Random thing you loathe right now.

Fact the first: I bought a crap-ton of wood for my fireplace last week.

Fact the second: Burn bans are periodically called in this part of the world, to preserve air quality.

Fact the third: As someone with a dodgy heart who spends a lot of time breathing real hard outside, I fully support that initiative, so I sign up for email notifications of burn bans so I'll know when not to light the fire.

Fact the fourth: Burn ban announced yesterday, I get no notification, so I get home and light the fire.

It's particularly annoying when I try to do the right thing and accidentally do the exact opposite.

Well, you can always take a day off when there isn't a burn ban to try and make up for it a bit.

Dad has been using his Kindle, so for Christmas I picked up an Amazon gift card for him, and had it set to deliver via Facebook on Christmas Day.

Apparently, to redeem, you have to Facebook Connect.

Which results in a text from Dad asking me: "how do I use your gift card without losing my rite of privacy??"

The Rite of Privacy is one of the 7 catholic holy sacraments.

McIrishJihad wrote:

Dad has been using his Kindle, so for Christmas I picked up an Amazon gift card for him, and had it set to deliver via Facebook on Christmas Day.

Apparently, to redeem, you have to Facebook Connect.

Which results in a text from Dad asking me: "how do I use your gift card without losing my rite of privacy??"

If he uses Facebook at all the war is already lost, no?

I hate being the guy that checks with friends to see if they've invited the ex-gf to any party/gathering...

I hate it, but I much prefer that than seeing her again so soon, still trying to reconcile it all in my head.

AP Erebus wrote:

I hate being the guy that checks with friends to see if they've invite the ex-gf to any party/gathering...

I hate it, but I much prefer that than seeing her again so soon, still trying to reconcile it all in my head.

You do what you gotta do man. If you're not ready to see her again yet then you're not ready to see her again. Everybody else just has to deal with it. Anybody that can't isn't worth your time.

At least that's how I look at it.

Thin_J wrote:
AP Erebus wrote:

I hate being the guy that checks with friends to see if they've invite the ex-gf to any party/gathering...

I hate it, but I much prefer that than seeing her again so soon, still trying to reconcile it all in my head.

You do what you gotta do man. If you're not ready to see her again yet then you're not ready to see her again. Everybody else just has to deal with it. Anybody that can't isn't worth your time.

At least that's how I look at it.

Yeah, that's exactly why I do it. I just feel bad for a bit :/

I loathe that my kids teachers are overworked so rather than using the online system to record grades in a timely manner, I don't see that one of my kids is struggling until they enter a couple weeks of information all at once with only a week and a half left in the grading period.

f*cking cowboy coders, and their intense resistance to changing the (EDIT: sh*tty) way they work. I say that only because their code normally sucks yak balls. As the manager responsible for getting sh*t out the door, the crap they dump into our codebase makes my job a whole lot tougher.

Launch 60 GB PS3 finally bit the big one this evening, and we're not in a position to get it replaced any time soon

Tanglebones wrote:

Launch 60 GB PS3 finally bit the big one this evening, and we're not in a position to get it replaced any time soon :(

I had 1 of those die on me a few years ago and then the refurb replacement died again a month or two later. You made it quite awhile, so for that, you can be grateful. Concolences, I know how it feels.

More goddamn snow.

The fact that my company spent the time to develop an internal Facebook-esque application and promotes it as being the "cutting edge" in our industry. Then, after a year of implementing it with very few people using it, they create an Ideation Blog and ask employees to submit ideas and the rest of the company will upvote these ideas. The only problem: no one knows what ideas management is looking for. So, we get ideas like "organize your contacts", "jeans Friday", and an idea for an internal YouTube application.

...The YouTube application has the most votes currently. And it has a LOT of votes. *eye twitch*

+1 jeans Friday

lololol

...That is actually just 5 votes under YouTube.

Can you hack in and change it to "jorts Friday?"

Snow and hail on the morning commute.

KingGorilla wrote:

Did someone listen to a talk from Jason Calacanis?

I think it's more of a response to those kids with their twitterers and bookfaces, so we have to be hip and edgy to draw in the youngins. Which is actually one of the goals for the company--how do we draw and retain new talent? Apparently facebook and youtube is the way to go, man.

Went to the dentist this morning and as he was giving me a needle, he struck the nerve.

I jumped out of the seat as he was trying to pull the needle out and I got stabbed in the face.

2 1/2 hours later, my lip and lower jaw are still numb.

CptDomano wrote:

The fact that my company spent the time to develop an internal Facebook-esque application and promotes it as being the "cutting edge" in our industry. Then, after a year of implementing it with very few people using it, they create an Ideation Blog and ask employees to submit ideas and the rest of the company will upvote these ideas. The only problem: no one knows what ideas management is looking for. So, we get ideas like "organize your contacts", "jeans Friday", and an idea for an internal YouTube application.

...The YouTube application has the most votes currently. And it has a LOT of votes. *eye twitch*

Did someone listen to a talk from Jason Calacanis?

My wife's employer just doubled their PR team, up to 2 people. The new person's idea was a company facebook page and a twitter account. Phase 3 profit. I had a meeting last year at that place, had 3 guaranteed avenues to get more clients. I was offered 10 percent, which is a pittance and would not be worth the work I needed to do, to exploit my contacts.

Moral of the story, a lot of the time, a lot of people, at a lot of places, do not know a hell of a lot about what they do.

CptDomano wrote:
KingGorilla wrote:

Did someone listen to a talk from Jason Calacanis?

I think it's more of a response to those kids with their twitterers and bookfaces, so we have to be hip and edgy to draw in the youngins. Which is actually one of the goals for the company--how do we draw and retain new talent? Apparently facebook and youtube is the way to go, man.

What does your employer do? What paradigms need shifting?

Blank? BLANK!? You're not looking at the big picture!

CptDomano wrote:

"organize your contacts"

What a perfectly cromulent sugguestion.

KingGorilla wrote:
CptDomano wrote:
KingGorilla wrote:

Did someone listen to a talk from Jason Calacanis?

I think it's more of a response to those kids with their twitterers and bookfaces, so we have to be hip and edgy to draw in the youngins. Which is actually one of the goals for the company--how do we draw and retain new talent? Apparently facebook and youtube is the way to go, man.

What does your employer do? What paradigms need shifting?

Blank? BLANK!? You're not looking at the big picture!

Don't you worry about BLANK, let me worry about BLANK.

Rallick wrote:

More goddamn snow.

The opposite. I miss snow!

AP Erebus wrote:

I hate being the guy that checks with friends to see if they've invited the ex-gf to any party/gathering...

I hate it, but I much prefer that than seeing her again so soon, still trying to reconcile it all in my head.

Dude, props to you for being pro-active about it and not making your friends have to decide which one of the two of you to invite to things.

Recently had that happen in my circle. Big poly breakup, two couples that were cross-dating (each dude dating both chicks and vice-versa). It was a mess, and made big group activities a nightmare for a while until we said "you guys are adults, you figure it out. We still like all of you, we're just going to invite all 4 of you to everything, and you lot figure out who's going where"

Jayhawker wrote:
Rallick wrote:

More goddamn snow.

The opposite. I miss snow!

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

Jonman wrote:
AP Erebus wrote:

I hate being the guy that checks with friends to see if they've invited the ex-gf to any party/gathering...

I hate it, but I much prefer that than seeing her again so soon, still trying to reconcile it all in my head.

Dude, props to you for being pro-active about it and not making your friends have to decide which one of the two of you to invite to things.

Recently had that happen in my circle. Big poly breakup, two couples that were cross-dating (each dude dating both chicks and vice-versa). It was a mess, and made big group activities a nightmare for a while until we said "you guys are adults, you figure it out. We still like all of you, we're just going to invite all 4 of you to everything, and you lot figure out who's going where"

Ugh, I can only imagine how bad a poly breakup must be. "Who inherits the friends" is a bad enough problem for vanilla couples.

Nevin73 wrote:

Ugh, I can only imagine how bad a poly breakup must be. "Who inherits the friends" is a bad enough problem for vanilla couples.

In my limited experience, "who inherits the friends" is much less of an issue in poly breakups. The nature of poly is pretty much diametrically opposed to the concept of taking sides.

That said, I haven't been witness to any poly breakups that happened on account of enormous douchebaggery. I suspect that in that instance, the douchey party would be shunned just as much as they would in a group of monogamous folk.

Mystery left over pizza in the cafeteria. Just once can't there be leftover bananas or some hummus and pita? I am trying to work off all of the wonderful crap that I ate over the Holidays. The amount of fried goodness I had in San Juan would stagger the mind.