April 28th, 2003

April 28, 2003 on 9:32 pm | In Modern Technology

From an article I read today: On 10 billboards, mostly in California, Alaris Media Network, a Sacramento-based company, has installed “smart signs.” Although they have the dimensions of traditional billboards, they are electronic and therefore able to change their advertising according to who is driving by. The signs are equipped with sensors that can tap into the radio stations that drivers are listening to as they pass. The company then determines the most popular radio station for certain blocks of time. From the radio stations, Alaris learns the demographics of the stations’ listeners, then relays that information to marketers, who can place their ads on the Alaris billboard at the most appropriate hour.

Now that’s creepy.

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    Yahoo!

    April 27, 2003 on 4:38 pm | In Funny Internet Things

    Do you think a company like Yahoo! regrets putting a punctuation mark at the end of its name? How, do you feel about this, Yahoo!? Don’t you, Yahoo!, find it stylistically annoying from time to time? In quotation marks, your name could look like, say, “Yahoo!”, for crying out loud.

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    Bubbles

    April 25, 2003 on 11:52 pm | In Food

    After my surgery today, I asked for a Coke to soothe my throat, since they had rudely shoved some pipe down my throat just so I could “breathe” or something. The male nurse gave me water, and advised me that Coke was bad for me. “You know how they get the bubbles in there?” he asked. “Carbon dioxide,” he answered before I could reply.

    “Really??!!!” I thought. And here I thought they had a full time staff whose job it was to blow bubbles furiously into each can before sealing the lid.

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    Somebody’s Body

    April 24, 2003 on 5:01 am | In Life Updates, News

    This happened three minutes away from our apartment. Right along my commute. Which took three times longer than usual.

    We gotta move.

    Fortunately, we’re planning on it.

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    Finally.

    April 20, 2003 on 7:11 pm | In Lauren, Life Updates

    After a loooooooooooooong hiatus, I make a completely unfunny but still triumphant return in this week’s Style Invitational, as an honorable mention.

    Lauren and I are going to a few open houses today. Buying a house in LA is fun, if by “fun” you mean “insanely expensive.” If you need someone to housesit your mansion for a few years, we’re available mid-August.

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    Phoney

    April 19, 2003 on 4:45 am | In Modern Technology, Movies

    To make the phone ring in my apartment, put on a DVD.

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    Safury

    April 16, 2003 on 5:31 am | In Modern Technology

    Comments here and elsewhere blame third-party apps like Safari Enhancer for the rendering problems with the new release.

    Problem is, I don’t use them.

    Turns out, the problem seems to have been related to the fact that I had multiple copies of Safari in my Applications folder. Don’t know why that confused things — well, I sorta do — but it did.

    Trashing my com.apple.Safari.plist file cleared things up early this am.

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    Safooey.

    April 15, 2003 on 3:57 am | In Modern Technology

    I was as excited as everyone else with the latest and greatest Safari beta from Apple. So can someone please tell me what the hell is wrong with it?

    Is this LASIK gone horribly awry, or something else?

    See: Safari doing this site
    Safari doing programmer Dave Hyatt’s site
    and Safari doing another random blog.

    What gives? If it helps anyone, when you copy the extra-large text, it does show up in a super big font in the pasting application.

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    Like, Every Monday?

    April 14, 2003 on 5:22 am | In Work

    So, you’re supposed to go to work  e v e r y  Monday right? Not just when you feel like it?

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    You know what would be funny/weird/etc?

    April 11, 2003 on 3:39 am | In Work

    It would be funny/weird/etc if I, uh, quit my job at the, uh, web hosting company that… er… hosts this site.

    Because then, um, when I landed a, uh, new job, that was way better with a better work environment, better management, better location, better business model, and — oh yeah — way better salary… Well, it would be kinda, you know, weird to brag about it here.

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