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No. I don't drink alcohol. The one and only time I tried, it was rather unpleasant, even with lack of insects.
 
If you live in a rural town, everything is within walking distance because the town is too small to be outside of walking distance.

But everything is nothing in that case ^^.


End of July I was working hard on a manuscript. We had prepared it to be submitted to a certain journal. Then we realized that the journal would not anymore publish this type of article after the last day of July, but the website claimed they'd still process everything what comes in before August.
So we managed, and submitted the article at the last day of July.
The f******* editor-in-chief has rejected the manuscript, because they're not doing this type of articles anymore.
I even pointed out that it's still (yeah, it's October) written on the website that they'd still process everything.
He again said no.
I'm feeling wronged, and I am angry and tired about it.
Every time I touch a manuscript for more than tiny bit it seems to get cursed.
This is another episode of "stuff gone wrong, after putting too much time and effort in it".
Guess it'll also just move to a pre-print server.
Thanks science :(.
 
If you live in a rural town, everything is within walking distance because the town is too small to be outside of walking distance.

"In a rural town" is not the same thing as "in a rural area." Truth be told, I'm not exactly sure what a "rural town" is. Sun Village has a population of about ten thousand, spread over about sixty square miles, and contains bloody little that would merit driving to, much less walking to.
 
"In a rural town" is not the same thing as "in a rural area." Truth be told, I'm not exactly sure what a "rural town" is. Sun Village has a population of about ten thousand, spread over about sixty square miles, and contains bloody little that would merit driving to, much less walking to.

I drove through plenty in my time in New Hampshire: surrounded by farmland, maybe three or four streets' worth of buildings. Rural towns.
 
Yeah, there's main street, and then there's the street one street over from Main St.
 
Is that really evenly distributed over 60 square miles?
Because that's... a bit weird. Not sure if "town" is actually a good name for that.
My whole home municipality with 5 villages is 40 km², and if you'd evenly distribute the 2500 people... man... so much nothingness.
And the 5 villages themself are already tiny with nothing really in it.
 
My dad's cleaning the fish tank, one of the cats got spooked and managed to get outside only to realize that he didn't like it outside. All those wet leaves.
Your position among the cat's staff mandates that you clean up, I suppose?
 
It is definitely still under warranty. I can believe that they skimped on the lead acid battery but what I don't understand is why the sensors all started failing (before the battery gave out) and how the battery failing took down all of the electronics in the car. As I said before, this car is designed to be able to use the hybrid battery to jump the lead battery and it therefore can run the electronics when the lead battery is dead. But clearly there is some fault in the EPS (electrical and power system) that brings down the entire vehicle. I have an appointment on Monday, hopefully it can get fixed.


Car computers are set up to sense when a battery is unable to support all the functions the car runs when it is turned off. So it disables them to save power for the more critical systems.


This is however, making me question the need for a second car. Before when both the Mrs and I had a long commute it was unavoidable but we haven't actually had to use the hybrid in weeks. I am not sure if it makes financial sense to break lease but I don't think we'll get two cars when our lease runs out next year.


It's difficult to get by with 2 people and 1 car these days. So think it through. If you can, great. If you can't, go for a low price second vehicle.
 
Is that really evenly distributed over 60 square miles?
Because that's... a bit weird. Not sure if "town" is actually a good name for that.
My whole home municipality with 5 villages is 40 km², and if you'd evenly distribute the 2500 people... man... so much nothingness.
And the 5 villages themself are already tiny with nothing really in it.


In the Northeast of the US, what you get is small towns with a bit of downtown, but really not all that much there. And some of the older housing in town is within walking distance of that. But then the rest of the housing gets pretty seriously spread out. Like miles spread out in many cases.
 
Is that really evenly distributed over 60 square miles?
Because that's... a bit weird. Not sure if "town" is actually a good name for that.
My whole home municipality with 5 villages is 40 km², and if you'd evenly distribute the 2500 people... man... so much nothingness.
And the 5 villages themself are already tiny with nothing really in it.

Not really. The entire area is zoned for one acre light agricultural/single family home development except one through road along one edge and a perpendicular sort of through road that doesn't actually go much of anywhere. Those are both zoned commercial on at least one side, and mostly lined with vacant desert. There's maybe four square miles right in one corner there that are fully developed and account for at least half the population. But since there's just houses on one acre lots it doesn't really feel much like a town. Outside that there are scattered pockets where some land owner made the effort to get a street plan approved, run out utilities, and do the surveying required to actually mark out the one acre plots so they could sell them off as 'ready to build." Then some people who bought actually did build, usually after fencing either their whole acre or at least the immediate area around their house. Those pockets will vary from small areas where maybe ten lots in a row are developed on each side of a street, to just random scatter filling half, or less, of the lots. Other places someone who owned a section might have marked off a one acre plot in the corner and built on it without surveying the rest of the section, so you get one house surrounded by a quarter mile or more of open desert. Then there are big patches where a full mile square, or more, is just desert.
 
I hate you, Takagi Yoshimitsu-san.
 
I used to live in a rural area, and my "town" was about three miles away from my home. So maybe once you're there, yes everything's close, but to walk from your home can be very impractical (I used to ride my bicycle). Also your roads rarely have sidewalks, and cars drive way too quickly, many times I didn't even feel safe when I was walking. When you live in a very urbanized area, you often have places you can visit almost everywhere, and walking can be very easily. Especially since you'll have sidewalks and everything set up to encourage walking, you can probably find most of what you need less than a mile from your home.

I live in a suburban area now, which can be really bad, because everything's fairly spread out. I have about a two mile walk to where all the businesses are, so it's not really practical for me at all, but at least it's safe.
 
My mother won't stop with the passive-aggressive comments about not being able to afford anything because I bought a book costing less than $10 with my own money. :( She's the one who's burning money by smoking cigarettes.
 
My mother won't stop with the passive-aggressive comments about not being able to afford anything because I bought a book costing less than $10 with my own money. :( She's the one who's burning money by smoking cigarettes.
In NM a pack a day is $2500 a year US$
 
I once did the math and the cost of her habit is $200-$300 monthly, which we really can't afford, but any time I try to bring it up to her she just starts screaming.
 
Smokers can get very defensive about their habit. Fighting with them over it is a losing battle. Now you might try a different approach. If you know about how often she goes through a pack, you could put a sheet of paper on the refrigerator that tracks how much she spends daily on smokes. Keep it as a running total by month and a year to date. If she tears it down, then keep it yourself and whenever she gets on your case about money, show her the latest figures.
 
I think that would only work if she had any sort of logic. She actually thinks that other people in our apartment complex park their cars a certain way just to annoy her.
 
Smokers can get very defensive about their habit. Fighting with them over it is a losing battle. Now you might try a different approach. If you know about how often she goes through a pack, you could put a sheet of paper on the refrigerator that tracks how much she spends daily on smokes. Keep it as a running total by month and a year to date. If she tears it down, then keep it yourself and whenever she gets on your case about money, show her the latest figures.

To what end?

I have to ask, because I have seen smokers confronted by such realities, and it is seldom pretty and less often effective for causing any change in their behavior.

Anecdotal case in point:

Spoiler :
When I was in the navy I had to plan on being at sea for up to ninety days. My personal space was different because I had an outboard rack, but for most people their space consisted of their bunk, 6'3" long and 26" wide, plus a "locker" called a bunk pan, which was about four inches deep and accessed by lifting the hinged lid that you slept on. In case we pull in somewhere a minimum of civilian jeans and a tee shirt, plus maybe a sweater, packed in airtight packaging to avoid picking up boat smell is a necessity. Boots, dungaree pants and shirt, are required uniform for pulling out and pulling back in, so gotta have a minimum of one copy of that. Underway coveralls, tennis shoes, and underwear obviously required, and extras nice. Don't want to be stuck wearing boots if you destroy your shoes early on.

So, I had numerous friends who brought two coveralls, maybe three tee shirts and pairs of boxers, no extra shoes, only one set of civvies which they planned to wear their underway shoes with, and committed to doing laundry as much as every other day for the entire time at sea because they left port with three quarters of their bunk pan filled with cigarettes.
 
My mother won't stop with the passive-aggressive comments about not being able to afford anything because I bought a book costing less than $10 with my own money. :( She's the one who's burning money by smoking cigarettes.
That sounds more like open hostility, rather than passive-aggressiveness. My mother was in a similar mindset about cigarettes vs. books, or at least the kind of books I read. She could have tolerated it if I read romances or westerns, but she never understood why I'd read science fiction.

I'm not wondering so much about your mom at this point, as I am wondering about where you could possibly have found a new book for less than $10 (bargain table at Chapters/Coles?). If it was a second-hand book, that makes her complaints even more spiteful.
 
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