YES. FRUIT STICKERS. I peel them off as soon as they get to my house. Pears are the worst.
Despite my best efforts I find them in my garden beds and in the fields, because they get into the compost and never degrade. If I became empress the banning of fruit stickers would be my first official act.
I saw a cartoon of two surgeons in an operating room with an opened patient. The caption was “eww, look at all the fruit stickers!”
This could be you.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one that does this with their mirrors! And yes, why does no one else believe us when we tell them it actually works??
I’ve been fighting that battle for about 30 years now.
You should be able to track any car behind you from your rear-view mirror to your side mirror to your peripheral vision. In order to do that you set the passenger side mirror by leaning your head into the middle of the car and then setting it as you used to. To set the drivers side mirror lean your head against the drivers side window and set the mirror the way you used to.
Try it. Not you BillyBaroo - you already know this. It’s amazing. And you can check it on a multi-lane highway by tracking a passing car or a car that you’re passing.
No more blind spot. No more turning your head.
I’ve set them that way since a little bit after I learned to drive, because it made the most sense to me. Then I saw at some point the Car Talk guys and/or Car and Driver (I can’t remember) discussed this and agreed. It takes a little getting used to if you’re used to setting your mirrors differently, but it gives you fuller command of what is around you when you are driving.
HOWEVER – there are times I do prefer the mirrors set in: like when I’m reversing into a spot or otherwise am going in reverse and need to squeeze between some obstacle. There, the mirrors in wins, so I don’t have to lean far in either direction to see the side of my car. I kind of wish there were mirror “presets” on cars, so I could have both set-ups easily accessible.
If you’re not going to turn your head and look, please make damn sure that your side mirror truly does show you the entirety of the lane next to you. Motorcycles are a lot narrower than cars, and smart riders hug the far side of the lane as they’re passing you. If your side mirror isn’t showing you what’s way over there, you may think the lane is clear and try to move into it - at which point the endangered motorcyclist will be appropriately infuriated.
I truly aspire to that level of unibhitedness…
Passwords.
My professional association thinks that its Fort Knox. Every password must be at least 8 characters, include capital letters and numbers, and expires in (from what I can tell) about a month if you haven’t logged in sooner. So on the one or two occasions a year that I have to log in (usually to pay my membership fees), I have to go through the “send me the super-secret password to my e-mail” so I can log in, select a new password that will expire in a month, and do my thing on the site.
Fergodssake people, this is not Fort Knox, like I said. I can understand a once-a-year reset, but every frickin’ month you want a reset? What, somebody’s going to take my degrees and qualifications away?
Molvanian pop star.
Mine requires 14 characters. Upper case lower case a number and a special character. And of course you are automatically logged out if it sees no use after about 5 minutes. And it remembers previous pwds. Can’t use those. Change it every 6 weeks. Don’t use any words, must be totally random.
Some think this can harm security, not help it. Of course I have it written down. I work from home so that’s not really a risk. Also people use things like mouse jiggle software to keep from getting logged out. That, I don’t do.
As the Brits would say, “you don’t know you’re born.”
You only have to log on a couple times per year with an 8-character PW? Try every day with a 12-character PW that has to be renewed every 45 days, which also has to be done for Microsoft Office. On top of that, accessing the company’s Fusion servers for managing time off, making quarterly reports and accessing company training requires 2-step verification through an Okta app on my phone. Speaking of which, I have to do Compliance training by the end of the month. May as well get it out of the way.
Here’s one that infuriates me, but it’s totally on me because it doesn’t inconvenience me or affect me in any way.
I like to do things in the most time-saving, efficient way possible. The book Cheaper By The Dozen really struck a chord with me because I could relate.
When I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is flip the switch on the electric kettle. That way, the water can be heating up while I assemble my tea things, take my calcium, etc. By the time I’ve done all those things, the water is just ready, so I pour it into my teapot and I’m good to go.
Mr. brown gets up later than me and also uses the electric kettle, for his French press coffee. But rather than starting the kettle first when he gets up, he instead goes directly to his phone to look at texts, emails, and to start Trumpscrolling (he’s always hoping to see headlines on his death). Then he goes and takes his pills, loads the grounds into his French press, etc. THEN he starts the electric kettle - and stands there complaining about how long it’s taking for the water to heat up.
I’ve tried telling him to start it first, but it’s no good. So I sit and harrumph while he’s griping.
If I want coffee or tea. I just heat the water in a Pyrex 2 cup measuring cup and stick it in the microwave for a minute. Works great.
NIST has published a draft of its guidelines for passwords, among other security-related topics (SP 800-63-4). Part of it says
- Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types) for passwords.
- Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require users to change passwords periodically. However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
- Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT permit the subscriber to store a hint that is accessible to an unauthenticated claimant.
- Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT prompt subscribers to use knowledge-based authentication (KBA) (e.g., “What was the name of your first pet?”) or security questions when choosing passwords.
I look forward to the day when all companies adhere to these guidelines.
Something that infuriates me unnecessarily is twist ties. Specifically, why companies who use twist ties to bind cables and other parts of a product can’t use the well-established rule that clockwise means tighter and counter-clockwise means looser. I often start untwisting a twist tie (or so I think) and after a few turns discover that it’s not working, so I try the nonsensical clockwise direction and find that that’s what they did. Sometimes different items in the same product are twisted in different directions. How the hell does that happen? They not only don’t use the normal convention, they don’t use any convention at all and just randomly choose a direction for each twist tie?
All right! I thought I was the only who was pissed off at this. Righty-tighty, lefty-loosie, dammit!
Can we talk about perforated items (for ex. paper towels) that tear everywhere EXCEPT along the perforation?!?
cling film!!
It hardly ever works
This was discussed here recently in another thread. Saran Wrap changed their formulation in 2004 from polyvinyl chloride to polyethylene for environmental reasons. Polyethylene doesn’t cling as well as PVC. I find that Freeze-Tite works well.
That stuff only sticks to one thing: itself. I’ve observed this since long before 2004.
I’ve another entry for the thread: it infuriates me when a company makes a blatant attempt at a cash-grab, and insults my intelligence in the process.
Sodastream bottles - and those made by their competitors - have an “expiration date,” usually for a year or two from the time the bottle is purchased. So, let me get this strait: we have metric shit-tons of plastic in our landfills, which will take hundreds or thousands of years to decompose. But these Sodastream bottles can’t be guaranteed for more than a couple of years? Who do they think they’re fooling? On second thought, don’t answer that…