Hyper Gumbo » d’oh

Ah Miss-Spellings

Don — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:46:41 +0000

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.

MAME for iPad

Don — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:54 +0000

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.

D’oh a deer oh dear oh dear

Don — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:02:04 +0000

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.

Carrier IQ oopsie

Don — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:38:05 +0000

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.

Good Job Seattle City Light billing dept (not)

Don — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:57:21 +0000

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

Wasted money

Don — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:48:13 +0000

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.

Upgrading Java on Solaris

Don — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:03:54 +0000

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.

Back to IKEA

Don — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:59:59 +0000

Nothing like making the long trek down to the store, buying stuff, driving home, putting stuff together, and THEN realizing that the padding for the chair is sold separately.

d’oh

Don — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:20:05 +0000

I even remember now, seeing a bus poster for the Seattle Tattoo Expo, just the other day, but I got distracted with the continuing adventures of settling in. Oh well, plenty of other things to take pictures of, and years more ahead.

Home D’oh

Don — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:52:55 +0000

I am putting away my clothes, hanging up stuff in the bedroom closet, and I wonder to myself just what the capacity is on this wire shelving system they have, and thinking I should be careful about exceeding it, since I will have to fix anything that breaks myself. I put what seems like a reasonable load on each shelf and go to the bathroom for a minute. A few seconds later, crash and clatter, and sure enough, one of the support braces for the shelf that only goes halfway across the closet gave way. D’oh.