Got Wood?

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

A kind gentleman called in on 911 today because he got wood that wasn’t his. We (I) could have had so much fun with that, but that thought crossed my mind only after he hung up. Such questions that came to mind were:

“Sir, how long is the wood, is it in lengths of 8 or [...]

Dumb 911 #1,159,124,947

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

This one was funny.  Around 1730 yesterday:
Dispatch:  911 what’s your emergency?
Caller:   Is this the police department?
D:  This is 911, do you have an emergency?
C: Well, it’s not really an emergency, but someone is messing with my TV.  When I turn it on, someone keeps turning it off.
D:  ….   ….  Ma’am that sounds like a [...]

On GMail’s IMAP & Sonic Drive-In

Monday, November 5th, 2007

I’m less than impressed with GMail’s new IMAP feature.  The connections are hit or miss, and sometimes emails that are in the system do not get downloaded when it does connect.  Come to think of it, GMail has been having reliability issues as of late, even with their POP3 support.  Which sucks, because I really [...]