my shiny metal ass, Buck!"
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News for Nerds. Stuff that Reposts.
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I thought it stood for Great American Country. On MY cable service it does.
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Today on the trademark front, Kleenex Corp. accounced that it is issuing an injunction against Adobe, Inc. for use of a confusingly similar name for their product.
The Kleenex spokesman, a Mr. S. Notball, had this to say, "These Adobe people have gone too far. Their giving this product a name that sounds so similar to our product can't help but harm our customers. Picture this, John Q. Consumer has a bad cold, he's not feeling himself and is a bit confused. He reaches for his KLinux, thinking that he's grabbing his Kleenex. And what happens? He ends up with mucus all over his mouse, keboard and monitor! We just can't allow this sort of thing to go on."
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Murderustrator
Genocide-ustrator
Manslaughterustrator
Executionustrator
Maybe the Killustrator should abandon their death theme. They can still stay within the violence theme without killing:
Beatingustrator
Rape-ustrator
Maimustrator
Hazingustrator
The possibilities just go on!
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All of their links seem to point back at their home page. Do they really have a product?
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But I'm sure Sony has happy to hear...
Sony has released their official statement concerning this:
Feel we like they sent us up the bomb.
For great honor.
All your Espers are belong to us.
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Just be glad it's not a Microsoft product, where you have to wait until Service Pack 5 for the third release of the product before it sucks less.
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Yet Another Redundant Front Page Slashdot Article.
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Push beyond the fireflys, let's see how Rudolph does it! Maybe we can find out how he flies, too.
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You have to light it up, too.
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Ah, yes. @Home. I get service through Comcast Cable in Indianapolis. In trying to get them to actually provide service, rather than just leaving the modem, I ended up talking to a senior level tech. I had to tell her where I was, so I did:
@Home: Where are you located?
Me: 73rd & Hoover.
@Home: What is that near?
Me: About 1/2 west of Meridian St.
@Home: No, what's close to there on the map?
Me: It's Meridian, US 31, runs down the center of town.
@Home: I don't know where that is.
Me: The middle of Indianapolis!!
@Home: But what is that near?
Me: Plainfield, Carmel, Avon, it's a big city in the middle of the state!
@Home: What state is that?
Me: Huh?
@Home: What state is that?
Me: INDIANA!
@Home: What is that near?
Me: What the hell are you talking about?
@Home: We don't have any facilities there. What is that near?
Me: What? Do you mean what States are nearby? OH, IL, MI...
@Home: OK. We have service in Illinois. I put in a request for them to finish turning on your account.
Bear in mind that I called my LOCAL cable company for this support, and ended up, on the same call, talking to this wizard, who apparently flunked 1st grade geography, and was stuck on that asinine question, "What is that near?"
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He built redundant Cisco router configs for Slashdot until June 23, 2001.
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They DO have a name in the ATA industry. It's "Mud."
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And it's fun, too. Makes people jump if I power on my PC with multiple Cheetahs while their around. PHBs get worried when the box powers down, due to the "down-shifting from fifth to first" whine it emits.
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When is somebody gonna get Linux running on these things, so we can have a Beowulf cluster that's "All the colors of the Rainbow?"
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No, it HAS to be the color of the plastic. Remember the Sega Game Gear? Nintendo's response was to make different colors of plastic.
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"Ve dond even hev arr own langvage, joost zis ztupid akzent!"
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You could do what they did in "Hackers," and just spraypaint it. Or get an IBM "M" series board, and remove the keycaps.
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You ought to pass that book on to the MS Access developers. Does this sound familiar?
"You are about to modify 0 records. This action cannot be undone."
The Outlook people could use some help, too:
"This graphic does not do anything. For Help on an option, click tho question mark [?], and then click the option."
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Or else seismic activity is pissing it off, making it move around and try to find a more comfortable spot.
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June 23, 2001.
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