Category: General

Who else but Vodafone…

Morgan Avery

Would call a plan that costs “$99” the “$100 Package” and charge “$198” for their “$80 Package”? No one, that’s who. Because no one else is Vodafone.

The trick is of course revealed when you click through to the next page and discover that the price in large print is for setup and the hardware bundle – the package name refers to the monthly fee.  Anyone else would have made that clear with 2 or 3 additional words on the page, or at least somewhere in the main copy on the page, but Vodafone just isn’t anyone else, now, is it?

Doing Science on the Street

Morgan Avery

I’d like to do some science, or at least arrange to have some science done on my behalf.

Is hotness hot in the cold?  Are people scared of scary people?  Finally, and we can answer the questions that have plagued mankind through the ages.

It consists of a survey, in as much as surveys (and by close association: statistics) can be called science.

The survey takes several parts, but what it’s really about is how many people a given person has to ask before someone will take a survey, and depending on surveyor, which passer-by is most likely to become a surveyee.

Initially it strikes me that interesting surveyors would be a patched mongrel mob member with full facial tattoos, and a bikini clad model in the rain on a winters day.

The third part of the survey is how long can you keep someone answering questions while you go through a seemingly (or even: actually) endless series of questions.  And would the facial-tattooed patched gang member, once having snared one of the (I hypothesise) very few people not too scared to talk to him, be able to keep someone there standing answering his questions effectively forever?

This is science.  As I see it.  Pure, unadulterated, science.

The purpose of the hot bikini-clad model-type standing in the cold Winter rain, protected from the inclement weather by nothing more than a clipboard, should be self-evident.  It would be hot.  And what science needs is definitely hotness.  And shivering gooseflesh.

Perhaps a hot washboard abs endowed guy in a speedo could be added for good measure, to throw the feminists off the trail.  Actually that feels more sciency too, you could call him a placebo, or control group, or something. Which all sounds convincingly scientific to me.

Now all I need is for my modest proposal to be accepted, so I can get that Government grant-money firehose turned on all over my head, neck & back.

Iron Man (2008)

Morgan Avery

Almost certainly one of the most highly anticipated movies of 2008 is upon us.  So anticipated was it, in fact, that I posted the trailer right here on my site.

There was such a strong response to the trailer, that The Onion dropped some of their own brand of too long but still very funny snark on it.

As of Thursday, the full length adaptation of the trailer is out, and is it good?

No, I’m afraid it’s not good, it’s very good.

Funny, action packed, and unlike other recent comic book adaptations such as Spider-man the hero is a hero, not a whiney-ass emo bitch who moans and complains about how hard it is to be a hero.  Tony Stark is not emo.  Tony Stark is WIN.

If you like action movies, or action comedies, or comic book adaptations I think you should go see it.  Including people who like comic book adaptations is almost certainly redundant as they already have.  Fucking fanboys.

I AM IRON MAN.

Aporo

Morgan Avery

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The longest The Morgan Show yet, at just under 10 minutes – I hope you enjoy it, I enjoyed making it.

One of the Perils of Old

Morgan Avery

It’s a lovely server, but it’s just so old – Server 2003 old, even.  When your server is so old it can’t muster the energy to fill out dialog boxes anymore, you know it’s about time for a new one.   (We actually have a complete monster of a server racked up in the server room and waiting to go into production, but migration is going to be a huge friggin’ pain.)