The city of cambridge is pretty strict about enforcing parking violations outside my building. Its not uncommon for me to see two or three cars with parking tickets on my way to work. The most amazing thing I’ve ever seen was after watching an officer ticket a car (5 minutes before the parking limits expire [...]
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Parking Violation
Posted by slayton on August 9, 2010
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/parking-violation/
Too much control!
After having spent time in Mexico, Utah, and on Cape Cod I finally came home from the best summer vacation, the only problem is that I came home sunday night alone. My wife is going to continue with her vaca marathon. This means that I have 2-3 weeks by myself with no one to tell me [...]
Posted by slayton on July 27, 2010
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/too-much-control/
Tech Support
I came across a infographic/webcomic today entitled “Why its better to pretend you don’t know anything about computers” by the oatmeal. It really made me laugh. Here is a little peice of it.
Posted by slayton on May 20, 2010
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/tech-support/
As seen on TV in Nigeria
A while back I emailed a friend asking if he and his wife would like to babysit for us. I sent this email: How would you guys like 2 round trip all expenses paid tickets to our home on saturday night for an exciting night of baby sitting? Now I know what you’re thinking right now [...]
Posted by slayton on May 7, 2010
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/as-seen-on-tv-in-nigeria/
Two April 1st Gems
Here are two youtube gems that have become quite popular on the internet lately. Today for April fools youtube has introduced “Text Mode”. Click on the box right next to the volume control (usually shows up as 360p) and select TEXTp. I guess the new text mode might also explain the recent Vowel Outage that [...]
Posted by slayton on April 1, 2010
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/two-april-1st-gems/
Day light savings fun
Tonight daylight savings time goes into affect. At 2 am wherever you are the clock jumps magically one hour forward to 3 am. It used to be that people had to change the clocks by hand either before they went to bed or after they woke up. I always prefered to make the change when [...]
Posted by slayton on March 14, 2010
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/day-light-savings-fun/