Four Island

I'm a bit insane. Yes, I know you all knew that. Anyway, as I make my rounds across the Internet, I find random stuff that I just have to rant about for no reason to people that wouldn't count as extant in a court of law. So, I thought I'd post a big batch of short rants here. It's my weird social commentary!

When I get bored, I occasionally go to some random old date and read all the Daily WTF post preceding it. :P Some five years ago, The Daily WTF posted the following in one of their "fail collection posts":

Are ya WTF-ed out yet? Let's hope not, otherwise you'd miss out on Duane Homick's discovery of the strftime documentation ...

%S is replaced by the second as a decimal number [00,61].

The Daily WTF

I could scream quite a few things right here, but I think the best way to describe what's wrong with this is a sentence found later in the referenced document:

The range of values for %S is [00,61] rather than [00,59] to allow for the occasional leap second and even more infrequent double leap second.

strftime documentation

Yeah, right back at'cha.

Another time I was rather bored, I randomly went to http://bored.com. It was a real site. :P I actually found a really fun game called Red Remover, but that's off the point. I found something that made me laugh and I had to post it here:

Okay, I know what you're thinking: "Starla, don't make fun of advertisements. It's just not worth it." I know, I know, it fails in many ways. But what really got me is how this advertisement, which stages an IM conversation from some person offering me a gift if I click a big button entitled GIFT (which I would've noticed on an IM program :P), is totally platform-specific. See how different the calculator I opened up looks from the Windows XP-style advert?

And don't even go there with the calculator. I'm running Ubuntu Linux.

Anyway, so, um, perhaps I am a bit obsessed with Lady GaGa. Lol, anyway, I had heard a rumor claiming that the video for her song Telephone was to be released yesterday. Sadly, it was not, but while I was frantically searching Google, YouTube and Twitter, I found this hilarious typo of the day:

Okay! That was random.... and fun! Perhaps I'll post more of these short posts at other random times. Or perhaps I can stop writing cop-outs and actually do some blogging. :P