LRO Photographs Lunar Missions -
Know anyone that doubts the moon landings? Well, while you’re unlikely to change their tiny little minds, at least you can rest assured we *do* have photographs now. :) (Link is a video podcast.)
We cry out that the 1% have all of our money. Then Black Friday comes and we give them all of our money again.
Perhaps the problem is more systemic than we’re ready to address right now.
Wow, Horns. Just … wow.
City might pay for Friday night, Saturday MetroRail service -
Woohoo!
Ultimate Pirate Ship Bedroom -
WANT. WANT. WANT.
“I have to go potty.” “You’ve been twice. Go to bed.”
“I heard a noise in your room.” “You heard a car pass. Go to bed.”
“I want water.” “You’ve had three glasses. Go to bed.”
“I want a hot dog.” “Maybe for breakfast. Go to bed.”
“Please read to me.” “I read three books. Go to bed.”
“I don’t want to go to bed.” “You’ll forget all about it once you’re asleep. Go to bed.”
“I want a waffle.” “You’ll get one after you wake up.”
“Daddy, I wake up.” “So go back to bed.”
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” — James Nicoll
(Source: Wikipedia)
“I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors. The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere.” — Barack Obama, 28 January 2011
The cat is licking the trash can.
Words fail me.
I awoke to no wifi. Tragic enough, I compounded this problem by
willingly subjecting myself to AT&T’s support. You see, the U-Verse
gateway was without power and having tested it on other outlets I
pronounced it dead. Ergo, willful contact with tech support.
Contacting support is different when you know what you’re doing. It’s
even more different when you’ve been in their position before and have
been in the position of hiring them before. What should be a
relationship of trust quickly devolves into “oh no, not that line
again” as one picks up on the boundary between training and
independent thought.
This poor fellow was all training.
I announced the predicament and all prior troubleshooting proudly and
with a certain finality. Having done this before he should trust a
being of superi- you need me to reset the settings on the device? Of
course you can’t see it; it won’t turn on. I can’t turn it on, that’s
the problem, Apu. No, don’t do a line test. It’s not plugged into the
line so that won’t do a thi- Right, fine, I’ll hold. Can’t start the
day right without early-career Celine now can we?
This is one of those moments when you realize someone with a C average
is called tier one.
After some banter with me throwing around difficult concepts such as
customer competence we agree to mail me a device overnight. Hooray.
Then he calls back. He can’t order the device due to unknown problems
with the system, but after further tests he found a problem with the
lines outside and will send a tech to look at them and then decide if
I need a new gateway.
Wait, wait, wait … what? Apu, the device has no power. How are
outside phone lines an issue? It’s not plugged in so of course you see
a problem. Is it the local loop or your connection to the VRAD? V RAD.
The box on the street corner. -sigh-
Lost that battle. So here I sit, waiting for the tech to arrive. To
deliver a box because he couldn’t order one and his training forbid
him from saying the entirely obvious: my system won’t let me mail it,
so I’m sending a courier to hopefully deliver it.
Language skills are under-rated these days.