Turn a family into a corporation? Long ago. There used to be a column in the FT about the life of a female accountant. She referred to her children as cc1, cc2 and cc3 - cc standing of course for cost centre.
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I thought that was Rule 33. Rule 34 means that there is already a porn movie with a refrigerator showing dicks in it.
Rule 1 might be “human beings see dicks everywhere.” Native Australian place names are often very…anatomical…in meaning; then there’s various neolithic earthworks.
And people who don’t like rude words must have a lot of trouble with the words “pencil” or “penicillin”, because both words are derived from the word penis - penicillin is so called because the penicillium mould from which it was first extracted has spores shaped like one. As I think we were gleefully told on day 1 of cell biology.
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But seriously, if you were a display model fridge, what would you do to pass the time?
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There is a demo mode on this fridge that the stores seem to be lazy about enabling (that serves as a closed sandbox.)
I have one of these fridges. It’s actually proved quite useful - multiple shopping lists that can be referenced remotely. Calendar view with multiple calendars synced (my outlook, her gcal,) voice control of pandora, my 6 year old loves the whiteboard, it has YouTube access, and alerts you if the door was left open.
Yes, it’s frivolous, and does nothing a $150 tablet couldn’t do (apart from the snapshots from inside the fridge,) but with sales and rebates etc combined, it was down to under $1800, which is the going rate for a mid-level fridge nowadays anyway. I wouldn’t go out of my way to get this, but at a similar price point to those fridges without it, the features are certainly nice to have.
I don’t consider this IOS since the functionality is actually additive and not superfluous, but I get that many people would.
Stupid stuff about it: closed ecosystem not Android. Samsung support doesn’t understand the os (I had a technical issue, and l2 help desk insisted that the fridge only supports 1 user acct (wtf - the fridge is built around the premise of multi user info sharing.) I surfaced a bug and how to fix it - actually fixed it myself while on the phone with them, and Samsung couldn’t even be bothered to document the bug, as well as change their talk track. They truly didn’t care. No TV streaming from anything apart from high end Samsung, which is nonsense.
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Hang out and be cool.
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I love gadgets but this is just one more silly overhyped overpriced overcomplex thing that no one needs or will use much past the first couple of days.
Although my favorite remains the one with cameras inside the fridge and a screen on the outside so you can “look” inside without the bother of having to open the door.
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Internet of Terrible.
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Do merry pranksters still occasionally set all the alarm clocks on display to go off at the same time, too?
I wanted to find that image of the vast array of demonstration laptops set to play ye olde He-Man HEYEAYEA video, but it eludes me at present.
Strangely enough, owing to their partnership with AT&T, Home Depot was one of the last places that could be reliably depended upon to serve as a “Nintendo Zone”, meaning I could take my 3DS there and it would share data over the wifi. (This functionality can be duplicated at home only if you’re willing to get into MAC address spoofing.) Then around two years ago for no discernible reason they decided to start filtering the traffic to shut it down. You’d think they’d have seen the wisdom in extending further precautions.
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You Tube access on my fridge. I’m failing to understand why I would ever want this.
Now - build a “smart” fridge capable of locking users out because they are too fat and should not be eating more crap and you might have a real game changer on your hands.
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BRB, going to Home Depot.
I, uh, need to get a screwdriver or something.
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And here I am with only one like to give.
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There’s this new technology out there I’ve heard about. It’s also made from silicon. I think they’re going to call it “glass.” They’re still working on the transparency problem.
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I guess I would just make…
[I cannot fully express how sorry I am for this.]
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Amateur stuff.
You set them to go off one after another in one minute increments.
All of them.
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If it’s near the garden section…
My first assumption would have been office workers.
Yes, god forbid that a fat person be allowed food or cold beverages. Clearly the answer to obesity is not consuming anything at all until the desired weight is reached.
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