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Comment on 'Geek TV Shows' by Garrett

2007-10-08T19:22:48Z

The two big ones I know of right now are “Chuck” and “Big Bang Theory”. I watched about 2 minutes of Big Bang Theory and dismissed it as just being one great big running nerd stereotype gag.

I kind of like Chuck. The main character seems kind of likable and not too over the top. The premise for the show and the storylines are fairly absurd, but they don’t seem to try to pretend to be anything else, so it works for me. Kind of like Get Smart.

I’ve never seen Ugly Betty and probably never will. Other than that, those articles seem to talk about shows having a geeky stereotype character for comic relief, which I think has been fairly common for a long time anyway.

Comment on 'Doorstep Spam' by Garrett

2007-09-27T20:28:51Z

I do occasionally use phone books, as it seems like a lot of businesses around Logan don’t always show up with internet searches, and sometimes I don’t want to have to walk all the way upstairs to find out Domino’s number. Still, I think at last count I’ve gotten at least three already this year to go with the 5 or so we already had, and none of the numbers I look up have ever changed. I left one in the driveway and drove over it quite a few times because I thought it was some trash the neighbor kids left out. I see no reason they should spam the things out as often as they do. Oh well, at least I can practice the “tear the phone book in half” trick until I’ve got it down.

Comment on 'I'm tired of "solutions"' by Garrett

2007-09-27T19:38:49Z

Well, I actually work for a “Solutions”, which is kind of in the company title as a buzzword. However, it kind of does describe what we do pretty well. We don’t really have a product that we sell a lot of, what generally happens is some big company comes to us and says “we’d like to automate vehicles in such and such a scenario” and we say, “OK, we can do this and this and this to do that”. So, we work on a contract basis, companies come to us with problems, we solve them for them.

Its not super profitable, and something we’d like to move away from at some point and become more product oriented, but that’s where we are right now.

Comment on 'The PING Project Proposal' by gabriel gunderson

2007-09-27T05:04:11Z

Fine, but I’ll come out with PONG

PONG: Ping Ownz No Gnu

Comment on 'I'm tired of "solutions"' by Richard

2007-09-26T22:45:23Z

Solution also makes me think of math. Solution seems like just a buzz word to make people feel warm and fuzzy that HP is going to solve their problems with their fix-all solution. When I’m searching for a fix to a problem I use the word fix more often than anything.

Comment on 'I'm tired of "solutions"' by Willie

2007-09-26T19:14:31Z

I actually search for the word problem more than I search for the word solution.

Comment on 'Doorstep Spam' by Tad

2007-09-26T02:24:29Z

I came across this video today.

Comment on 'Doorstep Spam' by Richard

2007-09-25T05:00:06Z

I have an extreme dislike of phone directories. I use the internet anymore for any lookups that I need. The last time I used a phone directory was as a stand for plants on the top of my high cupboards.

Comment on 'Doorstep Spam' by Tad

2007-09-25T01:33:29Z

I did some more checking and it may be possible to opt out of getting some phone books. The phone number for Dex is:

1-877-243-8339

I called, but their “offices are currently closed”. I’ll have to try back tomorrow.

Comment on 'Cyber Kyle and the United States Postal Service' by Richard

2007-09-21T18:04:44Z

Oh, that makes sense. I don’t like Direct Mail if it = junk mail.

Comment on 'Blog Style Feedback' by Willie

2007-09-21T16:58:03Z

I’ll give that feed a try and see how it works.

Comment on 'Blog Style Feedback' by Aaron

2007-09-21T16:23:54Z

It’s a bit flowery and red for my tastes. I’m a fan of dark rather than bright themes, but that’s just me.

Also, you should check out getting your blog on the Utah Open Source Planet (http://openclue.org). You’ll have more that 4 readers… :)

Comment on 'Cyber Kyle and the United States Postal Service' by Tad

2007-09-21T06:13:50Z

Just FYI, “Direct Mail” is what people in the biz like to call junk mail. It could easily be attributed to a graphic designer’s take, but marketing campaigns like this usually have a lot of eyes looking at things and levels of approval. I dug a little deeper, and the campaign was called “Outsmart the Office”. I think it was depicting the adversaries you were going up against if you wanted to do a mailing campaign.

Comment on 'Blog Style Feedback' by Tad

2007-09-21T05:54:21Z

Richard: Hmm, I was trying to go a little less “Web 2.0” with the old-school floral pattern.

Willie: does http://tadthorley.com/feed/comments.xml tickle your fancy? I should probably link that. I haven’t gotten comments before, so I hadn’t really thought about it.

Comment on 'Blog Style Feedback' by Willie

2007-09-21T01:00:22Z

I’m not much of a design person, so I can’t help you much there. However, this is one complaint I’ve always had with blogs: I want to see the new comments. If someone makes a comment on a posting that was made a week ago, I’m never going to see it. It’d be nice to sort by recent comments. It’d be extra nice if the RSS or Atom feeds incorporated that somehow as well. This is a general comment, not singling out yours in particular.