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This release could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me on the HD-DVD front. I know these screenshots are from the version aired on TNT, but it still demonstrates well the difference between DVDs and HD.
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What a perfect solution! They’ll make one type of beverage harder for EVERYONE to get, and teenagers will magically become uninterested in drinking. It’s a FOOLPROOF PLAN, people.
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I just came across this fantastic story from a US Navy Surveillance Ship that was captured by North Korea in 1968. The North Koreans forced the American POWs to create propaganda films that would “prove” that they were being treated humanely (which, according to the rest of the accounts I’ve read, was obviously untrue). However, the Americans had a secret message to pass along through these photos…
This was further demonstrated in the second film in which a US Navy Officer flipped off the cameraman. They left it in. We now had a weapon! Back in our rooms we were elated, this was one more thing we could use to discredit the propaganda we were being forced to grind out. Several crew members expressed caution, but the general attitude was use it. We had been captured, but we never surrendered. Damn the Koreans, full fingers ahead!
The finger became an integral part of our anti-propaganda campaign. Any time a camera appeared, so did the fingers. A concern grew among us that sooner or later the Koreans would notice this and ask questions. It was decided that if the question was raised, the answer was to be that the finger was a gesture known as the Hawaiian Good Luck sign, a variation of the Hang Loose gesture. In late August one of the duty officers asked about the finger and seemed to be accepting of the explanation, but most of us realized that our zeal to ruin their propaganda would come back to haunt us.
It did come back to haunt them, but it’s still a great story.
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A tale of collectivist pricing schemes and anti-capitalist nonsense padding the wallets of Big Business at the expense of the consumer.
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I’m really glad that there’s actually a term for this. I thought it was just my obssessive-compulsive nature.
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Master of Business Administration
I flew down to Palm Beach for a day to see my Dad walk across the stage and get his MBA from FAU. Now, he can teach business school if he wants to (and I think he wants to), imparting the many lessons he’s learned over his career on a new batch of would-be entrepeneurs and businesspeople. Congratulations, Dad! I was happy to get to spend some time with the family yesterday and go shoot pool with Stephen, Ashley, and Christine. Also, Happy Birthday to my sister, Christine, who turned 24 yesterday.My Head Explodes
This is probably the most frustrating customer service phone call I’ve ever heard in my life. This is a whole new level of frustration that not even Vincent Ferrari ever encountered. At least in the case of slimy retention specialists, you’re both on the same page. If I were dealing with people making so egregious a mistake, it would probably be all I could do not to stab myself in the eye with a salad fork. This isn’t “cancel the account” 47 times while the guy pretends not to hear you. This is thirty straight minutes of CSRs at increasing levels of management failing to recall their fourth grade math lessons. To me, it’s almost unbearable to listen to. The best part, the shining pinnacle of ignorance, is near the end of the call when the “floor manager” tells George that their math error–overcharging him by one hundred times the amount they’re quoting–is just a “difference of opinion”.In All Seriousness
I’m sitting here at PBI waiting for my plane to Hilton Head to board. The guy next to me just reached over to plug in his laptop and noticed my laptop’s power cable plugged into the outlet by his seat. He whipped out his travel surge protector and turned to me and asked, in a very serious voice, “Sir! Would you like to plug your laptop into my surge-protected outlet?” For some reason, this struck me as riotously funny at 7:15 in the morning. I stifled a chuckle and said “No thanks, I’m fine.” It guess was funny in both a wow-you’re-really-excited-about-your-surge-protector way and an um-is-that-supposed-to-be-a-euphemism way.
OhGizmo! is giving away a TON of stuff, and all you have to do is blog about it! See? Just like this!
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Whoah. Of all of the people to show up on Boing Boing, one name I would never expect to see would be my old boss from UGA Food Services, who transferred me from the Tate Center to the Creamery for playing video games during my shift.
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It’s nice to have a simple link to send to all the people who write (or say) that something “begs” the question. No, it doesn’t! It ASKS the question.
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