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)

[bluenoter]

Does anyone know that "i.e." doesn't mean "e.g."? Anyone at all? (Not here, I mean, but in the world at large.)

[Cem]

Does anyone know that "i.e." doesn't mean "e.g."? Anyone at all? (Not here, I mean, but in the world at large.)

Oh, how I've missed your ways, Rita… that's Rita A.R.Ways!
How've you been? Hoping all's well...
Have you got "Kugel" off the ground, yet?

[Cem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcI44JywvgA

[walto]

That's lovely.


Hi, Cem!!

[Cem]

Mr Horn… nice ta see ya laddie!

[bluenoter]

Thank you, Cem! I was up in Who I Is saying hello to you. And now that many minutes have passed and I finally get "Rita A.R.Ways," all is well. What a Cem you are!

Yes, that is a lovely video. I knew that owls bathed, but I'd never seen an owl drink before; theoretically, they get all the liquid they need from their food.

[bluenoter]

(report from weather.com)

Special Weather Statement for District Of Columbia, DC
Issued by The National Weather Service

... ICY ROADS AND ABNORMALLY COLD CONDITIONS TONIGHT...

CLEAR AND CALMING CONDITIONS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP TO NEAR RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES TONIGHT. INTERIOR AREAS CAN EXPECT LOWS AROUND ZERO DEGREES FAHRENHEIT. EVEN WITHOUT A WIND CHILL DUE TO LITTLE OR NO WIND... THESE TEMPERATURES CAN LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA ON EXPOSED SKIN IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.

FURTHERMORE... ROADS REMAIN SNOWY AND ICY FROM SNOWFALL EARLIER TODAY.

[mjb]

This cover, if I allowed myself the time to think about it, would be more than a trivial annoyance.

[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.

[bluenoter]

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.

I'd say that you should therefore try to act (if applicable) on the two that you have.
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Back to the mundane---

Today: Partly sunny and warm. Showers and gusty storms likely.
Highs: Low-to-mid 70s.

Tonight: Showers and storms exit. Strong winds and plunging temperatures.
Lows: Upper teens to upper 20s.

[walto]

I understand there's talk of New England annexing Virginia.

[bluenoter]

From an ad in craigslist's Write/Edit/Translate section:

Professional Editor

. . . If you're interested in seeing what I can do for your, please do not hesitate to contact me.

My e-mail to the advertiser:

Dear Professional Editor:

I can spot the typos . . . I have a very keen eye for detail and I am a bit of a perfectionist.

I'm a (mostly retired) professional editor as well, and I'm writing to let you know that you didn't spot a typo in your ad. Please feel free to e-mail me at this address if you'd like any further assistance.

---bluenoter

Hey, I have no life. So?

Most of the ads in that craigslist section are posted by either overseas spammers or folks who may have suitable credentials but nonetheless lack skill. I laugh at the errors in their ads and on their websites---I've got a million examples, but don't worry; I won't post them here---but they really do annoy me, because as a result, IMO, it's futile for a competent editor/proofreader to advertise on craigslist.

(Once I got an actual gig out of an e-mail something like the one quoted above, and a few times, I've requested and received PayPal "tips" for pointing out the errors. But it's not a very efficient marketing method.)

[pig pen]

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Today: Partly sunny and warm. Showers and gusty storms likely.
Highs: Low-to-mid 70s.

Tonight: Showers and storms exit. Strong winds and plunging temperatures.
Lows: Upper teens to upper 20s.

The weather has been a royal bitch for us, as I mentioned in another thread. The "high" temperature for today is -7c (~19f) with a windchill of -14c (~7f) (tonight going down to -17 with -25c windchill (1f and -13f)).

That brings me to my trivial annoyance which isn't so much the weather as the goddamned snowbanks. All of the streets are down to about 75% of their width because of the snow piled on both sides. Some side streets are down to just one lane and if you meet a car coming the other way it's pretty well a game of chicken to see who will pull off onto the side to let the other go by. I am getting really sick of it.....

Does this look like St Patrick's day!?!?!

[walto]

Where are you located?

[pig pen]

Where are you located?

Atlantic Canada

[bluenoter]

Where are you located?

Atlantic Canada

Here's pig pen's thread A little video about my home city.

[walto]

Thanks. What a beautiful town.

[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]

My heating bills have been astronomical this endless winter. I really don't see how people who make considerably less than we do can pay theirs or why the hell anybody ever started living in areas where it's impossible to stay alive without fires inside your dwellings day and night.

[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.