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

Trying to get a spoonful of peanut butter out of an almost empty jar with a flimsy too-short plastic spoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7j0gYIkfw

Anyway, Manischewitz makes me IR. Everything about them. Shitty products for a cornered market. Like, just try a little bit harder than just clumps of flavorless carbs and sugar, you shitheads.

Streit's all the way. Thankfully it's not too hard to find them in DC

Bought a couple cans of Manischewitz pistachio-orange macaroons at a local supermarket's going out of business sale (75% off), and I think they're not bad.

Having to work out how to repair rip in my leather car coat after catching it on a prong sticking out of a wire fence yesterday. Prong right next to entrance to community garden I need to cut through before long walk into town.

Long walk into town being necessary because of extended bus strike. Not sure how long that's going to drag on.
Realisation that I wasn't as beholden to buses as it felt so could have stayed out later in town if I wanted to.
The obstacle of the length of the walk being a daunting onerous task to be put off. People jog further but I don't want to carry shopping that far.

urgent care clinics that have "pre-registration" online only to ask you to fill out an entire form with teh same info anyway when you show up.

oh yeah, and any place that has an online reservation system that no employee ever looks at

there was one theatre here (now closed) that used Paypal for its ticketing system only instead of using Paypal as a merchant, basically it consisted of you just sending the ticket price to them manually. it was never monitored for how many seats were left to sell, was left on after showtime, etc, so you could wind up sending them money and show up only to find out there were no seats left.

I showed up one day saying I had a reservation and they didn't have my name and were like "oh right Paypal, haven't looked at that today"...

wtf that's insane

anger 100% rational and justified in that case

I presume you mean that that theatre closed after it was justifiably set on fire.

closed after nobody saw their garbage productions

I think people should avoid being passive aggressive as much as possible and just be straight up. It's the worst how people can get away with being dicks and then say "just kidding, relax", while every part of their face shows they're full of fizz. If people just cut the bull shit there might be more disarray but there would be way less garbage to wade through.

youtube's recommendations are pathological. i watch three graham norton clips and it throws 900000 graham norton clips at me. i watch a few episodes of only connect and it feeds me everything victoria coren mitchell has ever done.

uber receipts and similar being designed by ppl who never had to actually use a receipt for anything, a simple $6 fare somehow spread over 2 full pages
ppl with college education who put anything about their high school or their frat on a resume
ppl whose linkedin profiles are riddled with typos

people who ask "is this elevator going up or down" - THERE'S AN ARROW FOR THAT

lol I did that a couple weeks ago

even worse-- you're waiting to get on an elevator and when it arrives some guy starts to step on before you then stops and asks if its going up or down. When he finds out it isn't going his way he stands there blocking your way as the doors close.

I left work for the weekend this evening, got home and realised I'd left my phone there. This is the worst thing that's happened to anyone ever.

Passwords. Generally. Fuck.

^ co-sign.

My fucking newspaper channeled all its customer service through the web. My account had nothing to do with money or personal info, yet for access to such mundane services as reporting a lost paper or stopping delivery while on vacation, they required a password of 8 characters or more, with both upper and lower case letters, a numeric character, and "one or more of these special characters". This reeked of some new graduate with an IT degree, zero real world experience, and a boss who had no clue what this kid's job was.

We use Bitlocker at mine before we even get to the main login screen. It saves your invalids over time and eventually you are locked out. And you have to get this long 32 character lockout code to get back in from IT. and the invalid attempts don't reset.

So i called IT to ask them to reset ny invalid attempts to zero once cos i was sick of having to go through that every time i fat fingered one time and dude was like "yeah we can't do that we should probably figure that out cos lotsa people seem to be pissed about this".

Called a week later and got someone else who said "i dunno wtf that agent was talking about. We reset those counts all the time" and finally put me back to zero.

do you mean in a row, or if you get it wrong and then right, it keeps track of the wrong ones in a tally

latter

the thing that really fucks me off is password policies with stupid requirements (at least one upper-case letter, at least one lower-case letter, at least one number, at least one symbol, minimum 8 characters). so of course people write down their inscrutable passwords on post-it notes and your intricate policy is fucking meaningless.

My friend designed a software that's online which allows you to store your password in a database which is highly encrypted. I'm still too stupid to use something that logical

i use 1password, it does the job

I was going to say, most of my passwords are on iOS/macOS and saved unless it's something I have to log into from work. it auto-generates strong passwords and makes them accessible across all my devices as long as I'm logged into my computer

otoh my annoyance is with the tv network apps that work with the appletv magic but make me re-login to my tv provider, then do so with an embedded browser view that doesn't do the aurocomplete

My (current) gripe is with Chase iOS app, which keeps locking me out for too many failed log-in attempts despite having made 0 previous attempts.

Which, fine, maybe somebody somewhere else is trying to use my user name. But then the reset process is really easy to fuck up, so I get locked out even FURTHER and have to call customer service.

the thing that really fucks me off is password policies with stupid requirements (at least one upper-case letter, at least one lower-case letter, at least one number, at least one symbol, minimum 8 characters).

Even worse when they don't tell you the requirements, just let you keep typing in passwords you want to use while telling you they're too weak and invalid

yeah, and those times when they let you do it once, then afterwards it gives you tiny red text telling you what the stupid requirements are.

thing is we'd all be better off (and more secure) with big clear meaningful passwords like turnbullisaweakbastard than with some random dumb shit like ma!colm1

at work sometimes there are syncing issues w/ the master password program and the system. can't tell you how many times I reset my password three times in a day cos of that shit.

http://application.denofgeek.com/pics/film/tron.retrospective/06.jpg

YOU MUST USE AT LEAST 13 CHARACTERS INCLUDING AN UMLAUT AND THAT UPSIDE-DOWN SPANISH QUESTION MARK.

AND NOT A DICTIONARY WORD OR ANY PREVIOUS PASSWORD

AND WE'LL INVALIDATE IT EVERY SIX WEEKS, SO YOU MUST CONSTANTLY ENTER A NEW PASSWORD USING THE SAME BULLSHIT RULES

AND WE DANCED LIKE A WAVE ON THE OCEAN, ROMANCED

my uni had different passwords for email, blackboard, library, student services, alumni. every few weeks some of them demanded new passwords, and it was never clear (or even consistent) how many other passwords would change. the whole shebang was so disorganised and horrible that i just stopped using some things altogether.

Password expires every three months but starts reminding you of this every day a month before it does...

Elsewhere, I've updated Google Android keyboard and the new one seems dumber at autocorrect.

Have also updated the casual game that I've been playing every day for two years now and where I've amassed 500+ of the unlockable characters only for the new version to say that it's not compatible with my device, but only after the update and with no way to de-update.

Special mentions for both the Twitter app and the Flickr app updates for also doing what I want them to do less well than they did.

(Flickr app now interleaves photos from groups in with the photos from friends. The groups are very noisy with 1 pic in 10 being interesting thus shitting up my home screen. Twitter app doesn't show your own posts by default any more and switching between accounts is convoluted so checking on my Bots is now 4 times the work)

people who are close to the stage at small club shows that reach their hands in the vicinity of the guitar player's guitar and do the "meedly meedly" air guitar thing right in their face. I am fine w/ air guitar (I do it at shows) but doing it in the player's face seems a bit distracting, tho obv they're professional and know to tune that out

people that decided to start getting fit 5 minutes ago giving never-ending unsolicited nutrition advice

NOBODY CARES WHAT BANDS YOU SAW AND THE ONE BAND YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE, FACEBOOK PEOPLE

Yeah, seriously, shut the fuck up, Facebook.

Speaking of which, I have a friend who constantly compares bands to weirdly specific but totally not helpful other acts. Like "have you heard the new album by (x)? It's kind of like early Don McLean." Or, like, "it's got a real Tuxedo Moon thing going on." Stuff like that. It's endearing, but the IA side of me hates it.

i'm toying with going back to facebook after ~8 years, loads of people telling me not to do it

I wish I had a shock collar that would zap me every time I looked at it.

Don't do it, this 10 concert thing is the lamest thing ever. Like, who the fuck cares which concert you didn't go to? There are entire concerts I can't remember seeing. Apparently one week I saw both DMX and John Cale, and I can't remember a minute of either.

"have you heard the new album by (x)? It's kind of like seeing DMX and John Cale in the same week."

I succumbed, but just as a time killer.

In 2017 fire alarms still do that chirping thing when the battery is low. But it stops when the battery is taken out. I'm probably missing something but witaf

one of ours is plugged into the mains so it only goes off in extreme circumstances, e.g. a fire emergency, using a frying pan for 12 seconds