And as an update to my previous post, I called EA to try to resolve this issue–their response is that their order lookup tool is offline and they can’t find my order at all in any other way (name, address, actual order number, last 4 digits of credit card used). This, despite the fact that the payment has already left my bank account.
Congratulations EA, you just lost my business for any title you ever release again. I’ll stick with online distribution systems which actually value me for actually wanting to pay for a game, rather than pirate it.
I just went onto a website with an online form. The form insists I put my birthdate in this format:
mmddyyyy
But it only has room for six characters, thus:
mmddyy
So now I can’t fill it out. I submitted a complaint to CS, but come on. And it’s a form that I think a lot of people used - no one ever complained before?
They changed the cds on the ‘background’ music at work. It used to be an assortment of Celtic/new agey stuff: no words you could understand, sort of bland, soft stuff flowing into other soft stuff. IOW, easy to fade into the background.
Now they have instrumentals. With a capital INSTRUMENT. Lots and lots of showy violin stuff and worse, piano stuff. Nothing but one piano with tons of runs and crescendos and god knows what stunts.
I hates it.
It’s impossible to ignore, it make it hard to understand people on the telephone, it drills its way into my consciousness when I’m trying to concentrate.
You remember in Amadeus when the one king complained there were too many notes in Mozart’s latest compositions? That’s how I feel. All day long its either someone sawing away at a violin or plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink …
ARRGH!
Unless I’m wrong (and it’s possible), the person who was trying to drive over me when I was crossing in a crosswalk with a walk light did not have the right-of-way - I DID! Honking and yelling at me was not cool.
What do you think? She had a dedicated left turn green arrow, then it turned yellow, then it became a solid green, and the sign at that intersection says, “Yield on solid green.” She entered the intersection after the yellow arrow came on, and then expected me to not start walking when my walk light came on so she could make her left turn after her arrow was off. I think she was supposed to stay back until oncoming traffic and pedestrians cleared; she obviously did not agree.
hey, internet assholes. I know you like to make it seem like you’re such hardasses because you have “bug-out bags,” but cut the crap. If the shit really hits the fan, you’re going to need a fuck of a lot more than can fit in a backpack. If catastrophe strikes, who lives and dies is probably going to be determined by location. Whether or not you had enough matches, chlorine tablets, and ammo in your backpack will play an insignificant role at best.
I’m not prepared to make assertions regarding traffic law in Calgary, but in California, if you’re past the limit line when the light turns red, you’re good to proceed through the intersection. In fact, you’re required to proceed through the intersection. Stopping in the intersection is a moving violation.
She didn’t have red she had a solid green light (you can have green arrows or solids, arrows and the pedestrian has the don’t walk and opposing traffic has the red to facilitate the flow of traffic, green and the pedestrian had the walk in addition to opposing traffic with a green) and needed to yield to opposing traffic and pedestrians as a result. You can be in the intersection waiting to turn, but only one car at a time, and must yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
I remember a few years ago the police went on a binge of ticketing people who cut in front of/just behind pedestrians.
I got the horn last night coming home from school when I stopped for pedestrians in a legitimate crosswalk (no lights). Stupid other drivers, if you don’t like stopping for pedestrians don’t drive past the 'dome after the game lets out.
That’s what I was wondering, too - I can see that a car needs to clear the intersection once they’re in it, but that’s what the yellow arrow is for - to warn you that you’re about to lose your advance green, and stay back. I think what I’m running into at this intersection (I walk there maybe once or twice a week, and run into this problem almost every time) is that people treat a yellow light as “go faster” when it actually means “stop if you can safely - your green light is over.”
I’m flying to my house tomorrow. Bill is doing well, but I don’t trust him to not drive. I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to leave. I don’t want to fly. I want to just call my boss and tell her that I’m going to spend the rest of my days doing good works.
And…I also think that the best thing I can do now is cut Bill free.
That’s quite the bombshell to drop on The Audience That Is Flatlined’s.
Are you sure? I hope you thought this through before you got us all upset. Now, if you just posted it as a possibility, I have all sorts of advice for you… but I’ll refrain. I really don’t know what’s best for you.
Just don’t want you to make a rash, emotional decision.
Real estate porn shows, we get it - people with kids want kid-friendly houses and neighbourhoods. Do you really have to state it over and over and over and over and over in an episode if someone has kids that they want that? Gah! I don’t know who to blame for this - the parents or the producers.
Try convincing real estate folk that not EVERYONE wants a 4BR house on a cul-de-sac with good schools… When we moved to TN I went through 3 agents before I found someone who believed me when I said my priority was acreage, fencing & outbuildings, not sq ft of house (or home - gaack, but that’s another rant), quality of schools, and the closest mall.
I get annoyed at the agents who keep showing people houses over their price range. When I bought my first house, I looked at probably 40 houses with this little old lady agent who was a family friend. NOT ONE was in my actual price range. So I fired her ass and found my house on my own.
So when I watch the same thing on these shows, it drives me nuts. Especially that one show where the couple had like 3 days to find a house in the town they were going to be transferred to, and not a fucking one of the houses they were shown was even remotely in their price range.
Heh - my ideal house is nowhere near a school - save all those houses for people with kids, not a couple like my husband and me who would prefer kids to be not near us.
Really? People actually pay attention to me instead of my rants about SG and the RatKing? Wow.
I wish I had read your advice about the coil wire before I packed up to leave. I’m sure that Bill will be driving his stupid self around by Monday.
We both need to cut loose from each other for a while. We both assume that we will be married or shack up or something, its just a matter of when. We talk and agree that we won’t make any decisions for another year, then we go out to measure the back yard to see how much room we have to build a foster cat house.
OMG, I hates flying. I only have to carry my laptop bag now, but the checking in process still sucks. Getting searched as I left the airport was overkill.
