A couple years ago I reluctantly understood the l33t-spelled band names from the past 25 years or so (i.e. Korn, Limp Bizkit, etc.) If they just called themselves “Corn”, it would be very difficult to find. I had heard about this reason but did not grok it until I tried to search for music by the turn-of-the-70s band Trees. They would have been a lot easier to search for had they been spelled something like “Treez”. As it is, I couldn’t find any music by Trees except on YouTube, and I am not sure if that is because there is none available or because searches get confused.
Same.
The toy store name is from decades ago, and to (my) American eyes it has always been an obvious playful representation of a common child’s writing mistake.
I suspect they would have chosen a different wordmark had they started their business in recent years.
I was sad to see the place go! I have fond memories of taking my kids there.
Speaking of searchable names:
I once saw a photo of the sign above a Thai restaurant. The name of the restaurant was:
“Thai Food Near Me”.
Supposedly when phone books first became a thing lots of businesses changed their name to “Acme”, because that would most likely get them listed first in their category, since businesses were listed alphabetically by name. I feel like naming a business “[thing] Near Me” is the modern equivalent of doing that.
Yeah, the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Monkees had Google searches in mind when they decided on their spellings.
Too bad The Who didn’t think to do that.
Or The Doors.
Or The The.
I’ve heard Cake has that exact problem. Unless you search for “Cake music” or “Cake band” or similar Google is going to give you results for the dessert. Although it seems like Google’s gotten more intelligent about that now; I’ve notice if I’ve searched for other music related things then it will give me results for the band, “based on my recent activity”.
Especially how they never transliterate correctly. я is not R. H is an N. Etc.
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It was an ever escalating series of names. I remember Ace, then AAce, then AAAce. It was particularly done with bail bondsmen for some reason.
Yeah, when I was a kid the bedding layers went mattress, mattress pad, fitted sheet, flat sheet, blanket, and a bedspread on top.
Bedspreads were thin, decorative covers which we pulled down to the end of the bed when we retired (just in case anyone hasn’t heard of them).
Got a new 65" TV. Took me about 45 minutes to get it out of the box.
Inside the box where instructions on how to get the TV out of the box.
'cause that’s one business you often need to look up fast (similar for taxi companies)
Here’s one that’s been frustrating me lately. We have a 2014 Ford Escape. It was mainly my wife’s car, until about a year ago when we decided we really only need one car, so I got rid of mine. Before that, I never bothered syncing my phone with her car. I’d drive it in silence. Now I do hook up my phone, to the ridiculous “Sync” system in the car.
First of all, I do not listen to the radio. Ever. But, I would say about 1 in 3 times I start the car, the radio comes blasting on, even though it had not been on before. I’m not talking about a circumstance where maybe my wife had the radio on, then I used the car next. I mean, for example, I will drive to the supermarket, listening to my music on my phone, then get back in the car after shopping and the radio comes on.
The other thing that irritates the fuck out of me is the car’s inability to find my phone via Bluetooth. When the car doesn’t decide I should be listening to the radio when I start it, more than half the time it can’t find my phone. Again, this will happen if, say, I stop at 7-11 and get back in the car two minutes later. This wouldn’t be so bad, except that the “search for Bluetooth” function is buried deep in the menus of the car’s interface. I have to go through a sequence of like eight buttons to make it search for my phone again. Sometimes I have to do this multiple times. At least now I have that sequence memorized…
And of course, these things tie together! If the car decides it wants me to listen to the radio when I start it up, then it is guaranteed that the Bluetooth connection will be lost.
Yeah, I don’t think those are two separate phenomena. I think the reason it plays the radio is that it tries to start up in Bluetooth mode, doesn’t find a Bluetooth signal, and so switches to radio mode.
I don’t know how to fix it, though; nor do I blame you for finding it annoying.
I don’t have that make of car, but I do find that the BT features of my car will only be in pairing / connecting mode for the first ~20 seconds that the car’s computers are awake.
If for some reason my phone’s BT is off as I get in and start the car, turning the phone’s BT on won’t auto-connect. Because the car isn’t listening any more. So I have to chase through the car’s menus to the “Try to connect to [my phone] now” item. Which of course always succeeds.
If you have a habit of unlocking your car with your fob from 25 feet away as you walk up, that might explain it. The car wakes up before the phone’s in range, and by the time the phone is close enough, the car’s no longer in “trying to connect” mode. Or some variation on that same idea.
If you leave the car’s computers live while ducking into e.g. 7-11 you might get the same result. Which happens to me, usually inadvertently / unknowingly, when I hop out of the car for a quick stop and fail to tap the “lock” control quite hard enough. So the whole time I’m in the store the car is unlocked, computers live, but engine off. Meanwhile I’ve wandered out of BT range and they’ve disconnected from each other.
If I’m out of the unlocked live car long enough (~5 minutes), the car powers itself down, and then when I return it’s still unlocked, but fully off. So tapping the unlock thing as is my habit wakes everything up and the phone & car reconnect happily. It’s the quickie stop where the computers stay live the whole time that provokes these particular connection problems.
If none of these anecdotes match your situation, another idea is to tell the phone to forget the car, tell the car to forget the phone, reboot both of them, and re-establish their pairing afresh. it shouldn’t matter, but “shouldn’t” is a very loaded word when it comes to computers.