Help Wanted, Carpenter

My wife was driving down a highway in Pennsylvania and looking out the window I saw a scene before me that made me say out loud, “Oh, that’s just not right.” I instructed my wife to make the next available U-Turn and pull onto the shoulder. I needed a photo.

Makes me wonder what happened to the last one they had.

There before us was a sign that said ‘Help Wanted’ ‘Lead Carpenter’. And, behind it, a set of three crosses, one that belonged to a carpenter. Either way you look at it, that something happened to their last one, or that the need make more crosses, that’s most likely not the best location for this particular help wanted sign.

Pages: 16 Exabytes

Pages just asked OS X for 16 Exabytes. Got a clue just how large that is?

So I decided to make some business cards using Pages, however after adding a few tiny JPGs, I started getting the spinning beach ball — you know the one, the one you’re never supposed to get in OS X.

So, I decided to open Activity Monitor to see what was up.

Pages had allocated 16 Exabytes of memory. My computer has 6 Gig.

Remember, it goes from Megabytes, to Gigabytes (1,000Meg), to Terabytes (1,000Gig), to Petabytes (1,000 TB), to Exabytes (1,000 PB).

16 Exabytes

Nixon Never Looked So Cool

You know how TGI Friday’s has all that junk nailed up to the wall?

Well, while we were eating, we happened to notice some kid had long dropped his sun glasses on the floor. Rather than have them thrown out by staff, I social engineered our waiter to put them on Nixon.

Let’s see how long before someone notices.

Nixon Wearing Sunglasses

Out of room? Use a bucket.

Ok, if you had stuff you needed to haul, would you put it in a bucket hanging from the back of your truck?

So, I’m driving down Waxpool in Ashburn, VA on my way to work, and there’s a truck in front of me with a huge spool of wire on the back.

What’s more curious to me is the way the tools were being transported. Someone had tied a bucket to a rope and put their tools in it hanging off the back of the truck.

This can’t be safe. Well, I guess if there’s no room on the passenger side…