Felt the usual ambivalence at seeing the sign below on my way to work this morning. It is advertising a hospital, and says, "Doctors doctors everywhere". I'm not exactly a Coleridge scholar, but even I know the context for that line: our man mariner has pissed off the Albatross, and his ship is becalmed in the middle of the ocean:
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water,... more->
Dear Cell Phone Designers,
I was wondering what device you all use to listen to your mp3s while on the bus. At first I assumed that you'd all use iPods, because they are really well designed great user interface and really intuitive, useful navigation. Then I realized that no one who had ever seen an iPod could possibly have designed the music player on the Instinct.
My next guess was that since you folks designed the Samsung Instinct, so you probably used that and listened to music wi... more->
Well, I no longer use Firefox because I like Google Chrome so much. Stable it ain't, though. I just wrote a nice long post about my new phone, and then it crashed. Well, technically I hit 'post' and then bork crashed for about an hour... and then I tried to resubmit it and Chrome crashed. Ah, well. I like my new phone.
Actually, it seems I'm not the only one to have this problem.
So I got a new phone (more on this in a sec) and called in to get it activated. While waiting for the system to load something or other, the phone tech was chatting to me about the election. When I mentioned that I was for Obama, he said, "Oh, me too! I'm really hoping he wins, and in fact I'm taking the day off of work tomorrow!". I found out later that this fellow lives in the Philippines (where he works in an overseas call center). This is truly an election with international significance.
