The Joker weighs in on the bailout

The Dark Bailout

Funny but scary

Awesome Chick Fil-A #1 mod

During our last vacation we stopped in Atlanta on the drive up to Indiana and had a bit to eat at Chick Fil-A. As usual at almost any place that you eat, they place the most idiotic shit on your table to get you to buy more product. This is really apparent at places like Chili's, Applebee's, Outback Steakhouse, etc. Here is a picture of the piece of advertisement on out table that I modded.




I just wanted to tell these guys how I feel about crap being on our table while we are trying to eat. I am really surprised that places to eat still do this crap. Restaurants in other countries do not do this kind of needless advertising on the tables of where you eat. It's a waste of space, resources and time. Other than that, the sandwiches were delicious.

Asteroid Impact Simulation

Very cool simulation and great soundtrack!

ShowBiz Pizza band, still rockin?

If you are familiar with ShowBiz Pizza then you are definitely familiar with the animatronic band that played there. Many times in my youth, I was subjected to watching the robot gorilla sing some silly songs that you really could care less about. The cool thing was that they are robots. I thought that these things would be sitting at the bottom of a landfill or that they maybe turned them into Kia's. After coming across an article on the Laughing Squid website that said that people actually buy and restore these animatronic works of art and program them to perform music of all sorts.





Who would have thought that people would keep these things up and running? By the way, if you are in a different part of the country than me, I think they are called Chuck-E Cheese. Grab a beer and enjoy the show!

Text to speech is fun!

I dropped some knowledge on my co-workers by showing them the AT+T labs Text to Speech page. It will say pretty much anything that you can phonetically spell. We have entirely too much fun with this. Try it out.

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

Buy.com flat out sucks

I made the mistake of using a different website to purchase a set of VModa Vibe ear buds two months ago. Immediately I knew that I had made a mistake in using this website when I logged into the site the day after I had paid for the merchandise and my order was not able to be located. I contacted the customer support and they were not able to locate my order either but my credit card was indeed charged. Two days later, I sent another email to customer support with the transaction number and I received a reply that stated that I had made the purchase through buy.com but it was through a third party seller. I told them that I knew that the purchase was through a third party seller, kind of like Amazon.com. Hmmmm. They were still not able to locate my order. I explained to the (buy.com) customer service that even though the purchase was with a third party seller, I made the purchase THROUGH buy.com and they should easily be able to display and track my order. A week later, I received an email from the third party seller stating that the order has been received but not shipped. I needed the ear buds seven days after I ordered them but this was not going to happen. I tried to cancel the order through buy.com but they mysteriously couldn't find my order yet again. I then contacted the third party seller and cancelled the order directly. I received an email from the seller stating that the order was cancelled and to have a nice day. Five days later I received the ear buds from the seller and the old credit card was charged yet again. I FINALLY got the second charge taken off and just kept the ear buds. Now, the ear buds are shorting out. To return the ear buds to VModa, I need a receipt of purchase to send them back and no one seems to want to acknowledge that I bought the ear buds either the seller or buy.com. What is the moral of the story? Stick to Amazon, Newegg or whatever your familiar website is to make your purchases. Thanks buy.com for wasting hours of my life that I will never get back.

The Hoover Dam