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October 29, 2008 · Filed Under General · Comment

Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.

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October 28, 2008 · Filed Under General · Comment

Hack Attack: Control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse

by Adam PashYou don't need a hardware switch to share one keyboard and mouse amongst several different computers All you

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Srsly? WTF!

October 27, 2008 · Filed Under General · Comment

My wife and I try to eat out once a week, sort of as a date. We have a regular restaurant we eat at. More or less local, we go a lot, they know us, never had a bad meal there.
It’s Monday so it’s not open.
So we decide to go to the local pub bistro. We’ve been before, it’s pub food, but it’s OK.
Specials board is interesting. There’s a chicken dish, stuffed with avocado and prawns. Sounds OK.
Wife goes to order. 2 of them please. Chips/Veggies or Chips/Salad was the question. One with A one with B.
$25.00 for the specials mind you. At a pub. Aaaanyway.
Meals come. One chicken thing. One spicy sausage thing. Uhhh…
“Whatever,” I say “just leave it.”
I don’t like to send things back to the kitchen. Especially in this case, it wasn’t the kitchens fault, the fat man stabbing the buttons for the order got it wrong.
It starts to get at me tho, this pissy little chicken thing, wet (not moist mind you, *wet*) vegetables and chips.
So I start complaining. “How fucking hard is it to get a multiple of the same item? I mean really. 2 x product A. Stupid fat guy mashing his hand on the console. You go out for a meal, and you expect what you order. Not a shitty little stub of chicken and some sausage things.” etc, etc, etc.
A few moments later, a waitress comes over. “He’s really sorry, he must have pushed the wrong button for the order. He wants to know would you like some free desserts?”
… What.
The.
Fuck.
Why do some eating establishments think that when they fuck up your initial food order, they can make it better by bringing you more food?
HOW CAN I TRUST YOU NOT TO BRING A FUCKING DUCK FLAMBE INSTEAD OF A FUCKING SUNDAE?
… I think to myself, and just say “No, just… No.”
So I choke down dry chicken, wet veggies (pumpkin and zucchini for the record. That’s it.) and some of Wife’s spicy sausage thing, finish the beer and leave.