David Gessel
A week of tweets: 2010-04-18
- Tosh.0 is so very wrong I feel debased by every snorking laugh. But I can almost rationalize it as job-relevant research. #
- New ual comforters are pretty deluxe. Off to iad today, night at carolyn’s apt then DCA-YYZ at 0600, carolyn’s creative sol to late flgihts #
- Basically took a taxi from IAD to DCA with 2 horizontal hours and a shower on the way. #
- Excellent weather in canada, warmer and dryer than SF. Back there for a night, then LA. #
- First a bad hydraulic pump, now bad air conditioning. I just want my 12 hours at home this week! Need clean socks… #
- OMG. A woman complain hot air was blowing on her. Turned our plane around and now will deboard for tests. Seatmate and I: “man up, lady.” #
- Ugh. United 153 STILL on decision due to ac problem. Missed DCA flt by minutes, they couldn’t get ord-iad-dca-ord-lax… Dang #
- New rental: infinity M35, thanks Hertz! But no usb port for audio? What is this, 2005? #
- Twitter home page fail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcqO8oXJMk odd that it was stuck on one tweet. It seems fixed now. #
- LAX is dead due to icland’s volcano. It’s Tops tonight. #
- Crazy lady wanted boarding pass. She is on list, will get on flt, has to wait turn as list processed. This unacceptable. UAL win: PAX fail. #
- Excellent hamburger in a 1935 diner, watching a vintage street car go by, a good end to a busy week. #
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Multi-Lingual Graffiti
The “Vulva” theme has faded, this is a thought-provoking replacement.
Wierd widescreen
My UAL flight had 4:3 side screens and a 16:9 center screen. The program material was 4:3 and dynamically distorted to fit the 16:9 screen.
Now I’m used to 16:9 screens showing horribly distorted video in hotel rooms; it seems every hotel has invested in wide screen TVs but, hey, broadcast is 4:3. So they’re fixed at “stretch” and only occasionally do you find a TV that you can reset to pillar box so it doesn’t look horrible. And I thought that was bad.
But this is amazing – the screen has a variable distortion field – stretch is zero in the center, but becomes more pronounced on the edges. That means that the necessary compensation is worse than 2:1 on the outside edges, just horribly distorted, while the center is undistorted. I suppose the theory was an analog of fovial vision… gone awry, but the result is just weird, disturbing when someone walks across the screen and seems to get twice as fat from center to edge. Who thought that was a good idea?
People: do not distort the image. Just because you paid for the pixels does not mean you must use them.
Air Canada Takes a Step Back In Time
Back to the mid 1990s before airlines realized that giving free wifi in their clubs would encourage people to become members and that they’d make more money on the membership fees than on screwing people for access charges. Besides, most of us have WWAN cards now.
$9.95 for 10 minutes of access before my flight. Sorry, no. Even if the WWAN roaming is more expensive, it is a matter of principal.
My nuts are cold
UAL Triple 7, three class plane, cross country flight (SFO-IAD): about as far as you can fly CONUS to CONUS, and I can’t get my nuts warmed?
I’d trade the puffy comforter for warm nuts any day.
A week of tweets: 2010-04-11
- United FA union on strike at SFO: apparently 7 years without a contract. #
- Thanks Hertz, for the fx35. Like the Gen2 NeverLost. Phone bonds easily, but “my car” is an odd I’d for a r #
- The cybersecurity act does suck. srsly But not the commentator… #
- Best easter egg hunt ever! http://www.flickr.com/photos/26639011@N06/4503641430/in/photostream/ #
- Looking forward to Its Tops in about two hours. @Semb? #
- Yum. California PIG, jack, med rare, o-rings. Anchor steam. #
- Oh no! Kotobuki on Piedmont Moved! Been going 15 yrs. #
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A week of tweets: 2010-04-04
- Toyota avalon? Hertz LA doesn’t love me anymore… #
- Home again. Time for It’s Tops. It has been far too long. #
- Voted best burger in SF: california PIG, medium rare, jack, onion rings, anchor steam. #
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Santa Monica Sunset
The view from my hotel room balcony. Pretty sunset tonight, too bad rain is coming in: late in the season for it.
A week of tweets: 2010-03-28
- Hertz: I don’t get the flex thing. #uglycar #
- New coffee presentation at lax rcc. Stylin. #
- There is no gravity, the internet just sucks. #
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A week of tweets: 2010-03-21
- Synergy is the coolest thing ever /http://is.gd/aFfAn Share a single keyboard/mouse with as many computers as you want. Copy buffer too! #
- Why do people think windows is reliable enough for embeded applications? #
- My car says “taxation without representation.” #
- #tackfilm: http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1268952372712RA24 #
- I totally forgot about google buzz. I just noticed the icon in my gmail. Funny how these things come and go. And is anyone still waving? #
- 25 min to go: faster train, faster! #
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