https://www.youfailed.us/ Jim & Sheldon write when something goes wrong. https://www.youfailed.us/nice-ai/ https://www.youfailed.us/nice-ai/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT People tell me their stories about how they're using AI now. I try my best to say "nice!" (my signature response), or "nicely done!" or "wow!" . . . but most of the time I'm just not impressed. Even the more advanced stuff, like "I put our build process into Slack" , usually leaves me disappointed. https://www.youfailed.us/thanks-best-buy/ https://www.youfailed.us/thanks-best-buy/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:44:06 GMT As soon as I saw anything about the Switch 2 I knew we had to get it. I mean, it's the only way to play the latest Mario games and me and the kids have had SO MUCH FUN with Super Mario 3D World over the years I just can't imagine not playing the latest. We loved that game so much we that we purchase https://www.youfailed.us/hirevue-is-good/ https://www.youfailed.us/hirevue-is-good/ Fri, 02 May 2025 06:10:53 GMT I just did an interview where the company used "HireVue" ( https://www.hirevue.com/ ) . . . one of those hiring tools where you do an interview but are recording video answers instead of talking to a person. I was avoiding it like crazy thinking it was so impersonal and just didn't feel real. But on https://www.youfailed.us/dyson-vacuums-actually-worth-it/ https://www.youfailed.us/dyson-vacuums-actually-worth-it/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:55:23 GMT Many years ago I got a regular Dyson vacuum that plugs into the wall (DC17 Asthma and Allergy). I have a registration email from Dyson I got on 5/20/2009. It still works. Over 15 years! All I have ever done to it is empty it and clean out the rollers of hair n stuff. It does "smell" in that it has t https://www.youfailed.us/fcc-did-what-now/ https://www.youfailed.us/fcc-did-what-now/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:54:09 GMT Once again I feel like I'm missing something. Lots of praise but I just don't see this as a net positive. Here is a link. "Today’s vote also makes clear that the Commission will exercise its authority over broadband in a narrowly tailored fashion— without rate regulation, tariffing, or unbundling—to https://www.youfailed.us/something-is-off-about-banning-tiktok/ https://www.youfailed.us/something-is-off-about-banning-tiktok/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:36:16 GMT Very strange to me to pick on a particular company using legislation. But so many people are happy about it including most of congress, Biden, Gruber , most of the hosts at All In . Just seems so strange to be agreeing with Sacks. Even a survey of close friends gets either a meh or a good. I think t https://www.youfailed.us/haxmas-2022-at-heatsync/ https://www.youfailed.us/haxmas-2022-at-heatsync/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:30:48 GMT For the last several years Heatsync Labs has held an event called HAXMAS where card holding members keep the lab open for at least 48 hours straight. The idea here is that with the lab open the public has time to MAKE the best Christmas gifts ever! Luis is the organizer of the event and takes on mor https://www.youfailed.us/myprusastory/ https://www.youfailed.us/myprusastory/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:18:52 GMT #myprusastory tldr; My first 3D printer was free because a friend couldn't get it to work. I wanted to try a better printer but $750? Then the Prusa Mini was announced! 2 years later and now we have 7. We take them to events where we teach people how to model->slice->print. 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Since he probably won't read it I'll post it here so even more people won't read it. I went to c https://www.youfailed.us/pixel-6-is-trash/ https://www.youfailed.us/pixel-6-is-trash/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 15:24:42 GMT This is a classic "you failed us" post. I'm so disappointed. Recently a friend of mine typed that line, "Pixel 6 is trash", in chat. I asked "what do you mean"? And he talked about how slow it was, how the updates have been flawed and people are having trouble, and even a few other things I forgot n https://www.youfailed.us/yes-we-got-covid/ https://www.youfailed.us/yes-we-got-covid/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:25:00 GMT And it was from the cursed cruise. Mostly it was just a mild cold and resulted in a runny nose, fatigue, and what I call a "fat lip" that was kinds like a cold sore. Still though it wasn't great and it meant waiting in long lines for tests not to mention not being able to take Dex to the baby sitter https://www.youfailed.us/snow-people/ https://www.youfailed.us/snow-people/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:20:10 GMT One of my favorite pastimes is to watch Youtube about 3D printers. At some point you get tired of reviews (especially if you have one and don't want to lust over yet another one!) so you move onto prints and creators. One of my favorite creators is "3D Printy" . His designs are amazing and his video https://www.youfailed.us/haxmas-2021-at-heatsync-labs/ https://www.youfailed.us/haxmas-2021-at-heatsync-labs/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:43:02 GMT For the last several years * Heatsync Labs has held an event called HAXMAS where card holding members keep the lab open for at least 48 hours straight. The idea here is that with the lab open you have time to MAKE the best Christmas gifts ever! Luis is the organizer of the event and takes on more th https://www.youfailed.us/more-about-the-clips-from-2021-holiday-lights/ https://www.youfailed.us/more-about-the-clips-from-2021-holiday-lights/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:12:28 GMT You might remember the _o_ to o___o conversation from the last blog post. You don't? Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension (or maybe I should be a better writer . . . there is plenty of blame to go around). ANYWAY, we had another install! At Jim's house! And this was the first test of https://www.youfailed.us/led-christmas-2021-project/ https://www.youfailed.us/led-christmas-2021-project/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 03:30:50 GMT WOW! It's been a long time. My last job kept me too busy to blog and I had another kid and my . . . . okay those are all excuses. But after all this time I do miss it! So I finally had a reason to write and kept thinking I need to 1) move to https! 2) refresh the theme 3) something else . . . and th https://www.youfailed.us/phone-holder-for-gilbert-days-parade-2021/ https://www.youfailed.us/phone-holder-for-gilbert-days-parade-2021/ Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:10:00 GMT This year Patterson and some other Gilbert Elementary schools were asked to participate in the Gilbert Days Parade. Okay, okay, I don't really know if they asked or if they had to pay to participate or how exactly it worked out that Patterson was going. All I know is we were going to walk the mile o https://www.youfailed.us/thanks-urs-and-aecom/ https://www.youfailed.us/thanks-urs-and-aecom/ Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:49:13 GMT Today is my last day at AECOM (formerly URS). It's been a wonderful 2 years and I'm thankful and grateful I made the leap. I've repeated this story many times but for the first few months after leaving ASU I thought I made the second biggest mistake of my working life (first being . . . well, ask me