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Fake Hand Washers

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:17:48 +0000

Today, I heard someone in the restroom who was a fake hand washer. I was inside a stall so I didn’t witness everything with my eyes… just heard the goings-on outside the stall. This woman rushed out the stall, placed her hands under the automatic faucet just enough to activate a splash of water, noisily [...]

I am Mohinder Suresh; Heroes’ Creator Sorry About Second Season

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:38:02 +0000

Today I tried out a Facebook application Which Hero Are You? to see which of the Heroes Heroes I would be. The quiz determined that I was Mohinder Suresh. I was shocked because he is one of my least favorite characters. There have been many times that I have gone WTF, what are you thinking [...]

Amazon should handle Sprint’s online store

Thu Tu Koelling — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:38:53 +0000

Last Friday, I ordered the Sprint Mogul from sprint.com, only because it’s not available in stores yet. It’s supposed to have overnight shipping. It’s Wednesday and the status of my order is: “The order is awaiting fulfillment.”

Tuesday morning, I put an order for a new DS game at amazon.com. I have Amazon Prime and [...]

Internet Explorer Horizontal Scrollbar Covers Last Line

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:12:24 +0000

Oh My Friggin Goodness. Internet Explorer makes me so mad.

Just to see how things looked in IE, I randomly checked a blog post that contained code, and one of the lines of code was obscured by a horizontal scrollbar! I compared the post in Firefox. It turned out the particular line of code was [...]

I Gotta Watch More R-rated Movies

Thu Tu Koelling — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:50:14 +0000

Prior to the past couple of months, I hadn’t gone to the movies for lack of quality movies to motivate me to go. By coincidence, the last three movies I went to see were family-friendly fare: Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and Shrek 3.

You know the drawback to family-friendly fare? Crying babies! [...]

Devil Makes Man Microwave Infant Daughter

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:42:00 +0000

from CNN: Woman: Blame devil for infant in microwave

Um, wow. A man puts his baby girl into a microwave for 10 to 20 seconds and his wife claims that the devil made him do it.

When I described myself as an atheist to someone, he called me a “devil worshiper.” My response was that [...]

Store Website Not the Place for Politics

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 13 May 2007 06:10:58 +0000

I want to get back into ballroom dancing, which I haven’t done for a while since I can’t find my dance shoes. I asked a friend where she bought hers. I did a search and found what seemed to be a match to the store name, which I vaguely recalled.

OMG, the site seems more [...]

Dormant Account Fee by Bank Is Teh Sux0rs

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:04:39 +0000

For a number of reasons, I ended up with four bank accounts: free ipod (that I gave to my brother), high interest rate, convenient location. One of the credit unions lost its luster when it no longer had competitive interest rates and was at an inconvenient city relative to my current locations for work and [...]

Disappointed with Amazon’s Handling of Super Paper Mario Pre-Order

Thu Tu Koelling — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:01:52 +0000

Last month, I was excited to find out that Super Paper Mario for the Wii was coming out on my birthday. I pre-ordered it from Amazon to ensure that I would get it as soon as it came out, without having to go to a store.

This pre-order has been plagued by delay after delay. [...]

Pet Peeve: Misuse/Abuse of lol

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:59:40 +0000

Maybe I’m cranky because of PMS, but it bugs me when people sprinkle the use of “lol” here and there in messages and forums. Don’t people realize that it stands for Laugh Out Loud? It irks me when it is used in contexts that don’t even warrant a smile or chuckle… but a laugh out [...]

My first comment spam

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:59:52 +0000

My reborn blog has been up for about a week and I already got comment spam. Word travels fast.

But I won’t get mad; I get glad… to report the sites of the spammers to Google’s spam report form.

Silly spammers: Your comments won’t see the light of day since I use comment moderation. [...]

the Religous Wrong

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:18:30 +0000

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/28/house.pledge.ap/index.html

A Democratic Congressman, Rep. Jim McDermott, omitted ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance and there was an uproar.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, accused McDermott of

“embarrassing the House and disparaging the majority of Americans who share the values expressed in the pledge.”

“He and those like him stand more for the liberal left [...]

down with slow pokes folks

Thu Tu Koelling — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:04:38 +0000

I was behind this annoyingly slow car a few days ago. At that speed, I noticed a bumper sticker:

Palo Alto Resident I drive safely.

Whatever! Driving safely doesn’t mean driving too slowly (10 mph below the speed limit).

I did a google search and found that it’s part of Palo Alto’s Pace Car program. [...]

Nit-picky Palo Alto

Thu Tu Koelling — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 04:41:13 +0000

Gifts to councilmen raise ethic’s questions

In this article, they raise ethics questions because Stanford gave free tickets to council members. The value of the tickets, however, were below the legal limit, $350.

Palo Alto is such an ungrateful city. I don’t know officially, but I have a feeling that it would be nothing without [...]

Petty Palo Altans

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:51:49 +0000

Bye Bye barriers – Residents protest removal of traffic barriers, take home pieces as souvenirsÂ

This story highlights how obnoxious and pathetic some Palo Alto residents are. First of all, some of these people want to barricade streets with barriers. It is so annoying how these people think they own everything. The streets belong to [...]