Size Matters, Part 10
[shared via Google Reader from Funny & Stupid Customer Stories - Not Always Right]
(Retail | Dublin, Ireland)
(I work at a small counter in my store that sells the company’s own brand condoms. A female customer comes to the condom counter with a complaint. I’m busy with a customer, so my coworker steps in.)
Customer: “I want to return these!”
Coworker: “What seems to be the problem?”
Customer: “My husband says they’re too small and they won’t fit him!”
(My coworker is a very unabashed flamboyant man. He proceeds to take a condom out of the packet, open it, unroll it and pull it over his hand and right up to his elbow, all while the customer watches in stony silence.)
Coworker: “If that doesn’t fit your husband, can I have his number?”
Customer: *leaves silently, taking the box with her*
Related:
Size Matters, Part 9
Size Matters, Part 8
Size Matters, Part 7
Size Matters, Part 6
Size Matters, Part 5
Size Matters, Part 4
Size Matters, Part 3
Size Matters, Part 2
Size Matters
Self Disservice
[shared via Google Reader from Funny & Stupid Customer Stories - Not Always Right]
(Retail | Arizona, USA)
(I am a customer heading for the bathroom at a store. A woman storms out of the lady’s room. It looks like she’s trying hard to keep her hands in the air and not touch anything as she marches up to an employee.)
Customer: “Do you know how long I’ve been waiting in there!? Why hasn’t anyone come in?”
Employee: “I’m sorry?”
Customer: “The sign in there says ‘Employees must wash hands’! I’ve been waiting in there for fifteen minutes for someone to wash my hands!”
Why I Pirate - An Open Letter To Content Creators - Insight Community | Step2 - Success Models →
A long read, but worth it.
How to Prevent YouTube from Keeping a Record of The Videos You Watch [How To]
[shared via Google Reader from Lifehacker]
When you’re logged into Google or YouTube, a record of all the videos you searched for and watch is logged in your account. You can clear those logs, but up until now you couldn’t disable the logging altogether. Here, finally, is how to keep YouTube from recording your video searches and the videos you watch.
The Ghacks blog, via its reader Odio, points out you can now go to this settings page on YouTube to get to the new options. There are actually two settings to change:
- First, click on “Pause search history” which will disable the video search logging
- Then, in the menu on the left, click “History” and then the button at the top, “Pause viewing history” to disable the recording of the videos you view on YouTube
If ever you want to go back to having a log of the videos you’ve watched or searched for on YouTube back, you can click the resume buttons.
[via Ghacks]
I don’t give a damn about this camera, but I think it offers an interesting glimpse at the market. That is: consumers are looking at the wrong specs. Traditionally in this segment it was all about megapixels, but now it seems to be all about: optical zoom and Wi-Fi (this particular camera does not have Wi-Fi but it was a trend at CES). Both are horrible features to care about, let alone to base a decision on.
Looking at the Wrong Specs — The Brooks Review
A thousand times this. I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve told people that saying a camera is “16 times zoom” is meaningless.
dns - Hotmail sending email to A record not MX records - Server Fault →
Well played hotmail, well played. Not, wait, I don’t mean that. I mean “Hotmail, you are a bunch of fail”
> So Tim, what is it that you do?
> You know in Formula One, you have engineers in the pits who change the car’s tires, put fuel in it, fix things, give the driver advice and generally make the car go faster?
> Yeah, of course.
> Well, I do that, but for websites!
Hello, I’m Tim and I have a job no one understands. « Tim Dobson
I’m totally stealing that Formula 1 quote ;-)
Finally, let’s go ahead and use Chef to bring up a CFEngine client, which will be turned into a Puppet server.
CFEngine Puppet and Chef Part 1 - A Fistful of Servers
Yo Dawg, I heard you like config management…
If I end up needing to do a ton more typing in college than I do now,” Annette said, “I might get a wireless keyboard.” “Maybe.
Post-PC era, indeed – Wind on a Leaf
I have to admit, I’m thinking along the same lines. An ipad and wireless keyboard would probably do 99.9% of my computering needs. Well, an ipad, a wireless keyboard, and a remote server that I can ssh onto.
