When you make text into a button, could you please remember to define a hit area? I mean, when you test your movies, don’t you realize how fucking annoying it is to have to click inside the borders of one of the letters? Maybe you just don’t know how to fix the problem. In that case, you have no business designing in Flash until you’ve at least gone through the built-in tutorial, because I’m pretty sure this concept is explained in there.
I’ve been thinking about finally redesigning, so I figured I might as well install IE7 so that I would be able to test the site. As soon as I rebooted my computer for the first time everything set to run at startup that accesses the internet in anyway crashed. Tried to run Firefox. It crashed immediately. Tried to run IE7. It crashed immediately. I read that some people were having problems like this if they had Google Desktop installed. I uninstalled Google Desktop and rebooted. The problem was still there. I reset my computer to a recovery point made earlier today. And nowww… Windows Explorer will not run. I’m having to do without a task bar until I solve this problem.
Microsoft, I hate you.
(I’ve been writing a lot of curmudgeonly letter lately. Sitting around at home all day is getting to me. The latest one was to UPS, because their driver keeps leaving my packages at the wrong entrance to my apartment building — behind a door that I can’t open without a key, or bugging random people in that part of the building to buzz me in.)
Fuck it, I don’t really feel like arguing with your fat, lazy ass over the phone, so I’m not going to return your call. I’m glad that I got you in trouble with your supervisor badly enough to have to call me, though.
I know the call would be an argument, because fuck, even your message was semi-indignant and defensive. Yes, Marie, the address on the packages said “#### 1 2 N ####### Ave” instead of “#### 1/2 N ####### Ave”. I’ll give you that one. Without the slash, it could be a bit confusing, I guess. So, one point for you. That’s a problem with whatever system removed characters from the label. I have the same problem entering my address into various computer systems. They don’t like the slash one bit.
Buuuuut…
The labels also included my apartment number. There is no 2W at the entrance you left the packages on the inside of. You could not possibly have buzzed any buzzer with the non-existent 2W label. You should have noticed you were at the wrong place. And 2W is in the same building. You only had to go to the next door.
Okay, I guess maybe you could have thought the 2W was wrong as well, or maybe just missed it, since it’s on another line. I guess not everyone is particularly bright. (And I’m not entirely sure that the apartment numbers are clear on the labels over there, because I’ve never checked. They’re on the box by my door, though. Meh)
Buuuuut…
The labels also included my name. I happen to know that there is no buzzer labeled Payne at that entrance, because I had to randomly buzz up and bug several of my neighbours over there in order to be let in to get my stuff. You had to do the same thing, huh? Pretty goddamn rude, if you ask me. You obviously didn’t even care to find the correct delivery location.
When you didn’t see a 2W or a Payne you should have double checked everything. Maybe called me. Whatever. Anything other than leaving my stuff in some random place, inside the first door you could find with an address that looked KIND OF similar to the one on the box.
Especially since I have never authorized UPS to leave my packages ANYWHERE unattended. Especially not at the bottom of the stairs of a section of the building that I do not live in and have no access to.
Plus, you did it two days in a row. On the first day, I called to complain, and was told that they would contact you to tell you that I did not receive my packages, and to figure out what the fuck had happened to them.
So yeah, you’re just stupid. Fuckin’ asshat.
One point for you because the labels were slightly wrong due to one lost character.
But then minus a billion points for being a rude, lazy, mindless dipshit.
Sincerely,
Me
The Comcast guy didn’t show up to fix our cable today. This is the second time someone has been scheduled. The cable line coming into our apartment is old/bad, and needs to be replaced, but I guess it’s never going to happen. So, I’ve pulled as much of the line as I can up through our floor, and taped it to the wall in such a way that the signal seems as strong as possible. Meaning that certain channels on our non cable-box having TV are snowy, but at least no longer snowy AND in black and white. And that my Internet connection still sucks ass, but at least no longer cuts out every 15 seconds (I’ve managed to get it down to every 5 minutes or so).
I figure we’ll probably move out of here before I manage to get a tech guy out… even if we don’t wind up moving out in the next month or two like Sean wants to. Because I think I misheard the time span I was given on the phone. I don’t think they said between 10 and 12 AM. I think they might really have said between 2010 and 2012.
Anyway, I’m posting this mostly to point out that I’m not (necessarily) ignoring anyone’s e-mails or IMs etc… It’s just such a pain in the ass to have to press send 87 times to get anything to work. Packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss packet loss.
Does this seem acceptable to you:
[00:25] *** You have been disconnected.
[00:51] *** You have been disconnected.
[01:12] *** You have been disconnected.
[01:19] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[01:34] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[01:59] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[03:08] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[04:15] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
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[04:44] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[05:16] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[05:31] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[05:43] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[05:50] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[07:15] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[08:20] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[08:24] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[08:34] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[08:47] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[09:21] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[09:31] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[10:34] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[10:43] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[10:49] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[11:25] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[11:35] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[11:54] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[12:36] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[12:39] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[12:50] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[13:18] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[13:27] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[13:48] *** Lost connection to network (Error Code: 10054).
[15:35] *** You have been disconnected.
Here’s some advice. I know that we all hate image leeching. But if you’re going to set your htaccess file to disallow hotlinking, could you please take a few minutes to add popular web-based news aggregators like Bloglines as exceptions? I’m tired of having to toggle sending referrers on and off every five minutes in order to be able to see pictures of Britney Spears’ pussy on The Superficial. Thanks.
(I have to turn sending referrers back on when I’m done because pain in the ass WordPress doesn’t work properly without it. I remember to do so only after typing up an entire post, and clicking publish. Then when I press the back button to try again, the post is gone, and I have to type it out all over again. This just happened for the umpteenth time. If the post is any longer than this, I usually don’t bother. Seriously, fuck you WordPress.)
(Google spell check recognizes the word umpteenth??? Really?)
Since when did Winamp on shuffle, but not on repeat, play the same track more than once. I always believed that it would play each track once, and stop. I’m almost sure that I remember the program behaving this way. Well, if it never did, it should. And if it did, but doesn’t anymore, well that’s silly.
Why does this question ever have to be asked? Apparently, the answer is any day from tomorrow until Tuesday. And there are specific hours, too. WTF, Americans. Is tomorrow the 31st? No, no it isn’t. I’ll have you know that only one of those days is the 31st. And who goes trick-or-treating before dark, if they’re older than 5 years old? What’s wrong with you people? They got the date right in Chicago, at least. But 1pm-7pm? ONE FUCKING PM??? That’s it, kids. You’re all getting razorblades from me. Not that anyone visits our apartment. But if they did, and if they buzzed at 1pm before sensible people are even AWAKE… Poisoned candy. Hear me? Don’t think weirdos like me won’t kill you bastards before dusk. The daylight WILL NOT SAVE YOU. Okay? Being “safe” is for suckers. Correct way to do trick-or-treating: all black outfit, 10pm, jaywalking from house to house, still not getting run over because you’re not a fucking moron who doesn’t look both ways, even if you’re only seven. Wah wah wah. Babies.
“Canada’s New Government”? Blah blah blah, some shit about some scientist or whatever. This is too stupid to even comment on. I’m guessing that everyone else agrees, since there are only 300-some articles to be found about this on Google News, and most of them don’t seem to be related to the rebranding. But this needs more attention. Now I’m going to go vomit!
Everyone has surely noticed this, but as I’m fond of pointing out the obvious: YouTube is retarded for not having a volume control on their player. Fucking. Retarded.