Yay! The two large bottles of hand sanitizer finally arrived late this afternoon. Not fair to accuse UPS of maybe not even ringing the doorbell as I was having a nap at the time, but thankfully the driver had the presence of mind to leave the package on a porch chair instead of taking it back and causing massive headaches for everyone concerned. This is not exactly a high-crime neighborhood and Amazon leaves stuff on the porch all the time, often without even bothering to ring.
And kudos to the seller, RED Medical Supplies in BC, for including a free package of isopropyl alcohol wipes and a bunch of latex gloves as part of their “safe shopping” wishes. They also charged very reasonable market prices for quality hand sanitizer.
I had a small package sent to me by UPS at the beginning of February. No show. Eventually I gave up, and was annoyed enough to initiate a complaint/investigation which involved far more time and hoop-jumping than even my cynical ass had expected, even given that they’d reasonably try to discourage excess/frivolous claims.
I was eventually also annoyed enough to put in a twice monthly reminder in my fucking phone to keep following up (politely) because jack diddley fucking squat had been the result so far.
Anyhooo … guess what showed up late last week? Three solid months. Go U.P.S.
But I digress, as I originally came here to lodge a complaint against Honda’s design dept. The buttons for my car windows are set way further up than I seem to expect, so inevitably I roll down the back window instead of mine, or my passenger.
Trivial, you say.
I say: occasionally a car window needs to be opened on a very highly expedited timeframe, such as for a sudden “OMG gonna puke” or the cherry in a lit cigarette fell out. Hi officer! No reason to wonder if I’m impaired, let’s make a great first impression!
I’ve owned this car for two and a half years, hell I lived in it for a solid week on the drive up from Tx to Mich and I still roll down the wrong window. Every. Fucking. Time.
It’s not the car, dear. It’s that your seat is too far back. You need to pull it up so that you’re breathing on the steering wheel like I do (so I can reach the damn peddles)
The switches on the door of my Honda don’t open and close the window. They lock/unlock the doors. The unlabeled window switches are on the dashboard under the speedometer… sigh. It’s a 2000 Insight, the first hybrid, and they were trying to be futuristic and innovative. But not practical.
I’ve owned the car for years, but whenever I have to get that window down quickly (like trying to pay to get out of a parking garage with a line of cars behind me)… I still lock the door instead.
I feel the same about this as the inscrutable shower fixtures I posted about earlier. In my job I drive a lot of rental cars and I’m more and more dismayed at the shoddy ergonomics. I’d be really surprised to learn there is a good engineering reason for the window switches to be located somewhere other than near those windows. Which means they made that decision based on aesthetics, I suppose.
Same for these new shifters I’m seeing. We’ve had gearshifts for what, over a hundred years now? Suddenly they have to be rotary knobs, or toggle switches instead of putting a lever into a physical detent.
For chrissake, can’t we have a little standardization and ergonomics based on functionality? They’re human operated moving vehicles first and entertainment delivery mechanisms / artistic expressions a distant fucking second.
This is why I drive a 20-year-old car. I don’t want to learn the new trendy places to put basic functions. Also it’s getting harder and harder to find a manual drive car and I don’t wanna give mine up.
Aren’t a lot of transmissions electronically controlled now? In those cases, there doesn’t need to be a physical connection to the transmission, hence the move away from a stick-shaped mechanism to shift. That still doesn’t excuse shoddy designs though…a lot of it seems to be tied in to designers thinking that everyone is happy receiving all of their feedback from one or two tiny screens on the dash.
Well, COVID-19 has finally infected someone I know personally. Up to now, if I wanted to worry about the health of someone I know, I had to fall back on the two people dear to me who have recently been diagnosed with cancer - not exactly trendy. Now I feel like I’m a little more up to date.
My friend just bought a new Ford Fusion and brought it over for me to test drive. It’s a nice car (I love all the sensors on his high-end version) but having to turn a little knob to engage the transmission feels ridiculous. The throttle controls on a modern jetliner look just like they did in the 1930s – the basic design of the human interface remains the same, even if it’s fly-by-wire.
Today, my BB finally lost it over politics. He wants to leave Texas and move to Nevada. He has a whole bunch of good reasons/excuses and I do agree with most of them, but moving totally sucks and I don’t wanna. I also don’t wanna leave my personal work kingdom.
I don’t wanna stop working, I don’t wanna lose our housekeeper, I don’t wanna lose my garden, I don’t wanna move away from yet more friends.
I like to leave videos on autoplay while I’m doing chores. But, not only does it frequently play videos I’ve already seen, but it even ends up in two video loops of VideoA -> VideoB -> VideoA -> VideoB.
I’ve given up on their video suggestions and autoplay; I have to manually go through the list of my subscribed channels for new videos and/or manually search for videos that are close to my interests from other channels.
This thing’s worth billions, it’s so strange how key parts of the functionality are still, frankly, pretty amateurish.
Who the hell GMOed flour to be invisible? I have goddamn flour moths, I have had them for about 14 months now. I see one every 2-3 days or so, without fail. But there is no unsecured or sealed flour/meal/dough mix anywhere. I have looked 2 million times, including an absolute scouring 6 times; checking and double checking every shelf, drawer, nook and cranny, there is no possible source. But they just keep showing up. ARGGHHHH!
