Already got a replacement ordered for free, wp. Again the main point is how it was just dropped off empty, something I’d expect one of those planned delivery bots/drones to do, but not a human driver.
Why? because their metric for success is “package delivered,” not “contents delivered.” Because they are on such tight timelines that they have no room for independent thought. Because they company knows that a non-zero percentage won’t go through the hassle of reporting the problem, but will just order again.
Somebody egged my car tonight as I was driving home.
Really? At today’s prices?
On a positive note it sounds like you have two ready ways to put out the fire.
Wealth flex - probably did it while lighting their cigar with a c-note.
Didn’t Bob &/or Doug McKenzie pee out a fire?
I wanted to watch the SNL 50 special but the wind (gusts to 60+mph) were playing havoc with the signal.
I’m not sure what you were expecting. SEPTA is one of the bigger transit agencies in the country & operate just about every type of transit out there, bus, subway, trolleys, trackless trolleys, rail lines with multiple lines for each . There were significant (& some very questionable stoopit) changes by them on Friday. Every one of the regional rail were inbound only in the morning & outbound only in the afternoon/evening, with stops at very limited stations & all fares required to be purchased in advance, at least the day before.
Anything other than going to their website or app would have taken the entire newscast to report on. Similarly with traffic. Philly is in an eight-county metro area; the parade route was widely publicized; one had to figure a couple of blocks on both sides of it to be closed & even more blocks were in the smart person’s ‘stay-away’ area due to congestion of both vehicles & 1½ million parade goers walking to/from the parade.
Apparently Mother Nature reads the Dope, and caught wind of my stealth-bragging about how we hardly get any snow here any more. So Mother rolled up her sleeves and did her worst.
There was an impressive amount of snow here last Thursday. But that was just Mother getting warmed up. It began to snow again on Saturday, just light snow but the kind that goes on and on and eventually there’s quite an accumulation. Then on Sunday it turned into a downright snowpocalypse. The airport reported more snow in the past few days than in the entirety of last winter, much of it coming on Sunday.
I’m also done lamenting that Snowplow Guy doesn’t earn his fee. I’m now wondering if he manages to get any sleep. He’s been by more times than I can count, and within hours of him leaving, there’s more snow. There’s now such a huge mountain of snow piled at the curb beside the driveway that he’s taken to pushing it further down the street. The unfortunates who have to shovel are being helped by neighbours with snowblowers.
The forecast for today is: more snow. For tomorrow: more snow, only not as much. With diminishing probabilities of snow for virtually the entire rest of the week. And there’s still a month left of official winter.
This may be partly due to La Nina, which as a broad general rule tends to trigger higher than normal precipitation. But as to why this suddenly all happened in February, you’ll have to ask Mother.
From one of the Facebook groups I belong to-
(not an exact quote) “My grand daughter is in seventh grade. She is learning about Alexander The Great. When we will she ever use this?”
I saw another member had already commented “Umm, it’s history?” I decided it would be best not to get involved.
When I was in seventh grade, I and my classmates had some idea of what we were good at. We knew some things we liked doing. We had no idea what we would do for a career.
I find ‘Why do I have to take this class? I will never use this!’ a valid complaint when talking about college. Way back whenI was in college, besides courses that actually taught things related to the degree I wanted, I was required to take ‘electives’. Mandatory electives?
But, up through the twelfth grade it is a reasonable strategey to teach students all that they can learn about any subject that may be useful later.
My Chromebook apparently does not want me to use Facebook. Almost every time I open Facebook lately only one post shows up, if that. Underneath that post is gray spaces, as if the laptop is trying to load additional posts but can’t. I’ve tried refreshing the page, but that doesn’t help; when I go to the menu and select Feeds the same thing happens, with only one post showing up. I do not have this problem with my desktop computer. I have FB Purity on both computers.
Two Mini Rants
First, I had today off. I had a long list of things I planned to do. All I got done was calling my Mom to see when she is coming to Philly next month and help her schedule things, and going grocery shopping.
Rant #2
The Target I shop at was out of fruit punch flavor Mio last week. I bought some pink lemonade Crystal Light instead. It was vile. I was sure they would have more in stock this week. They did not. I bought blueberry/raspberry Crystal Light which is kind of good. I do not know what I will do if that particular Target has stopped carrying the stuff.
I was having that problem too on my laptop. If I used Chrome I’d get the same situation you were describing. If I used Edge it seemed to work OK and it was fine on my phone. Seems to be working again in Chrome today.
My desktop uses Firefox, and I was having intermittent problems with Facebook for a while but that seems to have stopped. Facebook worked fine on Chrome just now. I’ve never used Edge unless forced at gunpoint.
LOL me too! My agency forces us to use it for our internet based data maintenance system and I hate it.
The first version of Edge was trash.
So they revamped it with Chromium and it’s great. I used Firefox for many years; I used Netscape back in the day, then moved to Mozilla which was built by former Netscape developers, and then Firefox which evolved from Mozilla. I was very dedicated to that whole set of browsers for decades.
Edge has left it in the dust and while it was actually painful to abandon something I loved for so long, it’s just better. Faster, more stable, less of a resource hog. Which is a weird thing to say about a Microsoft product but somehow they pulled it off.
I still have a lingering mistrust of any Microsoft browser after seeing how little attention they paid to security back with IE. I don’t think their regard for their users has improved in the slightest. I only use Edge to download Chrome/Brave to a new computer or as a desperation fallback if I encounter a website so poorly designed that it gets finicky about what browser one can use with it.
I’ve never experienced a security issue with Edge, but this seems like a very valid reason for caution due to Microsoft’s history.
IE was absolutely horrible on this front and that’s one of the main reasons why I never used it by my own choice at any point. And it’s a reason why I was skeptical to give Edge a chance (though I’m glad I eventually did).
I don’t know when it ended, but I know that with some earlier versions of Windows, at least up to Windows 2000, and probably XP or Vista, the way to get updates to Windows itself was to visit a particular Microsoft web site using IE. The browser had the ability to detect what version of Windows you were running, what updates it needed, and to download and install those updates, all from within the browser.
Think about what that means. The web browser—the same one which one might be using to browse any number of other sites of varying degrees of trustworthiness or not— had the power to alter the operating system itself.
As easily as it could install legitimate updates to Windows it could, in theory at least, also download and install all manner of malware from dodgy web site.
Microsoft is, of course, the same company that with some versions of Outlook, introduced the capability for executable code to be embedded in an email message, and run when that message was read using Outlook. That ended up, for a time, becoming a major vector for a particularly virulent form of malware; when a user read an infected message in Outlook, the embedded code would read that user’s address book, and send infected messages to every contact in that address book.
My primary issue with Edge has always been the way it was practically rammed down my throat whenever I bought a new computer; I would use it to install Firefox and then try to ignore the repeated attempts to try to make me use Edge.
There are one or two websites I use that don’t play well with Firefox and I am forced to use Chrome to access them. I’m not happy when I do so, and I have complained to their customer service when they tell me that their website “isn’t compatible” with Firefox and I should try using another browser.
Here is a graph showing browser market share since 2012:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/268254/market-share-of-internet-browsers-worldwide-since-2009/
Chrome has grown massively over that period and currently has 65% of the market, with Safari in a distant second place at 18%. The next biggest one is Edge at 5%.
Firefox is less than 3% and is just barely above the Samsung browser (which you have on Samsung mobile devices, I don’t like it) and Opera.
Firefox had about 23% at the start of that graph. I think Chrome stole everyone’s thunder, the only other browser to see big growth over that period was Safari which more than doubled.
I get why a web designer might not want to deal with Firefox compatibility, but it’s still the 4th biggest browser so it seems a bit lazy to me.