I have a probably dumb question about the new COVID Alert app. If you get the virus and report that to the app and input your happy little key, what happens when your case is marked as resolved? Does the public health unit deactivate your key so your phone stops spewing warning-triggering codes? Or are […]
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Take Me Home, Country Roads, The Electric Toothbrush Edition
Take Me Home, Country Roads played by five electric toothbrushes and two electric typewriters. The John Denver toothbrush also drives on his RC car. Googly eyes on the road! It’s been a whole year since you first requested this John Denver song. But I decided to wait until the right time of the year to […]
Coronappvirus
When they first started talking about the COVID Alert app, I wasn’t sure what to think of it. There were two things about the descriptions I had heard that didn’t sound good. First, they called it a contact-tracing app. I had visions of this short film, all being done by this app. I had visions […]
Reminiscing About Tansy’s Second Trip To Her Raisers
As always, after I’ve taken a trip, I take forever to blog about it. This one was almost a year and a half ago. But I felt like writing it down because if this garbage Coronavirus hadn’t come along, I would have likely been back there this week. Back in March of 2019, when life […]
It’s A JBL Flip Your Lid 5!
I’m trying to unravel a mystery, and hope that maybe writing about it will help. So…Friday night, we had to accept the fact that Steve’s beautiful iPod dock bit the dust. Well, the dock itself is probably fine, but the cord that went from old ass iPhone 4 port to lightning port got frayed and […]
If Alexa or Google Gives You Some Bad Info Now and Then, Don’t Be Surprised
I know I have written before about a kid picking on her virtual assistant, but I’ve seen another version of this, and this one seems even worse, in a strange way. Here’s the ad in question…almost. Apparently this ad was made for the Super Bowl, and we got a slightly abbreviated one. In ours, she […]
What A Strange Bug. I Have Questions
Apple released a new version of iOS this week. I installed it on my phone this morning and so far, the world hasn’t ended. So why am I posting this, then? That would be because of this random line in the release notes. Fixes an issue that causes some phone calls from Saskatchewan to appear […]
Cars, The Floppotron Edition
And now, the Floppotron takes a crack at Cars by Gary Numan. I’ll let somebody else make the cars and drives jokes. Even I have my limits. *I totally do not have my limits.*
Wannabe, The Electric Toothbrush Edition
I’ve seen quite a few pieces of electronic equipment modified into playing music, but never electric toothbrushes. I had no idea you could do that, but as evidenced by the five of them I just watched play Wannabe by the Spice Girls, I was very, very wrong.
Too Distracted By Your Phone To Drive Properly? There’s An App For That, Because That Makes A Lot Of Sense
New app targets distracted drivers with traffic alerts Maybe I’m the idiot here, but it strikes me that the only app we should need to tackle distracted driving is one called the power button that shuts the fucking phone off while you’re driving because clearly you don’t have enough self control built in. Instead of […]
