Random Rants LXVI: NO, **YOUR** THREAD TITLES SUCK!!

[hobbsyoyo]

I wonder if they hired a new driver, and he (or she) is stealing your food? That's a possibility worth checking into. If your orders are going missing, maybe other people's orders are as well.

Every so often we read news articles here about Canada Post drivers who stopped delivering mail - just dumped it in their own garage, or went through the parcels and cards to see if there was anything they could steal.

I don't think the first 3 (or 4, seriously I can't remember) failed deliveries were theft. They reported to Amazon that they were not able to make the delivery because they couldn't find my apartment and cancelled the order outright. That's a problem but the bigger problem was that neither the deliverer nor Amazon told me this - I waited and waited before calling them and finding out.

The last time they failed to deliver, they did claim it was dropped off so the driver could have stolen it. If it were only UPS/USPS/FEDEX delivering I wouldn't think it was theft but as I said before I believe they are now using random people to deliver so it's a possibility.

In all seriousness, I feel you on the dental stuff. I've had fillings put in poorly before and it's a real drag getting them fixed up.

Actually, next week I have an appointment on Monday to see the oral surgeon about having my one wisdom tooth removed, then on the 21st I go to get two fillings, to be followed by the actual surgery to have the wisdom tooth removed whenever they schedule it for.
So yeah, fun stuff. Hopefully I get some drugs out of it though

Best of luck! I don't know if you've had wisdom teeth removed before but the one piece of advice that I give everyone (and they all tell me I'm right when they didn't listen) is to take your pain medicine as soon as you get home. You will feel nothing until the anesthetic the surgeon/dentist gave you wears off. But as soon as it begins to wear off the pain follows hard and fast behind it. If you haven't already taken your first dose of pain pills by that point then you're in for a half hour+ of agony while the pills get digested.

You do NOT want this to happen.

I've had half my thyroid removed and all four wisdom teeth pulled/cut out and the wisdom teeth were far worse to deal with. After a big surgery you're still in the hospital with an IV drip of morphine for the worst part of the recovery. This isn't true generally of teeth pulling so you have to be proactive during that initial recovery phase and stay on top of your medicine and take the first dose as soon as you safely can.

 

[Lexicus]

Thanks for that, I'll definitely try to take the pain meds ASAP. I've only got the one wisdom tooth, so that's the only one they'll be able to take out fortunately.

 

[choxorn]

Speaking of wisdom teeth, mine never properly came in in the first place and are still entirely beneath my gums, but one or two of them are still managing to cause problems because they think they're supposed to grow sideways. Into my other teeth. So, I've gotta get the problem ones taken out soon, and I think I'll just get all of them taken out while I'm at it, they're clearly never going to cause me anything but problems.

 

[shadowplay]

I didn't have my wisdom teeth removed until I was 25...the oral surgeon told me I had deeper roots than usual... despite this, I didn't get anything other than Tylenol 3 for my post-extraction meds, and I barely even used it. Over-the-counter Ibuprofen ended up working best, strangely enough. A lot of the pain is swelling related.

 

[Snerk]

Both my upper wisdom teeth are intact and up to no good. But they're both so deep, completely gum covered, that the dentist said that as of yet they weren't worth the trouble of removing them.

 

[dusters]

I want to write, but I want to write for someone who pays me a lot. Like 50 dollars/hour lot.

I could use my contacts and get into sports journalism. In UK. Or, in the worst case, USA.

***

I have nothing against USA, actually my childhood friend just moved to Brooklyn, I think. It is just that starting from scratch in a different country would mean a lot of effort. And i'm very good at telling people that they are fat, ugly and should mind their own manners. To get a job which pays for saying all these things, won't be easy.

 

[warpus]

1. I couldn't sleep well last night and woke up at the usual time, for work. I shower, get dressed, grab my phone, and.. my supervisor texted me an hour before that, reminding me that we have a meeting at 9:15. I look at the time.. it's 9:08.. I'm totally not making that. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuuu

It's for a big project I'm working on and I definitely should have been there. I'm in the office now, so we'll see what teh supervisor says. The project is heavily mismanaged but me missing this meeting doesn't help

2. I love watching my guys fight in Civ V. So I always turn off quick battle animations. I want to see the little animations, they're fun. Until you get to the time period when you finally have planes. Then one bombing run takes 4 friggin hours, the plane has to fuel, take off, it flies halfway around the map, completes its mission, slowly turns around and then finally lands. And you have 12 more planes to send on bombing runs. Each turn.

And there's no way to turn on quick battle animations only for planes. Who's brilliant idea was this? The way I am forced to play is to have quick battle anims off until I research flight. Then I am forced to turn it on. I don't want to, I want to see all my guys fight. But the stupid planes prevent me from doing that.

 

[BvBPL]

PDF is a terrible file format. It is horrible.

 

[warpus]

What's so bad about it? It's good if you like your document looking exactly the same on every single machine.

 

[Synobun]

My daily physical limit is 30-60 minutes. I did 195 yesterday.

Oddly enough, my body is not very happy with me.

Relatable rant: the Gilmore Girls revival sucked. Looking forward to this for over a year was not worth it at all.

 

[BvBPL]

What’s wrong with PDFs:

• PDF viewers, and Acrobat in particular, take up way too many system resources for a document viewer.
• PDFs cannot be easily edited, making collaboration on the documents difficult.
• PDFs can be set to store the material as an image rather than as text requiring many additional hoops to jump through in order to copy and paste the text.
• It stinks from an accessibility format.
• Its ubiquity in the face of its flaws is salt on this wound.

 

[warpus]

It's not meant to be a format that's easy to edit, though. It's meant to be a format that's generated once you are finished editing the document in question, the main benefit being that it looks exactly the same no matter where you load it. You should always have the source document available so that you can edit it, instead of having to edit the PDF directly, which I agree can be a paint.

Acrobat can suck as well, but I never have any big issues with it.

 

[BvBPL]

I understand that the uniformity of display is the primary benefit. And in that, it is good. However, uniformity of display is irrelevant on many PDF documents. In reviewing international tax regulations, uniformity of display is irrelevant, or at least the variations of display in other formats are immaterial to the meaning of the document. In those cases, the primary benefit of PDFs is wasted as being irrelevant, but the flaws of the format persist.
Permit me an example. There is basically zero value in this document being presented in a pdf format versus in html. Any variation across viewers in an html format would be irrelevant to the utility of the document.

 

[warpus]

The issue is not with the PDF format itself but rather knowing when to use it and when not to use it. I understand your frustration because I deal with some of the same issues from time to time.. People not knowing when to use the PDF format and when not to use it..

 

[gay_Aleks]

So my laptop was nearly fried due to an honest-to-God banana. I swear to God, my life is a farce that seems to keep on giving.

 

[shadowplay]

"banana"

 

[gay_Aleks]

Yes. I'm not kidding you. My brother was making coffee in a plastic cup while eating a banana, when he dropped the...[popular word for sex which we can't say or we'll make Thunderfall cry] banana into the coffee, spilling into the power strip. Which nearly led to my laptop being fried, since he was making coffee was right next to the ocket where my laptop's plugged in. Unfortunately, it still got wet but not wet enough to explode into an awesome electric fire immediately, but several minutes later, it started making funny electric noises, so I had to plug it out. The issue is, the replacement power strip's all used up for the TV, so now I'm running on battery and increasingly angry as you might notice.

 

[shadowplay]

Just another crazy day in the life of Yavor!

 

[gay_Aleks]

No, more like "yet another farcical moment on Yavor's life in a life already filled with more than enough of those". This keeps on happening. My old laptop was crushed underneath my Mother's foot, which, to be fair, is totally my fault, as I left it down on the floor near the sofa.

I didn't learn my lesson, as this November, I did the very same thing with my glasses and I woke up to see the lens broken into two, which lead to an uncomfortable situation in which I was the world's worst pirate as I spent two days with my len being kept up by electric tape.

 

[Hygro]

My daily physical limit is 30-60 minutes. I did 195 yesterday.

Oddly enough, my body is not very happy with me.

What level of physicality gets the countdown running?