This radio loathe reminded me of the KLOV radio network. Sure I admire faith, but these stations have some laughable melodrama stories and near constant pledge drives.. asking for "love gifts" or whatever. I woke up sticky one morning and I was like "Huh, a love gift."
I just finished doing trail maintenance with Howard County Parks and Rec. We had to reroute a walking trail because a tree the size of a submarine fell along a bend in it. The group was small, but we all had trail building experience so the work went pretty quickly once we had it flagged out.
On the way back though, we ran into an old dude who started complaining about how we were removing trails and replacing them with winding switchbacks that made his walks too long. The park volunteer coordinator tried to explain to him that the trail to which he was referring was a correction of an improperly created "social" trail (one created by hikers or bikers that didn't follow conservationist methodology) that was causing all manner of soil erosion. The old dude kept arguing and couldn't be bothered that he was holding up a whole group of six people to whine about crap that he had no right to until I told him "take this up another time and call the county. This is not the time or the place". He got pissy and said "I only have one more thing" before going on even more. I cut him off one more time and said "read the forest. We have places to go.". Now I am sure he is going to get pissy and complain to the county about me, but f*ck him.
Sometimes things were simpler with a squeegee right?
Ummm... KNDD 107.7?
The End has been around forever with that format since the original Real World.
Robear wrote:Ummm... KNDD 107.7?
The End has been around forever with that format since the original Real World.
I tried it out, somehow not as enjoyable as KPNW was. Alas.
Well... You can get thousands of stations on radio.net, right? I like Dare.fm.
I have to rent a car from KC to Wichita for work and it looks like a third of the cost of the two day rental turns out to be fees. And much of that is because the city has decided I should have to pay some billionaire for a crappy unused sports arena.
I hate Windows. I hate Microsoft software.
There's a reason I would rather become an (insert crappy job here) than work as a developer using a Microsoft stack.
Why would you want a font without an M?
As a developer in Microsoft and Windows I'd give some sort of defense of it, but nah I can't. Now there's a push for cloud PC only work environments and as I told my boss: If this is helping someone, it's not us.
On another side decided to finally upgrade my phone and it has been a small circus of errors. Had to go to three different t-mobile stores. Four technically, but that one was my fault confusing the boost t-mobile as the same thing. Got my phone and was told it was too late for them to set it up. So I'm doing it myself. Which I then discover is a completely unintuitive process as it hides the correct instructions in various menus. Oh and I paid a 35 dollar upgrade fee for the privilege.
I’ve been a Unix/Linux guy since back when years started with a 1 (aside from my gaming PCs), so anytime Microsoft software pisses me off, it’s absolutely stroking a deep confirmation bias.
Still, there is something about how MS designs and structures their systems and especially development environments that I personally find repulsive and antithetical to how I think they should work.
iPad branding. iPhones are comprehensible - bigger number, better phone. iPads? Well, there’s the iPad, then the iPad, then the Air, then the Pro. And the Mini somewhere. And you have generation numbers, but they have no relation to each other. And the technology in each of those leapfrogs - sometimes. It’s maddening for exactly zero reason.
iPad branding. iPhones are comprehensible - bigger number, better phone. iPads? Well, there’s the iPad, then the iPad, then the Air, then the Pro. And the Mini somewhere. And you have generation numbers, but they have no relation to each other. And the technology in each of those leapfrogs - sometimes. It’s maddening for exactly zero reason.
So much this. I listen to tons of tech podcasts and even the hardcore Apple fans agree the iPad lineup is a mess.
Font support in Windows is really weird. I have a half-finished font file browser coded and the reason it's only half-finished is because I'll have to do some wonky stuff in order to make it do what I want it to.
People who sit in parking spaces with their car running and shifted into reverse, so their backup lights are on and you think they're going to start moving any second, but they just stand on their brake, playing with their pencil.
I'm a shop steward, and one of my members reached out to me for help with an issue.
I managed to get an appointment with the manager in question to try to resolve this prior to filing a grievance. I told the employee "I need all of this information at least the day before the meeting so I can figure out if you have a case or if you are misinterpreting what was said".
The meeting is in 60 minutes and I am still missing 3/4 of the info.
"Yup, I'll get it to you tomorrow".
"I'll send it tonight."
*headdesk*
People who sit in parking spaces with their car running and shifted into reverse, so their backup lights are on and you think they're going to start moving any second, but they just stand on their brake, playing with their pencil.
Adjacent to this is cage drivers who are at a stop sign up ahead and inch forward a little as you are approaching on your motorcycle. ++puckerFactor;
-BEP
My youngest bringing home some virus 3 days before our first family vacation in years, so my wife has to find an urgent care and I am taking the bathroom tour of Savannah, GA.
Lovely town, though.
My coworker I visited a customer site with on Wednesday/carpooled to site with just notifed me he tested positive for covid this morning/started feeling a scratchy throat Wednesday afternoon on our drive back. Soo I will have to cancel/reschedule my tattoo appointment I have scheduled for Sunday.
$85,000 to send a kid to school for a year. Aid knocks it down to $35k/year, but still I say WTF.
Was walking the dog this morning and the neighbor down the street keeps parking his gigantic pickup truck with half the back over the sidewalk. And he has a rusty ball hitch sticking out at shin level.
I want to go out there with my can of spray paint and draw a line over his truck to where it overlaps the sidewalk.
Spray paint isn't enough of a deterrent. Bring an angle grinder and cut off the portion of their truck that's in violation of city ordinances.
Sweet Jehosephat, merphle, don't give him actionable ideas! You don't... You don't know that he doesn't *have* an angle grinder!
$85,000 to send a kid to school for a year. Aid knocks it down to $35k/year, but still I say WTF.
85k is pretty high, even for a private college. Most are around 60k-70k. I have two in private college right now (but thankfully get tuition remission due to working there). No chance we could afford that otherwise. Even community college is 5 times more than I paid in the 90s.
If it makes you feel better books don't cost any more than they did in the early 90s. For both of my kids the cost has been much lower. Their most expensive book so far was a $90 e-book rental. I had semesters where I'd pay about $1000 for books. Most expensive semester for either of them so far was $250.
College sticker prices are starting to hit the 6 figure/year mark.
Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?
College sticker prices are starting to hit the 6 figure/year mark.
Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?
The price has to be high so the wrong people can't afford to get in.
Sweet Jehosephat, merphle, don't give him actionable ideas! You don't... You don't know that he doesn't *have* an angle grinder!
Or a Bangalore Blade from..... Temu.
Sweet Jehosephat, merphle, don't give him actionable ideas! You don't... You don't know that he doesn't *have* an angle grinder!
Seriously don't you know who you are talking to
Robear wrote:Sweet Jehosephat, merphle, don't give him actionable ideas! You don't... You don't know that he doesn't *have* an angle grinder!
Seriously don't you know who you are talking to
I would pay good money to watch a video of Paleo grinding off the ass end of a truck parked over a sidewalk.
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