Ponderings 4/24/11
1. I would love the be the guy who decides the title for Fast and Furious movies.
Movie 1: The Fast and the Furious
Movie 2: (It's the second movie lets throw in a 2) Fast and the Furious Two
Movie 3: (Let's hit up Japan what should we call it?) Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift
Movie 4: (We need to make more money then the previous movies so lets not make it sound like a sequal lets just remove the "The") Fast and the Furious
Movie 5: (How many of these have we made? Oh Yea 5) The Fast Five
2. Home court advantage in the hockey playoffs is the biggest tease.
3. Are you supposed to eat Broccoli stems all the way to the bottom? I buy Broccoli from the grocery store and am paying for all this stem weight that I don't know if I can eat or not.
Also Broccoli is really good I realized it is in my top 5 vegetables now.
4. How many fruits are you allowed to "try" at the grocery store before it is stealing? While I am asking how much are you allowed to try for the loose candy that you fill into bags?
5. Usually at this time of year I have a countdown for end of classes, end of finals, and summer vacation. I need a new countdown!
6. I don't know if it is because my TV is huge (got to throw in a brag) or if laws have passed but every commercial has a bunch of fine print and it usually is a pretty big negative for the advertisement.
Apr 24, 2011
Apr 17, 2011
Pondering 4/17/11
1. When driving with a GPS you will see an estimated arrival time. I always pay attention to that and see how much you can beat the arrival time by.
2. After skiing there is nothing better than a cup of hot chocolate.
3. Splitting checks is much easier in Canada than America but still unnecessarily difficult. A cell phone app or even minimal restaurant effort could drastically improve this process. Bar tenders are able to keep tabs so why can't waiters? Or an app where you insert everybody from Facebook, add all the items onto their tabs and then can have one person pay and have IOU's or a screen that you show to waitress with the amount to charge to each card by name.
4. Each person you add to a group after 4 makes the decision time get exponentially larger. Same metric is also true for amount of time to get ready, shower, etc. I expected the latter to be linear but recently I have proven to myself that it is definitely exponential.
5. There is no efficient of way of bringing in a large group that does not arrive at the same time. Most restaurants currently do one of the three options.
A: Do not allow your group to sit unless the entire group is there.
B: Provide a table for the requested amount of people and as people come in they can take chairs.
C: Group sits down with desired group and as others come they pull up chairs and try to get Restaurant to bring more tables.
Here is my proposal: Keep section of unused chairs so it is easy for groups needing several more chairs to figure out the squeezing on their own. If you allow reservations go with option B otherwise go with combination of A and C. The combination is you need 50% of your group to get your desired table and all unused chairs after 10 minutes are moved to the unused section.
6. I still always wonder why all electronics need to be turned off for takeoff and landing. There is no way to enforce this and airlines other then friendly reminders and a quick couple scans do not check.
Apparently this law may be related to lawsuits.
7. The corporate world needs to extend concept of dedicated and flexible vacation time. This model some what exists but instead of dedicated vacation just being National Holidays, the Corporate world needs to introduce a Spring Break, Winter Break, and Summer Break. Each can be limited to 3 days but this would allow everyone to easily be free at the same time.
2. After skiing there is nothing better than a cup of hot chocolate.
3. Splitting checks is much easier in Canada than America but still unnecessarily difficult. A cell phone app or even minimal restaurant effort could drastically improve this process. Bar tenders are able to keep tabs so why can't waiters? Or an app where you insert everybody from Facebook, add all the items onto their tabs and then can have one person pay and have IOU's or a screen that you show to waitress with the amount to charge to each card by name.
4. Each person you add to a group after 4 makes the decision time get exponentially larger. Same metric is also true for amount of time to get ready, shower, etc. I expected the latter to be linear but recently I have proven to myself that it is definitely exponential.
5. There is no efficient of way of bringing in a large group that does not arrive at the same time. Most restaurants currently do one of the three options.
A: Do not allow your group to sit unless the entire group is there.
B: Provide a table for the requested amount of people and as people come in they can take chairs.
C: Group sits down with desired group and as others come they pull up chairs and try to get Restaurant to bring more tables.
Here is my proposal: Keep section of unused chairs so it is easy for groups needing several more chairs to figure out the squeezing on their own. If you allow reservations go with option B otherwise go with combination of A and C. The combination is you need 50% of your group to get your desired table and all unused chairs after 10 minutes are moved to the unused section.
6. I still always wonder why all electronics need to be turned off for takeoff and landing. There is no way to enforce this and airlines other then friendly reminders and a quick couple scans do not check.
Apparently this law may be related to lawsuits.
7. The corporate world needs to extend concept of dedicated and flexible vacation time. This model some what exists but instead of dedicated vacation just being National Holidays, the Corporate world needs to introduce a Spring Break, Winter Break, and Summer Break. Each can be limited to 3 days but this would allow everyone to easily be free at the same time.
Apr 3, 2011
4/3/2011 Ponderings
Ponderings 4/3/2011
1. If I dated my Ponderings as 4/1/2011 everybody would immediately raise their gullibility guard.
2. NCAA really needs to start the season one week earlier, so that March Madness is truly March Madness.
1B. The worst part about VCU getting knocked out is that during the Final I won't be able to yell BOOOM SHAKKKA LAKKA every time VCU scores, or the broadcast showed Coach Shaka.
3. The government should reveal all of its technology development secrets on April 1st every year. People would laugh it off as pranks and then 5 years later when the technology is shown the government could say: "We told you about this precisely in this article on April 1st". If for some reason the secrets ends up not being developed they can say: "It was a April Fools Joke".
4. We need to change mailboxes to be painted neon pink instead of Dark Blue. How many times have you wanted to mail something and it takes 10 minutes to find a mailbox which is literally one block away? (Note: Mailbox here is not referring to your e-mail inbox.)
5A. When India won the world cup, I realized how Facebook and social networking in general has revolutionized the Sports World. People, who don't know the rules of Cricket found a way to watch the match, keep track of the score, and post a status on Facebook.
5B. The next part about Facebook and social networking is the recent change of loving a game to having a specific allegiance. (This is not new but the number of fans I am calling Facebook Fans has increased because of Facebook.) The majority of fans love teams, not the Sport. The "Sports Fan" watches every single game because they enjoy the specific game, the Facebook Fan watches their team and could care less about the rest of the games (unless it has an impact on their team). These are not mutually exclusive as most sports fans have teams they love. But the thing to note is how easy it is for people to jump on an allegiance without necessary understanding the game. In the Sports World this is fine and actually quite exciting to see how a community gets behind a team, but if this behavior translates to other places it is quite scary.
6A. April Fools Day becomes worse and worse every years as you grow up. Every year you are aware of more pranks and based on the setting pranks tend to become less and less frequent for various reasons. For example, this year how many April Fools Jokes did you see? I saw maybe 6 and was a part of 2 of those 6. In order to bring back this I propose the following:
A. Any time you successfully Prank someone they owe you $5
B. You cannot prank someone twice until they have pranked you back successfully.
C. If you don't have a successful Prank on April Fools you owe $5 to a common pool which goes to the person who does the best prank on April Fools Day as voted by the pool.(Nobody is allowed to vote for themselves.)
6B. All pranks needs to have several components: novelty, execution, element of surprise, and they need to be good natured (at least for pranks for your friends, colleagues, etc.)Being able to pull this off is extremely difficult on April Fools Day because everybody is on their guard. Instead the system should be changed too allow everybody to prank everyone once a year anytime, anyplace, anywhere. If people think that plan is too stressful then we introduce a month of pranking so at least people are a little bit less on guard.
1. If I dated my Ponderings as 4/1/2011 everybody would immediately raise their gullibility guard.
2. NCAA really needs to start the season one week earlier, so that March Madness is truly March Madness.
1B. The worst part about VCU getting knocked out is that during the Final I won't be able to yell BOOOM SHAKKKA LAKKA every time VCU scores, or the broadcast showed Coach Shaka.
3. The government should reveal all of its technology development secrets on April 1st every year. People would laugh it off as pranks and then 5 years later when the technology is shown the government could say: "We told you about this precisely in this article on April 1st". If for some reason the secrets ends up not being developed they can say: "It was a April Fools Joke".
4. We need to change mailboxes to be painted neon pink instead of Dark Blue. How many times have you wanted to mail something and it takes 10 minutes to find a mailbox which is literally one block away? (Note: Mailbox here is not referring to your e-mail inbox.)
5A. When India won the world cup, I realized how Facebook and social networking in general has revolutionized the Sports World. People, who don't know the rules of Cricket found a way to watch the match, keep track of the score, and post a status on Facebook.
5B. The next part about Facebook and social networking is the recent change of loving a game to having a specific allegiance. (This is not new but the number of fans I am calling Facebook Fans has increased because of Facebook.) The majority of fans love teams, not the Sport. The "Sports Fan" watches every single game because they enjoy the specific game, the Facebook Fan watches their team and could care less about the rest of the games (unless it has an impact on their team). These are not mutually exclusive as most sports fans have teams they love. But the thing to note is how easy it is for people to jump on an allegiance without necessary understanding the game. In the Sports World this is fine and actually quite exciting to see how a community gets behind a team, but if this behavior translates to other places it is quite scary.
6A. April Fools Day becomes worse and worse every years as you grow up. Every year you are aware of more pranks and based on the setting pranks tend to become less and less frequent for various reasons. For example, this year how many April Fools Jokes did you see? I saw maybe 6 and was a part of 2 of those 6. In order to bring back this I propose the following:
A. Any time you successfully Prank someone they owe you $5
B. You cannot prank someone twice until they have pranked you back successfully.
C. If you don't have a successful Prank on April Fools you owe $5 to a common pool which goes to the person who does the best prank on April Fools Day as voted by the pool.(Nobody is allowed to vote for themselves.)
6B. All pranks needs to have several components: novelty, execution, element of surprise, and they need to be good natured (at least for pranks for your friends, colleagues, etc.)Being able to pull this off is extremely difficult on April Fools Day because everybody is on their guard. Instead the system should be changed too allow everybody to prank everyone once a year anytime, anyplace, anywhere. If people think that plan is too stressful then we introduce a month of pranking so at least people are a little bit less on guard.
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