Murphy vs. O’Reilly

Murphy’s Law states that “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong at the worst possible time.”

O’Reilly’s law says “Murphy was very optimistic”.

Gummy Bear!

Apple Vs. Microsoft train tickets

Three Microsoft engineers and three Apple employees are traveling by train to a computer conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple employees buy only a single ticket.

“How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks a Microsoft engineer.

“Watch and you’ll see,” answers the Apple employee.

They all board the train. The Microsoft engineers take their respective seats, but all three Apple employees cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.”

The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes the ticket and moves on. The Microsoft engineers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Microsoft engineers decide to do the same on the return trip and save some money.

When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Apple employees don’t buy any ticket, at all.

“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one perplexed Microsoft engineer. “Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Apple employee. When they board the train the three Microsoft engineers cram into a restroom and the three Apple employees cram into another one nearby. The train departs.

Shortly afterward, one of the Apple employees leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Microsoft engineers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please…”

What the Who?

Not sure why, but this picture made me laugh out loud. It has to be one of the best “What the Hell??” pictures I’ve seen in a long time.

Why does Obaba deserve a Peace Prize??

What the hell has Obama done to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

The answer is NOTHING! He hasn’t stopped any wars, he hasn’t solved any world problems, he hasn’t even helped do any of these things?

His own troops are still at war in Iraq, his country is still reeling from economic crisis.

This is just absolute BULLSHIT!!

Prime Minister on Letterman

Caring for your DVD collection

Many of us worry about wear and tear on our DVD collections such as scratching the surface, which unlike a CD could ruin the disk.

Here are a few simple ideas which I have found to be very helpful in providing the best possible protection for your treasures as well as preventing a costly replacement.

Don’t use the cases they came in
You can provide much better protection and prevent damage when removing or placing the disks in the cases by using a Disk Wallet to store your disks. Disk wallets come in various sizes and capacity (so you’ll find one which will hold your entire set in one case) and are designed to be soft and non-damaging to your disks when placing or removing them from the sleeves; This prevents surface scratching and pressure points encountered from the normal hard plastic center clip cases most DVD sets come in, the inside sleeve material will also help to keep the disk clean.

If you have the full season set, your disks will be loose in the box with no protection at all, so they are in even more need of a good DVD wallet.

You can of coarse print off a nice label to glue or tape on the end of the wallet to give it a nice finish for your book shelf.

Don’t put the disk down on any surface
One of the worst things we can do is leave the disk lying around. Even just putting it down for a moment is enough to scratch the surface with bits of dust or other surface debris. While these may be very small scratches at first, over time the number of scratches will build up and where they over lap become deeper, which will result in reading errors while you’re trying to watch the disc.

The best policy is to always move the disk from its case to the DVD player and straight back into the case when you’re finished with it. Never put it down even for a moment.

Handle the disk by the edges only
It’s much better to avoid fingerprints on your disk rather than undertaking the risky business of wiping them off and almost certainly leaving a scratch or mark of some kind in its place. You can do this simply by holding the disk with a finger or hand against either side of the disk. An alternative is to use a finger in the center hole of the disk. Although if done incorrectly or with too much force this can put undue pressure on the disk, which over time could result in pressure marks or splits, so holding by the sides is the best way to handle a disk

Use a proper disk cleaner
Only ever use a proper “circular motion disc cleaner” to clean a disk. These cheap little devices are designed as a home version of the professional cleaners used in rental stores. They use a special spray and circular cleaning device to safely remove dirt and repair minor surface scratches on the disk. My one has fixed many a rented movie as well as saved a few of my own disks and I highly recommend them.

Home disk cleaning kit

Don’t store your disks in direct sun light
Even though some disk wallets are designed to protect disks from sun damage, the temperature inside a wallet will still increase dramatically if the sun is shining directly on the case. That kind of temperature change from cool to hot and back to cool, can place a disk under damaging stress as the plastic expands and contracts with the temperature changes. Over time this expansion-contraction process can cause a disk to warp and/or damage the track information stored on the disk surface rendering it useless.

*snuggles*

Bear Warning!

Weeing game consoles.

Who was the dumb ass that came up with the idea of calling a game console the Wee?

Do we really want kids asking their friends if they want to play with their wee? Or people walking into stores asking for a wee?
“I’m sorry we don’t have public toilets sir.”

“Grandpa, come and look at my new wee.”
O_O “New? wee? I can’t even find my old wee.”

Imagine Santa’s surprise when kids sitting on his knee tell him they want a wee for Christmas.
“What would like from Santa this year little boy?”
“I’d like a wee.”
O_O “Now!? Get this kid off me he’s gonna wee!!.. oh you mean Wii.. Ho Ho Ho.. silly Santa”.

*shakes head*

They call the software for the console wiiware. Wee Ware? The first thing I think of when I hear that is a raincoat and rubber boots.

What a ridiculous name.

Yes I realize that the name is suppose to represent that we all can play it and it’s an easy word to be said in all languages, but come on.. Wee??.. really??

Wouldn’t ALL be a better name to represent that it can be played by ALL people of ALL generations in ALL countries? Imagine the advertising they could get from ALL as a name.

“it’s ALL you’ll ever need.”

“Made for ALL.”

“Even if you combined ALL our competition into one, they still wouldn’t be ALL.”

“Be ALL you can be”

You could have a lot of fun and inspiring slogans with it.

If only they had put some more thought into the name instead of weeing all over it.

An inconvenient truth

It looks like Al Gore has half a rain forest worth of paper stored in his office. Or mayby this is his version of recycling.

Either way after seeing that much wasted paper, you have to ask yourself what the real inconvenient truth is.