MTN Ticketless Rider
As seen a few days back
Rearview Mirror Sign
And you can’t really argue with the guy…. You WILL move over… unless you are driving a tank, of course.
Americans Sleep for HOW LONG?
Average American sleeps 9.9 hours? I’d love to meet the guy who outweighs my 5-6 hours/night sleep for an average of 9.9
The French spend twice as much time eating as the Americans. Is that a surprise? 😉
MTA Logic
Morning. Everything is covered with ice about a quarter inch thick. Platforms essentially became skating rinks. Metro-North workers heroically clean platform…Â on New Haven-bound side, which will not be used for the next few hours while passengers on New York side are risking falls.
metric to inches conversion relevance
This morning I had to convert centimeters to inches, so I used Google and noticed a very interesting relevance result:
What does this tell you about the searches people do? 😉
Descriptive comments
When you write code, you need to comment it so that when you or somebody else comes back to this code few years/months/days/hours from now, they will be able to figure out what the code does. Here is the comment I saw one of my interns write:
// This function divides Numerator by Denominator
Really? I thought numerators and denominators are usually multiplied!
The price of being polite.
Few weeks ago I stopped by a Barnes & Noble store to see what I can use my gift cards on. I stop at the Nook counter (which in most stores you bump into as soon as you open the door) to look at one of the functioning units (they finally replaced the pieces of paper they used to have before). I have been thinking of buying an electronic reader for a while, and Nook is the leading candidate.
As I stand there getting ready to interrogate a sales associate, some older guy comes up behind me. I figure I better let the guy go first, given that I am planning to go over all features of the Nook. The first thing the guy asks is whether or not they have Nooks in stock. Sales associate answers that they will not have them in stock until February 1st, which is what I have heard many times. “However”, continues the associate, “we have one unit at the registers because somebody ordered two units but kept only one”. As my jaw is dropping to the floor, the older guy walks over to the registers and buys the unit.
No, they did not have any more of “returned” units.
Yes, next time I will NOT let the guy ahead of me.
And also, next time I’ll have to break the guys legs so he cannot make it to the register.
PS: For those w/o sense of humor – my statement of intent of breaking the guy’s legs and not letting somebody ahead of me is a joke.
Lop Top
Evidently, Lop Top = Laptop (from communication with a client)