I almost thought infone might be real.

[pseydtonne]

They just had a commercial for infone, a lower case service that lets you call 'em anytime and they answer you capitalist research questions. "I need a hot tub dealer here in Albuquerque." "I'm lost in Denver and this guy told me to fuck myself. How do I do that?" "What's gramma's number?"

It's a subscription service. The good thing is that it can be your appointment tracker and a bunch of other stuff. Then again, so could a PDA. In fact, it's 411 and a PDA, but you pay monthly. I would just use Google or Anywho, but I guess that's because I can read.

Point is: there's a commercial where a woman says "there's this book I've been looking for for a year. I'm in Boston, three hours 'till my flight. I call... I get the book, I catch my plane."

I am here to call that bluff.

Logan Airport is within the city limits of Boston, but it's not what you'd call close to antiquarian booksellers. Even if I'm generous and say the woman found the book on her first or second call, she'd have to:

1. Leave the airport,
2. Take the Blue Line to Government Center, then any inbound Green train to the outbound Red Line (books are Cambridge, let's face it),
3. Walk to the store (let's even give her the benefit of a store near a T stop, like McEntyre & Moore or Harvard Book Store, instead of something in Inman Square);
4. Get back to the airport;
5. Go back through security.

Even if I'm polite and assume the store was Commonwealth Books, which is on Boylston across from the Common, she'd still have to hustle. She'd also have to find a book dealer not caught up in his own shit too much to sell. This is Boston; that's tough.

Maggie made the point to me that the woman in the commercial didn't say she was at the airport already -- just that she had three hours before her flight. Good point! It'd still be tough.

Speaking of tough, what in the flying shit is with these 7-megabyte partition spacers? Why do they replicate throughout the creation of logical partitions? What did that drive formatting utility do? Why does Disk Druid suck so Gah. I'm tempted to wipe the drive clean again, have a bootable Linux rebuild the partitions, and get it right. I'm tired of the foobamaloo formatting. I want proper partitions. I want to build a tank. If I'm being obsessive or I just flat don't need to care about this, let me know.

-and they stole that theme tune from the Bosstones, Dante

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

dust off, nuke drive from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Or to reclaim space on your HD.

Do you ever read the comments in your posts? :-P

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

I'm reading this one, and I don't understand it. Are you saying I should do a full repartition, or that I should spray it with air and then fling it into the Van Allen belt?

When are you going to call? Call today or tomorrow, dude. I could use a sale. (Tomorrow I'm only here 11 to 6:30.)

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

sorry, just facetiously quoting Aliens, recommending a hard low-level format as the sledgehammer solution.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Ah. Man, I can be dense. I only watched that movie twenty times when campus cable played it over and over back in '92.

-"We're in the pipe, five by five."