Ok, so while I was blissfully out of touch last week apparently tropical storm (now hurricane) Alex popped up right off the coast of South Carolina. No doubt the cause of my flight delays on Sunday. Fortunately it had minimal impact on South Carolina aside from making it a good weekend for surfers off Folly Beach and not much significant impact for the affected bits of North Carolina.
Next!
We are squishy inside
There are times when my wife tells me far more anatomy than I really want to know. Like how the lungs of her cadaver are all squishy, and the sounds it makes when she squeezes them. She says it’s cool. Me, all I need to know is that there are hard bits protecting the soft squishy bits and that keep the squishy bits from collapsing into a pile of goo.
It’s dead Jim
My wife’s cellphone has finally given up the ghost. If you squeeze and twist it just right, you can get it to start up, but then it dies again. I figure all the times she’s dropped it has knocked something loose inside the phone. So now I have to go find her another one. I was looking at the Motorola V400 because it’s a pretty nice looking phone, but it has no IR port. She uses the IR to beam stuff between her PDA and phone, so now I’m trying to decide if I should just replace the Nokia 6360 with another one or go with the 3200. The 3200 does a little more than the 6360, but it has a smaller battery which might not go over too well with the wife.
This is what Nokia puts on their cell phone battery pages:
Replacing a Battery?
A new Nokia phone may cost you less than a battery, after rebates, with a new wireless service plan.
I wonder if this is a sign of how much of a commodity cell phones have become, when your batteries last longer and cost more than your cell phone…
Dog shows
My wife likes to watch dog shows on Animal Planet. Sometimes they’re interesting. But I’ve always wondered why they don’t put the dogs through any kind of skill test…kind of like the talent contest in beauty pagents.
After all, these dogs are being judged to see how they compare to the breed standard, and most dogs are bred for a particular purpose or task. So how can a dog be judged best of breed if they don’t test to see if the dog can do what it was bred for? Sure, a dog can look good, but what if it’s dumb as a post? Some best of breed that would be.
Trying to lure me away?
I wonder if the number of recruiters and headhunters calling you has any relation to reputation. Lately all the calls I seem to be getting are from recruiting companies looking to fill positions and asking me if I’m interested.