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Meet a Terrible Robot

Posted by mike 30 Jun 2009

Sarah – PayPal :
Hello, I’m Sarah and I’m here to answer your questions about PayPal. Even though I’d like to be a real person, I’m not. I’m programmed to answer your questions. How can I help you?

You :
Why are you so creepy? Seriously, you’d like to be a real person? Who thought that was a good idea?

Sarah – PayPal :
Even though I’d like to be a real person, I’m not. I’m programmed to help you with basic customer care issues.

You :
You’re avoiding the question. Why did someone think a poorly rendered cartoon would “like to be a real person?”

Sarah – PayPal :
Sorry, but your phrase is too long and I will not be able to perform a full analysis. I would be very grateful if you could try to make it a bit shorter and more concise.

You :
Ok, why did anyone at paypal think you were a good idea?

Sarah – PayPal :
If there’s anything else you’d like to ask me, I’m here 24-7 to answer any questions you might have.

You :
Do you know what “abomination” means?

Sarah – PayPal :
I’m not sure what you are saying. Could you please rephrase your question?

You :
No.

Sarah – PayPal :
Ok.

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fritter quest 09

Posted by tripp 25 Jun 2009

It is close to an end.

Earlier this week, I went, for some unknown reason, mad for an apple fritter. I know they are death — the quality of the food, the combination of it all — I know. And yet, I couldn’t stop thinking about having one.

The little stand at the CalTrain station in Mountain View sells them in the morning. But I resisted. On Monday. On Tuesday. Except on Tuesday, I made Lauren walk with me from Starbucks to Panero Bread to Safeway to Specialities before going into the office — just for an apple fritter.

None of them had one.

Yesterday I once again resisted at the train station. I was determined to find something a little better. Or destroy the craving.

And then, this morning, after turning the train stand down again, after looking in Safeway “just out of curiosity,” I go to write in Starbucks. And damn if they don’t have a roll line of them staring at me.

Crap.

I might have to give in today. I’d say I could wait until tomorrow, but why bother?

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Parenting: Sounds good to me

Posted by ray 24 Jun 2009

After swimming today, Reed’s in the shower next to mine, humming.

I love that.

It’s one of those things that let you know a child has a song in his heart.

It is also one of those things that makes you wonder where, as an adult, your song has gone. I think I need to start listening closer.

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snapshot

Posted by tripp 23 Jun 2009

Things that I’m grooving on:
tea, old Sasha and Digweed mixes (Renaissance 3, especially), silly emails, snappy answers to stupid questions (not literally, but more in the whole “please stop talking” realm), BSG, hot weather, lists, getting rid of things, good food (prepared by not me) and reading.

Man. That seems like a boring list. Maybe I am getting old.

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feed

Posted by tripp 22 Jun 2009

sorry about confusion last week with the feed for the site. i don’t know what happened — it seemed to go bonkers after the wordpress 2.8 update.

i hacked around and things should be back to normal now. let me know if you are still seeing truncated entries in the feed. (of course, if you are, you might not be able to read this so….)

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The God Ol’ Days (Now Spellcheck Free!)

Posted by mike

Just so you don’t think of me as a career-obsessed, shameless self-promoter, I thought I’d put up some links to of a few of my non-profit posts that I only wrote to entertain, from back in the olden days when I used humor to hide my insecurities, instead of insecurity (also, I wish somebody would explain irony to me).

1. Check your local listings
2. It’s sad the degree to which I’m proud of this one
3. No woman will ever say any of these things to anyone reading this
4. I submit: still useful

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mac software for file management?

Posted by tripp

random, yes. but does anyone know of any good mac software for file organization?

i’ve got zillions of files and would love to find a quick way to get them sorted. in my head, an interface like itunes would rock: i define a handful of tags for a file or group of files and it put them in the right places based on that criteria. ideally, i am viewing the files as a flat group — like itunes, where the path is just another metadata item, rather than having to dig through each folder to find files.

i can’t find anything of the sort. there are 100 billion tagging programs for the mac, but none that will move files based the tags. and i can’t find anything like i described above. in fact, i can’t find anything that even claims to help with file organization.

any of you ever seen anything like this?

UPDATE: digging around more (and installing some demos), it looks like leap does what i want/need. sadly, it’s 60 bucks, which is about twice what i’d like to pay for this functionality. i’ll have to play with the demo more to make sure its worth that much money before shelling out. (thought you can pay another 10 bucks and get yep as well — if i had enough pdfs to really matter.)

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