People that drive in the dusk or dark with no headlights on who ignore me flashing my lights at them. Yesterday at dusk someone actually flashed their lights back at me and continued on without turning them on.
Well, OK. But this is the only store in town (well there is another small one) pretty much every local shops there. Captive audience.
We know where stuff is located already. Or, should I say, used to be located.
Or an english butler. 
But yeah.
I needed to erase the earworms I’m getting from the ubiquitous Christmas music that has been everywhere. So I looked through youtube for Chuck Berry doing “Run Run Rudolph”. Most of the entries there call it “Run Rudolph Run”, which just sounds WRONG. Then I looked at Wikipedia and the song’s actual title is “Run Rudolph Run”. It’s infuriating me beyond its actual importance.
And in case you need a better earworm for the season, here’s Chuck doing “Run Rudolph Run”. Humph.
Websites that don’t let you ‘unhide’ your password. PWDs are so complex now I want to see if I fat fingered it.
Nobody’s is gonna see this. The closest person to me is a 1/2 mile away. The only people that gives a shit about this is me, and my wife. And we both should have access. No one else on the entire planet would give a shit.
I’ve been railing against this for years. I think the password box should default to clear text, with an option to hide it if the bad guys are looking over your shoulder.
Thank goodness for password managers…
I’m infuriated just reading this and being reminded of it.
As far as I’m concerned, if you’re not using “myself” you’re fine.
When you email someone, like HR, with a reasonably complex question, and they start the answer with “As you are aware,…” No, fuckhead, if I was aware, I wouldn’t be asking the question. You are aware, because that’s your fucking job. My job is to actually produce the items that we sell that generate revenue for the company, so take your superior attitude and fold it into a triangle and shove it up your ass.
I like this one.
Our department (IS) has it’s own internal wiki, just so we can keep track of all of our shit. I’m not tracking the shit that your department does.
Yes you sent the email 6 months ago about how to do something I’ve never had to do, and no I don’t have a special folder for every inane thing that you send us. HR sends so much crap that often the important stuff gets lost in the chaff. I know how to walk in slippery conditions, thank you very much.
But that is not what is sung- …
Run, run Rudolph, Randolph ain’t too far behind
Run, run Rudolph, Santa’s gotta make it to town
Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down
Run, run Rudolph ‘cause I’m reelin’ like a merry-go-round
Wasn’t that her point?
OMG yes. It’s similar at my community college. Every time some administrator has a random thought, they think they need to blast it out to the thousands of staff members across the district. Often to the tens of thousands of students as well.
I got fed up with it all a couple of years back, and set up rules to killfile anything not coming from my department. My work email is so much more manageable now!
As long as I’m bitching about work.
Send a perfectly worded, bullet pointed message to someone. Perhaps three questions.
They answer one. And you have to do it all over again.
Oh yeah, that one gets me too. When I would send an email with several questions, I would routinely not just bullet, but number the questions. Surely someone is not going to read an email that looks like
- First question
- Second question
- Third question
and then just answer one of them, right? But of course that’s exactly what would happen.
Speaking of emails, I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I used to get irrationally irritated by this one guy I worked with who didn’t seem to understand the purpose of email subjects. In many of his emails, the subject was just a few words from the beginning of the first sentence in the email, and didn’t give a clue as to what the email was actually about. These are literally some of his email subjects (ellipses in the original):
Take a look at …
I think …
Will you guys do …
If you …
Try the …
Oh also …
I’ll be …
Is there?
I’d grit my teeth every time I got one of these things.
Ellipses in the original? Oh my.
My department is tight. We are IS we know how to communicate.
But get outside of our group, and it’s like throwing a dart.
My wife and I watch a fair number of historical documentaries, and they often include shots of old engravings like this:
…which, like all engravings, consists of innumerable very fine lines.
It seems that documentary filmmakers are constitutionally unable to put a static image on the screen; there must always be some movement. So they show an image like this with a very slow and subtle zoom in or out, as they do with all other images of paintings, photos, etc.
That is, it would be subtle, except that the fine lines of the engraving interfere with the scan lines of the image to create a moire effect that makes the whole image seem to pulsate and writhe. It’s incredibly distracting and annoying.
I have no idea why they don’t see it and do something about it. Especially since all they would have to do is NOT MOVE THE FRICKING PICTURE! The moire effect only happens when there’s motion. Can’t you figure out that this happens with engravings and let one ten-second shot be still, FFS?!?
This is not unique to one series or producer. I have seen it in numerous docs, and it’s infuriating.
Oh my. Both my parents where artists. I did pen and ink for fun.
I wrote a paper on this etching back in the day.
So it’s arguable how unimportant it is (you could argue the whole current political clusterf*ck could be traced to this, but I have no inclination to buy a new car so it’s unimportant to me). But it bugs me how car dealers have given up pretending they are trying to sell cars and not loans.
I can’t remember the last time I saw car ad that actually mentioned the price of the car. They will go on an on about how much of an insanely good deal their latest sale is, and how its ending tomorrow, and will never come again, and you would be mad to miss these savings, etc. But then they won’t actually say how much they reduced the price of the car by. They’ll say how much your down payment will be, your monthly payment, etc etc but not the actual discount they have spent the last five minutes trying to convince you you’d be mad to miss. It bugs me all to hell