If you are pouring yourself a cup of coffee and the pot is almost empty - make another pot! Someone was nice enough to make sure there was enough coffee for you this morning - why not take a moment and do the favor for someone else?
Oh, and when you see that someone is coming in for their first cup of coffee and wind up having to make it - don’t help yourself to a second cup of coffee before they get their first.
Because I have sporks and I’m not afraid to use them.
I had to set our Airport Express network at home to a specific channel, and that solved 95% of my laptop connectivity problems (“This computer isn’t connected to the internet” - repeat 15 times a day). The answer I got from so-called Apple experts was that we needed to upgrade our router at home, because the new laptop wasn’t communicating well with the old box. I like Macs just fine, but I’m with you on this rant - they could be doing this better.
Tiny, petty gripe aimed at pharma companies involved in medical research: I get the idea that you’re trying to look all “green” by including the “Please consider the environment before printing this E-mail” phrase in your E-mail signature. But please consider creating an alternate signature omitting that phrase for when you’re sending out E-mail messages that have to be printed out per regulations for documenting research. As much as I’d love to snarkily tell an independent monitor for the study that I considered the environment (and my annoyance at printing E-mails, three-hole-punching them, and putting them into yet another stupid binder) and thus didn’t print out damned near every research-related E-mail, I’m pretty sure I’d get into trouble quickly if I did so.
We have an option like that for our signatures at my company. You can toggle it on and off, but there’s no way to create two separate signatures. Most people just turn it on and forget it exists. Not to say that they shouldn’t be clever enough to delete the reminder when it’s not applicable, but.
You could also stop taking personally the broadcast exhortations of an email signature. 
Hey, I said it was petty. It just gets irritating when I’m printing out Yet Another Official E-mail, especially if the signature ends up being the only thing on the last page of the printout and I end up going :smack: and tossing that last page.
Ahahaha, now *that’s *irony.
IMO, scribble a note about reconsidering which emails they attach that particular message to, since some of them *must *be printed out, then fax it anonymously to the sender. You’ll also get bonus points for using up yet *another *piece of paper on the other end.
Can you tell the print program to only print the first two pages? I typically print short email like that and it stop yahoo and gmail from printing thier tag on the third page.
Lemme check; I’m using the web-based version of our E-mail client… mm, nope. Edit: Well, OK, it looks like I can do that but I don’t get a page-by-page preview, just one long scroll of the message with no page separations. So I could do that but miss a whole lot of important stuff.
And yeah, I’m being pettily grouchy about all this stupid printing. 
However, work is switching E-mail clients soon so that may change in the near future.
Bummer, Ferret Herder, can you control it from the printer dialog box? Maybe by “page range”?
Sorry if this is useless, it sounds from your previous message like your print job goes straight to the printer without interuptions.
That’s so bizarre. I’ve *never *seen a print dialogue that didn’t have an option for page ranges.
Clarifying - I get the Print dialogue box, but it doesn’t tell me how many pages the E-mail will be, so I don’t know how many to tell it to print if I want a range. It just has “Pages: 1” in the Page Range section. I can’t see how many pages it’ll be until I hit print and it pops out of the printer.
I just tried it with a message that I knew had to be multi-page, and it came out at 3 pages. So I reprinted with “1-2” in the range box, and that printed fine. It’s just that I’d have to guess how many pages long the message will be and hope I’ve guessed the cutoff correctly.
Oh well, the new client is being installed Real Soon Now and then I won’t have to deal with this any longer - I’ll have to deal with a whole new set of headaches! (You know it’s bad when IT’s FAQ on the changeover includes a discussion of why they didn’t change sooner seeing that a lot of people hate the current mail system.)
Is there a Print Preview option? Unfortunately, that’s not always 100% accurate for browsers, but better than nothing.
Nope, not on the main Print dialogue box, and I didn’t see one in the options. I get a “preview” that opens first but really it’s just one long box with a scroll bar, no pagination.
Lame.
Two things:
Summer in San Francisco, anyone? Come take a break from triple digit temperatures and humidity in the high 90’s. Spend your tourist dollars here. Only you can’t see the sights due to the damned fog!
Dear Indy Go,
We were in love, you and I. You would carry me from place to place - I made sure to park you where no birdies could poop on you and no SUVs could scrape up your sides. But lately, I’m worried. You are starting to shake a lot. Your driver window doesn’t go up all the way. Your interior ceiling is starting to fall down in the back rear window. And now, last night, your rear brake lights wouldn’t turn off no matter what we did.
So now you are at the repair shop, and I pray that you will be okay. I don’t have a lot, but I’ll do all that I can to keep you running, to keep us together. Indy, I don’t want to lose you. You’re a good little car. You get me 34 mpg. You’re paid for. I can’t afford to replace you.
Please don’t leave me yet, I would like to think we still have a lot of miles to go together.
—Mel
Sounds like you stole Milwaukee’s weather from last year–winter that dragged on into a cold spring, which turned into a cold summer, which quickly gave way to fall. Perhaps it’s making the rounds. 
In that context, I would read it as, “The thing [that] is, is…” So “the thing [that] is [i.e., exists]” is a phrase that forms the subject of that sentence.
If they give you the damn trophy AND you stop yapping out how brilliant they are, then we’ll stop rolling our eyes!
I applied for a job, and it required that I take a civil service test. I took it last night. **Along with 563 other people. **
Five hundred and sixty-four people — one job. I don’t hate my job, though I don’t love it, but the commute is killing me. Just killing me. I have back spasms from being in the car so much. Two and a half hours a day when the weather is good; worse in the winter. The prospect of doing this for the rest of my working life, until I retire, is like looking down a long, dark tunnel.
Yes, I know how lucky I am to have a job. I remembered it again last night. The woman sitting across from me has been out of work for two years; the woman next to her, for a year. It took me a year to find this job, and that was before the economy went to hell. So I feel like shit for trying to better my situation. I feel guilty for applying for a job! What is this shit?
I’m trying to rationalize it. I’m saying to myself that if I get this job, somebody else will get my current job, so there will be no net loss of job. I’m not hurting anybody. Why would I think I am better than 563 other candidates anyway? And those were just the ones taking the test last night – there are others on file from having taken the test previously. And for all I know the job already has been filled and they just have to advertise for legal reasons.
It is so incredibly depressing. I’m not being devious or stabbing anybody in the back, yet I feel as though I am. I felt like an impostor last night.
Clearly, the only proper response is to kill yourself by jumping naked into a meatgrinder. That way, you free up a job *and *help feed the hungry!