Never immune from winning the award, and without doubt one of the most spectacular winners of the SPOTD, I awarded the prize to myself, for a demonstration of how notto take out the rubbish. Heading out the door to go to Uni at 8:30am, I noticed a bag of rubbish in the kitchen, as well as [...]
Category Archives: SPOTD
Pavlov’s car thief
This SPOTD tale does contain some very minor spoilers for the movie “Gone In Sixty Seconds”, so I am inserting some spoiler space, for those that do not wish to read any further until they have seen the movie. I am not going to give away anything more than what is indicated in the trailer, [...]
Non-charged batteries and brains
I’ll preface this by saying that if someone works in a certain industry, I do not expect them to know absolutely everything there is to know, but some basic grasp of it would be nice. I have been having a few problems with my laptop computer of late, specifically with the power supply and battery. [...]
40 MIO error
I’ve always said I am not immune from receiving this award, and I gave it to myself today, for a deserving act. I wanted to print out some spreadsheets, to have a hard copy of the data I’ve collected over the past few years, and the various manipulations I’ve done with that data. The printer [...]
Chivalry is dead
A few people replied to the effect that the main reason I find a lot of SPOTD award recipients is because I (a) am driving my car, and (b) go shopping late at night. Today, I took the public transport option, and caught a tram into the city to take care of some stuff. This [...]