Posted in Automotive

Moonwalk One

Moonwalk One

Moonwalk One, disappointing.

The notion of unseen footage of anything to do with going into space is for me a very compelling watch. However, in this case the highly advertised and waited for program on the Discovery channel just left me looking for the remote to switch over within the first 10 minutes.

The NASA “technical” camera coverage was superb, the small and large footage of the take off, module separations and in space shots were something else; but unfortunately ran to only ~20mins worth. The rest of the program, another 30 minutes or more was utter drivel – long shots of nothing to do with space, mind numbing music and a voice over that made you feel like you were in 2010 a space odyssey!

A short program on the 20 minutes of quality footage would have easily been better than the drawn out waste of airtime I watched.

Discovery, we have a problem!

Posted in General Info

FedUp

Next day! no way.

It amazes me how with today’s mapping and location awareness technology companies like FedEx can get away with saying ’sorry guv we couldn’t find you!

We ordered some brass door handles on Thursday morning last week and paid an extra charge to get then the following day as we wanted them fitted by the carpenter we’d arranged for Friday.

Today after ringing up the company to find out where they are do we finally find out that FedEx could not find the house.

FedEx could have:

a) Used a mapping service to locate the house as they had our full address – or -
b) Contacted us or the company we bought the door handles from.

FedEx did none of these, and a next day delivery turned into 5 days! and that’s just poor service.

We’ll get our delivery charge back, I just hope that the company we bough the handles from do the same with FedEx.