Monday, October 26, 2009
Please Wait
Just got off a chat with AT&T support. I'm amazed at how many different ways they can say wait:
- Please wait for a chat agent to respond.
- All chat agents are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. A chat agent will be with you shortly.
- I am currently working to research your concern. Please hold and I will be right back with you within 2 to 3 minutes.
- Your patience is appreciated. I will be with you shortly.
- I am still in the process of checking the information. Therefore; please allow me some more time.
- I appreciate your patience. I am collecting the required information for you.
- I apologize for the delay; I will be right back with you.
- I am still working to research your concern. Please hold and I will be right back with you within 2 to 3 minutes.
- Thank you for your patience.
- Sure, please allow me a moment to get the information for you.
- Please allow me a moment while I am checking relevant information for you.
- If you’ll give me a moment, I will look that up for you.
- I really appreciate you for allowing me few moments to check the required information for you.
- Please allow me a moment. I am searching for appropriate information for you.
- Thank you for your patience. I'll be right back with you in a moment.
- Please allow me few more moments as I am currently searching the information.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Animator vs. Animation
A fun animation of the user interface that really rebels . . .
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
On Raising Kids
And then some humor on our home renovation project:
And then of course, using a computer to do any of this is simply foolhardy:
Friday, April 28, 2006
Quarter Million
Believe it or not, my 1988 Ford Escort clicked over past 250,000 miles today! Wow.
Watch the odometer click over!
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Home Computer
The future is here! From a 1954 Popular Mechanics article . . 
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Libraries Useful?
I went to our county library yesterday with the kids, the main library, with the good selection. Two things really bother me about a library:
- The selection is so limited. When you get used to finding anything available on the internet, it's discouraging to find a single shelf with books by a prolific author, missing the key ones I want.
- Even if the library has the book, it is likely checked out if at all popular, which means waiting for weeks/months before it's available.
I suppose with book reserves and inter-library loans this kind of this could be accomplished; it just needs an easy Netflix-style interface for finding/getting the materials. And, much work needs to be done in grouping similar styles and book series (which one comes next?)
Sunday, December 26, 2004
Usefulness of computers
From Sherman's Lagoon on December 26th,
Oh, and another good one on the nature of teenagers, from Zits on the same day:
