Archive for June, 2006

Home. New truck is parked at the shop, waiting for Travis tmrw. I'm at home with my feet up. More than halfway thru a large gin and tonic and feeling much better about the whole thing.

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Waiting for th…

Posted in June 25th, 2006 01:04pm MST

by schuss42 in Wireless

Waiting for the tow truck. This is not how i expected this trip to go. I have a very poor track record for buying cars in oregon.

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The ceremonial…

Posted in June 25th, 2006 06:24am MST

by schuss42 in Wireless

The ceremonial swapping of the keys; i've officially adopted a new four-wheeled family member.

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A shiny red 30…

Posted in June 23rd, 2006 02:04pm MST

by schuss42 in Wireless

A shiny red 300zx twinturbo caught out my office window, cruising downtown in the sunshine. Exactly what i should be doing right now…

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Habits of Highly Un-effective People

Posted in June 19th, 2006 03:01pm MST

by schuss42 in Computer

We can only make progress when we're able to let go of old methods and embrace new ones. While self-examination is great, i find it’s much easier to identify annoying, troublesome or inefficient habits in others and target those habits for extinction. The workplace is an ideal arena in which to expose yourself to the ineffective habits of others, as you spend a large block of time trapped in a confined space together separated only by fabric-covered cardboard sheets and a layer of animal pictures and thumbtacks. Some of the practices i'd like to see swiftly abolished include:

Using the bathroom as a conference room.
Dialing on speakerphone. (should be punishable by death)
Forwarding emails to large groups of people tagged simply “FYI".
Emailing a link to a file or webpage without checking first that the link works.
Printing something, to then turn around and fax it.
Printing something, then never picking it up off the printer.
Printing an entire slide presentation.
Printing email.
Opening a trouble ticket just to ask a question.

Look around at work today. What could your coworkers do better?

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What will our bathrooms look like in 50 more years?

Posted in June 13th, 2006 02:08pm MST

by schuss42 in Computer

Two quick and unrelated things:

One: how nuts is this?
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It’s a real product. I hope you're being nice to your iPod, cause they are taking over the world and it’s only a matter of time until we're all merely their puny human slaves.

Two: old stuff, unearthed! The Walt Disney Company opened a time capsule letter written by Walt himself in 1956 and locked away for the last 50 years. The Disney properties are supposedly full of time capsules with various opening dates, as Walt was all about this stuff. There’s a PDF download of the letter. It’s pretty cool what Walt thought we'd be doing in 2006, and funny how much he thought 50’s breakthroughs (like radar) would be HUGE by now. Save that away and read it again in 10 years, make Walt proud.

I know what you're thinking, and no, Walt did not correctly predict the iPod’s hostile takeover of the human race. But i think Nostradamus did…

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