Laugh, It's Funny
I've gotten a few goofy emails lately, but today I got one that really made me laugh. This one's from FedEx. I highlighted the areas that made me laugh the most.
From my experience with outbound shipping at my current employer, DHL has been pretty lousy, but I didn't know FedEx would ever make such a bold move to poach customers. What's particularly interesting, is that I have never received any unsolicited emails from FedEx in the past.
I hate doctors. Even more than lawyers. Yes, they are way worse.
In a doctors office, you are stuck sitting amongst the sickly of society. You have no idea who they are, what the have-- could it get me sick?!
I don't know of any service that when you make an appointment, you could be stuck waiting for a very long time. It's not like taking your car to the shop. At least there you can drop it off and go do things. Doctors don't acknowledge you, don't respect you enough to keep the magazines stocked and updated, and if...
Sometimes the best joys in life are the ones that happen totally at random. In this case, I received an email from someone who thought they were sending a mail to Wayne Hartman. Just not this Wayne Hartman. Ben says (leaving all poor grammar and spelling intact):
Well my girlfriends name is Taylor Poling she a year younger than me and she around 5 months. Since all that happened i didnt end up going to MU just going to missouri western in st joe, when she gets done with high school we have talked about moving to columbia or kansas city...
I got a new PC earlier this week (more on that later) but I was copying a 3.5GB file from my server. This is how long it said it would take:
I knew the network stack wasn't that great, but Vista, you're killing me...
The irony was that I was trying to copy my XP backup to burn to disc and wipe Vista off. I think its 'Spidey Sense' was tingling and was trying to forgo its doom.
There are a few movie franchises that have certain nostalgic value to me over the years. Star Wars (the originals of course), to name one, the other being Indiana Jones.
I remember when I was young and Raiders of the Lost Ark came out on VHS. My parents rented it along with a VCR machine (yeah, can you imagine renting a DVD player?), and we watched it at home. It was a pretty cool movie for a young kid, until the very end. Watching the bad guys' faces melt, explode, and vaporize wasn't a delightful affair, but all in all it...
For the past little while I've really tried to give Vista another chance. I tried doing development, surfing, gaming--all the activities that I do on XP, and I've finally reached a decision: let's wait for Service Pack 2.
I honestly don't understand why it takes so long for Vista to copy things over the network that should be really quick. I don't understand why my games run slower even when I have all the pretty glass turned off. I don't understand how an operating system that's suppose to be new runs like I'm using something so old.
I'm sorry...
Today I shook hands with the (possibly) next President of the United States. John McCain came and visited my place of employment to share his message with us. Not only did I get to shake his hand, but I got his autograph and he fielded a question of mine.
I went and got a seat an hour early which was positioned towards the front and in the aisle. I figured that if he came off the stage to shake hands, I could definitely get the chance. He gave his spiel, which wasn't all that different from the sound-bytes that you can...
Today's post is coming straight road some voice recognition software, and any mistakes you see are a direct result of the software is an ability to interpret what I'm trying to say. We'll see how it goes.
One of the biggest issues with voice recognition software is its ability to interpret the way people talk there are certain nuances with how individuals pronounce words down wages on individual regional level that makes it difficult for software to interpret what a certain person is trying to say. The software that I'm using is a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 9. It seems...
We're building a house, so naturally I'm quite interested in having my house wired with Cat5e/6. Unfortunately, my builder won't install it because they're anal that way, so I've had to go on my own to figure out how to get it put in there. I came up with the idea that I could find an electrician to pull the wire through and I would terminate it and put the plates on. So, I've been scouring Craigslist to find such a person so I'll know how much its going to cost me.
I've called a few fellows on the listings and...
I came home to my computer today, turned it on, started doing some work, when all of a sudden the disk started thrashing for no reason and my computer locked up. Hmm. Strange, but ok. I press the reset switch, wait for it to boot up. And it sits at the startup screen endlessly thrashing the hard drive. Bad. I tried to go into safe mode, still endless thrashing. Then after a couple of reboots, Windows says that it needs to do a CHKDSK. Turns out its finding all these unreadable segments.
Long story short, his is a very bad sign...
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