Rocket Silence

It’s rare that I’m ever extraordinarily pleased with customer service, but this afternoon, I was. While there are a few online stores that I frequent and am quite satisfied with such as Amazon (Prime!), Newegg and Apple; very few actually surprise me like Backcountry.com did. As usual with almost everything I ever order, I missed [...]

Oh, on second thought, don’t allow. I opened the mapping application and clicked the locate button because I actually wanted to be asked if I want to allow this application to know where I am. Yes, thanks. Apple recently mocked Windows Vista’s UAC security implementation, but the quirks of the new location-based are adding a [...]

Reddit users are in a tizzy because of a redesign is, arguably, not as streamlined as before. Also, it seems to fail miserably in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. The first argument can be remedied by going to Preferences, then checking the “compress link display” option. The second, well – you probably shouldn’t still be [...]

Seems like a better time than any to update on what is new. Final have come and gone, grade posting had finished (with mixed results, but that’s another story) and the new quarter at the university begins in six short days.
.. Returned home for Spring Break, have been engaging in a whole lot of nothing. [...]

From South Park — S12E01 “Tonsil Trouble”…
Kyle: “What part of being infected with a deadly disease do you find funny?”
Cartman: “I don’t think it’s funny.”
Kyle: “Then stop saying you’re not just sure, you’re HIV-positive.This isn’t funny, AIDS isn’t funny, dying isn’t funny, so shut the **** up.”
Cartman: “Well, excuse me Kyle for trying to keep [...]