She did it again when we were leaving to drive home. She wanted to go look at some town she'd visited when she was a kid. So she starts toodling down along some surface street and I noticed that we were going in the opposite direction to where I thought the town was. I said, um, are you sure it's not the other direction?
She's visited this area more than I have and I still ended up basically explaining to her that Monterey was south and Santa Cruz was north, and to go north we had to UP highway 1, not DOWN.
and I'm terrible with compass directions generally, but when there's a coastline involved, I figured it would it kinda make things pretty simple.
I guess it's that Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance thing that he talks about, people who don't fix leaky taps vs people who do, or don't consult a map vs people who do.
But I am seriously going to consider making this criteria for friendships going forward. Because there could be homicide in my future.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
i am annoyed that both thisThe Return Of My Bloody Valentineand thisLoveless Remaster Actually Sound Better? exist and both keep getting bumped every 20 minutes with pretty much the same information.
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Irrational Anger, snooty performing arts edition:
- If a symphony plays something that you recognize from a parody song, it is not appropriate to sing along with the orchestra for a few bars.- I ain't mad at you if you fall asleep or even snore, but if your symphony companion is snoring, you need to go ahead and elbow that guy and make him stop instead of letting him saw logs loud enough for the entire third balcony to hear.
Irrational Anger, how do I end up friends with these people edition:
- It's fine to be The Friend Who Is Always Late, and it's fine to be The Friend Who Won't Use a Mobile Device, but it is not okay to always be late and refuse to use a cell phone so you can text me and let me know your ETA.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Posting this link here for remy since this is where the discussion happened:
http://jangsara.blogspot.com/
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
RANDOM MICROSOFT UPDATES
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
also phone app updates - I'm getting 5-10 a week :/
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
can i just add... people sorting personal shit out on the phone at work. drives me bananas. nobody wants to hear about your wedding/holiday/plumbing and do some f'ing work anyway.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
"reverse telecommuting"
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
App updates are great! New features! I get 5 a day.
― Jeff, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm paranoid about privacy changes being sneaked in under bug fixes.
I've had Google Maps update a dozen times and I don't know what's different.
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hate sorting personal shit out on the phone at work, but I work in a cube and there is zero place to have a private phone conversation on this entire floor unless you duck into a vacant conference room or someone else's office.
I had to make two very personal phone calls yesterday so I went to another floor and hid in this weird corner between a filing cabinet and an empty waiting area just out of sight from the main receptionist to make one, and then for the other, I sat at a table that is right out in the open waiting area of our floor, right out in public but with nobody close enough to hear what I was saying (which was hopefully masked by the noise coming from public common areas of the building).
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
For context, this is what the inside of my building looks like:
All of the floors are wide open plans with no interior walls to separate the individual floors from the rest of the interior of the building, so this is the view from each floor:
And that deeper hole is the center of a bustling food court/interior mall dealie, so it's always loud.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
And yes, people have killed themselves inside the building, most recently last... November or December, I think.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty sure i would have constant vertigo if i worked there
― biggie smallclothes (brownie), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
The elevators are CLEAR!!! It took me about six months to get used to it, and since it's a semi-public building, I see some poor terrified jerk cramming herself into the front corner by the buttons, where the walls are opaque, to avoid having to watch all of that building falling away from them as they ride to their floor.
It doesn't help that the elevators are also... not great so you're riding in them, watching the ground floor recede under you, and the elevator will jerk, and then stop, and then rise another two inches, and then sit, and then the door will open. It's no wonder I have some anxiety issues, really.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
So most of the building is just empty? That looks like a terrible use of space.
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's lots of office space on each floor. The building take up an entire city block.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jesus that looks like the set of Brazil, wtf
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Apt comparison.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
All the support on Facebook for gay marriage gets me when the people posting it make sure to mention how straight they are. Anything that starts "I'm not gay but..." makes me upset, I can't help but feel you're saying "I believe all of us are created equal and deserve equal rights, but please don't mistake me for a gay, I don't want anyone to think I'm gay"
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I understand what you mean, but I do appreciate straight allies.
― Jeff, Friday, May 11, 2012 9:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
OTM. If it's an app I use a lot I will always read the details re what's being updated.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
why is u-torrent announcing another update almost immediately after hounding me into updating to the last solid stage or whatever it's called.& is that last update actually keeping track of what i've downloaded? seemed to be on the same figure when i woke up this morning as when I wet to bed last night. & I'm relying on it to keep me under a certain capacity, which if I go over I'm going to wind up getting put on a higher cost rate.
― Stevolende, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
& google chrome have introduced something which seems to ensure that I get taken to the top of any thread I want to read after it initially opens at the point I stopped reading at the last time. Very annoying, I then have to find my way back to where i left off when i was there in the first place.
― Stevolende, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
many xposts - wow carl agatha that second view looks like the Death Star
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Something I think is kind of ridiculous is how it is apparently standard etiquette when your mobile rings to leave your office or pub conversation, which is fine, that seems polite - but apparently you should only go about two metres and then have your bellowing private conversation right behind someone else, instead of walking another 5 metres to go outside on a nice sunny day, into the totally empty work kitchen, etc
and another pub-related one which I admit is totally irrational is that I hate people standing at the bar to drink, and obviously this is perfectly reasonable and historically sound as evidenced by the existence of barstools, but it drives me mad when I can't reach the bar to buy a drink because there are like 20 guys who already have pints just standing there braying at each other
urgh, carl, I don't think I could cope with working in your building, at all
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 11 May 2012 17:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
- when a piece of gum rapidly loses cohesion in your mouth and suddenly you're left with a tongue full of minty sand.
― remy bean, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
what building is that carl agatha? is it famous? celebrated erector set panopticon suicide chute designed by...
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Thompson_Center
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was just in it this morning because there's a dmv office in the basement.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
in the food court.
a dmv office in the food court?
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha it's actually off of the food court. i think it's a pretty cool building but i have never had to take the elevators.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's got some issues.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
reminds me a little of the bonaventure hotel in l.a.:
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Reminds me of the Marriott in Atlanta, which is like Alien to the James R. Thompson center's Brazil:
― joygoat, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
carl, I'd never get any work done in your building, I'd be leaning over the balconies and taking the elevators all day.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i could never get any work done in any of these buildings!
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp You probably wouldn't take the elevators unnecessarily after your first shuddering/slipping/getting stuck experience.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
people who misspell the word "weird" as "wierd"
― mh, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Baked Lays are only ever 1/4 full.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
(bags of Baked Lays, that shoudl read)
xpost, I just stayed at the Atlanta Marriott and felt like I was in an alien's thoracic cavity the whole time.
― kate78, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bonaventure looks the hotel that killed John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire.
IA: Having to use the word "in" twice in a row even if it is correct.
― pplains, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also, at least in the context of this thread, the city and state of Correctionville, IA, is hilarious to me.
― pplains, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
The next time I get, I mean need, to tell someone they're wrong, I'm going to start by offering them a one-way ticket to Correctionville.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Welcome to Correctionville, Population: me
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
ia: "saving the carcass for stock" means you actually have to make the stock, which is a pain in the butt
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's pretty easy!
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
easy, yes, but you still have to stand there skimming the scum
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pplains
I get IA over Young America, Minnesota, and in googling it to make sure I got it right, I discover it has merged with neighboring Norwood to form Norwood Young America! What's odd is that it was founded in 1856, I assumed with a name like Young America it would be a recent creation. It's known for being a coupon processing center, which is how I first heard about it.
― nickn, Friday, 11 May 2012 23:53 (1 year ago) Permalink