Archive for the ‘WTF?!’ Category
Short: iPhone, what did the Pipe Symbol ever do to you?
When to post a quick CRON job snippet on Twitter today using my iPhone, only to discover there’s no | on the virtual keyboard. I never really noticed before as I’d use the popup menu in Terminal for all special characters when grep’ing, etc….
I guess it’s time to start digging through iKeyEx files and find out how to make a custom virtual keyboard with one. After all, I don’t think I’ve ever used ¥, °, £, or €…
Update: I’m an idiot – I’ve been using a Blackberry Storm keyboard theme, and the pipe symbol was obscured by a different symbol – went back to the standard keyboard and BAM! There it was.
Overheard
Today at Wendy’s:
Customer: What’s that awful beeping?
Manager: Well, either the deepfrier is reversing or we’re all going to die.
Customer: *Runs screaming from the restaurant*
Manager: …
Dust Masks and Danger Pay
I used to train call center agents how to troubleshoot technical issues with a specific piece of software (a tale for another time), and one class a particularly outspoken agent (who had a tendency to ask rather personal questions) asked me “Do you like grilled-cheese sandwiches?” Please keep in mind that the subject of the moment had nothing to do with grills, cheese, or eating.
I stood in front of the class, slightly perplexed, and pondered for only a moment before answering, “Yes….”
Undeterred by the skeptical look on my face, she asked another question: “If I made you a grilled-cheese sandwich, would you eat it?”
This time I didn’t hesitate before answering with a firm, blunt, “No.”
Everyone laughed. The girl didn’t seem at all surprised, and dropped the subject. I honestly have no idea why she asked (I never did ask her), but based on some of her other questions (again, a story for another time) I can only assume she had a mild crush on me.
I did, however, explain to the girl, and class why I wouldn’t eat the offered sandwich, and why I no longer take my shoes off if someone else me not to.
Computers Imitating Politics
While looking through Event Viewer logs on a few servers today, I came across this gem:
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer COMPUTERNAME that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{AF4FC9E2-13C7-E47B-A. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
It seems the server was trying to keep in line with Canadian Politics, however it got the outcome a little wrong.
Urinal Fail
One of the first things I noticed when I started my new job a few months ago was that for some reason, I can’t bring myself to use the urinal….
Still can't quite put my finger on it...probably a good thing....
Why do we need customers again?
I guess I should start by “introducing” myself. I’m new around here. I’m a long-time friend of Scout. Going to back to kindergarten actually. And now we’re kind of-sort of related. Laslow is married to my first cousin. So technically I’m related to him. Anyhoo, I’ve been invited to contribute so here I am.
I was blessed to be able to work at a grocery store as a cashier the last two weeks. In those two weeks I met some memorable customers.
On Retirement Communities
Ari, Scout, and I live in a small city of around ~40,000 people. We have two malls, a Wal-Mart, more fast-food places than you’d figure a city of this size needs, a ski hill, several lakes, and lots of other things for young people to do.
However, the town is also home to an obscenely large number of churches (five on one of the main roads, with at least two dozen more scattered throughout the valley that we occupy) and funeral homes. What does this mean?
Old people. Lots and lots of old people.
