Ebay nerd rage: 1) Auctions for Ipods that say "Case has mild wear - examine photo for details," with a photo that says "STOCK PHOTO - may not be actual item." 2) Auctions for Ipods that say "Case has mild wear - examine photo for details," with photos of shrink-wrapped boxes.
Twitter is fucking with me. I've tried to unfollow someone about 10 times and their posts keep popping up. Is there something I have to do besides clicking "Unfollow"? Also, Felicia Day popped up on my Twitter thing so I decided to click on her to see how many followers she had. "I like to keep my Tweets real and not waste people's time," says her profile. What's the post at the top of her list? Project Runway just appeared on my DVR and I squealed like a weirdo :( #guiltypleasures Not off to a great start.
I dislike Digital River and will seriously reconsider ordering anything from any company that uses them. After way too much effort I finally got the whole Ni No Kuni thing sorted out and my husbands late birthday gift is on it's way!
Isn't that exactly as promised, though? The real Felicia Day tweeting about the stuff she likes. That you don't share interests, doesn't really enter into it.
I think Felicia Day is the worst, but that sounds like she's keeping her tweets pretty real. Would you prefer all of her tweets be 'Check out my appearance on Supernatural! #supernatural #television #brandawareness' 'My SyFy movie is running again this Tuesday at 2 AM! #syfy #madefortvmovie #terriblewerewolfthing' 'My Sears commercial is going back into circulation in the Chicago metro area! #chicagorulez #midwestpride #sears #noroebuck'?
Huh. I don't get the Felicia Day hatred, but I suppose discussing appreciation for things in a nerd rage thread would be off topic. Current nerd rage, though it's more like nerd disbelief: the big draw for beta-testing the Mac client of Origins is...Bookworm? Seriously? A decade-old PopCap game that I can play for free online? With nothing else accessible to the client right now? Really?
No kidding. I got conformation that my order had shipped yesterday along with tracking information at 1:30 PM. It's being sent via UPS and is in Tennessee at this moment. But, I got an email at 3:35 PM yesterday telling me that that order was cancelled due to over selling the game. So unless they have sent me an empty box it looks like I will be getting the game but might not be charged? No charges have shown up on my credit card yet.
This isn't nerd-specific rage, but holy shit am I tired of telemarketers. I get a ridiculous number of calls at work from these idiots every day. Answering the phone, a long pause, a click and then "Hello?" on the other end is so fucking irritating. Does this work anymore? Do people actually buy things offered to them by some random business that dialed their number using a computer? Also, the person in charge of that damn free cruise scam needs to be punched in the nose. A lot.
Roughly 90% of the calls I get on my home phone are that free cruise scam, yet somehow Time Warner sees fit to keep increasing my bill.
The subject of today's rage: a graphic design company that put together a brochure for us over a year ago, and we've changed branding standards since. Also in the interim, we've severed ties with the company due to an error they made on a mailing and not bothering to send a soft proof of said mailing to us for approval before mailing. Anyway, they're fucknozzles. But we do have the print-ready InDesign file for that document, so I mark up my hard copy with the necessary branding changes and corrections, open up the InDesign file... No Styles used. No layers. Everything is a flat image. They had literally just taken a flat image, imported it into InDesign for each page, and packaged it. While that's fine for a one-off job - it's impossible to edit. Guess who's redesigning the entire brochure FROM SCRATCH?
Next time, tell them you're on the DNC list and that if you get another call from them, you'll report. The fine is hefty.
I feel like I've raged about this before, maybe at the other place, but my nerd rage refreshes every year around this time when we start taking online registrations for our annual conference. People, please use proper capitalization for your name. Otherwise we have to go through and fix it before we can merge the resulting spreadsheet for name tags. One if these days I will follow through on my threat to leave the names lowercase on the name tags so that those people can be recognized as the precious little ee cummings darlings they are.
Programs that turn your mouse cursor into some ridiculous object that has no apparent indicator where the point actually is, and then require pixel perfect precision when manipulating the UI elements.
Why the hell won't this damn cat keyboard work? It worked fine in the thrift store, aside from obviously needing batteries. Got it home, replaced batteries, WON'T DO SHIT. AAAAAARGH.
I got an ergonomic keyboard last week because I have tendinitis and do too much typing anyway. It took me a day and a half to get used to it and now it is awesomely comfortable. And then I disconnected it to lounge around on my laptop, and tried to type on my laptop keyboard, and suddenly got all like BUT WHY ARE MY FINGERS SO BIIIG... So now I can't type on tiny keyboards anymore. How does it take such a short time to completely spoil myself??
Dear Codeweavers: Charging up front for different lengths of time to receive updates is fucked up, especially when you're just selling a glorified Wine wrapper.
Along the same lines: does Photoshop still default to using cursors shaped like the icon for whatever tool is active instead of the precision cursor? Why is there even an option?
But all those cursors DO still have the precision pointer. I'd argue that if you don't have an instinctive knowledge of the precision of the Photoshop cursors, perhaps you should be using MS Paint.
If you mean that it's easy to tell where the actual 'point' is in each of those cursors then yeah, I agree. But in all the years that I've used PS (which is not as much these days, sad to say), I've always preferred the precise or brush-size cursors.
To the guy in class going 'mmhmm' after the profs every sentance: shut up! It's a lecture, not a conversation. You also certainly don't need to say it loud enough for him to hear you from the back if the room.
At the end of class, the prof had us work on some example problems. Pretty basic management accounting stuff (in this case, transfer pricing problems). The "mmhmm" guy just sat there staring at a blank piece of paper. Hey guess what, if you shut the fuck up, actually pay attention, and maybe write down the occasional note or two, you may learn something!
I fucking HATE IT when I contact outside tech support for something and they reply with: "Looks like you're having a technical problem. Please report this to your technical support team." I AM THE FUCKING TECHNICAL SUPPORT TEAM, I KNOW THERE IS A FUCKING PROBLEM, WE CANNOT FIX IT, THAT IS WHY I CONTACTED YOU!
My wife and I came home slightly intoxicated one evening, and my brother was working on fixing a computer. She's never spent any time with my brother one on one, and they have totally opposite personalities. I say I'm going to bed, and she decides she's going to help my brother fix the computer, despite the fact that she knows basically nothing about computers. I have no idea what she did, but she was there for a while and was probably about as helpful as helper cat.
