When the head of Asus’s marketing department tore this out of her little sister’s doodling notebook and plunked it down in front of the International VP, I’m guessing no one thought to proofread it, or, say, run it by someone who speaks English. Am I alone in finding this logo vaguely creepy and sinister?
When I [...]
Techdirt has the tale of a satellite launch gone awry. The satellite in question could still be nudged into its intended orbit, but Boeing has a patent on the process of doing a lunar flyby and returning to earth orbit, and it refuses to license the patent to SES, who launched the satellite.
In other patenting-elementary-math-and-physics [...]
So Microsoft and other companies sell these “wireless desktops” which generally include a keyboard and a mouse that both connect wirelessly to a transmitter that connects to the computer’s USB port. Useful stuff, that. Wires are tangly.
But then they connect the transmitter to the USB plug with an ugly three-foot-long wire! So you’ve eliminated no [...]
The race cars are back. More to come.
I swear to Yahweh if one more CFB Borden drone walks up to me and tells me his cell phone “shit the bed” I’m going throw my stapler at his shiny shaved head.
I considered applying to work the PC support desk on base this summer, but I’ve decided against it, cause the most common computer [...]
True story. Guy walks up and buys a prepaid phone card and asks where the other Jesus is. Because two Jesi work here, I spose.
“Telus is different cause they use towers. Rogers uses satellites, right, so there’s always one around, and if you connect to the roaming satellite instead of the regular satellite, that’s where you get roaming charges.”
And we smile and nod.
Slice is recruiting for a new “reality TV” series in the Bayfield Retail Ghetto. I’ve always wondered where TV production companies dig up all the toothless ignorant hacks they’re all the time parading across the superflat screens of the world. Turns out I’ve been at the epicentre of the recruiting industry for over a year. [...]
So the microphone in your new cell phone isn’t working and the people you call can’t hear you very well. You’re going to have to take advantage of that one-year warranty. You are an empowered consumer.
A few tips to make your experience a pleasant one:
You bought it at Wal-Mart? Return it at Wal-Mart. Don’t come [...]
I’m rebranding this thing as The Co-op Student Chronicles. The new shtick is that every post’s title will refer to lyrics or song titles from Fastball’s landmark 1998 album “All the Pain Money Can Buy.”
So the co-op student waltzes into work yesterday half an hour late with several layers of bandages taped all over his [...]