Week ending Sunday 2010/04/25
Monday 12:26
Reboots w-cl28-g34-c to Linux 2.6.32-21-generic: ubuntu update [Original.]
Monday 12:51
goes cross-eyed taking a Garmin Edge GPS apart to try and fix design #FAIL busted SMT power switch [Original.]
Monday 13:39
Waits on hold for Garmin technical support staff... and waits... and waits... flic.kr/p/7UC3vA [Original.]
Monday 13:57
20 minutes on hold 3 minutes of chat. $186 to fix out-of-warranty busted power switch. Yeow! #nicelittleearner #Garmin [Original.]
Monday 15:22
finds a friend of a friend with soldering skilz and saves himself $185. #garmin #Edge705 #win [Original.]
Monday 19:47
@enyap_ynot but just like a shaft-drive m/c the tradeoff is in the powerloss in the drive train, and when _you_ are the engine, you notice! [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]
Tuesday 09:46
bridge to engine room; "more coffee now" [Original.]
Tuesday 10:08
Give me a bicycle over Melbourne's trains any day. Train to Clayton? no thanks. www.heraldsun.com.au/news/man-stabbed-in-station-car-park/story-e6frf7jo-1225855789215 [Original.]
Tuesday 13:12
@SBSNews Eyjafjallajokull = EY-ya-FYAH-la-HYUR-kull [Original, responding to @SBSNews.]
Tuesday 20:07
goat news "Three people have been taken to hospital after they were attacked by a "marauding" goat in Melbourne's east" ttp://bit.ly/9DKVxN [Original.]
Tuesday 21:40
evening visit to the supermarket; screaming drunk yobs outside the pub, strung out druggie in the railway underpass. #oakleigh #3166 [Original.]
Tuesday 22:27
rain at last! All that thunderstorm stuff finally stopped flashing and thundering and got down to business. #melbourne #weather [Original.]
Wednesday 09:01
#MonashUni P-plate asian drivers, learn road laws and do not overtake right-turning vehicles at 70 in a 50 zone around corners! #PHUKWHIT [Original.]
Wednesday 11:09
Is having trouble getting an essential point across [Original.]
Wednesday 14:43
one month in, #MFCF childcare has twigged that carpark entrance next to roundabout on high-traffic road with poor visibility "non-optimal" [Original.]
Wednesday 14:44
(de-typoed): #MCFC childcare has twigged that carpark entrance next to roundabout on high-traffic road with poor visibility "non-optimal" [Original.]
Wednesday 17:10
lodges support call with vendor asking for email NOT phone contact. Gets phone call at 5pm. "surprised we're not in USA." #support #FAIL [Original.]
Thursday 11:36
Buried in #bureaucracy; "Release Process" mandated by upper management vs "XYZ SOE May release" mandated by upper management. [Original.]
Thursday 12:34
Odd. Aussie media anglicises Giro d'Italia as "Tour of Italy" yet displays all other bike race names in their original language [Original.]
Thursday 12:55
cow-orker is talking endlessly. Will not #STFU. /me walks out of office, cow-orker continues yabbering. SILENCE FOOL [Original.]
Thursday 14:12
I liked a YouTube video -- Festo AirPenguin youtu.be/jPGgl5VH5go?a [Original.]
Thursday 14:12
I favorited a YouTube video -- Festo AirPenguin youtu.be/jPGgl5VH5go?a [Original.]
Thursday 18:37
smells a kitchen-full of coriander [Original.]
Thursday 20:54
#QOTD: "CCTV was considered a waste of money unless we particularly wanted to collected videos of youths in dark clothes and ski masks" [Original.]
Friday 09:04
receives card from AustraliaPost "final reminder". Is it the parcel they lost in February? Is it the parcel they can't find? #AUSPOST #FAIL [Original.]
Friday 10:48
FFS! #Novell support website decides to display everything in Spanish while saying "US english" at the top. maybe "US English *is* Spanish [Original.]
Friday 17:17
took too long to decide to go home and will now get comprehensively wet [Original.]