I don't watch much TV, but when I do watch, I tend to watch hour-long shows.  I like things like CSI and Numb3rs, but I'm also a fan of half-hour shows like the Simpsons and Seinfeld.  But I've noticed that watching TV after 9pm is kind of a problem.  If I start watching in the middle of an hour, chances are that I'll be missing half of an hour-long show because nighttime seems to be a great time to have hour-long shows.  If I miss a significant part of an hour-long show, it's not even worth watching the rest.  So I sometimes end up turning off the TV.  Why watch a part of a show I'll never see the beginning of?  By creating these hour-long shows, the TV gods are driving important people (namely, me) away.  That's my spiel. #entertainment

The Garden Street Garage, a robotic parking garage in Hoboken NJ, had a bit of a snafu last week:  The city fired the parking garage employees, who took with them the intellectual property rights and manuals that went along with the software that controlled the robotics.  For several days, hundreds of cars were trapped in the belly of the robotic beast because the system was incapable of functioning without a working software license.  Nice job, Hoboken.  (via Boing Boing) #entertainment

Today's Dilbert talked about something I was planning on writing about: 
Sticky price tags are the stupidest thing human beings have ever created.  Just the other day, I was attempting to take the sticky price tag off a gift from my sister from Latvia (yes, the country).  It utterly failed.  And not because I'm stupid.  Granted, I'm not the smartest kid on the block (I always spell "genius" wrong), but I think I'm smart enough to remove a sticker from a solid object.  Instead, the sticker came apart into a million pieces and left a permanent sticky residue.  If Wendy was there, she would have said to use rubbing alcohol or nail polish remover, both of which I've already proven do NOT work on sticky things (sorry, Wendy ... good idea though). 

Just like the comic points out, sticky-price-tag-sticker-makers don't quite get it.  Their purpose is to come up with a great product that works flawlessly.  The thing they forget is that price tag stickers aren't supposed to be permanent.  They always need to be taken off.  And while I could use harsh chemicals and sharp objects to remove these things, I shouldn't need to.  Buncha idiots. #entertainment