Are you out of space in your house or apartment and need a small office close by?
This is seriously cool. Officepod is an actual company in the UK that provides an office pod to those who need it. For a price, of course.
Check out these pictures.
10 Plot Holes You May Have Missed
I saw this post this morning and pretty much agree with all of them.
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – This is a problem in the book as well, but it’s in the movie so it counts. Barty Crouch, Jr., disguised as Mad-Eye Moody, arranges for the Triwizard Cup to be a portkey to take Harry to the graveyard in Little Hangleton so that he can be used to bring Voldemort back to life and then killed. He’s in the guise of a teacher at the school, so he had any number of opportunities to make a portkey out of, well, pretty much anything that he could be sure Harry would touch — Harry’s schoolbooks, his shoes, whatever. It’s been argued that Voldemort wanted to keep his existence a secret and make it look like Harry perished during the task, but really, having Harry just disappear without a trace wouldn’t be any more suspicious. And, incidentally, why did he make the cup a two-way portkey? It’s been established that most portkeys are one-use, one-way only. Why not make this portkey one of those, so that Harry had no way to escape?
The Harry Potter one is definitely “spot on.”
How Many Floppies For…
Very cool post about how many 3.5″ floppy disks it would take to install modern programs.
Basically, it’s slamming how poorly coding is done these days; rightfully so. Ask Steve Gibson. He’ll tell you all about it.
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Similarly, many office thermostats are dummies, designed to give workers the illusion of control. “You just get tired of dealing with them and you screw in a cheap thermostat,” said Illinois HVAC specialist Richard Dawson. “Guess what? They quit calling you.”
Go over and read the article. It’s short but funny.
Hmmm
I woke up this morning thinking that this was some big kind of day.
I shook my head and then it came to me.
I’ve got Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pop Tarts!
Rock on.
RIP: Oracle Octopus
(Reuters) – Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany’s soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.
Looks like they’re going to need a new one of them.
Full story here.
Pontiac is Dead
True story.
The last car was built about a year ago but the contract between GM and the Pontiac Dealerships ends today officially killing the company.
Read more here.
Happy Halloween
Basically derived from a Celtic holiday used to commemorate the end of summer and welcome the “dark” half of the year.
The witches, goblins, etc. is just extra crap thrown in for good measure and used to piss off the folks who see the devil in everything. It usually works too.
May the Celtic festival of Samhain be a happy one.
Goodbye summer. You bitch.
