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(I only have mspaint.exe to hand at the moment, sorry for the poor anti-aliasing and lack of drop shadow skills!)
I have uploaded more photos from my trip to America this summer. This set was taken at Bryce Canyon. The canyon looked like Mars.
I have just had a most enlightening conversation with ‘R’ from Dell. I am looking to buy a new PC for home use, and we went through a system, with her trying to sell me all the extras, while I was trying to tell her that I didn’t want any. I told her that I didn’t want the ‘free’ printer, and that if I could save money by not buying the printer, I would prefer not to buy it. She countered my argument by saying that the default printer is a very bad printer, and that I should upgrade to a more expensive one. Obviously. I also asked her if it would be possible to not take all the junk software that comes with the PC. She told me that these were items that were not in her power to remove, which is fair enough. Dell like to bundle junk with everything.
Now for the punch line. ‘R’ warned me that I have no word-processing software installed, and no internet security. I told her that that was OK, because I could take care of all that myself. “No”, said ‘R’. She told me that “it is illegal to install any old software this PC”. I replied by asking her “How is it illegal for me to download OpenOffice and install it on my PC?”. Now quite bothered by me she warned me “I’m just telling you that to install software from any old CDs on this PC is illegal“.
Aine and I saw a sign just like this on the Quays on Saturday night.
Áine and I went to Galway the weekend before last. On the way home from some fantastical ‘Nite Club’, we went for a Supermacs. There was an American couple at the till beside me when I was ordering, and they were asking the Man Behind The Counter what ‘Coleslaw Chips®’ were. They had heard from someone that Coleslaw Chips® were the thing to have in Galway obviously. However, the Man Behind The Counter was not very talented at English, and was unable to manage more than a point in the general direction of the deep-fryer. So I turned to the couple and told them that Coleslaw Chips® were in fact chips covered in cabbage and mayonaise. The woman turned to the man and said ‘Are you sure you still want them?’; ‘Yeah, I have to try them!’ he replied. The woman was a little perturbed by the idea, and chose to have garlic chips instead.
On our way out of the restaurant I went over to the couple, who were still eating, and I asked them how they liked their Coleslaw Chips®. The man looked at me, with a beaming smile that stretched from ear to ear, he raised both his thumbs and said ‘OhMyGodManTheseAreSoAwesome!’
It’s the start of a new College year, and the VDP show their mastery of mailing lists once more. When I was in second and third year in college the same thing happened: they set up the member’s mailing list as a public forum, so that any email to the list goes to everyone else in the list. It started out with one email erroniously going to everyone, followed by a second, followed by everyone asking to be removed from the list. As the day wore on today, more and more people asked to be removed from the list, which generated more traffic on the list, prompting more people to ask to be removed.
I myself also asked to be removed from the list, but I mailed the VDP committee list, because I am SMURT.
My photos from Edgespace’s “One Year And Still Not Bust” party are on Flickr.
I have spent most of the evening coding up a php web-app to solve Sudoku. To scratch an itch.
Boing Boing: Bizarre proposed Indiana reproductive legislation
This is one for Rob ‘Harry Potter’ Synnott -
“A proposed bill by Indiana Republicans would limit assisted reproduction services to people who have a “Gestational Certificate.”"
Art made from hairs in the shower. Rock,
robot rock.
