How fucking hard is it to LISTEN and REMEMBER when someone tells you what they want??? Tomorrow is my birthday (the Big Three Oh!) and my dad inSISTS on buying me a gift. :rolleyes: I really just want money so I can buy a Liberator pillow (NSFW), but he’s “old fashioned” and wants to have something wrapped. Fine … I need some new cookware. Specifically, a six or eight quart stock pot type thing, cookie sheets, and loaf pans. Got it?
Great!
I get a phone call last night … he and his GF are out shopping. I have to endure 15 minutes of “What about saucepans? No? OK. How about an 8x8 square baking pan? No? OK. Silicone utensils? No? OK. A whole set of pots? No? OK. What did you say you needed again? OK.”
No kidding … fifteen minutes of this crap! Then he calls me AGAIN this morning. “What did you say you wanted?”
GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Write this shit down or something. But if he calls me again, I’m going to tell him to forget it and just give me cash. The worst part of it all is that he does all of this because he has to have the BEST present … the biggest, the most expensive, the “perfect” gift. So that everyone can see just how kind and generous he is.
I’m a douche because I asked, in a completely neutral way, whether or not you genuinely meant what you’d actually typed? Well, I guess that’s fortunate for you, since I’ll now be happy to oblige you by coming over there and flushing the sand out of your vagina.
That’s exactly what I was thinking of, which is why I asked.
Beat the shit out of the goddamn filter already and doooooo iiiiiiiiiit.
You know, it probably wouldn’t be worth it - the kid manning the drive through would give you the blankest stare you’ve ever seen, and it would take diagrams and powerpoint presentations to get him to understand what you’re talking about.
I’m playing performance test whack-a-mole right now and I’m getting sick of it. A long time ago I fixed a bug somewhere. Recently I backported the fix to an earlier version of our software, and then the people managing it complained that some random, mostly meaningless performance test had gotten worse. So I fixed that performance degradation, and then another performance test got worse. I’ve fixed that one, and a third test has gotten worse.
The worst thing about all of this is that some of the cases where our performance got worse seems to be due to one component actually getting faster! It starts sending messages to the next component faster than it can handle, and then a queue backs up and starts dropping messages.
I want people to stop rushing up to me upon seeing my watery eyes and make me suffer through their “Are you all right? Do you want to talk about it? Did something [del] juicy [/del] terrible happen?”
Holy fucking shit, you must be having a terrible day. I didn’t accuse you of lying–I thought the expression was so awesome that you might have come up with an excuse to use it, 'cause that’s what I would have done if I couldn’t find a legit thing to tag it to. Not everything is about you–stop being such a fucking martyr.
