That's no fun

The Ikea web site has an "ask Anna" link.

So I ask Anna "What is the best pop music song ever made?"

Her reply? "Your receipt is your proof of purchase for a return of a product. The numbers needed are located in the upper right hand corner of the receipt. It is an 11 digit number starting with 0 and in this format: 0### 0### 0##. However if the barcode is readable it can be scanned in the store.
Was this answer helpful?"

No, Anna, no. Your reply was not helpful.

ETA: However the programmers have a sense of fun.

"What is the meaning of life?"
"That's a good question, unfortunately I only know the answers to questions about IKEA and our products."

"How many roads must a man walk down?"
"Transport is not something about which I'm programmed to discuss. Sorry."

I'm sure someone can come up with an "Anna meme"...

New wakeup music?

Back in 1993 I bought a CD called "Woman To Woman: The Very Best Of Female Singer Songwriters".

At the time I had it on my "5 CD" deck. I would play it when I went to sleep. Later when I got a CD Alarm clock I would go to sleep listening to it, and wake up to it. Umm...it's 2014 and I'm _still_ using this CD. (Well, the original CD has bit-rot so I'm using an mp3 rip I took in 2001). Seriously, for as as long as I've been in America (14 years), if not longer, this has been my "go to sleep, wake up" music. It's been my most played ever CD.

I wonder if it's time to change...

What I really want is an alarm clock that'll play my mp3 collection via wifi (smb share/nfs/whatever). I'd hoped the Chumby would do this, but the LED display wasn't really suitable for a bedside alarm clock IMHO. And there was no "simple" alarm clock function. My current CD-based alarm clock has a simple function; "press this button and play music for 30 minutes" (can be changed). That's great for "go to sleep". Many computer-based alarm clocks focus on the 'wake up' side but have piss-poor 'go to sleep' functionality. I never found a chumby alarm clock that could replicate this simple function.

So I'm still listening to this same 20-year-old CD... I know I'm on time when I hit the off button when the song says 'pipe dream' :-)