Saturday, February 21, 2009

Wall street fighter....

Classic, lol

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Don't know what to get that craaaaaaazy friend of yours?

Get them the toy that really screams "Yes, you are going insane!"

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Baby chaos - time lapse of baby making a mess...

His pattern closely resembles the algorithm a roomba follows =)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Batman get's pwned

"Throw the batterang DAMMIT"!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Quick tip: better ebay search strings...

Just a quick tip on how to help you navigate the crap on ebay.

Build up a single search string by using ebay's paran...parenthe...parenthesis? Parenthesis =) And separate each item with a comma.

For instance, say you are looking for new headlights for your Infiniti car.



The search string "2008 2009 infiniti head light" might miss out on certain results.

First, you want either 2008 OR 2009, not both:
"(2008,2009) infiniti head light"

They could be typing the years differently:
"(08,09,2008,2009) infiniti head light"

They could have made the common misspelling of the car name:
"(08,09,2008,2009) (infiniti,infinity) head light" (alternatively, you could use infinit*)

And head light could be spelled several ways:
"(08,09,2008,2009) (infiniti,infinity) (head light,head lights,head lamp,head lamps,headlamp,headlamps,headlight,headlights)"

Say you don't want all these crappy tinted ones, and you don't want blue ones...use the minus key:
"(08,09,2008,2009) (infiniti,infinity) (head light,head lights,head lamp,head lamps,headlamp,headlamps,headlight,headlights) -(smoked,smoke,tint,tinted,film) -(blue,neon)"

This particular example took us from 7 search results that didn't find what we want, to 90 search results...and those 90 were mostly what we wanted.

These search strings are also particularly useful for those emailed results. Saves you time having to sift through all that, um, "stuff".

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Bird strike on passenger plane with engine flame out...

How bad is losing one engine due to a bird strike?

Large bird gets sucked into this planes starboard engine causing a flameout (and loss of engine). It happens right at takeoff, yet does not impact the planes ability to continue climbing. Obviously losing both is a different story, but still interesting to see how losing one affects (or doesn't) the plane.