Trivial Annoyances

[tippy]

I will try it, Scott, thanks. The password issue arises because of my infrequent logins to iTunes over the years. I will say I had an issue last fall when I couldn't figure out how to record a CD even after googling instructions - for some reason my brain doesn't jibe well with the interface and it is hard for me to find things - and iTunes gave me 5 credits (which I haven't used yet).

And it is helpful to know that Apple fans don't like iTunes. I read an article last week in the times that said choose Apple for hardware, Amazon for media, and (I forget the rest now, there were 5 categories).

[tippy]

Okay now this is the loopiest thing I've ever seen published.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/ ... n.html.csp

[LennyH]

Enough with the effing "hashtag" already.

I feel like I've heard the term like 300 times in the last week. Comedy routines, news stories, etc. Today, on the radio, they quoted someone's twitter post, which had a # in there two or three times and they felt the need to say "hashtag" every single time.

(puke)

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[Cem]

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[walto]

[Cem]

Mr Horn… nice ta see ya laddie!

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[mjb]

[Monte Smith]

Twenty-four years ago, tripping balls, I wrote three important messages from beyond on the only material that was at hand, a KFC bucket lid. Now I remember just two of the three dicta and the only other person who would remember the third is dead.

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[walto]

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[pig pen]

[walto]

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[walto]

[pig pen]

Thanks Walto, it is quite nice in the summer.

First day of spring and what do you know, more snow (15cm (6") forecast)



But I didn't come here just to bitch about the weather. I came to bitch about people putting "request for read receipt" on their emails. I always click, don't respond since I find the practice obnoxious.

[pig pen]

You guys are probably getting sick of hearing (seeing...?) my whining about the weather, but jeeezus...

[BeBop]

For those of you annoyed by your weather, you can be annoyed by this message too: I'm in Honolulu for a month. My annoyance is that the three weeks I've been here already I've averaged 107 work hours a week on contract (no overtime). I've only been in three buildings: hotel, office, Don Quijote grocery store.

[walto]

[Monte Smith]

You New Englanders have it rough in that regard, with heating bills. This has been the coldest winter in five or six years here near the Potomac and I expected astronomical heating bills, but I have to say they haven't been unusually large. Maybe it is because of our fuel, natural gas, which is common around this area but I don't know. Last winter was remarkably mild and this winter is a beast, and the difference in payments is less than a 25% increase. We pay all summer with AC bills, of course. And I should mention that it doesn't matter what my heating bill is because we're always cold, as this Northern Virginia development was built by drunks out of vinyl sheeting and twine.