Crash McBang - Slashdot User

Comment True Story (Score 1) 236

by Crash McBang on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @02:53PM (#37047348) Attached to: Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals

My wife said she wanted to know why there was a little fox on her dashboard.

Puzzled, I asked her to come get me the next time she saw this mysterious fox on her dashboard.

She was pulling out of the garage, stopped, and got me.

"There! There's the fox!" she said, pointing to her dashboard.

I looked and said "That's not a FOX, it's a WRENCH! - take your car in to get it SERVICED!"

After that, I told her to review the owners manual for any other 'animals' on the dashboard...

Comment So, the (Score 1) 160

by Crash McBang on Monday March 21, 2011 @05:23PM (#35565004) Attached to: NASA Wants Revolutionary Radiation Shielding Tech

Tinfoil Hat thing didn't play out?

Submission + - Nerd's perspective of Japan's earthquake (kalzumeus.com)

Submitted by Crash McBang on Monday March 14, 2011 @01:34AM

Crash McBang writes: What's the real story behind Japan's earthquake? This article gives some perspective that journalistic drama queens just can't deliver.

Comment So does Apple (Score 1) 157

by Crash McBang on Monday March 07, 2011 @02:01PM (#35408214) Attached to: Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution

get a 30% cut everytime someone subscribes to the new Constitution?

Comment So what we've got here (Score 3, Funny) 313

by Crash McBang on Friday March 04, 2011 @05:39PM (#35384266) Attached to: Episode I 3D Release Date Announced

Is a 3-dimensional projection of a 2-dimensional movie with 1-dimensional acting.

mmmm, can't wait....

Comment The common language of all programmers is (Score 1) 286

by Crash McBang on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @04:40PM (#35142582) Attached to: Only 39% Curse At Their Computers?

Profanity.

Comment What the Boss Says (Score 1) 491

by Crash McBang on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @03:32PM (#34768228) Attached to: When Smart People Make Bad Employees

I was complaining to my boss once about a jerk in our department; he pointed out that most organizations can deal with any amount of ego as long as there are results equal to or greater than the cost of dealing with the ego.

Once the results go away, the ego has to leave too.

Shortly thereafter the individual left and eventually wound up working at Intel.

Comment What's Next? (Score 1) 185

by Crash McBang on Thursday December 23, 2010 @04:44PM (#34654630) Attached to: BYTE Is Coming Back

Micro Cornucopia on the iPad? Let sleeping dogs lie...

Comment Re:First rule of Gawker Media Strategy... (Score 1) 76

by Crash McBang on Monday December 20, 2010 @09:25PM (#34623772) Attached to: Memo Details Gawker Security Strategy

gaah, s/Media/Security/

Comment First rule of Gawker Media Strategy... (Score 0) 76

by Crash McBang on Monday December 20, 2010 @09:23PM (#34623754) Attached to: Memo Details Gawker Security Strategy

...Don't talk about the Gawker Media Strategy...

Comment How do you charge the world's smallest battery? (Score 4, Funny) 77

by Crash McBang on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:19AM (#34527636) Attached to: World's Smallest Battery Created

Scuff your feet and touch it to a doorknob?

Comment I dunno (Score 1) 164

by Crash McBang on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:20AM (#34527520) Attached to: ChromeOS Laptop-Smashing Ad Equation Solved

When I solved it, I got 42.

Comment Re:flex the bubble from the inside out (Score 2) 174

by Crash McBang on Thursday December 09, 2010 @06:06PM (#34507358) Attached to: Equipping a Small Hackerspace?

Always a good thing to have in any lab: http://jamesthornton.com/fun/blinkenlights.html For the clueless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

Comment Re:Cheaper than silicon? - ObQuote (Score 1) 137

by Crash McBang on Sunday October 31, 2010 @12:58AM (#34077580) Attached to: Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein

Submission + - Why Printers Get No Respect (wsj.com)

Submitted by Crash McBang on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @11:06PM

Crash McBang writes: Out of Ink, Out of Luck, Why Printers Get No Respect — Fussy and prone to paper jams, the printer has been trying tempers in offices and homes since the dot-matrix days when paper came in perforated accordion stacks. As other gadgets, from flat-screen monitors to wireless mice, have sprinted ahead toward gasp-inducing irresistibility, one electronic gadget has failed to thrill: the printer.

So, slashdotters, who gets more TLC in your corner of the world? The PC or the printer?

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