This little neighborhood kitteh has figured out that if he walks along that wall at the back and hops across to the top of this 2 meter high water tank, then he can snooze all day and remain secure and unmolested.
And be king of the hill.
Location, location, location! This little guy’s elevated sleeping perch is conveniently located about 12 feet away from the local duck shop.
…for this.
I just don’t know what it is.
SarcMark has just introduced a new punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm. Is that the best idea ever or what
I’m going with ‘or what’.
However, if you disagree, please feel free to buy — yes! Buy!! — the ‘sarcmark‘ for a dollar ninety-nine. Or actually I guess you’d be buying the software that lets you create a sarcmark by typing Ctrl period, because obviously that’s much more convenient than loading it into your clipboard and typing Ctrl V
And equally obviously you’re going to be using these things all the time
Except on Macs and mobile emails and so on, where they’re not supported.
Which is just as well really, because, Christ, I’m sick of the fucking things already. But if you really like pain, then check out their godawful youtube commercial.
These idiots don’t even know what sarcasm is FFS. Or what ’simplistic’ means. As the company blurb says: the sarcmark is a ‘cleverly simplistic approach to a very challenging problem’. Quite. Really, this is just embarrassing.
So the campus-that-shall-remain-nameless has a need for more parking spaces. Fair enough. And they’re using those nice hexagonal concrete pavers so that joyful green things can grow up in the cracks to soften the brutal appearance which — let’s admit it — concrete does sometimes tend to have. Lovely! All in all, there’s no reason why this shouldn’t end up being a nice-looking, functionally useful project.
But oh dear, in the half-assed implementation, something went terribly terribly wrong. Actually several things went terribly terribly wrong. Here’s a short list of some of the highlights
Q. Since we’ve got all these pavers and all, should we finally make good this old, ugly, ‘temporary’ concrete kludge?
A. Nah. What’s the point? It looks all right to me.
Note too that the cambered sidewalk used to make sense when it drained onto the grass at the left, but now the runoff forms a large puddle where people are supposed to park their cars.
Q. OK, well, how about the curb gutter? Do you want us to raise the drains a few inches and do a proper job? Or do you want us just to cover the whole thing in concrete, stick in some channel beam offcuts and render the whole drainage system inaccessible?
A. Hmm, just do whatever you think best.
These are spaced about 20 15 feet apart. Did I mention that we sometimes get 1m of rain in a 24 hour period?
Q. How about the actual parking spaces? Should we lay them out so that there’s enough room for the parked cars to open their doors?
A. Why bother? They can climb out through their sunroofs like everyone else.
Euclidian space can be a right bastard sometimes
Yeah, we’re fine. What?
(In fairness I should add that I actually drafted this post about a year ago, and since then the parking space layout problem and the drainage problem have both been fixed. Because after all, it’s not like anyone could ever have anticipated any of this ahead of time.)
…It’s what you do with it.
What a pathetic little gun.
When veteran DC cop Det Baylor drove his maroon hummer through a snowball fight, it was pelted with snowballs. (More details here.)
Unfortunately, he overreacted and started waving his gun around — and now he’s famous on teh interwebs. Ho ho ho!
(Image stolen from icanhazcheeseburger)
…goes to the well.
One day the bottom will drop out.
Especially if the well is full of cement.
By which I mean not literally in this overspill parking lot, but here I am in the Northern hemisphere, mid December, and it’s blue skies, sunny and warm (low 20s), and that’s the Pacific Ocean right there. Oh yeah.
Pretty fuckin’ nice, eh!
(Of course, that was yesterday. Today it’s back to the usual: raining again, woken up by one of the cats licking my head and stepping in my eye, oppressed by the sudden unwonted arrival of a flurry of work, etc etc. It’s all good though.)
Pre-emptive arrest? Apparently it’s ‘controversial’. Well, that’s reassuring. But wait, did you fucking hear yourself?? Pre-emptive arrest??
I mean, I don’t happen to agree with these people in this particular case, but that’s neither here nor there. PRE-EMPTIVE fucking ARREST?
These people haven’t actually done anything wrong. But it’s OK to arrest them because maybe they would have. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out the implications of this.
So these are the new rules then? Pre-emptive is OK? We’re living in Minority Report from now on. OK, well, thanks, I’ll remember that.
(Also, I can’t help noticing that although these protesters are clamoring for bigger better harder faster stronger laws/policies/treaties/regulations, the Telegraph report nevertheless labels them as ‘anarchists’. What’s wrong with this picture?)
I just found some new software on my computer.
It’s called Browser Highlighter. It’s some kind of Firefox extension, although fuck knows what it does. It just installed itself during a Skype ‘update’ without asking me, and without even telling me.
What the fuck, Skype? Are you fucking serious? You’re just going to go around putting software on my machine without even telling me, never mind checking with me to see if it’s OK? What the fuck kind of operation are you running? You think this is a good business model? If so, I guess it would be OK with you then if I came round to your house, let myself in and started spraypainting the walls.
And you’ve been doing this for fucking months, you dicktards.
Artist’s impression of Skype’s new business model. (Image lifted from Ghosts of Shopping Past)
And since Ebay are apparently behind this invasive, offensive clusterfuck, they can fuck off as well.
(Technical note: simplest way to remove this fucker seems to be via control panel/ add or remove programs.)
(And while I was writing this, I completely forgot about my cup of tea — and now it’s stone cold. All thanks to you, Skype, you utter, utter bastards. Seriously though, you had a great product, a real killer app. Why the fuck are you so hell bent on turning it to shit?)
