- What's the point of using digital displays for speed limit signs? There's a bunch on 90. Planning on having dynamic speed limits? #
- @hjo3 I hope this is more for drivers' safety and not another excuse for speeding tickets and increasing police revenue. in reply to hjo3 #
- @bartonjs Good to know. Thanks! 🙂 in reply to bartonjs #
- Don't forget to wish your dad Happy Father's Day. 🙂 #
- @rothgar Was it crazy delicious? ;p in reply to rothgar #
- Remember those hopping Chinese vampires (僵屍 jiang shi)? Here's an interesting read: http://bit.ly/jpwNd #
- @gootecks Not sure if you want to let your followers know, but BNG has SF4 (360) for $33 shipped: http://www.buynextgen.com/ #
- @netflix Is there a way to suggest what to add to Instant Watch? I just finished season 1 of Avatar and would love to stream season 2 and 3. #
- finished season 1 of Avatar: The Last Air Bender on Netflix Instant Watch (Liam's recommendation). Wish I could stream season 2 and 3. #
- Getting Homer Simpson's voice on my TomTom GPS just might be worth the $13: http://www.tomtom.com/page/simpsons #
- heard Cake – Short Skirt/Long Jacket on Pandora: http://bit.ly/cCz9K – Finally remembered I first heard this song on The Waitress. #
- @0xFCAF Haha. I just did that last night. Expanded from 3TB to 6TB after upgrading all my 500Gs to 1TBs. in reply to 0xFCAF #
- Well done, ThinkGeek, well done. http://bit.ly/985ZZ via @hungtruong #
- @hjo3 I would've thought it'd be rude to point it out. in reply to hjo3 #
- finally invested in an electric shaver. Doesn't give as close as a shave as a razor, but lazy people can't complain. #
- Unsure why I find this amusing: Translation from English into English is not supported. http://bit.ly/bp1BN Interesting: http://bit.ly/iflM6 #
- Love, the winning move: http://xkcd.com/601/ #
- This is a fantastic joke on a fantastic website: http://tr.im/pBVO (via @bpump) #
- personally a fan of @netflix, but you can get 3 month free trial @blockbuster: http://bit.ly/A32tv That's the whole summer! via @hdtrailers #
- when a Bro is with his Bros, he is not a vegetarian (via @brocode) #
- @ryandjohnson I use PrimoPDF. in reply to ryandjohnson #
- I wonder how "secret" those Secret Mission achievements are for 'Tales of Vesperia' if I've gotten 5 of them already… #
- I finally get to go home! The question now is to sleep or not to sleep. Good thing I have no early meetings. #
- Arggh, forgot to mail my Netflix DVD out today. That means instead of getting my next one on Saturday, I'll be getting it on Tuesday. #
- @ellism You don't need to enter the password to make calls, just to see your contact list. And the password can be your fingerprint. in reply to ellism #
- Yesterday at Qdoba, I realized I misplaced my "restaurant" credit card. Turns out I left it at Sushime on Tuesday. Glad it was still there. #
- needs a George Foreman grill to make my quesadillas. Pan frying them didn't work. #
- Xbox Live 12-Month Gold Subscription Card for $28 shipped: http://bit.ly/69SbN – Use Bing & get 8% cashback! (hint: search for wii) #
- @digadeesh I bought a Arcade Fightstick on eBay via Buy.com: http://bit.ly/Ze3Ri With Bing cashback & PayPal coupon, final cost: $65.51 #
- It's just not fair! Why is the PS3 SF4 Arcade Fightstick $10 cheaper than the Xbox 360 version? #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21
- Today's shirt.woot! is so cute! The Early Bird: http://bit.ly/fPyLI #
- Just got back from my sister's graduation. Just wanted to congratulate her once again. Looks like I got sun burnt. #
- @rothgar Haha, the exciting part of being a geek. Some things just can't wait till tomorrow :p in reply to rothgar #
- @bpump Ooooh, which ones did you get? in reply to bpump #
- @bpump Neat! in reply to bpump #
- Qdoba fans, earn double points on Mondays now through Labor Day: http://bit.ly/dsOmu #
- Grrr. Paypal now charges fees for "commercial transactions" on personal accounts incl. payments for goods/services paid by non-credit cards. #
- @ryandjohnson I wonder if I can get Project Wonderful (ads provider) to pay me with that option. in reply to ryandjohnson #
- @pandora_radio The Pandora Vista Gadget is complaining that it requires Flash version 9,0,115,0 or greater, but I have 10,0,22,87 installed. #
- @pandora_radio Never mind, reading the FAQ informed me that I need to run the 32-bit version of Windows Sidebar. #
- @pandora_radio Vista gadget plays automatic at startup is annoying. Having to login everytime is annoying too. Can't it just start "paused"? #
- RT @hdtrailers: Daniel Craig & Christian Bale in Metal Gear Solid movie? http://bit.ly/8WSaf More info via @screenrant: http://bit.ly/bvqxL #
- When I was small, I thought those painful patches inside my mouth were named after a dinosaur. Then I realized it was called "canker sores". #
- Southwest Airlines Celebrates Its 38th Birthday With $38 Fares today til 7pm PCT: http://bit.ly/Noj2S #
- Another video by @CommonCraft. Twitter search in plain English. http://bit.ly/2v97D via @yyoyoma #
- Neat! In Win7, win+g brings the gadgets to the front. Now I need to find a new shortcut for Bugger. #
- @ryandjohnson Derek's not sitting in an Aeron chair! in reply to ryandjohnson #
- @ellism Vista? *whistles* in reply to ellism #
- DEADLINE post-it stop motion: http://bit.ly/2MYvya
(Neat stop motion video using post-its) # - Gobelins – Annecy 2009 has 5 beautiful short animations: http://bit.ly/11YAEt via @hdtrailers Pure eye-gasm as someone commented. #
- Newegg has 10% off all internal, external, and laptop hard drives again: http://bit.ly/xiBcC – Coupon code: EMCHDD10A #
- @hungtruong Firefox icon for 3.5? or an update to 3.0? in reply to hungtruong #
- I really digg 學警狙擊 (Emergency Unit)'s theme song – 黑白變奏 (hak baak bin zau): http://bit.ly/Bh7qi Full HQ: http://bit.ly/J6MQR #
- @hungtruong Your bit.ly link is malformed. Missing a : in reply to hungtruong #
- @delconte Try Firefox 3.5 yet? in reply to delconte #
- w00t! Costco finally restocked their gelato supply! http://yfrog.com/18mwcj #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14
- @ralphlee I sent you a link to this trailer on Apple about a month ago: http://twitter.com/krunk4ever/status/1771044126 in reply to ralphlee #
- Birds start chirping at 4am in the morning. The trick to sleep with your windows opened is to go to bed after 7am, when they've stopped. #
- is watching new Hong Kong TVB series: 學警狙擊(Emergency Unit) http://drama.tvb.com/emergencyunit/ #
- Twitter should have a feature that can block someone for the next 'x' hrs or ignore new tweets that are within 'y' mins of the previous one. #
- Free 1-year subscription to Popular Science magazine: http://bit.ly/arvgZ #
- Green Day Coming To Rock Band: http://bit.ly/4kR9op #
- picked up Iron Maiden's 'Fear of the Dark' and 'Run to the Hills' for Rock Band: http://bit.ly/13XKgw #
- @rothgar I have it on my Xbox 360. in reply to rothgar #
- Check your credit report card @CreditKarma: http://bit.ly/Zhupk Surprised more accounts = higher score: http://twitpic.com/6zzh2 #
- Haha! It looks like they brought Comix Zone to XBLA: http://bit.ly/qHLJS I remember playing it back during jr school: http://bit.ly/2cmaD #
- started playing Tales of Vesperia. It's so pretty! Always a fan of the Tales series. The battle sequences are much more enjoyable than FF*. #
- 未来/未來 (J:mirai M:wei lai C:mei loi) – future. Literal translation: Not arrived; Yet to arrive #
- When the year changed, I'd always write the incorrect year on my homework. I have a similar problem after moving from the 5th to 4th floor. #
- packing for my trip back to LA tomorrow. Congrats to my lil sis for graduating! #
- RT: @gootecks: lol #sf4 / financial crisis mashups http://bit.ly/oY3TN (Wall Street Fighter IV) #
- @ryandjohnson Eons ago, I used zoneedit: http://www.zoneedit.com/ in reply to ryandjohnson #
- ♪ I wear my sunglasses at night ♪ #
- is a proud owner and still on my 1st Xbox 360 since June '06 (3 years) – did I just jinxed myself? #
- Major fail for Virgin America today. Story at 6. #
Major Fail for Virgin America Today
My first experience with Virgin America has been riddled with problems (Flight VX796 – SEA to LAX). I can’t really blame them since these were technical difficulties. The plane that was suppose to fly in from San Francisco had a hydrolic pump failure. My flight was supposed to leave at 8:55pm. I got there at 8:15pm, only to find that it had been delayed to 11:30pm. Unsure if I read the time correctly, I went up to their counter and confirmed that there was indeed a problem and it was then they told me that there was problem with the plane, but it was now leaving (at 8:25pm) and should arrive around 11pm.
I walked past the security check point and noticed that my new gate was now S8. Apparently SeaTac airport has a north and south terminal which aren’t connected to the main terminal and requires taking a train/subway to. I get to S8 and no one’s at the gate. I look at the big board again and now there’s no gate associated to my flight.
My only choice appears to return back to the main terminal. So I take the train/subway back and go to A6 (gate noted on my boarding pass). Apparently that’s where all the disgruntled customers have begun to gather. I went to the counter and asked for an update on the status and if was possible to move to a different flight. They told me they don’t have any more flights to LAX today and all their competitors’ flights are already full. The apologized again. They were however giving out meal vouchers ($10) which was a nice gesture.
At this point in time, another lady at the counter got off the phone with operations. Apparently the plane that was about to take off earlier was called back again for maintenance. The current take off time appeared to be ~9:45pm and our take off time was postponed to 12:20am.
Sigh… I get my meal voucher and ended up going to Star Bucks for a mocha frappaucino + chocolate chip loaf cake. I wasn’t really hungry + my mom was saving food for me at home.
I contemplated on paying $8 for wireless internet at SeaTac. In the end I decided it wasn’t worth it. It was a good thing that I had put Google in offline reading mode (via Google Gears) before I left work, so now I had all my RSS feeds which I hadn’t had time to read in the past few days to pass some time with.
However without an internet connection, the only things I really could read were news articles and text, since images/video/links won’t be able to load. It’d be nice if Google Reader would download all images too when it’s going into offline mode.
Anyway, I quickly ran out of things to read, and I started doodling on my Tablet. I haven’t installed any drawing programs since I installed Win7 RC, so Paint was my only option. I’ve got to say that the new Paint for Win7 is much superior to the XP version . Maybe Vista already has this, but I haven’t really ever tried it on Vista. The brush feature was definitely a nice add on. Here’s a few of the doodles I did:
One feedback I have for MS Paint is that if I use my eraser (back end of tablet pen), it should switch to erasing automatically.
While I in the middle of doodling, there was another announcement with “good” news and “bad” news. Of course they gave the good news first and told us they had acquired another plane. The bad news was it was just landing in SF and but would take off as soon as possible. The new expected departure time was once again pushed back, this time to 12:50am. I started to feel really bad for my parents who were going to come pick me up. Initially I was supposed to arrive around 11:30pm. Now I’m arriving about 3:30am.
Some time later, there was another announcement. Apparently we’d be compensated. I believe it was a $50 credit for a future flight and details would be sent to us at a later date. A much better gesture than the $10 meal voucher, but still doesn’t make the experience much better.
The plane finally arrives and we board around 1:00am and we soon take off. Upon boarding the plane, it was like a dance club, with neon purple lighting. Pretty cool atmosphere. I love their safety video and found it to be very fun. I wonder why Jet Blue doesn’t use their LCDs to show their safety presentation. Or do they? I forget.
I’ve been playing with their Red (interactive system). TV selection is pretty limited. I believe Jet Blue had more TV channels. They do have premium TV and movie channels, which cost $8. I started browsing their music selection and was surprised they had a Mandarin Pop station, a Cantonese Pop station, and a Japanese Pop station. Wonder why they didn’t have a Korean Pop station.
Besides a free drink, everything else on board costs money. Apparently there’s no snack provided. Jet Blue beats them in this aspect. I love Jet Blue’s selection of snacks to choose from. They also have on-board wifi access, however to access it would cost $10.
The plane finally landed at 3:40am and reached the gate at 3:45am. However, we would be stuck on the plane for another 20 minutes. Apparently the jet bridge was malfunctioning and they couldn’t get it to attach to the plane door. They soon announced that it was a “serious” issue and were contemplating plan B which involved searching for another gate to park (hopefully one with a working jet bridge). Soon they announced plan C which was to bring one of those giant stairs and have people walk down. At this point, people started saying, “Just deploy the slides and we’ll slide the !@#$ down.”
Somehow, they managed to get the jet bridge to finally start working again and we get off the plane a little past 4am. I finally exited the terminal and met my parents.
This whole ordeal was a nightmare which took over 7 hours to complete.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07
- In GITS, why do they still use fingers to type when they can hook directly into the computer? They even spawn 100s of fingers to type faster #
- @pfrigerio Thanks for linking to my blog! 🙂 in reply to pfrigerio #
- Looks like a recent update to CentOS (recently installed 6 months worth of updates) fixed my SAMBA disconnecting issue. #
- The 1st 15 minutes of ‘Up’ was so sweet! Highly recommend this movie! 🙂 http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/up/ #
- http://bit.ly/ALMwH this is some clever shit — IR camera for depth perception. xbox 360 motion control via @nite_moogle @ralphlee #
- @ryandjohnson I think you missed a verb between “decided” and “all their biz accounts”. in reply to ryandjohnson #
- Shouldn’t blood vessels be called blood canals? I don’t see my blood pipes as ships. #
- Detective Conan manhole! http://bit.ly/AUxZV – Source: http://bit.ly/AJ1tw #
- Have you tried renewing your WA vehicle tabs online recently? They should be asking mail/pick up before choosing location to avoid $4 fee. #
- 4 hard drives down. 2 to go. Then I can grow my file server from 2.5TB to 5TB (RAID5) #
- What if online maps were like Sim City? Edushi! Hong Kong: http://bit.ly/IfLTp Beijing: http://bit.ly/hfZHR Shanghai: http://bit.ly/11zWMS #
- picked up my last 2 HDs (Western Digital Green 1TB) for $160: http://bit.ly/VywDN – Don’t forget 2.5% cash back at Bing: http://bit.ly/OOH7J #
- @bpump Or behind a window office with air condition 🙂 in reply to bpump #
- @ralphlee What happened to the 1st 2 copies? in reply to ralphlee #
- Mug-of-Chino: http://bit.ly/NnRd2
/ Bear Spray: http://bit.ly/EFTVF # - Apparently Johnny Lee (WiiMote hacker) is working on Project Natal: http://bit.ly/9sPXk Head Tracking + Destkop VR? http://bit.ly/n5J7h #
- is tempted to get another Dell UltraSharp 24″ LCD: http://bit.ly/18lLWn #
- Need to consolidate your student loans? Wait till after 7/1 for interest rates dropping to historic lows: http://bit.ly/4709j #
- The weather finally cooled off. Wheeeeeeee! #
- 5 SATA cables for $1.90 shipped @meritline: http://bit.ly/wwPzs #
- @bpump Did you see his Eminem stunt that happened during the MTV Movie Awards? in reply to bpump #
- Speedtest.net: 25Mb/s down / 3Mb/s up: http://www.speedtest.net/result/490283523.png #
- Found a Cantonese Romanization tool online: http://bit.ly/1avDj2 Did you know the ‘琴’ in 琴日(kam jat – yesterday) uses the kanji for piano? #