Rocket Science

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. In early January I ordered something from Jowow through Amazon.com

I wrote a review on the seller, they didn’t like it too much.

Here’s the email they sent me:

Dear customer,

sorry about the inconvenience.

We will refund $3.00 shipping fee.

Could you please remove your feedback?

3 of 5 Wow, really slow shipping. Jan 16, 2009 10:35:22 PM
here’s the link to remove feedback:

1. Please go to below link or log in to your Amazon account and go to ‘view my orders’

https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/history/view.html/?orderFilter=feedback&link=feedback

2. Locate the order ( your order # is 002-xxxxxxx-xxxx869 ), then scroll to the feedback section.
3. Click *Remove*.

When you have removed your feedback, please email us.

Sincerely,

–
JoWow Sales Team
www.jowow.com

They wanted to buy a better review for $3.00 in shipping. Um, no. At least offer to refund the whole shipping amount, not just a measely $3.00.

Interestingly, I can’t pull up the original order in my order history nor can I find the original item at Amazon to link to it directly.

Oh well.

I don’t really use Facebook, preferring to publish instead here at my website. However, I popped over recently and saw that Facebook recommended I add:

That’s just wrong. For one he’s dead. Must because of all the mormons that I know from Utah…(you know I love you!)

As part of my exploration of the U.S. STEM Education Model, I needed to download the simulation engine required to run the model.

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth since I didn’t have to pay for the software, but the download process is so…1995. Here’s a screenshot of the download screen.

Source: Brandon

Timewarp, 1995?

There are 6 disks, uh ok. This is 2009, many folks have broadband access, they can easily download 1.44 MB or larger files. I say 1.44 MB, but really the disk images range from 1 MB to 3.2 MB in size. Yes, that’s megabytes. The total download is 15.4 MB–um, could we make that a single file, mkay? (Don’t get me started on why they’re using a proprietary .vip image format.)

Dear interweb,

I have another post idea that will probably take significantly more than 1 hour to write.

/sigh

</return to regularly scheduled programming>

So, all this time I thought I had comments turned on for my posts…wrong! Oops. So if you happen to have a comment about overly perfumed detergents, cool elevator features, or even want to laugh at my aversion to mint chocolate chip ice cream you can now do so.

There’s a reason I titled this site…Rocket Science.

(Update: I found a reversed Я to use in the post from Wikipedia – Faux Cyrillic.)