Oh, that’s much worse!
An interesting slant on this. I know a mason who was fired from a job for lining the bricks up too well. He was working on a historic recreation of an early American building and the bricks weren’t supposed to be lined up all that well. He said he just couldn’t do it that way and he would have quit if they didn’t fire him.
Some years ago I had a bathroom remodeled. The walls of the shower were not exactly square. The guy laid the tiles on the shower floor so that they were not aligned with any of the walls. That is, the tile edges were at an angle to all four walls. I told him it would look better if the tiles were aligned with the back wall. He grudgingly agreed and tore out the whole shower floor and relaid it. I felt kinda bad for making him do all that work, but I knew it would bother me every time I looked at it, and why the heck would you lay the tiles like that in the first place?
I recently had the utility room of my basement tiled. It’s not square. I asked the tile guy to line up the tiles approximately along the main diagonal, so i wouldn’t be staring at the partial row of shrinking tiles showing off the unevenness. I think it looks great.
I recently put down laminate flooring in my basement office. It was my first time doing something like this, so the results are definitely amateurish. Especially around the closet doors where I didn’t get the fit exactly right. (It’s hard to cut them to fit around the door molding but also have enough room to angle them up so you can snap them into the previous row.) Oh well, nobody has to look at it but me. But it still drives me crazy sometimes.
Brilliant profile pic and post combo!
Because of life a number of passwords. I work from home. I only get on a computer at home. I work alone.
I absolutely HATE logins that don’t let you view your password. Many will allow you to show it or not. Many do not.
I’m not 007 or Dr. Evil. Our work passwords are ridiculously strong. 15 characters. Uppercase, lower case a number and special character. No word you might find in a dictionary, must be changed every 6 weeks. Can’t repeat the previous 10 or so.
Oh, and of course, if it doesn’t see activity every 5 minutes, you get kicked out.
I’m waiting to need a DNA test. I’m about ready to give them a urine sample. It won’t be in a cup. It’s ridiculous. And not NEARLY as safe as they think it is.
This may be a repeat infuriation. But it bears repeating.
It has been proven that changing passwords frequently results in LESS security.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one that is bothered by this.
When we had a house interior done in Taiwan, we had some decorative wood beam installed close to the ceiling.
They were really long, maybe 4 meters long and the first one was slightly off. I asked the carpenter about it and he insisted that they were straight. To prove this he got out his laser level to show me and we discovered it was out of level by one centimeter.
I don’t know both why I have this otherwise meaningless ability and why it bothers me when things are off.
I assure you, as a middle-aged white man who had never heard the term “skiplagging” until just now, “ratchet” is a much more mainstream word in general use.
Ratchet is only mainstream as a means to describe a device that moves a nut.
Oh I’m sure. Keeping track of pwds is what sticky notes are for.
I have a good friend from church who is a contractor. He and his partner have done hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work in my home over the decades, from replacing the roof to filling in the swimming pool, and many jobs in between.
Their work is always solid, done to code, and they will fix any issues, even years later.
But, I have to keep an eye on what they are doing. He has a habit of going off script during a job and making changes that made sense to him and were to code, but I wouldn’t have agreed with.
A recent example: they replaced my deck a couple of years back. They added the traditional lattice all the way around in white, with long thin boards framing the lattice, like a picture frame.
When I went to survey the work after they finished the lattice, I was horrified: on the long side of the deck they had used two lattice sections, but because the ground had a very slight grade, they made one of the picture-framed-lattices an inch shorter than the other. The one on the left stops an inch below the one on the right.
Knowing how much work it would be to redo, and that the special order lattices would need to be replaced, I let it go. But had I seen them in the act I would have said “Why not get a shovel out and take an inch off of the dirt on the right side. Heck you can move a half inch of dirt from the right side to the left and they will be level”
So now, whenever I look at my deck, I see the imbalance and it annoys me.
My bank for some reason sent me a new debit card. I’d had zero problems, they just do this every few years.
The new card required a call for activation. My gf called for me due to my lousy hearing. When they asked her for my PIN, she asked and I told her, “1,1,1,1”.
After she finished she told me my password was horrible. I told her I loved it. Hit the one four times, boom, done. I never let the card leave my possession. What’s the big deal ?
Until you lose it, of course. Your PIN is among the most common.
The World’s Most Popular PIN Numbers - Is Your PIN On The List?
I have a pouch I carry my stuff in (wallet, knife, cough drops, tissues, etc). I’ve never lost a credit/debit card. It just ain’t happening.
Neither have I, nor have most people I know. But a couple of my acquaintances have. BIL got mugged, and the Bad Guy immediately went to an ATM and tried to use his debit card. Didn’t work, because he couldn’t guess the PIN.
I’d change it if I were you.
I’m set in my ways, but I understand the point.
I totally get you kayaker. Being set in your ways can have some real bonuses. I ALWAYS know where certain things are. Don’t have to think about it.
It frees up the attic that is my brain. Dusty as it’s getting.
That’s a wonderful metaphor. “His bod-attic had gotten dusty.”