Thursday, June 26, 2008

Thursday Night Badinage

- In response to Dean's reply on Yahoo's canned email response:

That's the exact same response you're going to receive from Google, Microsoft, or any another website that has hundreds of millions of users per day. Reality is that they cannot reply to every feedback personally.

I don't have a problem with them not able to reply to every feedback personally. What offends me is they try to pass off a form letter response to me as from a real person, when it is very obvious that they didn't even read my response (or has very very poor listening or comprehension skills). I have had other sites tell me "even though we can't respond personally, we appreciate the feedback and it's been logged."

- Bye bye Yi! The Bucks today traded Yi Jianlian, the Chinese basketball player we drafted last year. I'm partly a bit disappointed because I was really liking the attention the Chinese community was getting from him. But I also realize the team really sucks and could use a shakeup.

- So with these gas prices, one of the solutions has been mass transit. But with mass transit comes issues, as in it takes so much longer because of all the stops. Well this was an interesting concept my parents sent me (it's in Chinese, but you get the drift from the video). What a great way to challenge assumptions and think outside the box!


2 comments:

Tom said...

Dale - AWESOME EXAMPLE! I kept waiting trying to figure out "how the heck are they going to do this" when the solution is so simple and efficient!

Martha said...

I actually get some places faster on the Max Train versus when I drive. I.e. I can get from the suburbs to downtown faster than I can drive; when the westside commuter train starts this fall, I'll be able to get to work faster than I can drive. The only time I've noticed it is slower is going to the airport - but then I take a more direct route while driving. It is far faster to go to the airport during rush hour on the train, however. The trains (and all public transportation) have signals that turn all the lights green for them (our trains run on the roads, but cars are not permitted in their lane and they are separated by a small barrier)
However, on the surface I think that is a fabulous and intriguing concept to look into.