Had dinner at Tallent the other day. It was really good and the staff is very helpful and friendly.
Tiny Salad
Risotto
April, 2008:
Skype: weird audio tours of the globe
I just installed Skype so I could call my cell phone and try to find it.
Wandered around Skypecasts for shits and giggles and joined a couple calls.
I got a call back from someone in one of the calls. He was from Pakistan.
Things were really cool for a while.
I tried to ask him about USA politics to see if he had heard of the US primaries.
He hadn’t, so I turned the subject to Musharif.
Dude I was talking to did NOT like Musharif.. as much as most US residents do NOT like Bush.
He did, in fact, equates them to each other.
The conversation then seemed to descend into a quest to get money or products from me, but I will admit Iit could simply have been a bad translation moment.
As far as I know, he really is a 19yo kid who lives on a farm in Pakistan.
Here is a link he sent me
Skype is weird.
A good day
So today was the first day I took my work laptop outside and it is just a sad state of affairs.
Why do are all laptops (sans OLPC) so horrible in direct sunlight?
At this point in time, should we not have better screens?
I got around some of the problems by making my mouse pointer super annoying.
Mouse trails and giant cursors both helped a bunch, but after a while I had to cower in the shade.
There needs to be a simple filter/glasses combination that works around the problems.
How common are crazy plane landings?
There was a video on YouTube recently of another commercial flight with insane crosswinds landing successfully.
How common are landings like this? Are they far more common than one might think and the sheer number of cameras in the world are just now showing us these incidents?
These pilots are great. They need to get special pay for saving such a friggin’ crazy landing.
And here is a Hong Kong flight that I saw on Dvorak’s blog.