Help! I'm stuck in a TTL, and I can't get out!

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Stuck with a PIN

Stuck with a PIN 03/06/2004 02:08 AM
"Ah, yes. I had had the same brain system failure that Chris described - staring at the ATM and just not remembering that PIN! So now I write the PIN number on the back of each card, in the signature box. WAIT! No, I don't write the actual PIN. I use one 'formula' for all cards. For example, a formula could be to add 3333 to the actual numbers of your PIN. The new TOTAL is then written on the card. If this was your formula, you only have to subtract 3333 from the PIN written on the back of any card, and you will have the actual PIN for that card. Now, does anybody remember where I left my wallet?" (A. John Gallant)...

Stuck On The iPod

Stuck On The iPod 02/19/2004 06:04 PM
Steve Jobs just made me buy another iPod. And that ticks me off. By Patrick Regnier (Money Magazine via MyAppleMenu)

Stuck on Chuck E.

Stuck on Chuck E. 02/19/2004 10:06 AM
CEC Entertainment proves that there's money to be made in catering to kids.

Stuck Like Chuck

Stuck Like Chuck 02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Stuck Like Chuck - A Philadelphia writer's sad, brief but captivating observations of another's seemingly constant return to self-destruction; in turn, unflinchingly relating his own struggle.

MCI Stuck on Verizon

MCI Stuck on Verizon 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
TheStreet.com Apr 6 2005 3:21PM GMT

Stuck in the middle?

Stuck in the middle? 04/15/2005 09:45 AM
CNET Asia Apr 15 2005 2:19PM GMT

Fisherman Saves Man Stuck in Mud in S.C.
(AP)

Fisherman Saves Man Stuck in Mud in S.C.
(AP) 04/14/2004 10:33 AM
AP - A man bass fishing ended up a hero Monday, saving a man who was stuck in the mud up to his chest in Lake Conestee.

W.Va. Woman Gets Stuck in Two Sinkholes
(AP)

W.Va. Woman Gets Stuck in Two Sinkholes
(AP) 07/27/2004 07:55 PM
AP - Carolyn Roby hit the gas when a sinkhole suddenly appeared and enveloped her car. She escaped that trap, only to confront another sinkhole that was even deeper.

"Fingers stuck up at the Serbs"

"Fingers stuck up at the Serbs" 09/01/2004 11:50 AM
Survivors of a concentration camp in Bosnia return to commemorate the dead, hoping for signs of remorse, if not reconciliation.

Is the European 3G-juggernaut stuck in a
rut?

Is the European 3G-juggernaut stuck in a
rut? 06/02/2004 06:32 PM
DMeurope.com Jun 2 2004 10:35PM GMT

At Grand Central, Stuck After 1:30 A.M.

At Grand Central, Stuck After 1:30 A.M. 06/10/2004 10:23 PM
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but late night commuters have discovered that such truisms do not apply at Grand Central Terminal.

Passengers stuck on ferry

Passengers stuck on ferry 09/25/2004 07:17 AM
More than 70 people are stuck on a ferry which is unable to dock in Belfast because its doors will not open.

Dude, You're Getting Stuck With Spyware

Dude, You're Getting Stuck With Spyware 12/03/2003 01:48 AM
Submitted by John and also seen on Slashdot is the fairly insane news that Dell has told its tech support staff not to tell people about spyware removal products like Spybot Search & Destroy or Adaware - even if it's clear that the problems they're experiencing with their Dell machines are due to resource hogging spyware. Dell tech support has been told they're not even allowed to point the user towards potentially helpful resources on how to remove spyware. Dell's reasoning for this is hard to comprehend, but appears to be that removing spyware may go against some license agreements. Isn't that for the end-user who owns the computer to figure out on their own? Besides, if that's really what's causing the problem on the machine, isn't it the responsibility of Dell's tech support to suggest the proper solution? There's also an open letter to Dell asking them to reconsider their position on this matter.

Stuck With the Bill (washingtonpost.com)

Stuck With the Bill (washingtonpost.com) 02/18/2004 10:49 AM
washingtonpost.com - Wall Street may be busy celebrating the $41 billion marriage of Cingular Wireless LLC and AT&T Wireless, but did anyone remember to invite wireless telephone consumers to the reception?

Blogging: A world stuck on itself

Blogging: A world stuck on itself 07/21/2004 07:37 AM
Venture capitalist David Hornik warns that the Web logging world is inadvertently getting caught up in a trap of its own design.

Calif. Boy, 11, Gets Stuck in Chimney
(AP)

Calif. Boy, 11, Gets Stuck in Chimney
(AP) 06/30/2004 09:25 AM
AP - An 11-year-old boy had to be rescued by firefighters after he got stuck in a chimney while trying to get into his friend's locked house.

IT salaries stuck in the middle

IT salaries stuck in the middle 06/29/2004 08:16 PM
Study finds compensation drops for IT middle managers, rises modestly for execs and staff.

Virus Writers Stuck In A Rut?

Virus Writers Stuck In A Rut? 11/03/2003 12:21 PM
Anti-virus companies love to get people worked up into a lather about all the virus threats out there, because it helps them sell more product. So, it wasn't much of a surprise that, following the "big" virus and trojan horse problems in August, the anti-virus "experts" started warning that this was just a prelude to something worse, and that we should expect even more virus problems as soon as the current viruses died out. While it is good to keep users vigilant about virus things, these announcements served more to make people ignore the real problem: the anti-virus companies failed. Of course, you don't hear them speaking up now about the fact that their original predictions of "the next wave" of viruses immediately following the last wave appears not to have come true. Especially with the SoBig virus, we were told that the next version was supposed to appear in September sometime, but that never happened. Of course, it's good when we don't have virus outbreaks - and I have no doubt that they will come again - but once again we have a situation where the anti-virus folks seemed to hype things up beyond necessary.

Two Men Fleeing Police Get Stuck in Mud
(AP)

Two Men Fleeing Police Get Stuck in Mud
(AP) 01/26/2004 05:22 PM
AP - Two men fleeing police were captured after they ran across a muddy lake bed, lost their shoes and got mired in the muck.

N Gage QD GPRS HELP! PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
SO STUCK!

N Gage QD GPRS HELP! PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
SO STUCK! 12/28/2004 07:42 PM
All About Symbian Dec 28 2004 10:43PM GMT

getting stuck in salami and beer

getting stuck in salami and beer 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

I watched My Coolest Years: The Geeks with Anne and the kids last night. I thought the show was fantastic, and I was honored to be in such great company. Open note to The Cool Guy who tormented Jessi Klein or the girls from The Donnas: Dude, wherever you are, you are a loser.

Biggest surprise of the show: John Tesh is hellafunny! I remember that he played a Klingon for a day on Next Generation in the episode "The Icarus Factor." Well, "played a Klingon" is probably a little too much . . . he was sort of a featured extra in a line of about twenty guys who wore Klingon makeup and costumes, and snarled while they zapped Worf with painsticks. (Back then, a metric ton of celebrities wanted to be on the show, and they usually ended up wearing crazy alien make-up. Mick Fleetwood was this weird fish-looking thing, for example.)

I remember that he was really friendly, and seemed to be getting a HUGE kick out of the whole thing, but I don't remember him being as funny as he was on My Coolest Years last night.

Best moment of the show: When I saw that they titled me "Wil Wheaton: Author of Just A Geek" (which reminds me: Just A Geek has been recommended by Quint, from Ain't It Cool News! I am in incredibly good company over there, too. Thanks, Quint!) instead of That Other Thing.

That's a big deal to me, you know. Though I personally feel that I'm finally emerging from the shadow of America's Favorite Acting Ensign And Starfleet Academy Classmate Killing Cadet, I wonder if I'll ever do that in the eyes of the entertainment industry. This morning's Dork Tower gives a funny-because-it's-true view of how that effort is playing out in fandom.

. . . and in casting too, now that I really think about it . . . but that's okay. The Path I'm currently wandering is a good one.

Absolute coolest moment in the show: They put up a picture of me with my überhot wife as part of the "Geeks Ultimately Win, So Bite It, You Cool Kids" portion of the show. Ryan just about died when he saw Anne, in the coolest "I'm fifteen and I'm so proud of my mom" way. (Apparently, the kids on his baseball team tried to torment him by singing "Ryan's mom has got it goin' on" to the tune of "Stacey's Mom," and he silenced them by replying, "Yeah. My mom's hot. So what?" Sweet.)

Tonight, VH1 gives us My Coolest Years: The Dirty Hippies, which should be hilarious. It looks like My Coolest Years could end up being as great as I Love The 80s, or maybe even better. Go Generation X! Rock! Yeah! \m/

If anyone from VH1 reads this: I had a blast, you guys. Thanks for making me look cool. I'd love to work with you some more.

Woman Using Liquid Bandage Gets Stuck
(AP)

Woman Using Liquid Bandage Gets Stuck
(AP) 07/21/2004 08:11 PM
AP - When Joyce Stewart sits down to her daily cup of coffee, she likely won't attempt first aid on herself again. On Monday morning, Stewart used Minnesota-based 3M's liquid bandage to treat a crack on her heel and within minutes her foot was glued to the floor. It took three paramedics over an hour and a bottle of baby oil to free her.

Risky Mines Stuck in Stone Age

Risky Mines Stuck in Stone Age 07/27/2004 06:16 AM
Thousands of miners die each year, but most of those deaths could be prevented if mine operators stopped using 19th-century technology. By John Gartner.

4 Hurt in Balloon Stuck Over Baltimore
(AP)

4 Hurt in Balloon Stuck Over Baltimore
(AP) 07/17/2004 07:25 PM
AP - A balloon ride turned into a scary ordeal for 20 people Saturday when the aircraft got stuck high above the city, then was tossed around by high wind like a pinata for an hour and a half before rescuers brought it down.

A step back in time gets stuck in mud

A step back in time gets stuck in mud 07/31/2004 08:40 AM
Chicago Tribune Jul 31 2004 12:11PM GMT

Deliveryman Stuck in Elevator for Days
(AP)

Deliveryman Stuck in Elevator for Days
(AP) 04/05/2005 11:52 PM
AP - A deliveryman who vanished after taking Chinese food to a Bronx high-rise apartment building was found alive Tuesday after apparently spending more than three days trapped in an elevator that had become stuck between floors.

Stuck in the Middle: The Role of
Infomediaries

Stuck in the Middle: The Role of
Infomediaries 04/03/2005 06:06 PM

The Idea: Information intermediaries are facing revolutionary changes and threats, but the energy behind these changes is not new technologies, but a broad dissatisfaction by readers and viewers with the end-product, and with the lack of value added by intermediaries. This article suggests some answers. We live in an age of 'disintermediation' -- the cutting out of the middleman. We do bank transactions without tellers, we browse libraries without librarians, we learn without teachers. Those who used to know their role in our society often find themselves reinventing those roles before they simply disappear. One such group struggling with their role are 'infomediaries' -- the people who stand (or used to stand) between you and the information you consume. The chain is shown in the illustration at right. To some extent blogging is an attempt to disintermediate this chain. Some in the mainstream media would like to see us as just another link in the chain, at the very end between the channels and readers, adding little or no value other than links to related stories, high-tech cataloguers. But online journalism can incorporate all six of these intermediary roles, and, in fact, bloggers can be newsmakers in their own right -- like when they break major stories that the legacy media miss, or undertake investigative reporting that the legacy media no longer have.much appetite for. At the same time, search tools and social networking software are providing additional channels and ways to aggregate information, working to some extent hand in glove with bloggers to create entirely new ways to connect Following are some comments from reader Wendy Siegelman, who works for a major infomediary,  from a recent e-mail exchange on this subject: I think that intermediaries are perhaps underappreciated because there isn't a recognized name for the role they have. Maybe these information intermediaries are missing an important element - branding.  Without the proper branding, intermediaries that take, find, gather and make information usable, accessible, meaningful - are not properly valued.  I think there is a relatively high value placed on the concept of 'good communication'. There's the content being communicated, the communicator, and the receiver of information.  But, there's also the element of how the info is communicated.  I think that the value is usually placed on the what and who, but not the how.  [Politicians and others with vested interests use information to] measure and try to influence opinion and policy. Unfortunately, they have made the science of gathering, sorting and adding value and meaning to information appear to be a negative, opportunistic process. Intermediaries that do the same thing for productive and positive ends aren't properly recognized or valued. The critical issue for the future of all intermediaries is, as Wendy implies: What value are you, or could you be, adding? Fail to add enough and you'll be gobbled up by others along the chain or circumvented entirely. Add a lot of value and you can actually 'reintermediate' information flow that had ostensibly been disintermediated -- like some of the best librarians have done, reinventing themselves as researchers, analysts and report-writers filtering, compiling, analyzing, organizing, adding insight and producing crisp and concise documents ready for end-customers. It is that very lack of value-added that has caused disintermediation in the first place. Reporters are too often underfunded and lazy -- so they wait for news to break and ambulance-chase, and add nothing to the propagandist commercial 'press releases' issued by governments and corporations. Most analysts are paid by stock brokers, governments, biotech companies, corporate-sponsored think-tanks, and other vested-interest groups, to help 'sell' their products and suppress information and opinions to the contrary, as James Surowiecki has eloquently demonstrated in his weekly New Yorker column, and as many recent scandals involving analysts who were fired for not towing the line show. Likewise, editors are paid to reflect the editorial stance of the publisher, and legacy publishers are beholden to shareholders who only want them to publish what sells simply and in large quantity. Aggregators then try to pull this 'dumbed down' and censored content together, but are having the rug pulled out from under them by increasingly sophisticated free aggregation tools that channel companies like Google and Bloglines provide. And the mainstream media channels are finding their audience increasingly splintered, demanding and dissatisfied with the poverty of truly informative or useful content they push out. So readers and viewers have been open to disintermediation, not because of cost (which continues to drop precipitously) but because of the poor quality of intermediated content and the lack of value added by intermediaries. What could information intermediaries do to be more valuable? Here are a few ideas from a presentation I made a few years ago to a conference of intermediaries: Make the content more useful, more actionable, or at least more interesting. The limits of attention span and bandwidth often cause intermediaries to strip out content that provides valuable context to the reader or viewer -- tells them not only who, what, when, where, why and how, but also what does it mean? Study how to write great stories, so that those further along the information channel will be disinclined to pare them down and reduce the value you have incorporated in the story. Focus on information that's important, rather than urgent. Too much of the content reaching the reader and viewer today is 'sold' as urgent, when all it is is new. Not enough is important. Follow up. We squander reader/viewer interest and trust when we get them worked up about today's story and then never tell them what happened later. Be conversational. Let the reader/viewer see the person behind the point of view. And don't pretend to be objective -- your audience knows better. Help people deal with information overload. If people hope to be able to give more attention to important stories and issues, they need the rest of the crap filtered out. Search engines, blogrolls, eProfiles and other filtering mechanisms are woefully imprecise. The tools need to be much better, and intermediaries need to find a new role filtering the firehose of daily 'news' in a way that will probably never be possible even with the best tool. There are huge opportunities here. Get out more. Intermediaries need to learn the value of doing their own primary research (interviewing and direct observation), and not merely working with the content flowing though the chain to them. If that's not in your job description -- add it. Read broadly. It gives you perspective. And it has a lot of other benefits as well. Learn a disciplined approach to research and analysis. I like the Pyramid Principle, but there are lots of others. This will make your thinking sharper, allow you to appreciate how your readers will 'see' what you're providing them with, and provide a 'trail' that will make your arguments more compelling and allow you (or others) to understand and check your logic. Take some chances. The disintermediation that is overwhelming the information industries came about because the technology industries were bold, and didn't constrain their products to doing just what other technologies had done before them. Talk to readers and viewers about what is possible, think them ahead to imagine how they could use an intermediary product or service that doesn't even exist today. Level of 'customer satisfaction' with the legacy media is extremely low, and that dissatisfaction has many causes, and suggests many needs that are not being met. Find a need and fill it.

Stuck for auto-responder ideas?

Stuck for auto-responder ideas? 03/30/2005 05:47 PM
We've all heard "the money is in the list", but once you've got them signed up, how do you keep them subscribed and opening the mailings? Here's how some of the experts make their lists anxious to get each new mailing. Collect leads with your autoresponder. You will get an e-mail digest of everyone's e-mail [...]

Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast
Flag?

Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast
Flag? 09/26/2004 03:29 PM

Va. Woman Gets Stuck in Bathtub for 5
Days (AP)

Va. Woman Gets Stuck in Bathtub for 5
Days (AP) 04/18/2005 08:15 AM
AP - A 75-year-old woman who lay trapped in her bathtub for five days toasted her rescue with a cola and a cigarette. Jane Fromal suffered slight dehydration even though she said she ran tap water to drink during the ordeal.

Woman Gets Ticket While Stuck in Traffic
(AP)

Woman Gets Ticket While Stuck in Traffic
(AP) 09/03/2004 09:56 AM
AP - Renathe Opedal was hopelessly stuck in traffic during rush hour when an overeager attendant slapped her a $73 parking ticket.

Deliveryman Stuck in Elevator for 3 Days
(AP)

Deliveryman Stuck in Elevator for 3 Days
(AP) 04/06/2005 09:46 AM
AP - Ming Kuang Chen was written off after vanishing Friday night while making a delivery for Happy Dragon restaurant at a high-rise apartment building.

Injured Man Stuck in Tree for 10 Hours
(AP)

Injured Man Stuck in Tree for 10 Hours
(AP) 08/17/2004 05:22 PM
AP - A man in his 80s with a badly broken leg was stuck hanging upside down in a tree for 10 hours before neighbors rescued him.

Get rid of a stuck Exposé screen border

Get rid of a stuck Exposé screen border 07/12/2004 07:29 AM
When you invoke the Exposé "Show Desktop" function, a translucent black border appears around the screen to let you know that you're in Exposé mode. But sometimes, this border will stick to the screen edges, even after you've...

More Than Wells Are Stuck In The Sand
Over Iraqi Oil

More Than Wells Are Stuck In The Sand
Over Iraqi Oil 11/10/2003 11:31 PM
Iraq has a lot of oil, estimated at 112.5 billion barrels in proven reserves which is the world's second-largest after Saudi Arabia's. As many as 220 billion barrels are considered probable additional Iraqi reserves. Before the current war, Iraq was producing 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, with only 1.7 million of this output authorized under the U.N. imposed "Oil-For-Food" economic sanctions. At an average price of $25 per barrel, Iraq was making $43 million per day in sanctioned sales and $20 million per day in unsanctioned ones. The United States was the biggest importer of Iraqi crude, importing 366,000 barrels a day directly into the U.S. during December 2002, with an estimated third of Iraqi oil output (800,000+ barrels per day) ultimately ending up in the United States after intermediate processing by third countries. Thus on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Americans were paying Saddam around $21 million per day or $620 million per month or around $7.5 billion per year. The rest of the world was paying him twice this much for a total of around $25 billion per year. Such "tough" economic sanctions led in some American political circles to (somewhat hypocritically, considering the level of our Iraqi imports) have contempt for the United Nations and concern over the amount of petromoney available for hostile military buildup and WMD and even terrorist bankrolling... And so there was a war.

Deliveryman Stuck in Elevator Four Days
(AP)

Deliveryman Stuck in Elevator Four Days
(AP) 04/05/2005 05:00 PM
AP - A deliveryman who vanished after taking Chinese food to a Bronx apartment complex was found alive Tuesday after apparently spending four days trapped in an elevator that had become stuck between floors.

Stuck in a Walk-Up, Only Steps Away From
Life

Stuck in a Walk-Up, Only Steps Away From
Life 01/22/2004 04:57 AM
Thousands of aged or ailing New Yorkers are virtually marooned in walk-up apartments that they cannot afford to give up.

Inmate Gets Stuck in Window During
Escape (AP)

Inmate Gets Stuck in Window During
Escape (AP) 01/26/2004 07:34 PM
AP - Instead of going over the wall, an the inmate at South Central Regional Jail tried to go through it — without much luck.

Naked man stuck in chimney on Christmas

Naked man stuck in chimney on Christmas 12/29/2003 06:06 AM
'the case of the nekid thief' .. picked it up

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