Geektastic: Disproportionate travel times.

Tokyo to Auckland, including NEX train to Narita, 12 hours.

Auckland to Martinborough 6 hours...!

ok 60 minutes Auckland to Wellington but did you ride a bike  to Martinborough. By car  1hr 40mins or 2hr 20mins peak Airport to Martinborough

Pages that refuse to display with my ad-blocker enabled and give a snarky message with no option to ignore. The latest is an especially aggressive one in Holland that even puts up a different snarky message when I disable javascript, forcing me to thread through the source page to find the info I want. This is an inconvenience but does not prevent me from viewing the item.

Maybe I should just look at the ads instead? Not as long as they are being used to distribute malware. This is now a real risk and until those snarky sites guarantee my safety, I am not about to disable my ad blocker.

So maybe I just shouldn't view them? If the site is important to me, like Geekzone, I will pay for a subscription. If I am just passing through while following a link and never intend to return again, then they can shove their pop-overs where the sun doesn't shine!

The voice of the woman who does the recorded messages you're forced to listen to before you get to the bit you want on VF helplines...!

MikeB4:

 

Geektastic: Disproportionate travel times.

Tokyo to Auckland, including NEX train to Narita, 12 hours.

Auckland to Martinborough 6 hours...!

 

 

 

ok 60 minutes Auckland to Wellington but did you ride a bike  to Martinborough. By car  1hr 40mins or 2hr 20mins peak Airport to Martinborough

 

Add...queues to tell them I don't have anything they are interested in...waiting for luggage.....walking between terminals...waiting for flights....delayed flights...waiting for luggage....etc etc 

We landed from Narita at around 9am and got home around 3pm!

After 3 weeks of Japanese smooth, joined up and uber-efficient transport etc it was a comedown.

MikeB4:

 

Geektastic: Disproportionate travel times.

Tokyo to Auckland, including NEX train to Narita, 12 hours.

Auckland to Martinborough 6 hours...!

 

ok 60 minutes Auckland to Wellington but did you ride a bike  to Martinborough. By car  1hr 40mins or 2hr 20mins peak Airport to Martinborough 

He was relying on the Wellington bus service, but struck a ghost bus 

Geektastic:

 

MikeB4:

 

Geektastic: Disproportionate travel times.

Tokyo to Auckland, including NEX train to Narita, 12 hours.

Auckland to Martinborough 6 hours...!

 

 

 

ok 60 minutes Auckland to Wellington but did you ride a bike  to Martinborough. By car  1hr 40mins or 2hr 20mins peak Airport to Martinborough

 

 

 

 

Add...queues to tell them I don't have anything they are interested in...waiting for luggage.....walking between terminals...waiting for flights....delayed flights...waiting for luggage....etc etc 

 

 

 

We landed from Narita at around 9am and got home around 3pm!

 

 

 

After 3 weeks of Japanese smooth, joined up and uber-efficient transport etc it was a comedown.

 

Waiting for bags, how quaint, since being gold elite we haven't needed to wait for bags.

Object X sits happily on a workbench for at least six months. Untouched and unused. But I know where it is, and it isn't in the way.

Two weeks ago, I tidy that workbench. Fate, that wicked mistress, has been invited in and seizes her chance.

Today I have spent at least two hours searching for object X and still haven't found it.

mdf:

 

Object X sits happily on a workbench for at least six months. Untouched and unused. But I know where it is, and it isn't in the way.

 

 

 

Two weeks ago, I tidy that workbench. Fate, that wicked mistress, has been invited in and seizes her chance.

 

 

 

Today I have spent at least two hours searching for object X and still haven't found it.

 

For all who don't care - proceed and have a nice day.

For all who are concerned - *click* (and yes, you can fully trust).

If it's too confusing for the first, take you time step by step to understand for each chapter what's behind.)

Aredwood: Fake Google search results.

Namely PDFs filled with computer generated content, mostly part codes, names of cars, appliances, model codes etc. When you try to load that PDF, you get redirected to a website that tries to get you to sign up for ebooks.

Or just outright fake "you have won a prize" type websites.

It makes searching for technical content very difficult. And not helped due to manufacturers not offering an official method of just buying what you want.

I would add to that ancient undated content that never gets removed or updated. Every time I do a search for almost anything I have to wade through and weed out all the pages that haven't been relevant to anything since 2012. For both technical and political content that makes a big difference. I wish someone would invent a Google vacuum cleaner.

SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

Several intersections in Auckland, around motorway on/off ramps from what I've seen, now feature 'up' arrows for traffic going straight through the intersection. Dumbing down of lights as an alternative to proper driver training?

 

Preparation for flying cars?

People who say +1 instead of giving one.