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domingo, julio 10, 2005

Dumb disclaimers

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I am looking at this container of some ready-to-cook stir fry that I will eat leter on today after I do my daily exercise. The container has this disclaimer on it:

Exercise caution while handling container after microwaving, as contents will be hot

Well, wouldn't you know that. I mean, what do you think a microwave does? Cool things down? Oh yeah, after I put a cup of coffee in the micrwave, I expect to get iced coffee when I am done. Not.

It doesn't take a PhD in physics to figure out that a microwave heats things up. Like, makes things hot. We're not talking rocket science here.

I mean, when that food you've just cooked in the microwave is steaming, it's not because some DJ snuck a fog machine in to your microwave when you weren't looking. The food isn't steaming because a tropical rainforest snuck in to your dish while the microwave was running. A microwave doesn't summon DJs and doesn't convert American kitchens into Brazilian rain forests. A microwave makes food hot. Hot stuff can burn your hands. I don't think it gets much simpler than that.

Pretty soon, we will have to have disclaimers on cars with cruise control:

Warning: This cruise control only controls the speed the car is going, and does not drive the car for you. Please remain in the driver's seat and pay attention to road conditions after activating.

Anyway, off to do exercise.

19:00

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sábado, julio 09, 2005

Wow, the internet!

You know, for someone who has been on the internet for 12 years (One of the first people I sent emails to was Jill Stefani, talking about how her sister's band No Doubt would never go anywhere), and who made a small fortune working for internet companies, it still amazes me how universal the Internet has become.

I just did a search for people going to my college here; there are 3,345 current CSU students here with pages on myspace; that is nearly 19f the entire student body. In other words, when I am walking down the halls at school, one in five of the people I see in the halls has a page here. Wow!

When I told Gwen Stefani that the internet would become big, was I ever right.

It's nice for me since I have always been a computer programmer; I was writing video games when I was 10. This was before the Internet caught on (heck, it was before the modern TCP/IP Internet which became live on January 1, 1983); this was when computer geeks were, well, geeks. I moved away from computers for a while when I became an angst-ridden teenager; it was only when I discovered the internet that I rekindled my interest and computer skills.

Anyway, I dropped out of college to make a small fortune working for internet companies; when the economy slowed down, I went back to school to get my degree. My plan was to go to México for a year or two after graduating; however with prominent technology companies emailing me and telling me they want to hire me, it looks like I will be earning another small fortune...this wasn't my plan, but...

Anyway, it's great to be here and I'm slowly building up my list of friends.

- Sam

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