Last week I noticed my passenger headlight was out. “No big deal,” I thought, “I need an oil change next week anyway, it’ll get fixed then.” That oil change happened this Tuesday, and literally on my way to the Valvoline station my blinkers completely stopped working. They replaced the blinker bulbs and the headlight but the blinkers still didn’t work! That night on the drive home the blinkers inexplicably started working again just a few blocks from home so I thought “Weird, but at least everything is ok now.” Today it’s rainy and cloudy and dark so I flipped on my headlights to drive to work and… nothing. The blinkers are now completely working but the headlights didn’t turn on at all! Once I got to work I flipped the headlights and brights a bit to see what was going on and the headlights randomly started working again. What is going on?
Archive for July, 2009
Car de Fail
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Identity Crisis
Monday, July 27th, 2009Through a complex web of bad configuration properties and borrowed code one of the pages I was working on today thought it was three different pages at once. It was confusing.
Rain
Sunday, July 26th, 2009It was awesome how it was sunny and warm all weekend long… except for the times when I went outside. On Saturday I managed to pick the 30 minute cloudy and rainy time slot to take a break from indoor work and go on a run. Today it was georgeous all day but decided to rain while I attended the air show on the lake. Also, despite the clouds and cool temperatures, I think my face is a bit sunburned right now.
Le Tired
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009We all make mistakes when tired. This morning at work I failed 4 times at typing a simple URL. Aiming for “/ecom/cartRemove.do” I typed:
ecom/cartRemove,di
ecom/cartRemove,do
ecom/cartRemove.do
/com/cartRemove.do
The sad thing is that because this was being entered into site-wide configuration properties I had to restart the server after each mess-up. It’s a good thing it was only our dev server and I was the only one working on it at the time.
Just Make it Stop
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Today really wasn’t failure but it certainly wasn’t good. After 3 wasted days at work the eCommerce actions for our new site are done. Keep in mind this is our “plug-n-play” “ready-to-go” set of code. Also, I noticed some major bugs in the photo gallery I implemented yesterday and spent another hour fishing out another gallery plugin today. Once again I have accomplished in a mere 5 hours what any idiot can do in 15 minutes.
Stick a Fork in it, It’s Hopeless
Monday, July 20th, 2009I spent 2 frustrating hours last night trying to get the burger gallery posted below to appear as a lightbox style gallery and somehow ran into tons of problems. Today I tried again and it worked within 30 seconds. WTF? I unfortunately had to mess with the code a bit to get the page to validate, so now the gallery isn’t as flexible as it once was, and somehow there’s a javascript error on page load but it all works anyway? I’m just going to call this done after 4 mostly wasted hours.
Le Grille, What the Hell is That?
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Man, that looks delicious, doesn’t it? I really tried to make more burgers just like this one for a nice relaxing Sunday evening dinner, but I of course got too fancy with it and instead ended up failing miserably. By hastily defrosting and partially cooking 1/2 pound of meat in the microwave, throwing in worchestire sauce for flavoring, and probably way too many pieces of diced onion for texture I was left with a crumbly patty that just fell apart as soon as it hit the grill. The only burger that stayed together at all is the one picture on the left, and even that one has a major split running through its middle. This isn’t that big of a deal, but look at the mess the others caused.
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- Left – fail; Right – burger
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- Onions that fell through the cracks
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- Some flaming burger bits at the bottom of the grill
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- The only burger that sort of made it.
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- All of the failed burgers in a skillet
One Piece Left
Saturday, July 18th, 2009I just assembled a bathroom hutch that sits over the toilet and makes better use of our limited space. There was only one piece left after putting it all together, which is actually pretty good by my carpentry standards. I’ll let you know when it falls and dumps pills all over the bathroom.
Vegan?
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009So, I almost ate completely vegan today… except for the late night chocolate. I’m not really sure if that’s a fail or not though. On one hand, vegan is healthy, on the other hand, I am not really trying to be vegan or even vegetarian. I guess it’s more that I made it through almost the entire day being incredibly healthy only to have that ruined by late night fat-ass-ery.
eFail
Monday, July 13th, 2009I have some old programming books lying around that are frankly a bit outdated and not the types of things I ever wanted to learn in the first place. I decided to finally joining the 21st century and auction them off on eBay to get a little extra cash for all the furniture I’m going to need to buy soon (see previous post). Well, I know I at least had a user account on eBay so I went to sign in and not surprisingly had the wrong password. I tried to get the password sent to me but I’m afraid my account is so old it uses an email address which I stopped using years ago. I then decided to just register under my name but found out that I must have already tried this too years ago. I went to retrieve that password and was told I needed to verify my account before retrieving the password. Right, so I had to login and verify in order to get a password to login. After guessing most of my standard passwords I finally logged in to start selling. Well, another 15 minutes later and I find out my stack of books is worth a total of $20, with one book costing $15 and the others combining for a measly $5. I threw half my books away, decided to keep a few others, and put only the $15 book on eBay. Yes, I fail at eBay, the simple tool millions of idiots use daily to make money selling Jesus cheetos and used sneakers.
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