The Thoughts of Lamdar

How are we supposed to have fun late at night if this phone blocks our friends from drunk dialing?  It says it can save dignity, but I say it’s just taking away a source of drunken entertainment.

Microsoft is always quick to point out that they eat their own dog food, so I guess this means they don’t even consider their search to be a usable product.  The worse thing is that the numbers say Google is about 50% of the search market now, but if you look at searches originating from inside the MS domain that number shoots up to 66%.

“Instead of quelling riotous crowds with tear gas or rubber bullets, peacekeepers may soon be sliming them.  A portable device worn like a Ghostbuster backpack allows the wearer to cover the ground in goo so slippery it’s almost impossible for a person to maintain their footing.”  Darn, they already took what I was going to say about it so now I’m left without a witty comment.  They mention that there are some situations where it might not work, but I’m wondering in what situations it actually will help?   If there’s a rioutous crowd and you make the front people fall in the slime, won’t they just get trampled and turned into human bridges over the slime?  I guess if you’re attacking a guy named Vigo and it’s positively charged slime though, it would help…

I dug real deep to find an article that I still reference all the time even though it’s pretty old.  It’s the story of an auto company with mounting debts that threatened to close them down.  Leave it to those brilliant union leaders to figure out a way for the company to continue paying its employees without selling any cars.  I’m just wondering why you would continue working for the auto company when you could just sell your own goods and pocket the full $50.

Why bother getting poorly translated tattoos in languages you don’t know?  Rather than having the Chinese symbol for “gas” on your arm that only a few people can laugh at, you might as well be clear like Marcus Camby with his tattoo that says “Mr. Camby” in English so that everyone can laugh at the stupid tattoo joke.  Or maybe he was just tired of the lack of respect that he was getting, in which case his next tattoo will probably be something like, “Yes, sir.”

I shouldn’t really make fun of this since my mom likes Barry Manilow, but then again, that’s probably the reason it works.

Since I’m getting old and forgetting a lot of stuff now, I’ve gotten into a little note taking kick.  Lamdar, with my stock thoughts is still a work in progress, and I’m also trying to start taking programming notes too.  A lot of stuff will just be basic functions and things that I found and don’t want to forget, but I’ll also try to make guides on more substantial things that I don’t want to relearn like data binding or php image manipulations.  Yes, I know it’s another ugly default template.  Umm… less creativity = more technical skill?  At least that’s what I like to tell myself…

They sure don’t make viruses like they used to.  Fortunately for those hit by this extortion virus, the makers haven’t heard of one way hashes so the password to unlock your hostage files was sitting right there if you looked in the code.  They must be the same types of guys that permanently leave the combination sticker on the back of their combo locks.