The weirdest drive-thrus. Including a church, prayer booth, strip club and funeral parlor. Give me convenience or give me death, I say!
Technical support… for automobiles.
What if people bought cars like they buy computers? The roads would be a hell of a lot scarier, for one thing.
Not so SMART, apparently.
Massive Google hard drive survey yields interesting information. Apparently the SMART self-reporting system fails as often as it works in predicting hard drive failure, leading to many instances of drives failing without any warning. This is just one of many findings in this very interesting survey.
And you think your commute is bad?
Mad intersection in St. Petersburg, Russia. A webcam captures a surprisingly large number of accidents at an intersection which apparently doesn’t have any lights or stop signs (!).
Personally I would put ‘not being the parent of a serial killer’ at the top.
Life-long anti-goals. Things you do NOT want to achieve in life.
Mood: Frozen (brrrr!)
Weather here in Montreal is roughly -20c with high winds. Basically it feels like about -40 degrees (c OR f). What better day for a bus to be 30 minutes late than this morning? Especially when a light dusting of snow yesterday caused the bus to take over 1 hour to cover the 5 km (~3 miles) between the office and the subway station.
This is fucking ridiculous. If you don’t have a car, don’t take a job in Montreal’s Techno-Parc. In winter you’ll freeze your balls off. Or die of boredom in traffic. Or both.
Nothing says “I wish I had finished college” better than a whimpering face covered in the semen of twelve men.
Awkward adventures at the porno store. Sordid and often funny tales of a porn shop clerk somewhere in the USA.
Bad: parts of Vista make your PC slower, less reliable and less secure. Worse: you can’t turn them off.
DRM in Windows Vista. You know, it’s actually getting quite difficult to find anyone who recommends switching to Vista and who isn’t also either a)working for Microsoft or b)just plain yanking your chain.
How to mess with the Japanese, in Japan.
Fun ways to fuck with Japanese people’s heads, by Chad the evil gaijin!
An interesting issue with Rails
Ruby on Rails (or RoR) is a framework that prides itself on being really easy to get started with, and it is… to an extent. Here’s the message I got when I had finished installing it and tried to access it…
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
Not a particularly useful error message. You have to dig through application logs and decipher the issue yourself. But the kicker is that this is the response to a basic permission error with the [project]/tmp directory created by the rails command, which I diagnosed and fixed. Still, shouldn’t RoR have been able to detect or maybe not cause the problem?