They defend the inclusion of advertising in the paid-tier of service by touting its cheapness.
I could buy dog food for a lot cheaper than steak, doesn’t mean I’m going to eat it. At this point, it isn’t even worth free.
Hulu Plus is dog food
January 19th, 2012Livin in a movie
January 19th, 2012It’s a little surreal today, first the governor declares a state of emergency, and now the city is recommending people leave work now, so that they are home before dark. It’s like we expect the zombies and vampires to come out any second now. Will I make the 100 yards to my home?! Only time will tell! Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion. =p
Clippy lives on at Google
January 19th, 2012It would seem the geekworld’s favorite helper-to-hate, Clippy, has gotten a job at Google’s GMail division. You can see his influence in the new look, with it’s unhelpful way of showing and hiding buttons, assuming you can’t keep track of who your friends are by name, nor really want to see your big screen monitor actually full of useful information.
Hopefully someone will notice, and fire his ass, before it’s too late =p
The way it goes
January 19th, 2012Less than 10, out of hundreds potential, are here at work today, but of course, the guy with an office directly across the hall from me is one of those 10, so I can’t just leave my door open and really crank up the tunes.
Oh well.
At least I finally got ChromeDriver to work, when everything is local. Still can’t figure out what’s wrong with my remote system. One day at a time.
I Tried
January 19th, 2012I tried to do a good deed for the day. I see more than a few people, over the course of this ‘storm’, waiting at the bus stop outside my window at work, a stop that is closed when Metro is on snow routes. So, I put a sign up in the window that says “Bus Stop Closed”, and it only took this guy about 10 minutes before he looked up an noticed it.
Coordination
January 18th, 2012Yesterday, noticed more than a couple people waiting at bus stops that were closed due to the lines that served those stops being on snow routes.
This morning, I notice that the bus maintenance people are helpfully clearing snow from the same, closed, stops. I pity the sucker that thinks they are open because they’ve been cleared.
Ah Miss-Spellings
January 17th, 2012No, 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.
Oh, of course
January 17th, 2012Today’s Selenium-now-I-get-it-ism: The Selenium IDE can export test cases in Java, it just hides them under 3 different flavors of JUnit, and one flavor of TestNG. This is confusing, because they call out C#, Ruby, and Python by name, and I’m pretty sure you can use TestNG with all of those languages. I know I’ve used it with C#.
Congratulations Kristy
January 16th, 2012I’ve always had a non-sexual thing for Kristy McNichol (loved her in Empty Nest), and now I’m wondering if it wasn’t awareness of shared circumstances. Of course, of the two stars in The Pirate Movie, she’s not my first choice for coming out announcement hopes. Because when a star you have a crush on announces they are coming out, it’s obviously implied that they are looking to date a fan =p
SLUT physics
January 16th, 2012When I first saw the SLUT off its tracks, I assumed it was weather related. It turns out to have just been a really stupid person, driving without attention to the road before them, or the light that had been red long enough for the train to cross most of Mercer.
I’m sure I could look up the weight of the train, the weight of her car, and measure the distance from impact to final resting place, for both vehicles, but I don’t have a clue what the standard engineering formula is for determining how much of the energy required to lift the train out of the tracks, nor how to determine how much of that energy was imparted by impact from the car, and how much was its own momentum. Or the train’s rolling resistance on pavement.
But my guess would be ‘pretty darn fast’, as an answer to how fast the car was going.
