Archive for the ‘General’ Category

YouTube comments I’ve made

Does anyone know how to see what comments you have left on other videos, on YouTube? Someone sent me something, and I can’t figure out what it is in response to.

Woo Ballard!

Yep, I’m moving to Ballard. I’ve decided I’m going to rent the house out for a year, and see how that goes. I think it’s a fine house, the location just doesn’t work for me any more.
The place in Ballard is about 5 miles from work. It’s freshly updated inside, and it looks like it’s [...]

GI Systematic Clear Case for Bath-Time Goods

I submitted this to engrish.com ages ago, but it was never picked up. So here it is.
The center tag says: ‘You can find “IT” up completely. At anytime, at
any purpose in your life style. That’s something like.’
The line at the bottom says: ‘Please make sure the size of your goods
meets the intended use of this [...]

IBM TS3200 magazine problems

A while back we determined what was the cause of some specific errors related to the IBM TS3200 library. I forgot to post about ‘em until now, though. Here’s the error message from mtx:
backup1:~# mtx next
Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 5…done
mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 [...]

Chase credit cards, down for over a day?

I tried to buy some wood at Lowes last night, and my Chase Visa card was declined — a first. There’s definitely room on the card, but I didn’t have time to deal with it then. I called them about it today, and they told me their computers were down for an update, and they [...]

New wallpaper

My new wallpaper

Headless animals

From: Amazon Search Suggestions
To: dpk
Subject: Some of your suggestions have been suspended

Hello,
Your recent suggestion to show the item "Fresh Whole Rabbit" on amazon.com searches for "headless animals" was suspended because although an obvious observation,it is in poor taste.

Keyboard Crumb Shaking Day

I propose that workplaces enact some sort of policy designating a single day every month as the only day in which employees are allowed to shake the crumbs out of their keyboards (which often includes banging the keyboard against the desk, somewhat distracting).