Monthly Archives: October 2009

So THAT’S what makes a hotel room a “suite”!

My friend Chad was discussing his “less than stellar” hotel suite the other night.  It turned out that what the hotel felt made it a “suite” as opposed to a “room” was this:

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It’s like a little tiny wall between the bed and a sofa!

It’s going to take a whole SEASON to install this???

I don’t know how many people here read the webcomic xkcd, but you should.  It is quite witty, and often has some good techno-jokes for those of us in the know.  A recent one, for example, poked fun at how the Windows copy dialog will swing wildly between estimates for how long it will take to copy some files; certainly we have all seen this:

xkcd - A Webcomic - Estimation - Mozilla Firefox

After laughing at this with a friend, she ended up seeing the following from an install of some software (the package is blocked out to protect the guilty):

FW 5 minutes, no wait... - Message (HTML)

128070 minutes?  That’s three months for those who like long division 🙂

I wonder what they sell here?

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I’ve been chasing this guy all morning…

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