Archive for January, 2007

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

The Idiot Report For 2006

Number One Idiot of 2006

I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants.

I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away.

Here’s your sign, lady. Wear it with pride.

Number Two Idiot of 2006

Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home.

Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. They are no longer employed at Boeing.

Here’s your sign, guys. Don’t get it wet; the paint might run.

Number Three Idiot of 2006

A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the Branch and wrote this, “Put all your muny in this bag.” While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller’s window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to the Wells Fargo Bank. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn’t the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Well Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America.

Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, “OK” and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.

Don’t bother with this guy’s sign. He probably couldn’t read it anyway.

Number Four Idiot of 2006

A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40.

Several days later, he received a letter fro m the police that contained another picture, this time of handcuffs. He immediately mailed in his $40.

Wise guy…….. but you still get a sign.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

PLAYSTATION 3 and External Hard Drives


Recently I bought a external 500 GB hard drive to back up my iMac. I hooked it up to my PLAYSTATION 3 to see if it would see it. And it saw it just fine. Then I starting browsing through the backup data I had. I couldn’t’ go any deeper into the files. Seems the PS3 can only go 7 file folders deep into a hard drive.

I made 3 folders in the root of the hard drive (MUSIC, PHOTOS, VIDEO). Then copied over the media to the correct folder. In the Music folder I just copied over my whole iTunes library. I went to the hard drive under music. The iTunes Music folder showed up then I went into that folder and it said “There are no tracks”. So Then I tried Photos. I put all the photos in separate folders in the photo folder. Went to the hard drive again under photos. Got this “There are no images”. Ok, let’s try video. I put folders inside the video folder as well. It saw 3 folders. And the PS3 also saw the video files in those folders as well. But the I have the files folders set up as PSP > Family Guy > Then Actual Video Files. It didn’t even see that.

So instead of trying to work around this. Go to your hard drive then press Triangle & X. This will “Display All”. Then it will see all the folders you’ve made. But remember it only goes 7 file folders deep.

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Blu-Ray Discs to include portable files

Here is a quote from Sony official David Bishop, the head of the company’s Home Entertainment Unit.

Sony Pictures Entertainment will include portable files on Blu-Ray DVDs that can be transferred without a download. Sony may add the feature this year. It’s not currently part of anything on our current release schedule, but we’ll probably roll it out sometime this year.

What a great idea! Buy a Blu-Ray movie and transfer it to your PSP for one the go. I love it :)