start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

the worst is when you show up early at the salon and while you're waiting people who made online reservations stroll in and are taken before you

There's got to be other barber alternatives reasonably convenient. I mean, having a barber in your building is the most convenient, but is there somewhere near work where you could go on a lunch break or someplace you could go in the evening?

but morning is when you get hungover barbers who don't feel like talking

We need to find the über of barbers.

I work downtown so all of the barbers are fancy and charge 2-3 times what my normal barber, over in the shopping center across town, charges.

He gets snuffy every once in awhile because I don't see him every other week like some of his other customers, but it's a chore to leave work during the day.

just be a fancy man who goes to a hair stylist and make an appointment for the next haircut when you get one. if you decide you don't need one that week, reschedule.

ilm thread revives about new albums that piggyback on threads about their last album, or their last bit of news. for example, all of the discussion about the excellent new sleater-kinney album has been on Sleater-Kinney breaks up and all the discussion about last year's gerard way album was on My Chemical Romance call it a day . Start new threads for new albums people!

long-ass ILE movie/tv thread titles that include the names of director, writer and 4 or 5 actors.

customers who don't reply to emails ever...it's like they only want to be the sender, not the recipient idgi

and ppl who dont acknowledge emails at all even just to say thanks

rude

and this is when you have email-heavy communication with ppl

not group emails or advertising or whatever

xp to self: All of the Viet Cong discussion has been on the thread for their former band women

There's got to be other barber alternatives reasonably convenient. I mean, having a barber in your building is the most convenient, but is there somewhere near work where you could go on a lunch break or someplace you could go in the evening?

Preface: I was complaining of an irrational reaction to other people stealing my lifehack of getting up early and being there before opening.

Now calm down and remember you love me.... I have a salon in my apartment building that is open late. But I don't trust them b/c it looks hanky. And if I go once and don't like them it will be awkward seeing them around. And I really like my barber shop and my barber a LOT.

My bitching is like griping about a beloved family member who sometimes does something frustrating.

Now calm down and remember you love me

What did we say about this?

I think my post reasonably be expected to cause sputtering from anyone. Calm down and stop being so defensive.

Can I borrow your blender?

PDFS THAT DEFAULT TO 200% ZOOM WHEN YOU OPEN THEM, FUCK OFF!!

JESUS WHAT IS WRONG WITH 100%, JUST OPEN IN THAT

(prediction: someone will tell me how to specify in adobe what % zoom a pdf opens in)

PDFS THAT DEFAULT TO 200% ZOOM WHEN YOU OPEN THEM, FUCK OFF!!

oh god yes this. STOP SHOVING IT IN MY FACE!! I would genuinely clench my fists every time this happened at work

agh I have inherited a script which creates pdfs at work and I do not understand for the life of me how to get 1. the front page the same size as the other pages 2. the default zoom not to be like either 634509% or 0.3%

I mean the PDFs contain the display size of each element so I tried setting that to be roughly the same, right, but that didn't work (or I did it wrong)... so then I went "well this one is roughly 2.4 the size it needs to be so I'll divide both dimensions by 2.4" which I did first with just the numbers in the PDF file itself but that didn't work so then I resized the original input file and it came out a different size but not one-2.4th of the original, nooo

a bunch of random numbers later it looked okish on my screen but merely differently terrible on my coworker's screen

hate not understanding apparently simple tasks but it happens a lot at work lately, feel like I'm ready for the ice floe career-wise, but eh

i've never done it but i checked out of curiosity (sorry to be that guy) - you can set zoom % in preferences under page display

Just from a kobo using vantage, I fucking loathe PDF's which invariably always become fucking alphabet spaghetti when you convert them to ebook format.

private clubs make me irrationally angry
i learned that today

like 77? :)

at first that made me angry too
but then i realized that anyone was allowed in if they asked

the invitation aspect doesn't bother me so much as having a sub-"secret board" on an public board just seems vaguely idiotic

i rarely post on 77 and much of it is no different from any of the other sub-boards but in principle it is nice to have a de-indexed place that is invite-only (provided anyone can request an invite)

calling it an invite is inaccurate iirc, it's more like "please authorize my username"

my voice is my passport, verify me

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but clicking "Like" on FB to mean "I acknowledge having read this," even on things the clicker doesn't agree with. My wife does this...it makes me IRRATIONALLY ANGRY.

People who complain about condos

When ppl talk about musicians selling out/ethics of such as a thing that bands were into in the 80s/90s. The idea that this is 2015 and everyone sells out. No they don't! They just don't get free press for whining about McDonalds so you never hear about them

ehh....

I don't know. Back in the 80s the Del Fuegos did a beer commercial and like 5 bands wrote songs about them being sell-outs. It was a different time.

I thought it was the Long Ryders? Or was it both?

Dan Zanes was on WTF talking about it this week

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/145478-whats-a-sellout/

it was both!

Zanes claimed the sell-out effect was increased because the beer commercial played during Live Aid, thus contrasting the greedy Del Fuegos with the altruistic bands on stage. But did they really play beer commercials during Live Aid?

But did they really play beer commercials during Live Aid?

Maybe not on MTV, but probably on the pre-Fox/UHF broadcast channels that carried Live Aid in the US.

There were commercials, also much breaking away to report on the state of Ronald Reagan's colon.

Trying to work out why I suddenly can't access seemingly any new website through firefox this morning. Thought it was bad enough when avast was blocking me from getting onto Demonoid yesterday.
Not sure if the 2 things are closely interrelated or just coincidental but it's a major pain.
Seems like everything is timing out, even something as popular as Amazon.

So not sure if problem is my computer, Firefox acting up or Avast becoming over stringent. But it is preventing me from getting anywhere on the net today.

bought a 6pack of bagels from winco on friday

ate 1 yesterday, got up this morning and every single bagel left in the bag now covered in grey mold D:

and not just spots here and there...like they had been dipped in paint

they werent even meant to expire til tuesday

FUCKERS

Writing a check to order checks.

the need for checks

fuck checks

Oh man, the mad scramble to find a checkbook when one is necessary.

i prefer checks

also i have 18 left and am dead set on ordering w/ a new address

the last time i tried using a check to purchase something it got denied because i never use checks

Paid some money into my savings account today and was given 20 questions because the cheque looked funny under their mysterious "illuminator" device, which it eventually turned out was probably because the chequebook was over a decade old (a combination of rarely using cheques and accidentally losing a chequebook, asking for a new one, and then finding the old one)

(is the illuminator just a UV light? wondering if I have a UV light to shine on my chequebook now. perhaps I should just go clubbing and bring a variety of chequebooks of various ages to inspect.)

(oh yeah I was transferring money into my ISA which is why the cheque was from my own chequebook)