Years of proping, scanning, rolling the mars lander has gone to sleep. We should all bow our heads in a moment of silence and wish the best for the little robot that could. 
So, I am going to rail against something that lots of people seem to cherish but earns my suck-tastic award of the week. Twitter. Yes, that “hey look at me” status updater that was supposed to keep you in the know of what your friends are up to is constantly not being used as intended. It seems that people are starting to use it as a chat client instead of saying, “I am down the street at this bar, come join me” or “I am using the toilet for the 5th time today.” Why would I care what you are saying back to other people on twitter, especially when I am not following the person your responding to? What sucks even more is if you set your phone to get notification of new twits, you rush over to your phone and look what someone is doing and you see it’s just a comment about something you don’t really care about. Why twitter? Don’t we have cell phones? Don’t our cell phones have a text messing feature? Why not mass spam people instead? I guess I don’t get it, and I don’t think I ever will. After two attempts at using twitter, I bid twitter ado. :(
Programming is getting pretty popular these days. Hell if need be I am sure my mom could even bust out a few lines of some ancient programming language. Its a growing field that sucks a lot of slackers into the market because of the big bucks. Programming bugs can be found everywhere, even the plane you might be about to board. Some bugs are minor, some are huge. An Australian airliner dropped 1000ft recently due to a programming error in the planes angle detection unit injuring 50 people. Next time you code your next angle detection unit software, please take this post to heart and triple check your work, OK? :(
26
Sep
I wasn’t shocked to hear the news of Wamu’s collapse. Less then two months ago I got a tip to pull all my money from Wamu, which I did, but nothing ever happened. I put all my money back into Wamu figured it was just a mistake, nope, not patient enough I guess. So for all of you worried about your direct deposits, I was this morning but it made it fine, don’t worry. J.P. Morgan says that you should not see any changes on their branch side and will open today just like they did yesterday, except today they are owned by J.P. Morgan.
At first I would marvel at the skills of the bus driver. Slowly as more time went on the driver playing the PSP, I would start to wondering how much you could really chance fate. Sure, the driver probably beat 5 levels in Crash Bandicoot no problem using his knees to steer, but how bout the traffic and stop lights in real life? The driver was caught by a good citizen and the drive was suspended with no pay. How is the driver going to afford to buy new games for his PSP with no pay?
My buddy Patrick sent me the info on this article. I seriously laughed out loud.
Could you image, riding your bike through the forest laden hills of Colorado, zooming down a huge hill, when a large animal runs right in front of you, you collide with it and throwing you and your bike magically through the air over the animal. You come too to see, the large animal is a black bear. Well, the rider did some damage to the bike and a some to his knee, but both bear and man walked away from this meeting almost unscathed.
Well, that didn’t take long. Sacramento has already prepared a bill and the Governator has already signed it banning texting while driving as soon as January 1. This doesn’t come as too much of a shocker considering all the publicity over the recent L.A. Metro link accident. I do agree with this because I find myself texting sometimes when I should be more alert, but whats next? Not being able to do blow, shoot heroine or smoke crack while driving? Oh wait, I think that is already illegal.
Got super busy with school etc. New posts tomorrow, I promise. I can’t promise 5 or more posts like Geek-tastic.com, but there will be at least one new post everyday going forward. :)
Texting is getting out of hand. Yes, I text and drive (sometimes) but at least I use a headset now when I talk and I do see how much more convenient that is. Now that there are more and more texting related accidents, is the government going to start banning texting while in a moving vehicle? The recent Metrolink crash in L.A. raises a lot of questions, but my first question would be, why was he texting teen boys shortly before the crash?
John: Hi honey.
Jane: Your home early.
John: Yes, I was fired today.
Jane: What? What happened?
John: Tired to cook a prawn on a dying man’s head while using the defibrillator
Lesson learned! Trying to cook a prawn on a dying person with the power of a defibrillator won’t work. Did the dying person live, nope, never regained consciousness.
