Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

October 2, 2011

"meta" hours of operation

I found myself in need of a replacement Social Security card, so I headed over to the SSA's website to find the hours of operation for the nearest office. Instead, I found the hours of operation for the web page that tells me the office hours. Yes, you read that right. The hours of operation... for the web page.

This still blows my mind every single time I see it.

Not being one to shy away from leaving constructive feedback, I decided to bring the problem to somebody's attention. Although being that I'm contacting the same people who thought it was a good idea to put office hours on a website in the first place, I'm not expecting much in the way of results. But nevertheless, here's what I wrote (click the image to enlarge):

I had to edit out four different swear words before it got to this stage.

After I wrote that, I thought it might be a little too snarky to submit. After all, the recipient of my snark is likely to be a person who already has the misfortune of working in Washington, DC (oy!) for the federal government (double oy!) in a little cubicle (triple oy!), and tasked with reading and responding to people's complaints all day long (mother effing balls oy!). So I decided to tone it down a bit, and ended up submitting this:


Maybe still a little bitchier than it needs to be, but it is what it is. We'll see what happens. Maybe it'll go to a committee for discussion, and then to a task force, then back to another committee, then submitted for vote, then conditionally voted down, then rewritten and log rolled into a bill about consumer privacy protections and passed, then passed on to another task force who will resolve the problem by spending $1.3M to construct a facility to house all of the federal government's secure servers in one central location, which, in order to reduce cost to the taxpayer, will only be operational Monday through Friday, between the hours of 5:00 AM and 10:00 PM EST.

June 4, 2009

sweet effing eff!

Sweet merciful crap, this is amazing.




Part of me is really excited for this, but the more rational part of me knows it's only a matter of time before Milo becomes self aware, and we all know what happens after that. Also, the prospect of children growing up with A.I. friends is more than a little off-putting.

Those concerns aside, though, this is probably the most bad ass thing I've seen since the new Rambo movie came out last year... and that was the most bad ass thing since James K. Polk.

What do you think? Is Milo as bad ass as James K. Polk?

January 16, 2008

all the news, 98.88% shorter

So MacWorld was today, and nerds and geeks all around the world tuned in to their favorite streaming video purveyors to catch Steve Jobs' 90 minute keynote speech. For the benefit of those of us who would rather not sit through an hour and a half of Jobs Jabber(TM), the folks at Mahalo.com made the following video:

The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote in 60 Seconds


So what will you do with the remaining 89 minutes? I've got a few suggestions for you ;-)

January 10, 2008

geekfitti


Every so often, the stars align and create something that delights the geek, artist, and stick-it-to-the-man-iness in me. The geekfiti movement is one of those very somethings. It also satisfies my considerateness of other people's property, because geekfitti artists tend to do their work in non-permanent mediums. So they're bad ass, but not jerks.

Check out all the goods in WebUrbanist's geekfitti gallery.

November 16, 2005

thefreakkingdom: Why is it that robots always become homicidal when they develop artificial intelligence?
thefreakkingdom: is that the benchmark for real intelligence? The desire to kill?
CalebJDuck: lol
CalebJDuck: apparently
thefreakkingdom: except Short Circuit
CalebJDuck: yes, but i'd be hard pressed to argue that he was really all that intelligent
thefreakkingdom: He did laugh at Steve Guttenberg, after all
CalebJDuck: haha, indeed
CalebJDuck: i rest my case

November 5, 2005

TomDixon22: I heard that John Kerry was using Friendster...that's the first time I heard of networking sites
TomDixon22: so I specifically didn't sign up
CalebJDuck: haha
CalebJDuck: that's like when Belding started wearing a Buddy Band