Displaying Vote Archives 500 to 510
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(Created on 13th March 2017)
Vote #501
Question:
Was question 501 pushing it a bit too far or did I just forget to set it as I was tired after being at the NASCAR? No, that's not this week's question. This week's question is around a dark secret I have. Something that I've been debating whether or not to share with you or not. Rather than explain the whole secret, I'm just going to tell you that part of it is called DarthHemorrhoid. What was Mr O's reaction when he found out about DarthHemorrhoid?
Results:
He thought it was sad and He wanted to draw a face on it tied with 50% of the votes each from the following:
- Wonder (0%)
- Amazement (0%)
- Love (0%)
- He wanted to play with it (0%)
- He thought it was sad (50%)
- He wanted to draw a face on it (50%)
Analysis:
The actual answer is that he thought it was sad. There is a clue as to what DarthHemorrhoid is as there's no space between the two words. It is a virtual identity that didn't allow spaces when setting up the name. Not exactly sure how he would have drawn a face on it, but he's welcome to try.
(Created on 19th March 2017)
Vote #502
Question:
This week we're going to pay tribute to one of the best guitarist and songwriter I've heard and simply ask which of the following is your favorite Chuck Berry song?
Results:
Johnny B. Goode was the clear winner with 67% of the votes from the following selection:
- Come On (0%)
- Jo Jo Gunne (0%)
- Johnny B. Goode (67%)
- Maybellene (0%)
- Memphis, Tennesse (33%)
- Reelin' and Rockin' (0%)
- Roll Over Beethoven (0%)
- Route 66 (0%)
- School Day (0%)
- Sweet Little Sixteen (0%)
Analysis:
Not many votes which is somewhat disappointing given the legend that Chuck Berry was. Johnny B Goode wins it and is probably one of the more well known songs that he did. I really like Come On, but that's hardly ever mentioned when you read about Chuck. Anyway, there's no wrong answer here as they're all great songs and I consider myself lucky to have heard them.
(Created on 26th March 2017)
Vote #503
Question:
A rather interesting piece of news that United Airlines prohibited some girls from boarding a flight because they were wearing yoga pants (leggings). Apparently they were told they needed to wear something over the top of them. Do you think yoga pants are indecent?
Results:
No was the clear winner with 75% of the votes from the following selection:
- Yes (25%)
- No (75%)
Analysis:
In full disclosure, I haven't seen (or even looked for) pictures of the offending yoga pants. So I don't know if they revealed anything they shouldn't. The old camel toe would be my guess. That said, unless they were see through, I would have thought they adequately covered up the body and I'm not sure it would be up to United Airlines to determine whether they were appropriate or not. The one thing I will say is that, assuming these were regular yoga pants, the answer to this question would be it depends who was wearing them. They do look a lot better on some people than on others. It's really those people that look like they've dropped a bag of marbles down the back of them that need to be prohibited from wearing them.
(Created on 2nd April 2017)
Vote #504
Question:
Alright, this week's vote question comes courtesy of my washing. You do the washing and get your clothes out the dryer and then start playing the “where are the socks going to turn up next?” game. Hiding in the T-shirts, up the trouser legs, basically everywhere. Then when you peel them out, they start fighting you and clinging of for dear life sparking and crackling away. Are socks the ultimate static electricity conductor?
Results:
Yes was the clear winner with 75% of the votes from the following selection:
- Yes (75%)
- No (25%)
Analysis:
Yes, indeed they are. And they are also psychic and vindictive. Shortly after setting this vote question, I had a business trip to Seattle. While sitting on the plane I felt an itch on my side under my arm. I scratched the itch, only to find that a sock had somehow clung to the inside of my shirt and I hadn't noticed it when I put my shirt on. This then leads to that moment where you have to look at the people at the side of you, figure out if they're looking at you, then determine if you can remove the offending sock and put it in your pocket before anyone notices. I believe I was successful in completing the maneuver without being detected, but then again, it's unlikely that someone's going to tap you on the should and start laughing and pointing at you chanting “you just put a sock in your pocket” or something like that.
(Created on 9th April 2017)
Vote #505
Question:
Alright, this week's vote question has happened to all of you and you've asked this question each time it has happened. So here's the scenario. You need to logon to a service that you've not used for a long time. You rotate through the most recent passwords you've used and none of them are working. It's time to admit that you've forgotten which password you used .... was this the one that required 12 characters with numbers and a special character .... or is the one that required you to stand on one leg and whistle Dixie while setting it .... nope, can't remember. So you click on the “forgot password” button. You are informed that a password reset email has been send to the email address on file. You log into your email, find the email, follow the instructions and successfully reset your password. The world is a happy place. But then a subsequent email arrives that claims to be a security email letting you know that someone has just reset your password and if it wasn't you then you need to take action. Of course I've just reset my password. You just sent a fucking email to my email account telling me to reset it. If I'd hacked the email account, why are you sending me a security email to the email account? I'd just delete it. What is the purpose of the security email telling you that someone's reset your password after you've just got an email to reset your password with a reset link?
Results:
Because a consultant told them to set it up was the clear winner with 50% of the votes from the following selection:
- Security (17%)
- Because a consultant told them to set it up (50%)
- Because they didn't think it through (17%)
- I don't know (0%)
- Does it really matter? (0%)
- Why does this make me angry? (17%)
Pre-Result Discussion
You could say it's lazy coding or just poor requirements. Or you could just get a life and ignore the second email.
21:23:18
16th April 2017
Analysis:
Indeed, it's most likely that this was implemented by a consultant. Mr O seems to be taking this question way too seriously. I'm guessing he's implemented such a workflow (or at least been part of the testing).
(Created on 16th April 2017)
Vote #506
Question:
If you're not into gaming, then this may have passed you by, but there has been an emergence of eSports teams. These are teams that compete in tournaments. The largest team having netted over $15m in prizes so far. In the little mini mobile gaming world that I'm living in right now, we've also seen the start of mobile eSports teams, although the prizes/tournaments aren't there yet. It has, however, resulted in a team being acquired and players being transferred. How long do you think it will be before the first eSports transfer is over $1m?
Results:
never was the clear winner with 50% of the votes from the following selection:
- 1 year (0%)
- 2 years (25%)
- 3 years (0%)
- 4 years (25%)
- 5 years (0%)
- 6 years (0%)
- 7 years (0%)
- 8 years (0%)
- 9 years (0%)
- never (50%)
Analysis:
Interesting that most people think it will be never. I honestly think this is coming very soon. I know that the big games makers are trying to create their own TV channels and leagues to encourage this to happen. And that's a know because the CEO of Blizzard told me at a conference (not secret information). I think they're trying to figure out how to create the right franchises like the NFL etc. My guess is that there are more people that watch eSports than actual sports right now, it's just that most of it's through YouTube or Twitch rather than commercial TV. Given that the top players in eSports have all made over $2m each and the eSports YouTubers are netting several million dollars a year, I'm going to have to go against the popular vote here and say that $1m eSports transfer fees are coming sooner than you think. I'm old enough to remember conversations about the fact that no soccer transfer fee would ever be over £1m and now we're up to £89.3m some 30+ years later. Maybe that took 30+ years, but things move so much quicker these days. I guess I'll keep my eyes out for a gamer called Trevor Francis.
(Created on 23rd April 2017)
Vote #507
Question:
OK, so I decided to spruce up an old laptop and show William the inner workings of a computer at the same time. I have an old laptop that's running crazy slow (even after re-imaging and having nothing on it) and the fan is constantly on. So, obviously it needs the dust cleaning out of the fan and re-silvering the heat sinks on the chips. Not a big deal really. At what point during my computer repair did I realize a trip to the eRecylcing center was in my near future?
Results:
When the CPU pinged off the ceiling was the clear winner with 83% of the votes from the following selection:
- When the compressed air squirted liquid on the motherboard (17%)
- When the screen cracked (0%)
- When the CPU pinged off the ceiling (83%)
- When I had more screws left over after I put it back together (0%)
- When the fan connection snapped (0%)
- When the screwdriver snapped (0%)
- When the smell of burning came after plugging it back in (0%)
- When I heard the loud grinding noise (0%)
Pre-Result Discussion
00:34:00
24th April 2017
Analysis:
Wow! Were you like all in my kitchen when I did this? Yes, it was indeed when the CPU pinged off the ceiling. I picked it up and showed it to William and told him on no account should this be removed from the computer. He was disinterested, so didn't really pick up on what I was saying. Right, so the “in my defense” part ..... I took the computer to bits properly with no problems. It had been running insanely hot for a while. I undid the screws holding the heat sinc down and pulled it up. Nothing happened. So I applied a bit more pressure. Still nothing. So I gave it a good old yank (ooh err missus) and it came off (ooh err missus twice in one sentence). It just the fan with heat sinks came off and the CPU was still attached to the heat sinc and not the motherboard. So I pushed it off the heat sinc and it flew up and hit the ceiling.
If you're interested, the compressed air did squirt liquid over the motherboard, but this was after the CPU incident, so that wasn't the point at which I realized I'd broken it beyond repair.
The screen did not crack and I did not have more screws left over when I put it back together. The fan connection did snap, but that was on the second attempt. After putting it back together and finding it didn't work, I tried a second time to see if wiggling the CPU helped at all. It didn't, ha ha ha. The screwdriver did indeed snap. Right at the beginning, but that didn't damage anything so was before I realized the computer was broken.
Last, there was no smell of burning and no grinding noise. It was really disappointing to be honest. I turned it on and the power light just starts flashing and nothing else happens. I googled this and couldn't find an exact troubleshoot, but one forum did report that if the power light just flashes it means the CPU or similar critical component can not be found. They actually listed CPU. I mean, I could find it. Just don't think it was connected how it was supposed to be. Anyway, I would have thought it would have been more interesting if smoke started to billow out of it and sparks were flying, but no, pretty boring really.
(Created on 30th April 2017)
Vote #508
Question:
Alright, this week's question will only really make sense to folks who work in sky scrapers. Or buildings that are pretty tall. You can't have helped notice that the elevators in a tall building zip you up to the floor you need quickly. And yet, when you go into a small building, particularly something like a parking structure with only 3 or 4 floors, the elevator goes so slow you wished you'd taken the stairs. Why do elevators in small buildings go so slow?
Results:
They just do was the clear winner with 50% of the votes from the following selection:
- They just do (50%)
- Because they're powered by hamsters on a wheel (25%)
- Never noticed (0%)
- Bad design (0%)
- All of the above for Mr O (25%)
Analysis:
I find this fascinating. It's like someone has determined the appropriate length of time that someone should spend in an elevator and adjusted the speed accordingly. Therefore the smaller the building the slower the speed. Maybe it's because they would overshoot in a small building and explode out of the top. Maybe I'm just really sad to have thought about this in the first place.
(Created on 7th May 2017)
Vote #509
Question:
As at least one person out there knows, I've taken on a new hobby/project which involves the Raspberry Pi. Fascinating little device and completely blown me away with what it can do. I'll write up the log of events that occurred in the build, but the most important question is how long was it before I loaded porn onto my raspberry pi?
Results:
You haven't done it yet was the clear winner with 50% of the votes from the following selection:
- 1 hour (33%)
- 12 hours (0%)
- 1 day (0%)
- 2 days (0%)
- 3 days (17%)
- 4 days (0%)
- 5 days (0%)
- 6 days (0%)
- A week (0%)
- You haven't done it yet (50%)
Analysis:
So, the answer is either 3 days or I haven't done it yet. Basically, on day 3 I stumbled across an add on for adult entertainment and I did load it. I even clicked on one of the links, but the stream didn't work. That was several days ago now and I haven't gone back to it to troubleshoot it. Might simply be that it's a shell that points to links that are no longer live. No idea. If I get really bored, I might take a look at it, but there is sort of an irony here. Why bother loading kodi to pull up an extension and troubleshoot it to look at porn. Why not just load raspbarian or ubuntu-mate and use a web browser and go direct? Would be much simpler. And no, I haven't done that either, it just occurred that it would be simpler and faster.
(Created on 14th May 2017)
Vote #510
Question:
As you wake up on Monday morning, what is your mood?
Results:
WannaCry was the clear winner with 50% of the votes from the following selection:
- Happy (33%)
- Sad (0%)
- Euphoric (0%)
- Relaxed (0%)
- Anxious (17%)
- Horny (0%)
- Hungover (0%)
- WannaCry (50%)
Analysis:
Indeed, this was a reference to the WannaCry virus that was released last weekend. I have to be honest, I didn't hear much about it except that it affected the NHS in the UK quite badly. I didn't really hear of anything else. I guess all the doctors and nurses are using their computers to access sites they shouldn't be, ha ha. The reality is that it just points to the fact that their infrastructure is woefully behind the times and needs updating/patching.
Anyway, for those of you that were happy, hope you had a good week. Always nice to be happy!
03:48:05
10th April 2017