Archive for March, 2009
Eleven hours in the tin can, there’s got to be a better way
1 Comment Published by Eric March 28th, 2009 in TravelAnd that was just from SFO to Tokyo. Add another four from Tokyo to Guam, and one more from Guam to Saipan. Plus about eight hours waiting in airports, an hour and a half of ground transportation, etc., and it works out to about four hours of sleep in a 50 hour stretch. I’m no [...]
Ink jet printing, the suboptimal way
2 Comments Published by Eric March 27th, 2009 in Computing, The Suboptimal WayNaturally when I desperately need to print my travel itinerary for a flight tomorrow, and a contract that I need to mail, and it’s well after any stores that might have the right ink cartridge for my printer, is exactly when the printer “decides” that the ink cartridge is “empty”.
I use quotation marks for “decides” [...]
Suboptimal Management at National Semiconductor
0 Comments Published by Eric March 20th, 2009 in Blog/website/news comments, Hardware, The Suboptimal WayThey’ve gone completely insane! They’re laying off Bob Pease!
“… a disaster of biblical proportions… real wrath of God type stuff… Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”
— Ghostbusters
textnook, n. – a cozy place with books. origin – typographical error for textbook