How long would you last?
The Today Show released a video to YouTube on how addicted we are in America. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEErhy7AIc
MF wrote about the same thing, in a different perspective.
I think I could last a weekend, and the day after.
How about you?
Author: Brett Veenstra | Category: Geek | Comments(1) February 2008
Quick, try this… (likebetter.com)
These are always fascinating, I wonder who they used to get accurate profiling, or whether they just ran survey groups. They’re looking for eyeballs, and then imagine being profiled in their system… I’m guessing the content would be pretty customized to your liking, or dislikes.
Author: Brett Veenstra | Category: Geek | Comments(0) August 2006
No, I’m the cool computer
In honor of Apple’s, “we’re cool like that” ad campaign, I’d better throw another log on the fire! Enjoy the the following:
With the recent court victories Microsoft is finding itself having to expose more of it’s operating system code to third parties. For instance, in Japan they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages.
Haiku poetry has strict construction rules -each poem has only 17 syllables;
5 syllables in the first line,
7 in the second,
5 in the third.
They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
Here are 16 [sic] actual error messages from Japan:
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Joke over… now get back to work!
Author: Brett Veenstra | Category: Geek | Comments(0) May 2006
Dangerous little creatures…
Mac’s are one the craziest things that I experience on this earth…
They’re so good, they’re evil! I mean, when you sit down to actually work on a laptop, it works and doesn’t dog on photos, video, internet… you get 3 + hours of battery even using the wireless and then the thing weighs like a small book… crazy. (and this is all on an powerbook with only 512MB of RAM for you techies out there…)
This is obviously the product of someone’s singular vision of usable, portable, computer. Yum-yum.
It is so easy to think about spending my money on this stuff, so difficult to consider it God’s money to spend!
Author: Brett Veenstra | Category: Geek | Comments(2) April 2006
Geek sheik?
Now, I’m definitely a geek ’cause I don’t have the slightest clue what “geek sheik” means…
I mean wiki couldn’t tell me, google could, but that really wouldn’t have the same effect of being able to chuckle along at a party with the term…
Fortunately I don’t party that much. But maybe someone could offer the geek a few bits of data to absorb?
Author: Brett Veenstra | Category: Geek | Comments(1) January 2006