aptera to toyota: all your base are belong to us

I recently read that aptera is taking preorders for their new electric cars... if you never heard of an aptera car it's cause there arent any yet :)

This car looks beyond futuristic, it looks plain odd. The company expects to have it out on the streets by the end of 2008.

They range in price from 26k to 30k.. that's about the price of a prius and this ride gets you up to 300 miles per gallon, or two hours on electric only models. wow.

I just wanted to get the word out since most people I know probably never heard of this upcoming car company..

while we're at it...

I wonder what happened here..



1) I was running a lot of things at once
2) I opened internet explorer
3) I hit the maximize button
4) I stare at a black screen and this insanely over-sized window bar..

I haven't posted in a while so I figured I'd take a screenshot and take 5 minutes off to rant about some of the weird "added features" windows vista offers on slower machines..

error on error action

This is awesome ... classic microsoft error handling,
courtesy of LiveMeeting reporting tools.

daunting realization

... this morning I hear the sound of the office lady filling up her candy bowl with m&m's ... she has a big bag, in fact a whole drawer full of candy. But she selectively puts it out in small rations..

...and then it hit me: she is feeding her coworkers as you would pigeons in the park.

Nieve en Buenos Aires (Snow in Buenos Aires)

Cuando escuche las noticias no lo pude creer... asi amanecio Puerto Madero hoy 9 de Julio, justo el dia de la independencia nacional!




No nevaba en Buenos Aires desde el año 1918! ... Lastima que me lo fui a perder, pero al menos gracias al internet pude llegar a verlo de lejos.

the boarding pass experiment

Flying on southwest implies open seating.. to gain some control of the passengers, southwest assigns "groups" based on the time you checked in - Groups A, B, and C.

Typically I'm running late and always end up in Group C ... this translates to being stuck in the middle of two stank large individuals, not having overhead bins to put my luggage in, among other such unpleasant experiences...

So I thought I'd try something new.

The pictures illustrate my maneuver - just remember: lay low and time it right. When the ticket agent is looking down is a perfect chance to blend into Group C and start boarding.

Bon voyage!

Are you serious?...

"An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface" ... wow.

I've worked a lot with MOSS (SharePoint 2007 Server) the past few months and... a routine task gave me this error. I had to screenshot it and post it. This one was just.. special. No doubt.

How secure is your Wells Fargo account?

I accidentally typed my password wrong when trying to access my account on wellsfargo.com ...and still got through..

I logged out and typed my password incorrectly on purpose just to make sure, and it worked.. I was in...

Apparently I discovered that Wells Fargo ignores what you type on the password field after there is a match... So if my password was "secret" and I typed "secret4u" i still get authenticated and get access to my account!!! Try it out for yourselves and have a laugh.. Then get worried some... then call/email and complain.. then switch banks.

office violence clip

guy on right supposedly throwing paperclips.. likely staged but pretty funny to see :)

yesterday was horrible.

..so April 27th 2007 is going down as one of the worst days I've had in a while

• Spent the whole day dealing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 bugs - incredibly hideous bugs.
  
• I brought food from home, and out of all Fridays, yesterday they cleaned out the fridge early. The food I got up early to prepare, along with the tupperware it was in - thrown out.
  
• Long drive down to Tucson, dealing with traffic and construction detours on the freeway... icing on the cake.
  

Now, I just realized I posted nothing productive - just a whiny complaint - so i'll stop.
Anyway, on a positive note I can always email Richard Simmons* for help and guidance..

*User takes all risk and responsibility for opening the link. Link may contain one of the creepiest videos ever recorded. May cause irreversible brain damage.