| Messing with survey people |
[Jul. 20th, 2009|12:32 am] |
I just got a call from a survey company, asking me to rate the quality of some service phone call I'd made recently.
First she asked if I had five minutes to complete a survey about a phone call I'd made recently. I thought that five minutes was longer than the phone call itself, but I felt bad for her, and I was amused, so I agreed to the survey.
"How would you rate the overall quality of the call? Please answer with a number from 1 to 5 where 5 is excellent is 1 is poor."
I answer, "4.6"
[pause....]
"Sir, would you say 4.6 is closer to 4 or closer to 5?"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
I was chuckling the rest of the call, just saying "5." because I didn't want to confuse her. |
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| Birthday Card |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|01:10 pm] |
Sierra's brother sent her a birthday "card":
I do not support the holiday card industry. Happy b-day. Love, Ian M-S. |
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| Renton |
[Mar. 28th, 2008|01:38 pm] |
Hmmm...
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| Threads as a service!? |
[Mar. 6th, 2008|10:26 am] |
In Apple's SDK announcement slides, they list the following stack:
Core OS, Core Services, Media, Cocoa Touch
Fine. Kinda silly and arbitrary past the kernel/user boundary, but what I found most hilarious is that "Threading" is listed in Core Services (along with "Address Book" and "SQLite"), instead of in Core OS (which has things like "Sockets" and "Power Management".
Is that why threading sucks so much on Macs and iTunes can't do more than 1 thing at a time well? Because it's all in userspace? :-) |
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| Ah, the Internet... |
[Feb. 11th, 2008|06:56 pm] |
Smart person from the Internet, asking about my jsdraw hack...From: "xxxx xxxxx" <xxxxxxx@xxxx.com>
To: brad@danga.com
Subject: Hey Brad, b∎ck here... javascript whiteboard question...
Hey Brad, b∎ck here... javascript whiteboard question...
Want to know if you could make me a 500px by 500px whiteboard, no chat, and
a wipe button that requires a password to wipe, would be willing to give $10
for it... let me know.
-b∎ck/Sean
ps just using this for fun btw.
I reply:Sorry, I'm not doing contracting work.
He replies:Contracting? This is just for fun...
I joke:$10 isn't fun. :-)
He asks:Can i buy the source from you or is it free?
(minutes pass, he replies agains)Lol i could have just asked for it but i want to give you something
in return, whats wrong with that?
(hours pass, I'm working, not checking personal email)whatever punk ass bitch!
Umm... okay? Now you're definitely not getting a $10 copy of my open source code. Punk ass bitch!
Update, 2008-02-13: Sean called me (my GrandCentral number is public) and politely asked that I remove his name, email and handle. Seemed like a nice guy. I can respect that. Removed. |
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| Safety Information |
[Jan. 15th, 2008|03:10 pm] |
Sitting on the shuttle last night, the girl next to me was on the phone speaking every other sentence/phrase/word in English vs. Russian, switching to English for technical things and certain idiomatic expressions.
Normally I'd just put on my headphones and listen to music but a) the English/Russian thing was amusing and b) she had a cute voice as well, so "eavesdropping" (if you can call it that when the person's directly beside you) was quite bearable.
Her phone call involved discussing sorting strategies for a toy website she made as a Ruby learning excercise:
http://safetyinformation.org/
Quite amusing.
I almost forgot to write about it, but then I saw this on reddit today:
:-) |
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| Misc |
[Dec. 23rd, 2007|01:31 pm] |
I've been in Moscow for the past week for this Google Code Day [video], giving a talk on social graph / interop stuff ("Открытие Социального Графа"). It was a public talk, so I should be able to post the slides, but I'll wait and confirm before I do.
Went to SUP's holiday party too. [some pics] But I guess those pics don't really highlight the ridiculousness of the venue. All the nightclubs here are pretty extravagantly ridiculous. But there was no George Clooney or Gwenth Paltrow in a cage. (love that article: you don't often see the phrase, "We OWN you, bitches!" in a printed newspaper with your breakfast, hotel restaurant windows looking out to St. Basil's in the Kremlin...)
I just got a call from the hotel receptionist saying that my driver was here. My driver? What? Oh, my flight was originally today, so probably my return taxi to the airport, but I'm returning now instead on Tuesday (yes, flying all day xmas). But even so, a driver at 13:30 would be way too late to get to the airport. I ask the receptionist to point him out or describe him. She's flustered, trying to explain that he's black. (Black people are incredibly rare here.) Went out, found him, and after a confusing conversation, turns out that not only was he going to the wrong airport (Domodedovo, not Sheremetyevo), but he was supposed to be driving Boy George, not me. Wtf? I can only imagine the confusion at the receptionist's desk that she called me down to "my driver" instead of Boy George.
Anyway, Moscow is great, as always. I love this city. One warning, though: when a relatively large Russian guy with the nickname "Wolf" wants to drink whiskey with you, politely decline.
Speaking of wolves, apparently a wolf boy is loose in Moscow. Wtf.
Newly discovered funny blog from article above: Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears.
Unrelated misc links:
- 2007 OpenID wrapup
- Who mattered in 2007 -- apparently I matter, and I'm an introvert. Several of my friends matter too. Love the insular valley. Reminds me of the directed graph I saw recently with two nodes labeled "Blog" with two edges pointing at each other. Yay! :)
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| Hee |
[Dec. 21st, 2007|05:30 pm] |
From this flying car article:....
The Transition isn't so much a car you can fly but an airplane you can drive, and it is meant to be an alternative to driving for trips between 100 and 500 miles.
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The airplane will cruise at 115 mph and have a range of about 460 miles. Surely won't be replacing my 480 mile trips. |
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| The CIA and Buffy |
[Aug. 14th, 2007|10:48 am] |
If you haven't seen this linked just about everywhere, check it out:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
... 35 million wikipedia edits, all indexed by IP address, so you can see which organizations are making which edits.
For instance, it's good to know that somebody within the CIA is editing the article about the musical episode of Buffy, "Once More, with Feeling". Their contribution?*Buffy sings, "I've got a theory, it doesn't matter" but then quickly adds "as long as we're together," revealing both the depression and the (revealed in this episode) cause. |
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| Best CAPTCHA ever |
[Jul. 19th, 2007|10:52 am] |
A CAPTCHA gives you a little test to see if you're human, not a computer auto-generating accounts.
You know, this sort of crap: 
But these guys have a way better one:
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