Posts Tagged ‘d’oh’
Monday, April 9th, 2012
A few weeks ago, I finally got down to my bank to fill out the paperwork to switch to their ‘budget pay’ program, an every-other-Friday pay scheme that nets an extra payment per year, the kind of thing that adds up in the good direction, for a mortgage.
When I’m there, I ask the woman when they will start taking payments under the new scheme, and she assures me that it will start up this month. Except that by the end of last Friday, there was still no payment made. Looking at the paperwork, I’m now 99.999% certain she was wrong, and that if I hadn’t manually done a full month’s payment, I would have ended up ‘late’ before they notified me of their mistake.
Now I’m wishing I’d just left well-enough alone, and just done the extra payments on my own.
Tags: banking, d'oh, mortgage, payments
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
There’s a distorting influence, within the realm of last.fm, if you are just about the only person who listens to a selection of musicians. The system marks them as similar, because you alone listen to them, even though there’s radical differences in actual style between the actual artists. So it’s amusing to see it say that Academy of St Martin in the Fields is a similar artist to Capone. I suppose they are both European.
Tags: d'oh, last.fm, rarity, tagging
Posted in funny-haha, mis-cognition, music, tech stuff | No Comments »
Friday, February 17th, 2012
I have an idea for a lego project, THX-1138 Special Edition (with Jar-Jar). The problem is, to do any real depth to the parody, I would have to re-watch THX-1138.
hrm.
Tags: d'oh, idea, lego, lucas, problem, update
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
No, not Tori.
A cousin/uncle/whatever, about a niece or daughter…a little girl he feels nothing but familial love for, I’m sure, he posts a pic of her to facebook, with the intent of captioning her as ornery, as in precocious and troublesome in a cute sort of way, but instead calls her honry, which at first glance makes it look like he’s calling a tweenager ‘horny’.
Probably not his intent.
Tags: d'oh, facebook, spellcheck
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Get it while it lasts, iMAME is a free port of the generic arcade emulator. I suspect it only got approved because there’s a big rush of apps being submitted before the Apple approvers go on Christmas break.
Tags: d'oh, ios, mame, videogames, wontlast
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
I’m at the post office, waiting in line to pick up a package (another Kickstarter has come through, hooray!), thinking to myself, I should start working on my Christmas cards this weekend’ohcrap!
So, if you are expecting a holiday card from me this year, um err, I’m doing New Years cards. Totally on purpose, yeah.
Tags: cards, christmas, d'oh, mailing, todo, undone
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
I’m not clear on how much truth there is to either sides’ claims, but I note that there is a privacy page on Carrier IQ’s website where they claim “When Carrier IQ’s products are deployed, data gathering is done in a way where the end user is informed or involved. ”
Obviously that’s not true, or there wouldn’t be all this brouhaha, QED.
Tags: carrieriq, cellphone, d'oh, oops, privacy, wiretapping
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
When I moved into my new place back in July, I transferred service from my old place to the new place, and got 3 copies of the same bill, but none for the new place, so I call them up and ask what’s up, and they assure me that they’ve just not generated a any bills for the first place yet, and I don’t have any balance owing. OK, sounds reasonable.
Then yesterday, I get a call from some collection agent. It seems when I was on the phone with them, they didn’t bother to tell me that they still were showing a balance for the old place. Nevermind that I paid the bill they sent that was marked “final bill” months ago.
Whatever; if I used the electric, I’ll pay for it. I just wish they’d get their shit together. Then again, I noticed that the property management group for my new place’s website only displays the amount due (also incorrectly), but doesn’t actually support online payment. Seriously? What are we, in 1994? =p
Tags: billing, d'oh, grar, seattlecitylight
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
I’m not a big fan of political strategist companies, who’ve commoditized our democracy so that whomever has the biggest warchest wins, but that’s the way of the world these days, so be it.
So it’s an annoyed amusement, when I get one of those massive postcard fliers for some nameless PAC that doesn’t have any positive agenda to put forward, they just want you to know how much they hate the current guy, and they have a link to website for information about their campaign…and the website is a wordpress site that’s still locked down to admin users only. Truly brilliant. Whomever paid WinPower Strategies for their anti port commissioner campaign seems to have wasted their money. oops.
Tags: advertising, d'oh, politics, waste, wordpress
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
You’d think that the people who originally came up with java would have a decent automatic updating mechanism for their own operating system, like happens for Windows. You’d think wrong. Instead, they provide some instructions with vague lines that imply hours of additional work (“make sure all applicable updates have been applied before starting…“), and give zero guidance that I’ve found so far, on make the transition from a JRE to a JDK. If I’m reading my pkginfo results correctly, there are literally dozens of java pkg’s that make up the JRE, and even more for the JDK. Oy vey.
Tags: annoyance, d'oh, java, jdk, jre, sun, upgrade
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