Funny Meme posters from the Ocean Marketing Fail This is so funny. First off, you need to know what this Ocean Marketing fail is in the first place. tl;dr This (1man?) marketing shop that represents a game controller failed to keep a customer informed about a shipment date miss. After 3 times the customer started to get angry about the lake of information. … Read More
Siri will not give you directions to an abortion clinic; purpose programming or bad dataset? Found this story from a tweet. Seems that when you ask Siri for an abortion clinic, it will say it can not find any, or send you to a CPC clinic, (Anti-abortion clinic). This has been reproduced many times so its not a glitch based on location or timing thing. The question now is; was… Read More
My First Black Friday and the power goes out at the store, group source LED phones to the rescue I have never done the ‘Black Friday’ thing of going to a store at midnight, but there was a pretty nice deal on bedding that my girlfriend wanted, and I was curious to see this for myself. So we went to Macy’s at around 11:30 expecting to see a line and there was around 100… Read More
Using the game Doom as a sys admin tool – blast from the past Using Doom as a sys admin tool is not new, heck, been around for a few years. But as I was surfing around the net I came across this post and thought.. eh why not, I’ll repost it. So here is the basic point for you non sys admins out there. Somewhere, in the deep… Read More
Random pics and random thoughts for the SF 2011 AutoShow Walking through San Francisco on Sunday and decided at the last minuet to stop in at the car show. I wanted to have a look at the latest series of electric car offerings. The usual suspects were there, but no edge players. Shame. Heck, Tesla was not even there. But BMW was with their newest… Read More
Its 11/11/11 11:11:11 On the west coast at least. Weeeee!!! 🙂 This post has no point. BTW, Happy Veteran (Armistice) day to my buddies in the 79th TWF and my mates from “the ‘lick” during gulf war I.… Read More
If I stop using social media, does that mean I’m not longer social? It’s kinda of funny. I remember getting into Twitter all those years ago. Loved it. I write TwittFilter and a few other programmes for analyzing twitter feeds and social graphs. I tried other socmed apps, including facebook, but never really got into them that much, but still, I was pretty deep. But in that last… Read More
Short phone number codes.. Or whatever they are called I saw this on Reddit and thought, what the heck, I’ll share.. Also, the picture is complete unrelated. I just browsed through my photo library and grabbed something. 0 – Operator assistance 00 – Long-distance operator assistance 011 – International Access Code. (For all destinations outside the NANP) 01 – International Access Code using operator… Read More
Sesame Street breaking down some Beastie Boys I’m sure how else to say but just microphone check as Groover kicks this jam with early holding the beat. Ahhhh yeeaa.. The Sesame Street gang mix it up Beatie Boys Sure Shot. Its a great world with video editing becomes so easy that someone would take the time to make a music mashup like… Read More
Dante’s Google+ Circles As I was putting my Google+ circles together, I thought. Hmmm.. How would Dante do his circles? Yes I wonder these things.. And here is how his circles would look. Had to do a bit of Photoshop to get these in order. Then I thought.. how would Dante’s Google+ circles map to today’s grouping? Actually,… Read More
Unboxing the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and augmented reality I just received my Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone. This is the first PlayStation certified Android smartphone, hence it is also known as the PlayStation phone. I won the phone from a party Qualcomm had during the Game Developers Conference 2011 for their new Snapdragon platform. I haven’t won anything like this before so I… Read More
What is Roll 212 from the Daily Show? For those of us that watch John Stewart’s The Daily Show, already know this, but for those that dont, John has a habit of saying ‘Roll 212’ when he is about to play a clip that will support a point is trying to make; most commonly for showing people who say one thing then contradict… Read More
How to play google playable guitar logo Pretty cool. I wish I could move the string guides a bit so I can tune for other chords, but hey, cool enough. Then neat thing is that you can record what you play. Should be interesting. I tried it out and this is what I got after 10 sec of messing with it. http://goo.gl/doodle/XjoR… Read More
Random tweets in Peanuts cartoons LO frick’on L!! This is so funny! Posted on wired.com, a collection of really funny Peanut cartoons with tweets instead of the original content. The site is called Peanutweeter. (looks like the site is no more) Although not each is a home run, the LOL ration is pretty high. I grabbed a few I like as an example.… Read More
A meetup with no-plugin required, thanks WebGL! April 28th was the first WebGL Meetup here in the Bay area with a great mix of industry titans to garage developers. Managed by the Khronos group, WebGL is a web-based graphics library that extends the capability of the JavaScript programming language to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics within any compatible web browser… Read More
Color is hot now, but in 24 hours, I have a bad feeling it will go off-color I downloaded the iPhone android photo sharing app called Color just like 100 thousand other people probably have by the time I hit send. And ok, I get it. I take pics, other people near me take pics. And we see them. Great. Not big thrill to me unless I’m at a party or wedding… Read More
Poking fun at Facebook These things on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gave me a laugh and I thought I would share. 1. This image is so true. Thanks Maribeth for sharing it with me. 2. The Onion’s video coverage of CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs.… Read More
XKCD graphic explaining relative radiation exposure I have a number of people call me up and ask what I thought about Fukushima reactor and what it mean to people in Hawaii and California. ‘Why are you asking me?” “Hey you have a Ph.D. and worked at NASA right?” Sigh.. I don’t know much more then anyone else about radiation, but I… Read More
The speed of social media, faster than an earthquake Wow. The Sendai earthquake and tsunami happened yesterday and already a wiki page has been created and VERY well populated and referenced. Last night when the quake happened it was all over Twitter, as is expected now a days. In fact, I knew about the tsunami warning for California (through Twitter) long before it got… Read More
Party like it’s 1611! Are those dollar coins in your pocket or are you happy to see me? Ah Dollar coins. We still have then you know. For those that ride the subway and pay cash or visit the post office vending machines, has most likely received gold dollar coins as change.. So what do you do with it? If you have kids most like give it them, else try to spend those… Read More