Europe is a country ... and they speak french there.

This has to be fake... There's no way.

Top knotch service...

There's a few credit cards I hardly ever use so I don't even carry them with me. I decided today to redeem any points and close them...

I call the service center and they ask me for the account number. The conversation went something like this -

alex: I don't have it with me ...
rep: let's see I can pull it up with your social, can I get your social security number?
alex: yeah, it's ###-##-####
rep: ok, I'll be right back..
(20 seconds later)
rep: alright mr talarico - can I get the last four of your social to verify your account?
alex: uh... ####
rep: thanks, how can I help you today?

... so, as you can see they have great security measures in place at compass bank as well.

awkward car back-up camera system

Imagine how flat out awkward and confusing it would be if you were backing up your car one morning when all of a sudden you see a young mother kissing her baby as illustrated above...
what were they thinking!? *

* My best guess is the graphic designer in charge of the box didn't bother reading and figured this was going to be a digital camera..

No Passengers Allowed in the Turbine. Thank you.

Is this warning really necessary?

Windows at the Wynn

Windows errors are following me around...

I walked up to an information booth at the Wynn. I touch the screen and get greeted by a script runtime error.

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.