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April 16, 2016 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

A lot of noise in the New England press speaking up the anniversary and it’s all c-r-a-p like this:

The third anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings Friday was marked by solemn remembrance of the dead and wounded…”When you think about what happened three years ago today, and you think about what’s come of it, there is so much hope and inspiration”

“Remember the victims!” is the cry heard from on high.  Heaven forbid someone spend five seconds remembering the perpetrators so that there might not be any more victims.

It’s certainly nothing contained to this region but it seems more ingrained since these people are, well, insane; they’ve completely swallowed the blue pill.  When I travel to Colorado I always think that I could be one of them, just need to eat a little better, exercise a little more, and learn to breathe a little less.  However when it comes to New England I could ever be one of them.  Just a few pics:

The Tewksbury police headquarters, made famous for their attempt to outright steal a big piece of private property.
A strip mall like this could be anywhere (and everywhere) in America.
Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, where pedestrians and bikers outnumber cars about 2:1.  There were even some people surfing out in the frigid North Atlantic (all men, though some brought their girlfriends along so that they could snap action pics of them with cameras that had lenses as long as my forearm).
The reworked Ford Escape UI; someone’s cousin must be in the “button” business.  At least Microsoft’s Sync is now tolerable instead of painfully awful.  (I love the “Menu” button, I mean really?  They need another menu after slathering that many buttons on the car console?)
Fort McClary in Maine, just past the ginormous Portsmouth naval yard.
Couldn’t resist stopping to get one of these in Maine.  The place wasn’t exactly out of the way, but it wasn’t in the tourist area so the bartender thought I was a native, despite the fact that even people in Northern Ohio know that I’m not a local from the way I speak.

The last picture was extra amusing as a local came in and was talking about how messy it can be to eat lobster and related a tale about buying a lobster and going down to the beach to eat it because, like everyone else up there, she keeps lobster eating utensils in her purse at all times.  Oh to live in such a magical land where one must always be prepared for the threat of the lobster apocalypse!

Filed Under: car, Fascism, islam, law and order, travel

September Notes (in October!)

October 1, 2013 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

There have been various complaints about a software package at work crashing and I finally tracked one crash cause down to running reports more than 75 times in one session (oh the fun!  Now you see why my posting has been sparse!).  The call into their tech support was like trying to talk someone to doing their job:

ME: Yes, it will run fine, but then when you run it the 76th time, KABOOM!
THEM: It works fine for me, perhaps you have an install that doesn’t work.
ME: Wha..da…did you even try it?
THEM: Works for me, but I’m on the patched version.
[Later…]
ME: Okay, I patched it and it still blows up.
THEM: Are you sure, maybe you should try it on a different-
ME: F’n Duh!  I tried it with different reports, different combinations of reports, different combinations on different PCs with different configurations.  76 times a pop, do the math!
THEM: So, 76 times…
ME: Yes.  Click ‘Pick List’ then Enter, then ‘Pick List’ then Enter, then ‘Pick List’ then Enter, and so forth until you reach 76, if you can count that high.
[(Much) Later…]
THEM: A bug report has been issued for your trouble ticket [You will be retired before we get around to patching it BTW].

At least they’re American, I suppose.  On my last support call to Microsoft, the (worthless) Indian guy and I had a ‘laugh’ when he remarked that he couldn’t hit our web server to which I said that it would work so long as you were in the U.S or Canada – HA!

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As seen from the iPhone:

A warning on a power box by the plant in Broomfield
Okami HD
Pumpkin pie soda
Off the treadmill tubbie.
My GPS insisted that I get off every ramp on I-25 and get back on the highway.
Ford’s Microsoft Sync system was great when it worked, which was roughly 50% of the time.  The steering wheel had volume and track control, but no play or pause.  In the Fusion (Explorer pictured) the audio system would insist on using whatever connection (USB vs Bluetooth) that you did not want to use.  (I liked the Fusion the most as a car, but the interface on American cars is for sucks.  Check out the Fusion interface here and think quick, which buttons are for the audio and which for the climate control, and what does what?)
Scene from the Sandmich’s epic $90, 5400 calorie binge that caused much controversy on the ol’ expense report  (Although it was only ever mentioned to me in passing, confirming my thought that no one wanted to take on someone with enough balls to put a $90 Hooters tab on his expense report).

Filed Under: car, technology

Ford vs Toyota

March 5, 2010 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

While Toyota over-grovels over a possible, yet very rarely occurring, manufacturing defect, my brother-n-law had reminded me of Ford’s exploding tire issue. Toyota is paying out of pocket to fix the issue they’re confronted with, even though it looks like they have grounds to fight back against it and it certainly isn’t anything they did intentionally even if true; but what did Ford owners get? The owners who purchased a car which shipped with intentionally deflated tires (probably to cover up some manufacturing sloppiness) that had a tendency to blow up and send people flying off the road ? $500 to buy another of the same car. Nice job standing behind that product!

My coworker loves her Ford, but I have to admit that after looking it over it seems like they gave up making it when it was about 95% of the way done. It was almost as if once it looked like a ‘car’ they felt they no longer had to engineer and build any more of it (though their history shows that they have a tendency to give up even before that).

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