Speaking of YouTube…
Didn’t they used to have a page system? Where you could search through a channel’s history by clicking the pages? Or by changing a number in the address bar? Instead of having to click “load more” 50 fucking times?
I don’t know where else to post this, as I doubt that it merits its own thread. Sometimes when the gas company is working on a gas leak at the busy intersection outside, you just want to approach them with a lit candle.
https://www.theherald-news.com/2020/01/08/man-arrested-after-carrying-lit-candle-toward-gas-leak-police-say/a6ztllp/
Thanks, bobot! For the mental image of an Ebenezer Scrooge character in nightgown and sleeping cap wandering the streets with a candle…
… but also for not starting a new thread.
So many times I see [one of the repeat offenders here] devoting a whole thread to one news item. Sometimes with almost no commentary… let alone an actual point. I often say out loud (in my teacher/junior not-a-mod voice) “We HAVE a MINI-rants thread for your very MINI rant…”
Why the fuck does Firefox not have a menu based drop-down to show folder ordered bookmarks?!
I hate the fucking space taking left indexarea shit. I just want an index bar menu based drop down to the folders that contain my bookmark folders when I click on the top bookmark indicator, is that too fucking much to ask? I guess fucking so.
There are bookmark apps.
and apps are gateway to updates which is a gateway to malware.If you have the basic damn functionality, make the functionality good.
Great, Firefox is freaking out because either the Dope’s server’s calendar is set wrong, or it’s set in that weird Month-Day-Year order. In any case, it keeps telling me that the certificates are not valid. Sorry Firefox: it’s just weird, not broken.
In theory it means the point that’s aimed for. When a value range is expressed in the form X±Y, X is the nominal value.
Lots of people have suddenly been having certificate issues; ATMB has multiple threads about it. The problem seems to be fixed for most users, but I’m still getting a big “Your Connection Is Not Private” screen from Chrome when I try to access the board by clicking a link in an email. There are no issues accessing the board by clicking a bookmark.
My pest control company is pissing me off. For the last 8-10 years they have always billed in December (maybe not the best month to give someone a $400 bill) and I could always plan for it. This year they apparently changed computers/billing services and still haven’t sent me a bill. I’d like to write that debt off, because that money could end up elsewhere, but the only answer I get is 'we’re working on it, be patient".
Patience my ass.
A minor public service announcement about how things work in the Emergency Department:
If you are brought in with altered mental status and your family member at bedside gives history suggesting that you had a seizure but have no prior history of seizures you’re going to get a big work-up including labs, head CT and neurology consult. If you later demand to leave the ED before this work-up is complete you and I are going to have a conversation to assess whether you are alert and oriented and have the mental capacity to refuse care. I will ask you a series of questions. These question are not complicated or invasive. They run along the lines of, “What day is it today?” “What city do you live in?” or “Do you realize that it’s cold outside and you have no pants?” If you appear unable to answer these questions or give nonsensical answers to them not only can I keep you in the ED against your will - I am in fact obligated to do so. If, in your desire to leave, you make threatening statements to my staff you will get security sat outside your door to make sure that the staff are safe as they care for you. If you actually take a swing at anyone that will earn you 4 point restraints and a police report. And if it later transpires that you actually are alert and oriented and just giving weird answers and threatening staff because you are an asshole I will happily give you AMA paperwork and let you leave. But you spent easily an extra 2 hours in the department you so desperately wanted to leave, wasted my time, wasted the nurses time and wasted security staff time. So just answer the damn questions the first time I ask you.
My mini rant is I can’t read the story in your link because I keep getting a popup asking me to subscribe and I can’t find a way to disable it.
That’s when I google “arrested candle gas leak” and find another source. And discover the guy wasn’t confused, he was just an asshole.
He was ordered back into his house multiple times for interfering with police trying to keep the public from… well, blowing up. So then he comes out with a candle, pulls out his lighter and proceeds to try to light it in front of the cops.
One night, years back, when I was trying to get home from school, my commute was delayed by a jumper on the Golden Gate Bridge. The person hadn’t actually jumped - they were clinging to the outside of the bridge, and the cops were trying to talk him back off the edge. Consequently, they’d closed that side of the bridge to traffic. I normally transferred buses at the bridge, so I was stuck standing there at the bus pad, where I could see a bit of what was going on.
As I’m waiting, this guy shows up. He’d seen what was happening on the news, and immediately raced over on his bike. I was a little :dubious: at this, until he pulled a police whistle out of his pocket, and asked me, “Should I blow it?” Dude was hoping to startle the guy into jumping. I was too shocked to say anything, but I guess the expression on my face was suitably communicative, because he put the whistle away and stopped talking to me.
The guy ended up not jumping, btw.
Yeah, when I had missing cat posters everywhere with my number on damn sure I folowed up every missing cat. (but I never found her, sigh).
Woke up to my house being a cool 52f. While I like the cold, this was a bit too cool for my taste.
I knew the thermostat was on its last legs, and really the timing was good, as I had purchased a new one yesterday. Electrician brother in law was kind enough to install the new one.
House warms up. All is well.
Except.
The thermostat isn’t level and it’s driving me bonkers!
Apple, I’m here to complain about you again, about an entirely different outdated Mac product.
The video card went… it happens, the thing is old yes? So I research how to replace it and it involves numerous steps, acceptable given that it’s an All In One iMac. However, when I get to the part where the guy says “unscrew these three screws” and all I see are the backsides of screw holes, I realize you made a change when you updated the model. I no longer unscrew three screws and remove the video card, I unscrew 12 screws, unhook 87 connectors, remove the mother board, pray to the almighty god of not accidentally destroying something, and unscrew the three screws from the opposite side. Then I spend half an hour trying to put the mother board back in, reconnect the 87 connectors, take it all back out again because one connector on the board is empty, then put it all back in again when I realize it was never connected to anything in the first place.
At least the computer is running again.
Missy can no longer walk. I KNEW this was going to happen, she’s a spoiled rotten cat and now that she has a guilt stricken slave willing to lift her from her bed to her litter box when she meows, she has stopped walking and just meows. For some reason she is very distressed when her guilt stricken slave leaves and the mom/bitch comes home. Mom/bitch (me) is a total bitch who refuses to allow this sort of entrapment, which causes much pouting or limping/sick kitty displays.
(Missy is healing up just fine. Cats are jerks. And drama queens. They only domesticated humans because we have tasty garbage and the ability to hunt and gather (and open) cans or pouches of gooshy fud. And they are jerks.)
ALSO, my blood work came back and my pre-exposure rabies titers are low and I have to get a booster and more blood work. Not only are cats jerks, trying to help with the feral problem is expensive and a pain in the arm.
Did I happen to mention that cats are jerks?
I’m also just a little crabby because I have to interview people for a part time job opening tomorrow, and I really hate doing that. I’m an archivist, not human resources!
An off level thermostat would make me even more crabby, MissTake. I totally get your pain, it will annoy every single time you look at it.
Can you drape one of those feather boas or a garland or something around the edges, to conceal the tilt a little? It’ll look funny, but roll with it. Get the hot pink feather boa if you can.
Would a few taps with a hammer help?
When I was helping our handyman replace our back door, we couldn’t get the jamb quite level. He said we’d have to take it all out and start over (a lot more time… and money). I went and got my sledgehammer, and asked about just hitting it til it was level, and he said “I’m a craftsman, I do not just ‘hit things with a sledgehammer’… [pause] …you on the other hand…”
Two hefty whacks later, everything was level.
I’ve almost succeeded in purging ads by Presidential candidates from my Facebook pages. But not quite.
Today I had one from Tom Steyer. I clicked on “hide ad” and Facebook wanted to know why I wanted to do that, giving me multiple choices, none of which was “tired of seeing whiny begging ads, especially from billionaires”.
So I chose “already purchased”. 