Video of the 2008 CrossFit Championship, currently linked from the main page of crossfit.com. Lots of CFES regulars appear in this video, including Kassidy and me.
For the record, I placed dead last in my class. Nowhere to go but up, eh? Thanks to CF Seattle for all the fun. See you next year.
Some silly Seattle customers expected that the pumps at local Shell stations would dispense actual gas. Imagine their surprise when, instead, they got tankfuls of watery sludge and their cars broke down. Oh, what a hoot!
Thankfully, a senior executive from Royal Dutch Shell immediately arranged for each customer’s vehicle to be towed to a service center where rental cars were waiting. All repairs were paid for entirely by Shell and each customer was given a $100 gas card for their trouble.
Right, and then Santa Claus flew out of my ass.
Of course, what really happened was that each customer was forced to handle all this crap entirely on their own. They are actually being made to get multiple estimates and submit them to Shell for reimbursement. Yes, that’s right, they have to foot the up-front cost themselves, which in at least one case was $2000. Some of them have been without any means of transport since the incident.
Apparently something like 10 customers were affected before the stations realized the error, and it seems like they’ve all been on TV. Our local news stations are all over this thing. I’m vicariously incensed for those poor schmucks.
You might think that a company which made a profit of $23.7 billion dollars last year could spent a few thousand to avoid a PR disaster in one of america’s largest cities. Guess not.
I’ll be avoiding Shell stations from now on, both out of solidarity and fear.
I really like Firefox 3’s AwesomeBar. That is all.
HTTP defines the 301 Moved Permanently response. Does this work for feeds? I think it should. Often I’ll see a post to the effect of, “we’re moving here, update your RSS readers now.”
I’m lazy. I’d like my RSS reader to do this automatically for me.
Amazing. Speal pulls a 2:05 Fran. This is a world record by 10+ seconds.
The End of Architecture
Burton Smith, Tera Computer Company
17th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture
Seattle, Washington
May 29, 1990
(Thanks, Wendy!)
Although I live a mere 5 miles from work, and drive a 4 cylinder car, I’ve decided to start riding the bus. I don’t like paying $50 for a tank of gas. The stuff is simply not worth that much to me. I am apparently not alone.
Anyone with a Microsoft badge (including non-employees like me) can get a free FlexPass courtesy of the company.† This was a major factor in my decision.
Last week I rode the bus 4 times. It was clean, fairly punctual, and essentially empty at the times I rode it. I used Google Map’s Public Transit feature to plan my trip, which generally includes a 10 minute walk.
†This is exceedingly cool. Thank you, Microsoft. I will try to remember this next time I’m about to bash Vista.
I got to play with a Microsoft Surface yesterday. It was pretty neat. Unfortunately, it did not have Warcraft III on it.
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