And now that it's not the 23rd any more the page has been updated to simply not display any estimated delivery date. Gee, can't even snarf the good one from the shipper?

On the 18th I placed an order. There's nothing particularly special about that. And I got an estimated delivery date of the 23rd, which is today. The item did not ship on the 18th. Or the 19th or 20th, which was no surprise being Saturday and Sunday. Nor the 21st. Nor the 22nd. Yet the delivery date kept appearing as the 23rd. And now I see this ( Read more... )

Poll Springing ahead and falling back

I went rummaging around the attic yesterday looking for something that as far as I can tell isn't up there. But I did find some other things, including the rabbit ears I was looking for a few months back, not that they'll do me any good anytime soon. I also found a couple old 'personal music players'. One was a cheapie GPX AM/FM radio and the ( Read more... )

Do you know what time it is? Are you sure? Will you know in a few hours? Are you sure?

One of the neater things seen at ROFLThing was a single slide (well, the modern digital equivalent of a slide). The slide shown on this page. Jason Scott summed things up quite well in a very simple Venn diagram. That, or something very much like it, is apt to become a journal icon.

I spend some time on a treadmill and watch TV to distract myself from the display that shows elapsed time, distance, and supposed calories burned (it also shows speed, incline, and pulse rate). Every once in a while I'd figure I didn't have much more to go and then, a bit later look again and see that I still hadn't reached the point I thought I ( Read more... )

I've noticed that many microwave instructions now call for a heating time of 1 minute 30 seconds. I think this is fairly recent thing (last few years) as I recall seeing instructions calling for a 90 second time. It's not any big deal, but it is a curious shift. Is 90 seconds now somehow nonstandard? Is it like an improper fraction, being over ( Read more... )

This is the night that for many in North America, Daylight Saving Time ends. Time for the clocks to "fall back" an hour.

Suppose you have a device that can display bits, or pixels. To make it simple each pixel can be only on or off, white or black, no grays and no color. If each pixel is a bit, the whole display can be represented, or is a representation of, one long binary number. If you make that number 0, display it, add one, display it, and keep adding one and ( Read more... )