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So, I’m in the Apple Store last weekend, and I’m being rung up at the back counter (Genius Bar, I guess). Here’s the scene (each number represents an employee):

1                        2
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3                         Me

3 walks up to 1 and asks him something. He doesn’t know so he looks it up, and can’t find it, and asks 2 the same question. 2 takes a guess (”It runs on Mac and PC, I think”)…..

Me: What was the question?
2: What does the Universal symbol mean?
Me, to 2: It runs on Intel and PPCs.
2, aloud: He knows it…. say it again.
Me to 3,1, and customer: It means it runs on both Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs.
3: You should work here.

Little did they know….

Best iTunes username EVAR

On my new iPhone, I noticed that many podcasts episodes were missing the first words. It seems that the phone is trying to intelligently remove words that appear at the beginning of multiple episodes to conserve screen space used. Makes sense on TWiT:

But no so much on Best Week Ever:

I called PF Changs at about 5:15 to make a reservation for 6pm:

PFC: I’m sorry, but we need 2 hours notice. however, just come in and we’ll try to get you seated as soon as possible.

Wow, I’m so glad that PF Chang’s has stepped up and incorporated this new and novel concept in restaurant management.

There’s a quote from The Office that cracks me up everytime I think about and I just have to share it here, because it’s too long to fit as an AIM status message.

“Avoid hiring unlucky people. Throw half of the CVs you get into the bin”

[If you google part of the phrase, you'll get a bunch of hits that show it in a list of advice for various people, so I'm not sure who first said it.]

Why is it so frustrating just ordering something at sandwich a or donut joint? I had this brief exchange today:

Me: #6. [omelette on a croissant with coffee]
DD employee #1:
Me: #6….exactly as it is.
DD employee #2: any coffee?

If I order a #6, I shouldn’t have to explain anything except the size and contents of my coffee (not the existence of said coffee) plus . Same with Subways/Blimpies… some executive chef at Subway headquarters put together these menu items with a certain set of ingredients. When I order one, I am trusting their judgement, and the employee should trust mine that the sandwich is what I want. All the extra ingredients are right in front of me behind glass- I know they’re there and available to me if I want them!

On a more amusing note, DD had an employee whose name is both religious and patriotic: Jesusa

At my old job, we used to jokingly make up obvious-sounding solutions for customer issues. for instance, if someone says they couldn’t double-tap a field, we would ask each other if perhaps they had DoubleTapDisableHack installed….or we would say we left CrashWindows set to “true”.

::flashback ends::

Earlier today I had discovered that my profile manager on my 8525 was setting the volume to 100% duringa phone calls. I changed this to “Leave unchanged” so that the volume is not affected when switching to this profile. Shortly after, I remarked to a former co-worker via IM:

2:56:05 PM joshforman: mental to do list: find out why my phone vibrates when a call connects

At dinner I was flipping thru the prefs when I discovered this entry:

Vibrate when outgoing call is connected

I OMGLOLWTF’ed.

The day before I embarked on another uncling voyage to Virginia, my dad told me Weird Al was going to be in Atlantic City (Showboat House of Blues) that night, so I got a ticket and went down to see him.
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Jeez, these email scam guys don’t even try anymore:

To securely confirm your Amazon information please click on the link bellow:

http://nat.key-ware.com.tw/index.html

OK, enough about my ankle.
I bought my first item off Woot the other day: a SanDisk Sansa e140 (refurb) for $30. I had planned to use it with Rhapsody. Shortly after submitting my order, I started to doubt the intelligence of it. I fired up rhapsody to ensure this (most likely old) device would work with the latest Rhapsody; it seemed that it would but I couldn’t add it to the app. That turned out to be insignificant since I could just plug-n-play when I got it.

So I got it, it works fine, but then I realized that I could’ve spent the same amount of money to upgrade PocketTunes and use my Palm instead.

Worst case scenario, I paid $30 for 1GB of removal storage, a pair of headphones, am FM radio….and something that plays Audible and Rhapsody tracks on occasion.