Products too costly

September 12, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XIX: Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Pet travel guide:
http://www.dogfriendly.com/
 

Naked in the bathroom

September 11, 2016
When I get naked in the bathroom, the shower usually gets turned on.

Website 4 the day:
Hotels that allow pets:
http://pets-allowed-hotels.com/
 

Expensive unreliability

September 9, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XVIII: It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Pet-friendly travel:
http://www.bringfido.com/
 

Software and entropy

September 8, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XVII: Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Old SF:
http://www.oldsf.org/#
 

2054 aircraft

September 7, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
IoT search engine:
https://www.shodan.io
 

Last 10 percent

September 7, 2016
Augstine'sAugstine's Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Hidden worlds of national parks:
https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/
 

No more plane crashes

September 6, 2016

Augstine's Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Moving balls:
http://www.haneke.net/
 

Highly successful businesses

September 5, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XIII: There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Website info:
http://builtwith.com/
 

Cinderella off the team

September 4, 2016
Cinderella thrown off the basketball team because she ran away from the ball.

Website 4 the day:
Hamster butts:
https://twitter.com/9GAG/status/767036031975694336
 

Cost of bad products

September 2, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XII: It costs a lot to build bad products.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Hot glue hacks:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IahCw6plBhs
 

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