I’m not even sure if this qualifies as a mini-rant, but an acquaintance with whom I haven’t interacted in a decade has recently gotten into the public speaking circuit. I think he’s also authored a book, but I’m not sure.
Well, apparently he decided it would be kosher to add his address book for his daily e-mail newsletters.
For the past 3 months, I’ve received this e-mails relating to things of which I have no interest. I realize I could unsubscribe, but I worry that he might take even a modicum of offense to it, and it barely takes any time at all to mark it as read, but getting a notification only to see that it’s his regular spam is starting to annoy me.
I don’t want to mark his e-mail address as spam, in the off-chance that we end up reconnecting, but there isn’t really a way to create a rule where any of his newsletters get directed to a spam folder, and other e-mails from him would not. He varies up his Subject Lines so it’s hard to predict what words should be added to a filter.
Like I said, minor annoyance, but I don’t think it’s good form to subscribe others to a newsletter without getting their permission to do so.
This will probably turn into its own thread, but Mom failed an initial memory test, advocated for by Dad at my insistence. So now for an MRI on the 18th to take a look at her beautiful genius brain that has not been working so well.
Same day I’m getting a CT to look at my narrowed airway that’s been bothering me for a couple months.
Damnit, I just checked my Firefox extensions, and almost every single one is tagged “Legacy”. No telling if they’ll be updated in time for Mozilla’s November switchover to their new framework.
I know you’re all in love with white space right now, but it’s time you took a step back and rediscovered the beauty of dark outlines. Specifically on webforms. No one can see the light gray outlines around the boxes for required information. The bright red outlines that appear when the form scolds us for not filling in the boxes we couldn’t even see are helpful, but annoying. Red is an angry color and I’m already ticked off enough that I have to give you the same information three separate times. I know there’s a way you can code this form so it will accept the information the first time. Do it.
With great annoyance,
Catamount
P.S. That little calendar that pops up when you go to fill in your birthdate is no help for those of us over five years old. I don’t feel like clicking back thirty-seven years and nine months to select the exact day of my birth. Just let me type it in like a normal person.
Oh, bugger. Either my laptop screen is failing or my video card is. I’m suddenly getting twinkly green dots in patches and streaks on almost every graphic element I see, including my desktop, local image files, and images posted to Twitter and FB. There’s even a streak running through the Reply button on this page. :(:eek::(:eek:
No, you have a leak in your LCD (Liquid Crystal Diode) monitor that is allowing some of the green pixels to drip out.
Reminds me of the old (pre-Windows) DOS Disk Drainer repair program.
You ran the program on someone elses’ computer, and it presented the normal A:> prompt, but pressing any key brought up these DOS messages:
“Error - water in floppy drive”
“Draining floppy drive” (few seconds of appropriate gurgling water draining noises)
“Initiating drying cycle” (more seconds of appropriate spinning dryer noises)
“Fix complete. System now ready for use”
(then the progrm would end, and DOS woud give the normal A:> prompt.
It seems to be gone right now. I tried taking a screenshot, but apparently what I really needed to do was take a picture with an actual camera, as the green spots have disappeared from the screenshot.
IME, graphics issues that remain static no matter what is displayed are a screen fault while problems that change with whatever is displayed generally lie in the video card. Can you connect it to an external monitor? That will nail it down one way or the other. (Probably)
ETA: Screenshotting will only (sometimes) work for a very specific problem (RAM). Otherwise it’s like trying to screenshot the cracked screen of your smartphone.
Can we please make it so dates, phone numbers, etc., can be entered in multiple formats? Example, if I enter 8-20-17 for a date, or 8/20/17, or … it automajically changes it to the format you want? It’s not that hard to set the fields to accept different formats. And don’t force me choose a date from a popup calendar (that doesn’t automajically become the cursor focus!) when I should be able to just type it in.
Please stop making me tab from box to box when you’ve made the US phone number into three different fields. When I type in the area code, the cursor should pop to the Prefix, then pop to the line number as I enter each. Or make it one field that will take 8885551111 or 888-555-1111 or 888.555.1111 or… you get the idea. It’s NOT that damn hard to design it to make it easier on the user.
Why oh why are people so bloody lazy that they can’t put shopping carts(trolleys) in the right place? Always in an empty parking spot, on the rocks , in the lanes…grrr
We went to the drag races in Indianapolis last Sunday. Every now and then there was a delay, awkwardly filled by the announcers, due to the fact that some of the races were being televised and we had to wait for the TV folks to be ready.
Really? How important is it that they be 100% live with drag races, for og’s sake? If you’ve ever been to the track, you know that it’s practically inevitable that at some point some car will spill oil or spew parts and then they’ll have to send out the cleaning crew. So if TV has to break for commercials why can’t they simply put a tag on the screen saying that the race was actually run a couple of minutes earlier, and then catch up when the track is being cleaned? Do they really have to inconvenience the thousands of folks who spent money and risked their hearing* to see the races live?
*OK, not really – we wear ear plugs and (for at least some of the really loud cars – alcohol, I think) earmuffs.
All of a sudden, my Facebook news feed is blank. All I see is the banner at the top. Clicking on my name shows me my own wall, that’s working OK. Individual pages seem to be there. The Messaging function is apparently missing in action, also.
WTF? Are they putting out yet ANOTHER update, or what? I can post to my on wall, so I know I haven’t been tossed into FB jail for unknown reasons.
Every so often I find my feed has suddenly skipped one or more recent days’ worth of posts, where it goes from posts from a few hours ago to posts from 3 days ago, with nothing in between (and I know there were posts because I had seen them before). When I refresh the page they usually are available. I have no idea why this happens. I usually put it down to “sucky Facebook.”
Refreshed it, restarted the browser multiple times, just finished clearing the cache, restarting the browser, and resigning in. Useless.
The weird part is that I can see a person or group’s page if I go directly to it. I just can’t see an aggregate news feed, or the list I managed to save the URL to when FB dropped support for lists that shows all the cat pages I follow.
Guess I’ll try it from Firefox and see if it’s an issue with Chrome. Still weird.
