where I work, this is how somebody prints out a report on a machine run that just concluded:
Mouse click File.
Mouse click Print.
Mouse click Print.
Actually, that’s how everybody prints it out. Here’s how I print it out:
Ctrl + P.
Enter.
No muss, no fuss; I don’t have to aim a cursor at anything.
Two subjects…
First, traffic.
I am proud to be one of approx six people in Texas who actually grasps time and distance calculations. If any of the other five are on this board, greetings.
For the rest, please write this down and memorize it:
If you are commuting in city traffic, you CANNOT save an appreciable amount of time by driving faster than everyone else.
The number of people who frantically race around and pass in order to gain one car length at the next light amazes me.
Second, **the future **.
You will get old. You will need to eat and have a home. The amount of time you have until then is simple math, roughly along the lines of 65 minus your current age. After that time passes you will need to have something set aside for the remaining years.
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The number of my contemporaries (friends/relatives) who failed to grasp this simple logic is astounding. I’m approaching sixty and have come to the startling realization that many of my Lexus and McMansion contemporaries have ignored this and are about to get a serious lesson in economics and dog food prices. Listen dumbasses, the Millenials have their own damned problems, and don’t need to be carrying your sorry selves on their backs as well.
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Sorry about the rant, but it seems like I’m surrounded by fools who spent 40 years standing on a train track, watching a distant locomotive approach at 1 mile per year – and then look astonished in year 41 when it hits them.
My mom taught me to do that. She always used a church key to do the prying (just lightly enough that it didn’t punch through).
Since I enjoy the jar-lid challenge, I usually will fight the lid, but I always have the church-key trick ready to go as a last resort.
Yes, easier to leave your seat, if for instance you need to pee or whatever. You’re “trapped” when you’re in the middle of a row. Like most people indeed, I pick a seat on the side if I can.
Good one! It’s sometimes difficult, but you have to give effusive praise, even if you are tired and frustrated by that point.
It drives me kind of nuts to see people working really inefficiently - like if you have to fill ten water dishes from a container and put them in ten turtle bins, for the love of god don’t fill a dish, walk over to the turtle bins, put one dish in one bin, turn around, pick the next dish up… Fill all your dishes and put them all in the bins. Use a tray if you can, but even if you can only pick up two at a time from an array you’re saving yourself a lot of work. Work smarter!
On the other hand I was hauling my heavy ass car seat with my heavy ass baby in it yesterday and I came to a door and just naturally reached for it with my right hand, then realized I’m one of the dumbasses in the OP. Huh. Will try to improve.
It’s amazing how many people do not intuitively recognize that front-wheel-drive car cannot get any traction going forward up a steep hill, but can back up the hill easily. Putting a car on a hill shifts the center of gravity toward the downhill wheels, so you want your traction wheels to be at the lower end.
Also, this made sense when I read it in the California drivers manual, but I had never thought of it before. If two cars meet each other on a hill where the road is too narrow to pass, the car going downhill has to back up to a wider spot, making way for the driver going uphill. The reason is that if the car backs off the road, gravity will aid it in pulling back onto the road.
If your car is rear wheel drive (as all proper cars are) and you’re in a situation where the drive wheel won’t pull you out of the snow or mud, try setting the emergency brake enough to trick the differential into making both wheels drive. Usually an ‘open’ rear end will put the power to the wheel with the least traction. But you can work the emergency brake and throttle LIGHTLY against each other and you will get both wheels to drive. This does take some finesse, but it will work. Send all gratuities to: 999 Sleepyhollow St., Frederiksted, St Croix
Phu Cat
This assumes you have a mouse and/or a mouse with a scroll wheel.
Yeah. Of all the wrongo things people do with their cars, this is at the top of the please, please, please don’t list.
Also, if you are at an interchange where you are slowing to exit the highway, and someone else is entering, slow down and let them go, then slip in behind them and exit, and conversely if you are entering, speed up and let the exiter get behind you.
Or, worse, try to pass them before they get on.
It 's obvious to me to use a computer mouse with my non-dominant hand, but IRL I have never seen anyone else do this. My non-dominant hand handles mouse duties just fine, and it leaves my dominant hand free to take notes or do simple hunt-and-peck typing. Or pick up the coffee mug.
Something I found out about laptops that I’ve never noticed anyone else sussing out, is that you can scroll with the trackpad using your pointer and middle fingers side-by-side. And click or double-click on stuff by tapping the pad instead of using the buttons.
My parents have a large RV and my father complains about this regularly. Its apparently hard to stop a 45’ long multi-ton vehicle.
Then he rationalizes it by “well it’ll probably put a small dent in my vehicle … yours won’t do nearly as well”.
*It 's obvious to me to use a computer mouse with my non-dominant hand, but IRL I have never seen anyone else do this. My non-dominant hand handles mouse duties just fine, and it leaves my dominant hand free to take notes or do simple hunt-and-peck typing. Or pick up the coffee mug.
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Oh sure. We know what you’re doing with you’re dominate hand while you’re looking at naughty stuff.
Phu Cat
I always hold the jar in one hand and give it a hard smack with the palm of my other hand. Seems to work.
It is surprising how many don’t know how to use these shortcuts. There are so many. Ctrl A, S, Z, X,C, V, etc. Try them. Then there is the Alt combos too. Ctrl/Shift, Ctrl/Alt. You can Google all of this and save yourself a lot of mouse moves.
Example: Someone says to you, “Hey, send me the link to that article”. What do you do?
Ctrl/Alt K will send the link to your current window to your email. Try it.
There are some valid reasons for sitting on the edge of the theatre. I invariably have to use the bathroom during the movie and an edge seat is very convenient. My spouse has bad knees and can’t sit for the entire movie, having to stand in the aisle for a little while and stretch.
J.
Hey, I’m ambiclumsy - both of them are my stupid hand. The hand I use for mousing is usually the right, among other things because of many years of shared computers (the tail wasn’t always long enough to “just switch sides” without rearranging the tower), and it’s also the one I write with (was forced to), but my left is the one that grabs the glass.