Mike's Blog » For Sale http://www.mikeheijmans.com A site about everything and nothing at all Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Google Maps – Fail! http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2008/08/google-maps-fail/ http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2008/08/google-maps-fail/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:05:31 +0000 mike http://www.mikeheijmans.com/?p=99 Over the weekend I was driving around Sunnyvale trying to find a place to live that is close to work when I decided that I needed some things from Wal-Mart. Now, I am not familiar with the area so, I pulled out the blackberry and loaded up Google maps. I have the curve with the GPS so, finding places near me is really simple. I typed “walmart” in the search and quickly got a list of local Wal-Mart stores. The closest looked to be in Moutainview, so I clicked on “directions to here” from my location and got the turn by turn. Here is where the problem comes in… I followed the directions right to the NASA Ames research facility. The directions took me right up to the security checkpoint! There is no Wal-Mart located on the military base. What went wrong here? Well, upon further inspection, I found that the Wal-Mart that I had chosen to go to was listed as Wal-Mart, Mountainview, Ca. Because there was no street address, I guess google wanted me to see where thier new facility on base would be or something. Lisa was with me and she has a military ID so we went on base to see where the map goes… The map led me right to the big NASA hanger (pictured below). Maybe, Google Earth saw a big ass building and assumed it must be a Wal-Mart. Needless to say, I was not happy about it. Perhaps making the app smart enough to at least warn that there is no street would be nice! Lesson Learned though.

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]]> http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2008/08/google-maps-fail/feed/ 0 What is this you are trying to sell me? http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2007/12/what-is-this-you-are-trying-to-sell-me/ http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2007/12/what-is-this-you-are-trying-to-sell-me/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:00:43 +0000 mike http://www.mikeheijmans.com/?p=51 Tis the season for shopping and crappy products on store shelves. Here are two products that were recently found while out and about shopping for the holiday season.

First is the “Stay Straight” Doo-Hicky

What is this thing? Is it a hair appliance or maybe a homophobic person’s dream device? From looking at the packaging, there is no indication whatsoever about what in the hell this thing is for or even how it works. The information gleaned from the package is that it is a kitchen product. That is it. It was selling for $1.00 and I was thinking about buying it just to have if I needed to keep things straight.

Second up is the “Peg Legged Kitty” Ornament

This poor item was found tucked away in the holiday section at my local TJ Maxx store. I see the concept but it is a horrible execution. Did anyone step back and look at this poor thing before they sent it in to production? And what blind retail buyer decided to pick this product up?! Honestly people, are you serious?! I don’t know what is worse, the fact that the cat is crippled or the fact that the cat looks like it knows and is sad and confused about it. I almost bought it out of pity because who is honestly going to buy a crippled kitty to hang on their Christmas tree?

Thank you to my lovely Lisa for pointing these things out in the store, making me take the pictures, and suggesting that I post them on my blog.

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