Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[hobbsyoyo]

To use an 'Murican expression, just go Uncle Bob on them.

I've never heard that expression.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I've never heard that expression.

Glad you said that. I've never heard it either and was thinking it might be a mid-west thing. Now we know it isn't that. East coast? Deep south?

 

[Broken_Erika]

South-South-American?

 

[Mouthwash]

Is it weird that I don't like the temperature of the room to be at a comfortable level? I'd rather it be cold and sit in front of a fireplace/small heater than have it be room temp.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is it weird that I don't like the temperature of the room to be at a comfortable level? I'd rather it be cold and sit in front of a fireplace/small heater than have it be room temp.

Not all houses have a fireplace + heater would tend to make the room temp increase fast, unless it is some huge hall. Also, it will increase the electricity bill.

Fireplace i can get; the house i lived in as a small child had one. It is nice to look at the flames. But wanting the place to be cold so you can use an electric heater makes no sense to me

 

[Takhisis]

Never thought I'd have to say this but: I hate my government and I hate the people that vote for them. Both Democrats and Republicans. You're all a bunch of two-faced, dishonest, unappreciative...words I can't say without getting banned.

Just heard some news that veterans are soon going to be treated even worse in this country than they already are due to a bill that is currently being debated in the House right now. I'm not going into details because it's one of those things that will cause a huge discussion and I'll save the mods the trouble of having to split it off into another thread. But for this country to continue to spit on those that volunteered to fight and die for this nation is...well...it just fills me with a sense of betrayal that I can't even describe. You people shove rifles in our hands and tell us to go fight the "bad guys" overseas, but then treat us like dangerous criminals when we come back due to the scars we bear from fighting the battles you asked us to fight. We gave everything to keep you safe and then you treat us like outsiders, like we don't belong in "your" society.

And yes, the people are to blame. Because while it might be the politicians who actually do the dirty work of screwing us over, it's the people that continue to vote for those politicians. So I don't care how many times you've thanked a veteran for their service, or even how much you've donated to veteran-oriented charities, if you have voted for a politician that has supported anti-veteran policies (which is pretty much all of them at this point), then every veteran that gets screwed over is your fault. You are to blame.

You're finally coming around to my side…

I've never heard that expression.

Glad you said that. I've never heard it either and was thinking it might be a mid-west thing. Now we know it isn't that. East coast? Deep south?

The 'Murican expression is to go X on Y. The rest is just a Terminator reference.

 

[Mouthwash]

Not all houses have a fireplace + heater would tend to make the room temp increase fast, unless it is some huge hall.

No insulation; it's an ancient house.

Fireplace i can get; the house i lived in as a small child had one. It is nice to look at the flames. But wanting the place to be cold so you can use an electric heater makes no sense to me

I don't have a fireplace, just a small heater. I'm just saying that they feel better than the room being at optimal temperature, for reasons I have a hard time articulating.

 

[cardgame]

Because being actively heated is a very nice feeling. Like being cozy inside on a rainy day.

 

[The_J]

really, MS Excel does not have an option to export charts as pictures? Really ?

Trying to submit a paper right now. Asked my collaboration partner beforehand to hand me all her figures in all file formats she has.
I had not considered that she is not a computer scientist. So I got one Excel file and one PowerPoint file.
And for sure everything is of low quality.

For right now not an issue, but for the final print, all of them need to be in high enough quality, and I'm unsure if I'll be able to easily reproduce them .

 

[Takhisis]

really, MS Excel does not have an option to export charts as pictures? Really ?

Would print screen help?

 

[Cutlass]

Glad you said that. I've never heard it either and was thinking it might be a mid-west thing. Now we know it isn't that. East coast? Deep south?

Never heard it in the Northeast. I guess Tak just doesn't know languages as well as he thinks he does.

 

[The_J]

Would print screen help?

The problem: All figures should be high quality. Vectors at best. Print screen is not :/.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Never heard it in the Northeast. I guess Tak just doesn't know languages as well as he thinks he does.

There's a scene in Terminator 2 when John introduces the Terminator as "Uncle Bob."

There's another movie, Point of No Return, in which one of the male characters is introduced as the female protagonist's "Uncle Bob" to allay the suspicions of her new boyfriend because "Uncle Bob" is really her boss who is there to vet the boyfriend as a possible security risk. The boyfriend has no idea that she's really a government assassin and "Uncle Bob" is the one who trained her and gives her various assignments to kill people.

Of course nobody is dumb enough to think that either the Terminator or the boss are really the person's uncle, let alone that their names are "Bob."

 

[The_J]

my boss just forced (well, could have argued, but not worth it) me to retract the manuscript which I submitted yesterday.
Because I removed 8 words to get under the word limit, and didn't get the approval from everyone. And the labeling of one of the figures had a different format then the rest, and we absolutely cannot submit something incorrect.
Which is totally an issue, because we wouldn't have had any chance to change that during the first or second revision.

I'm boiling .

 

[Takhisis]

Print screen really does depend on how it's already being rendered, The_J…



Aaaanyway, rants, rants, rants… for some reason Dota2 refuses to work properly, Heroes of Newerth does work properly except they've decided that their ‘American’ server is only for the US/Canada, which peeves me because they say they are open to everyone and then it bloody well turns out they are not.



AAAAARGH when will I ever graduate?

 

[Cutlass]

I buy all my soda and beer in cans. Cans come in boxes of various amounts. All my empty cans go back in the boxes they come out of. I don't throw any away. And yet over the course of a couple months the numbers of cans never matches the number of boxes.

 

[Takhisis]

It's almost like socks. They come in half-pairs out of the washing machine. Over the course of the week the half-pairs are magically completed.

Are you taking your cans outside with you, maybe?

btw drop the sodas and drink water. It's good for the health.

 

[Cutlass]

I take a can to work for lunch. But it always comes back with me. And that doesn't explain the beer cans, which are all used at home.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I buy all my soda and beer in cans. Cans come in boxes of various amounts. All my empty cans go back in the boxes they come out of. I don't throw any away. And yet over the course of a couple months the numbers of cans never matches the number of boxes.

They eventually go to the depot and you get some money for them, though... at least that's how it works here. We have three depots in my city for people to return their empties. Bottles, cans, jugs, and juice tetrapaks are worth 10 cents if under 2 litres and 25 cents if 2 litres or larger.

Sadly, Maddy's milk tetrapaks aren't worth anything. They don't take pet beverage containers.

It's almost like socks. They come in half-pairs out of the washing machine. Over the course of the week the half-pairs are magically completed.

Then your socks must be unusually cooperative. My lost socks have remained lost.

Mind you, I know why some of them got lost. One of my female cats had a litter of kittens, two of which were taken from her before she was ready to let them go (my grandmother insisted they go before the person who wanted them changed her mind). Lightning was so upset that she tried to hide her remaining kitten, and then she started taking socks - first my dad's work socks (I found a pile of them at the top of the stairs where she was gathering them before hiding them), and then mine.

I understood why she wanted them - they were small, soft, and she considered them to be sort-of substitutes for her lost babies. She took them and we never found our socks. We did keep the remaining kitten, and they were very close. Lightning was a fantastic mother.

Since she had the habit of taking only one half of a pair and I had colored socks back then, I just wore odd socks until deciding to get all-white ones. So after that it didn't matter if she took one now and then.


It may be that Cutlass' pop cans have an agenda of their own. Inanimate objects sometimes do that.

 

[Cutlass]

There's a 5 cent per can deposit refund, which is why I keep track of them. I just can't understand why the numbers continue to come out wrong.