In case you were wondering what would happen if a Godzilla movie were filmed as an extremely long business meeting, Shin Godzilla answers that question.
Author: nalter
news in Pidgin
You can now get your news in West African Pidgin. Here’s a sample.
How to torture an eBayer
We’ve been trying out selling things on eBay recently. Just spent over an hour sorting real Legos from fake ones. I can’t see tiny things anymore. We recently attempted to count a K’Nex set with over 1000 pieces and finally gave up on that one and just sold it as a lot.
parameterized queries
Is there a way to turn off Waze Superhero mode?
Hey Waze, maybe merging into heavy traffic and then expecting me to make an immediate left across several lanes isn’t very realistic? Is there a way to turn off superhero mode?
Required terms in Google searches
If you’re searching for something at Google and you only want to see search results that include a certain word, you can put that word in quotes. For example, if you want to search for trees but only want to see search results with the word “willow” on the page, search for
trees “willow”.
(Google apparently got rid of the + sign syntax where you used to be able to say +willow.)
Marking calls as spam
My favorite thing about Google Voice is marking phone calls as spam. “Hi! This is Elizabeth from Resort Rewards Center and you recently…” [click] [Mark as spam] Of course, they somehow have 50 local numbers, but it feels like I’m contributing to something.
We saw this terrifying football paraphernalia store
Grassburger
We ate at Grassburger this weekend. It’s a hoity toity burger place in northeast Albuquerque. The burger was good enough…we’d probably go back. They have some kinda homemade special sauce that they put on them. They have regular or sweet potato fries. Their soda fountain has some brand I’d never heard of, which was interesting. The cola was good.