Random Rants 92 - Not Enough Snerk

[Takhisis]

You ever read a post and wish you could punch someone in the face over the internet?

If you mean the smartphone worshippers, no. They are punished enough by their having smartphones.
If, however, you mean those moronic bloodsucking banks, yes, ‘a punch in the face’ might be insufficent punishment.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I just posted two factual comments on my MLA's page on FB. I predict that tomorrow I will wake up to the Medicine Hat Dimwit's hysterical rants, screeching at me to "leave me alone! Stop wasting my time! It's just your nasty opinion! You're mentally abusing me! You need mental help lady! Have fun in Facebook jail! Grow up! Stop! Go away! Why don't you <censored> off! How dare you mock my children! How dare you say I'm not mature! Your a liar!....."

and probably another dozen one-liners I don't remember at the moment. The hell of it is, in one comment I'm actually agreeing with her and offering a bit of extra information, but she won't even notice that. Rant, screech, whine, imperious demands to whoever runs that page to "remove this person!" (those demands never work)

And the topic of the day on the other political pages is the number of death threats and other nasty stuff coming up against the female candidates in the UCP leadership race. I don't trust a single one of them any farther than I could throw Mount Everest and wouldn't grieve for a nanosecond if any of them were accidentally run over by a Zamboni, but death threats and posting child porn on their FB pages is definitely going too far.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sigh. 13K words in the seminar.
This is dreadful.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Sigh. 13K words in the seminar.
This is dreadful.

Dreadful because it's not enough, or dreadful because it's too many?

Or are they just 13K dreadful words, and you should swap them out for not-dreadful words?

 

[Kyriakos]

It's too few. Each chapter has to be 20K words.
And that's not the worst of it. I have roughly one week to send half (10K words) of the first chapter, which will need very considerable cleaning.

 

[Synobun]

For whatever reason, my hours of productivity seem to exist exclusively now during late nights and when I should normally be going to bed.

Wake up at 8:30 AM? Enjoy a full day of garbage. But at the early hour of 9:00 PM, you get to have a surge of productivity that lasts until 3:00 AM.

Anyway, it's 3:00 AM right now.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

For whatever reason, my hours of productivity seem to exist exclusively now during late nights and when I should normally be going to bed.

Wake up at 8:30 AM? Enjoy a full day of garbage. But at the early hour of 9:00 PM, you get to have a surge of productivity that lasts until 3:00 AM.

Anyway, it's 3:00 AM right now.

Sounds perfectly normal to me.

I don't let people tell me it's "not normal" to be a night owl. Back when I spent 5 weeks in the hospital 20+ years ago, I tried explaining this to the nurses and one of them stuck her nose in the air and stated that they'd "get me back to normal."

It fell on deaf ears that for a certain percentage of people, sleeping during the day and being awake, alert, and productive at night IS normal. I come by it honestly - my dad was the same way.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Tried to activate4 my cell phone with the sim card they gave me. As it turns out i somehow ended up with a plan and sim-card but no phone number, now i have to wait for a new sim cad and replace the one i just put in my phone......
Not even the Virgin Tech support knows how i managed that one......

 

[Broken_Erika]

Water heater is leaking, plus i have a leaking pipe directly above the electrical box.........at least the electrical box is covered by a plastic sheet....

 

[Grendeldef]

I don't know where the US is at these days with making the internet a utility. I was a late adopter of a smart phone, and their utility is kind of undeniable now. Even calling them 'phones' is starting to sound quaint. They're computers that you can make calls on, if you feel like it. I feel like 2-step verification is becoming pretty common now, and for non-trivial things like banking.

I was super late in my broader circle to get a smart phone. 2015. I am very glad to have one. You can get a good condition used iphone, like a lower model SE (which I prefer for size, though I have a 12 mini which is also small) for a couple hundred bucks. like if you ignore any cultural detestations, it's pretty much the greatest thing you can buy.

I bought my first smart phone (an iPhone 6) in 2016. I upgraded to a new SE when they came out. Steve Jobs changed the world.

What constitutes as a smart phone? I got my first Nokia 9210 either late '00 or early '01 and it felt quite smart in comparison to other phones of the day. Just ability to make 480 char sms's was awesome. Camera was still a tiny independent one touch screen wasn't even a wet dream with the birth of Symbian. It was as great as it was big & boxy which for those of us who have used Mobira Cityman, (first proper mobile phone) for example is a very relative term.

Mobira Cityman 900 as the Wiki article doesn't have a right pic. Commonly known here as "Gorba" who passed away few days ago @91.

Current phone ads & infos annoy me quite a bit as every important information detail like memory is hidden behind a wall of crap as they marketed as cameras with optional extras like ability to make calls & perhaps even send & receive sms'. How many a-holes can fit in a selfie isn't relevant but amount of RAM is so the little ***** isn't useless after first OS upgrade.

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Let's put a link for Nokia 9210 here as well for younger audience.

 

[Birdjaguar]

A smart phone moved the device beyond talking and texting with meaningful integration of other uses. As I see it Apple made the first significant smart phone (phone, text, music, internet, email).

@Grendeldef Your Nokia 9210 does look ahead of its time though.

 

[Broken_Erika]

What constitutes as a smart phone? I got my first Nokia 9210 either late '00 or early '01 and it felt quite smart in comparison to other phones of the day. Just ability to make 480 char sms's was awesome. Camera was still a tiny independent one touch screen wasn't even a wet dream with the birth of Symbian. It was as great as it was big & boxy which for those of us who have used Mobira Cityman, (first proper mobile phone) for example is a very relative term.

Mobira Cityman 900 as the Wiki article doesn't have a right pic. Commonly known here as "Gorba" who passed away few days ago @91.

Current phone ads & infos annoy me quite a bit as every important information detail like memory is hidden behind a wall of crap as they marketed as cameras with optional extras like ability to make calls & perhaps even send & receive sms'. How many a-holes can fit in a selfie isn't relevant but amount of RAM is so the little ***** isn't useless after first OS upgrade.

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Let's put a link for Nokia 9210 here as well for younger audience.

I had a Nokia Communicator, i think it was a 9110, never had a sim card for it so it was mostly used as a handheld computer......
My brother bought it after he saw it in a movie but never used it, he gave it to me.

 

[Samson]

A smart phone moved the device beyond talking and texting with meaningful integration of other uses. As I see it Apple made the first significant smart phone (phone, text, music, internet, email).

Blackberry had all those years before. Apple just made it shiny, and it worked.

 

[Grendeldef]

A smart phone moved the device beyond talking and texting with meaningful integration of other uses. As I see it Apple made the first significant smart phone (phone, text, music, internet, email).

@Grendeldef Your Nokia 9210 does look ahead of its time though.

Then that technically qualifies though I don't think it ever occurred to me or much for anyone else to use it for listening to music - it was a phone with crappy laptop features but still quite unique in its class. Weirdly enough one the very few Nokia models were battery didn't lose its will to deliver in winter times.

I had a Nokia Communicator, i think it was a 9110, never had a sim card for it so it was mostly used as a handheld computer......
My brother bought it after he saw it in a movie but never used it, he gave it to me.

I briefly had 9110, too but I didn't count it due to both screens being b&w.

I remember being seriously pissed when the Communicators were killed off somewhat replaced by N-series. I shelved my last 9210 when N97 was released and that wasn't much of enjoyment. I missed the proper kb.

 

[Hygro]

What constitutes as a smart phone? I got my first Nokia 9210 either late '00 or early '01 and it felt quite smart in comparison to other phones of the day. Just ability to make 480 char sms's was awesome. Camera was still a tiny independent one touch screen wasn't even a wet dream with the birth of Symbian. It was as great as it was big & boxy which for those of us who have used Mobira Cityman, (first proper mobile phone) for example is a very relative term.

Mobira Cityman 900 as the Wiki article doesn't have a right pic. Commonly known here as "Gorba" who passed away few days ago @91.

Current phone ads & infos annoy me quite a bit as every important information detail like memory is hidden behind a wall of crap as they marketed as cameras with optional extras like ability to make calls & perhaps even send & receive sms'. How many a-holes can fit in a selfie isn't relevant but amount of RAM is so the little ***** isn't useless after first OS upgrade.

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Let's put a link for Nokia 9210 here as well for younger audience.

Post iPhone. BlackBerry don’t make the cut.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I posted something in the recent mars thread that has been responded to and I haven't answered to yet. I feel kinda bad about that, I've been meaning to get back to it, but what I said was provocative, and I essentially approached it from a feelings perspective, that's harder to argue for.
so inshallah I'll go back to that, but I wanted to talk about this first

On tuesday I got two wisdom teeth removed. Pretty bad, but not as bad as last time I went through it. Still feels insane the notion you have too many teeth. Anyway because of bad experience from last time I opted to accept a relatively strong sedation (? not actually sure what the proper english word is) and so they mandated I had to spend the rest of the day with someone (which I wasn't knocked up/out/in/down so much that was necessary beyond the drive home) and so I spent the day with a friend and relatively randomly we ended up listening to a lot of pink floyd. Specifically all of dark side of the moon, the wall, wish you were here and then the one song I think called "keep talking".
So I hadn't really listened to pink floyd before, I knew maybe 2-3 of the most popular songs. My friend, who likes to go by John in english lol, on the other hand, knows a lot and have listened and played a lot of them (and other things you know, I don't know much about guitar-band-style music).

Anyway the point is he explained things about the band's history and such, and know today I thought about them some more, and I read up more on syd barrett. And basically I'm terrified about similarities I feel I have with him. Now I don't do drugs, I don't know if that means I'm on a better trajectory than him or not. But reading about how he "became a recluse" and gaining weight are a couple of points that scare me a lot. I haven't done anything this year. Even after explaining this I've not gotten the drive to make a change. Really I hoped writing about it, expressing the fear, would diffuse it. I think it has to some extent, but isn't that a cowardly thing?

from wikipedia

Breen also denied Barrett was a recluse or that he was vague about his past: "Roger may have been a bit selfish—or rather self-absorbed—but when people called him a recluse they were really only projecting their own disappointment. He knew what they wanted, but he wasn't willing to give it to them."[216] In 1996, Wright said that Barrett's mother told the members of Pink Floyd to not contact him because being reminded of the band would make him depressed for weeks.[217]

That last sentence is the one that really strikes home for me.

I know what's right, but I don't do what's right

 

[Kyriakos]

It's just one case, and the trajectory of giving up (due to whatever reason) is quite common.
The early Pink Floyd had interesting songs at times, but if you didn't know it was theirs you wouldn't make the connection; most people associate them with DSOTM and later albums.

On a tangent, the phrase "dark side of the moon" is interesting because it refers to the side unseen from Earth. In a way, it is an exonym without the ability to not have one.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Well, the Medicine Hat Dimwit sure put me in my place this afternoon:

your nothing but a witch please just stop being so rude!

Apparently calling someone a witch is not rude. Apparently explaining that she's STILL off-topic is rude. (The topic is the Minister of Education constructing a registry of every teacher in the province going back to 1954, so the public can look up their names to see if they've ever had disciplinary action meted out; the fact that many of the names belong to dead people, retired people, and transgender people whose original identities are now doxxed and married teachers' maiden names are revealed... this woman just plain hates public school teachers and could not care less that she's putting people in danger from stalkers and identity thieves. The private and charter school teachers are exempt from this, and the one who lost his license for brainwashing his high school social studies students that Jewish people are evil somehow got missed, as did the case of a former teacher of mine who, in the '70s, committed sexual assault against one of my classmates over a 3-year period - at least he went to prison when he was finally caught).

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

I have just been informed some of my older lodger/tenants/friends are suing me for a collective £25k

I think I am going to be sick.

 

[Arakhor]

Some of your friends are suing you? Not exactly very friendly behaviour.