Random Rants LXIX: Life is a Dismal Chore

[The_J]

Even if you don't outright dislike the disabled in that case, that still means you're being inconsiderate of them, which is still a dick move.

That matter is also not that easy .
Am I a dick if I forget things which do not directly affect me?
e.g. a few standard settings in scientific tools produce graphs in red and green, red for down, green for up. Many people use them. Many people do not think about the choice of colour. The choice is also rather obvious, since we are used to associate green with positive, and red with negative. Traffic lights and so on. Who thinks of the 2% of people who are red/green blind? Is everyone who ever made a picture in red/green a dick? Or are they just minding their own bussiness?

Are you living in a single family house? How many of them have elevators? Is everyone a dick who ever built a house without an elevator? What about your private tree house when you were a kid? Didn't have one either.

Living your normal life doesn't make you a dick (under the assumption that your normal life doesn't include kicking puppies, spitting on homeless people and insulting minorities).

Your reaction when confronted with a relevant situation (not crazy bat feces, like if the world congress of wheel chair users wants to rent your tree house), that will tell if you're a dick or not (as Traitorfish already pointed out).


EDIT: Let's also add a legitimate rant here:
I have tomorrow a meeting. At 7:30 PM, because we're collaborating with the US east coast, and someone there cannot earlier.
Goddamnit , need to postpone my plans for the evening.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

There were a few replies to my posts that I wanted to get to answering when I had the time.

I just realized that the alerts page only goes back a few days and now I can't find them.

So yeah, if you replied to one of my posts and never got a response, well, I tried.

 

[Lexicus]

There were a few replies to my posts that I wanted to get to answering when I had the time.

I just realized that the alerts page only goes back a few days and now I can't find them.

So yeah, if you replied to one of my posts and never got a response, well, I tried.

Just click "show all" at the bottom right and it takes you to the page where you can view them all from the beginning of when the forum adopted this software.

EDIT: included illustration

 

[metatron]

Just click "show all" at the bottom right and it takes you to the page where you can view them all from the beginning of when the forum adopted this software.

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Would you be so kind as to click on that button and find out if it actually does what you claim it does?
Cause if i'm not entirely blind it, you know, doesn't.
Maybe that's a result of the skin or something, but i can see recieved likes up to way back when but quotation alerts for only roughly a day (i.e. like 15 of them).
There's no row of page numbers to click or anything. Again: Maybe it's just me, but maybe it's hobbs too - by pure chance.

 

[Lexicus]

If I click the button I circled in that image, it takes me to a screen with pages and pages of alerts going back to...Saturday.

Okay, yeah, hobbs was right lol I'm an idiot

 

[metatron]

If I click the button I circled in that image, it takes me to a screen with pages and pages of alerts going back to...Saturday.

Okay, yeah, hobbs was right lol I'm an idiot

Ah, so it is timed, and i just fooled myself because i wasn't active the first part of the timeframe?
Well, in any event, this is kind of dumb, feature wise, isn't it? I mean the potential utility hobbs is refering to is obvious and strikes me as not uncommon.
Yet at the same time i can research that you liked one of my posts on march 22nd (yes, yes, you did ), which is cute and all but not that obviously useful.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Photobucket can go poop in a hole. If I come across one more blog post with that stupid speedometer...

 

[Snerk]

Pooping in a hole isn't that bad though?

 

[Arakhor]

I forget who recommended it to me, but there's Photobucket Embed Fix, which is a Firefox/Chrome addon which automatically replaces all the old Photobucket links with the original photos.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Everyone poops in a hole. Its all the rage, especially if the hole has water in it. NOT pooping in a hole... now that's just kwazy!

 

[Snerk]

I wouldn't wish not pooping in a hole on my worst enemy.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Making your enemies not poop in holes is kind of like a teacher giving out detention, you have to suffer alongside the ones being "punished".

 

[Snerk]

My dog really wants to go outside, but it's cold and rainy so going alone out in the backyard in unacceptable. He needs me to go along with him outside so we can share the crappy weather experience. And he won't stop nagging till he gets his way. Sigh. Where's my raincoat..?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Just click "show all" at the bottom right and it takes you to the page where you can view them all from the beginning of when the forum adopted this software.

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Haha yeah that's what I tried and it doesn't actually go back very far.

Rant:
Forced office fun the other day kind of sucked sweaty donkey balls. I was notified about 2 hours before the event (beer pong between office teams) and I couldn't say no. I drove to work so I couldn't drink which took any fun out of the game right out. I'm not really into beer bong to begin with but not being able to drink at all made it kind of miserable.

And everyone kept saying, 'You live the closest of all of us. Your drive is so short, it's no big deal, some of us have to drive an hour'.

To which I thought, "Well I live close enough to walk but no one gave me a heads up so I drove so that's on you guys. Also, I have a short drive and I'm still not going to drink and drive, what does that say about the rest of you?"

In any case it was only beer and no one actually got drunk so it wasn't a big deal that they were driving. It was just annoying as hell for me to be in that situation. I also had some plans that had to be cancelled.

 

[Arakhor]

Mine only goes back to Monday, but I get lots of alerts.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Mine only goes back to Monday, but I get lots of alerts.

Ahh so that's how it works. I do remember it going back for weeks at times but that must be based how active I am on the forum and how often the threads I post in get bumped.

Another, separate rant:

NASA can be extremely painful to work with. Every bad aspect of bureaucracy you can think of, they have in spades. I love NASA but geezus they know how to turn the bureaucracy nob up to 11.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I forget who recommended it to me, but there's Photobucket Embed Fix, which is a Firefox/Chrome addon which automatically replaces all the old Photobucket links with the original photos.

Does this fix the images that were trashed by that obnoxious cash grab of theirs?

One of my forums' banners was hosted on my co-admin's Photobucket account. His account expired a few weeks ago, and I've been trying to figure which of the other image hosts would do for third party hosting (not Imgur). My Photobucket account just squeaked past this by one day, so I'm good until next June. But no way am I going to be adding anything more to it. I'm going through the albums, deleting anything I don't really want anymore, and plan to move the rest of it elsewhere.

I just need to figure out where.

Arakhor, could you post this link in the thread mentioned in the announcement up top?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What happened with photo bucket?

 

[choxorn]

And why won't imgur suit your needs?

 

[Arakhor]

Arakhor, could you post this link in the thread mentioned in the announcement up top?

I've posted it in the original Civ3 thread. PM me for any further requests, if you would.