From the Yay Science! Department: I saw this concept listed on BoingBoing this morning. Is that super cool or what?
The office adjacent to ours is used as storage for one of the building’s tenants. Occasionally workers enter that space and then start tossing around fully loaded paper boxes. Today is one of those days. I can only assume they are packing up 2004 records. It is a pain in the ever-loving ass because the throwing of fully packed paper boxes is really loud and it shakes this part of the building. We can’t be the only other business affected by their antics. The better-half has asked them to be mindful before but it doesn’t really seem to stick so neither of us has walked over there to complain today. I thought I’d snark about it here. Take that noisy office neighbors!
Yesterday while waiting for the better-half to shop at Lowe’s, I sat in the truck (my half-hearted attempt to boycott that store) and people watched. I saw a car with a license plate holder that advertised GRTC. I chuckled since GRTC stands for Greater Richmond Transit Company–in other words, ride the bus.
The other night when the better-half called our cable company to complain about how no digital channels were visible, the customer disservice rep told him to take the tape out of the VCR. Because, clearly, we must be stupid wretches who taped the message that said their digital cable blows and were watching that instead of live tv. I think the better-half had to explain 10 different times that we could see the guide, navigate channels and were receiving basic cable. A tech is coming out some time during the afternoon tomorrow. I’m sure he’ll tell us “we suck, sorry for the inconvenience” and then we’ll get our signal amplifier and install that and all will be solved. When did the shift occur that customers know more than vendors?
In other news, I’m trying out the third or fourth RSS feed aggregator-RSSOwl. The last one I used, RSSReader, continued to ignore the fact that I had read feeds and it would reach back into some serious archives to pull data that was old, old, old. Enough of that. RSS Owl seems pretty simple and it has a cool icon. If it works, I’ll be happy.
And, finally, welcome to a couple we were separated from at birth. They have goats, one of them is called Frog and they eat breakfast burritos. Cool.
Hey Frog! I haven’t been here for a couple weeks and noticed the link to our blog! Thanks. I should clarify that it’s not one of the goats that’s named Frog, that’s my husband. Nor do the goats eat breakfast burritos!!