Archive for Misc
September 26, 2007 at 12:43 AM · Filed under Amusing, Misc
You’ve got to love it when television shows actually make a website in the real world that they mention in an episode. Take for example, HIMYM (How I Met Your Mother), the best sitcom on TV today, which featured the Slap Countdown web page in this season’s premier episode. Well, it’s real. You can see what Barney saw. Hehe.
If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, then I won’t spoil it for you. You’ll simply have to go back and watch episode #9 in Season 2 called “Slap Bet”, but if I were you, I’d just get the DVDs and watch all the episodes. They are legen …. wait for it … dary.
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September 23, 2007 at 10:50 PM · Filed under KJH News, Misc
Yes, yes, so once you stop chuckling after you thought to yourself “Yeah, we already knew that,” read on. I recently discovered that there is a disorder called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder (DSPS) where those who suffer from it have a chronic disorder with respect to the timing of their sleep patterns. Their internal clocks are set back so that they go to sleep late at night and wake up much later in the day.
After reading this, all of the major symptoms fit what I fight with every day. Even when I manage to get myself to bed early and get 8 hours of so of sleep, waking up early in the morning is still a struggle, not to mention getting through the day. But when I go to bed, I wake up normally after 9 hours and feel fine.
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September 13, 2007 at 3:13 PM · Filed under Cool, Internet, KJH News, Misc
Time for another plug for my side gig. This time, we’ve just stood up a Gizmos for Geeks version of Amazon.com’s extensive online department store. You can find it at Store.GizmosForGeeks.com.
In a nutshell, this is what’s called an affiliate site. Amazon.com was really the company that pioneered the whole affiliate marketing thing. Nowadays, you’d be hard-pressed to find any online vendor that does not have an affiliate program. Oh yeah, so what’s an affiliate? Anyone out there on the Net that gets accepted to a vendor’s affiliate program can stick up links that go to the vendor’s site. If anyone clicks on those links and then buys something, then the affiliate (like me) gets a % of that sale.
Amazon.com has an extensive set of Web Services that allow affiliate to build sites that pull back data from them in real time, so what you see on our site is what you would see if you were on Amazon performing the same browsing or searching.
You lose nothing, Amazon doesn’t lose much, as they’re quite willing to have their affiliates push even more traffic to them, and we earn income to keep our biz running. It’s a win-win-win situation. How great is that?
So next time you’re thinking Amazon, think GfG instead. Now go bookmark and get shopping. 
September 7, 2007 at 2:18 PM · Filed under Misc
I knew it! I just knew it. Researchers at several universities have done studies that show that waking up early to go to work or whatever may put you at risk for vascular disease. Not only that, a study done even earlier this year at my alma mater (UPenn) found pretty much the same thing. Who am I to argue with what my college profs say?!
July 25, 2007 at 1:49 AM · Filed under Internet, Misc
Either you already know how this works, or you’re going to say I’m crazy or that this was interesting and/or perhaps worth a chuckle. Reading the news recently, I came across the story on the giant squid that was found washed up on an Australian beach. For some reason, this led me to thinking about Octopi (and how they’re pretty intelligent), so I wandered over to Wikipedia to do some reading. I scanned the article, but somehow this external link at the bottom caught my eye “footage of an octopus eating a shark”. I had to jump over and see that! Here it is (pretty amazing video, although you should be forewarned that it’s very much one of those violent, raw wildlife scenes).
Anyway, you can see how easily you can get taken in and taken for a ‘ride’ by the Web, and that either I have ADD, or just a ridiculous wandering attention. I can’t even remember where I went after this. Probably watched a bunch of videos and then got sidetracked into wanting to learn something about some subject that popped up. Ah, if only I could stay up longer and not have to work…
July 17, 2007 at 8:33 PM · Filed under Cool, Misc
I had to blog about a very recent experience I had with Sunbeam, a popular consumer product company. I had purchased one of their products last year from a popular retailer, and the product worked great until 1 day when I plugged it in and it simply did not turn on. So I wandered over to the Sunbeam website and poked around looking for some clues or answers. (I hate sending in complaints/questions without looking for the answer first.) Anyway, not much on my particular product, so I sent in a customer service request simply asking if they had any ideas. I was totally ready to just accept that my particular device ran its course and I needed to just go out and buy another one; after all, it was only about $40, and I felt that I had $40 of use out of it.
As I mentioned, I was only looking to see if they had an ideas. I didn’t request a refund, an exchange or was even angry in my note. I would have been content if they had just responded and said “Sorry, we don’t know without taking a closer look at your broken product.” I was pleasantly surprised to get this response:
“I apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced. I have placed an order for a <product x> that you will receive within 2-3 weeks.”
Wow! Now that is first-class customer service. No questions, just a can-do, the customer-is-always-right attitude.
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July 12, 2007 at 1:52 AM · Filed under Misc
Traveling in the 21st century – what a pain in the ass, thanks to terrorists and government authorities who are either overzealous, clueless or knowingly trying to confuse the masses with the illusion of security. Airport security is a farce, and to add insult to injury, damn inconvenient to travelers as well. Yes I realize that there are many ‘experts’ on the subject who will say that I (and others) can’t possibly understand the situation or the measures in place without the appropriate background, but we have and can apply common sense to what we see, and what we see is a joke. It’s a joke that costs money in lost time and productivity as well as incredible frustration.
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