devinsblog » Useless http://devinsblog.com a tech journal Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:56:46 +0000 en hourly 1 Subway responds with worldwide cheese tessellation! http://devinsblog.com/2010/06/01/subway-responds-with-worldwide-cheese-tessellation/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/06/01/subway-responds-with-worldwide-cheese-tessellation/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:26:48 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1891 Due to the recent popularity of a submission to Left-Handed Toon’s, Subway has responded by saying that as of July 1st all of their cheese will be tessellated on their sandwiches, providing all Subway customers with “wonderful dairy coverage.”

The article by Left-Handed Toons was originally submitted by Josh on July 14th, 2007, but has recently been popular on the internet, prompting Subway to correct their unnecessary dairy overlap issue!

[Thanks to Jamey for the tip]

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]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/04/14/cheese-the-sub-way/feed/ 1 Happy Friday! Here are a couple funny videos I saw this week http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/05/happy-friday-here-are-a-couple-funny-videos-i-saw-this-week/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/05/happy-friday-here-are-a-couple-funny-videos-i-saw-this-week/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:17:02 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1815
I love the Intel commercials! Pretty funny, especially from an engineers standpoint. [thanks Teresa!]

Possibly NSFW! Drops an F bomb, but hey, so do people at work…

[Thanks Karim!]

]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/05/happy-friday-here-are-a-couple-funny-videos-i-saw-this-week/feed/ 1 How to deal with data loss http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/how-to-deal-with-data-loss/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/how-to-deal-with-data-loss/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:21:36 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1773 I bought my friend a 1 terabyte external hard drive for Christmas so he could back up all his stuff.  I invited him over last week so I could get some of his files off the hard drive.

Before I copied it however, I was going to remove all the .DS files from his file system (he uses with his Mac) so that there wouldn’t be any copy issues with our FAT hard drives (I have Finder show all the hidden files so it becomes an issue).  So I ran the command in Terminal to remove the .DS files.  Done.

Then I got to the file transfer and everything seemed to work great… except.. it went REALLY fast.  I copied over his whole folder structure in seconds.  That can’t be right.  So I started opening up the folders to make sure the files were there…

And we both slowly started coming to the realization that I just deleted everything on his drive.  All 350 GB of it.

OOPS!

I went back and checked the command that I used in Terminal and noticed that I missed the “-name” part of the command.  Damn.

How ironic that I buy him a hard drive for him to back up all his stuff on, then I invite him over and delete all of it!

I bought him dinner.  That’s how you deal with data loss.  Sorry man.

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Thanks for the link Karim :)

]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/25/best-elevator-music-ever/feed/ 0 A little perspective for Monday morning http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/25/a-little-perspective-for-monday-morning/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/25/a-little-perspective-for-monday-morning/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:43:33 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1751 As another week of hard work rolls around, I thought it might be appropriate to put things in perspective with a little game.  Enjoy!

]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/25/a-little-perspective-for-monday-morning/feed/ 0 Thanks but no thanks http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/24/thanks-but-no-thanks/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/24/thanks-but-no-thanks/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:37:46 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1749 Chantix is drug to help people quit smoking.  I don’t smoke, but found this particularly interesting…

From the warnings section of the drug:

Serious neuropsychiatric events, including, but not limited to depression, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and completed suicide have been reported in patients taking CHANTIX.

…

These events have occurred in patients with and without pre-existing psychiatric disease.

Ummm. what?!  COMPLETED suicide?  I’d just keep smoking thank you very much!

]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/24/thanks-but-no-thanks/feed/ 0 How many Gigs of data do geeks consume in a day? http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/11/how-many-gigs-of-data-do-geeks-consume-in-a-day/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/11/how-many-gigs-of-data-do-geeks-consume-in-a-day/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:05:54 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1693 Apparently, the average American consumes about 34 gigs of data in a day, or 3.6 zettabytes for the entire U.S.  Here’s the breakdown from DownloadSquad.com:

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But I second the question that they pose at the end of their article: how many gigs of data do geeks consume?  Maybe somebody can figure this data out by reading the complete study done by University of California.

]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/11/how-many-gigs-of-data-do-geeks-consume-in-a-day/feed/ 0 Microsoft at CES… I knew something was missing… http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/06/microsoft-at-ces-i-knew-something-was-missing/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/06/microsoft-at-ces-i-knew-something-was-missing/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:47:34 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1652 If you’re like me, you’re excited about CES but don’t have the bank to buy a ticket.  Instead, you’re watching the Engadget Live blog feed and getting the updates every 15 seconds – in picture and text form.

While watching this, I also noticed this hilarious post by kyleve on Twitter:

“I knew something was missing. But I fixed it!http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1587154/wtf/ballmer.mov”

Good one!  Haha.

EDIT: Argh – the link is broken suddenly.  To many people clicking on the link I guess…

]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/01/06/microsoft-at-ces-i-knew-something-was-missing/feed/ 0 This weeks Pure Genius award goes to: http://devinsblog.com/2009/11/29/this-weeks-pure-genius-award-goes-to/ http://devinsblog.com/2009/11/29/this-weeks-pure-genius-award-goes-to/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:43:44 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1491 27bslash6.com

The stories posted on this site are hilarious.  I haven’t read through them all but here are my favorites at the moment:

“It’s like Twitter.  Except we charge people to use it.”

The ducks in the bathroom are not mine.

Matthew Apartment 3a.

Enjoy…

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