Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

People who insist that iPhone videos should never be vertical. It's a 1-minute video of my toddler doing something stupid and funny, not a new print of a Bergman film! Maybe I just wanted her whole head and body to be visible without standing five feet away.

a harddrive containing a folder of music is not showing anything inside it listed alphabetically beyond the letter F. I can see 2 torrents going into that folder with names beginning with T & V, which when the open containing folder option is opted for , open to show contents of teh folders in question but when you take the step up folder option they are nowhere to be seen. What the hell is going on? Are these folders going to be permanently lost ? Am I just about to face the hard drive losing coherence and therefore the contents?
Not liking this at all.

What you're supposed to do with those vertical shots is put them side-by-side with similar shot in iMovie to get that "Woodstock" split-screen effect. Use the wipe-screen transition to get your dirty work done. #iPhone #lifehack

people who continue their conversations in crowded, otherwise quiet elevators, forcing everyone else to awkwardly listen to every word you say amplified by the walls

and it's obviously awkward for them too! suddenly their conversation has an audience and they either get really nervous about it or they love the attention and start talking even louder

loud person: "so yeah, i was thinking about taking thursday and friday off."
nervous person: "yeah, you would!"
loud person: "you know, instead of monday and tuesday."
nervous person: "yeah, you would!"

Moments when I LET myself get gouged on something. Tonight had to bring K, stroller and a couple bags home and realized I couldn't really do it alone on the subway so tried to hail a cab, but there are just no yellow cabs available, so finally a black cab honks and pulls over and I give him the nod. I'm already putting the stuff in the trunk when suddenly it dawns on me to ask "How much is this going to be?" -- he quotes a price that's like 60% more than a yellow cab, but I'm pretty much stuck at this point.

o shit

you totally get karma pts for not taking all that on the subway tho

yeah, especially since "all that" would have included a screaming toddler

oh well, he was a really nice dude and showed me pics of his grandkids. Maybe because he knew he was overcharging me ha.

i get mad when i do that kind of thing or get parking tickets or lose something, etc. but all the times that's happened i've made the money back and forgotten about it. i try to think of it that way at least.

People who use "priorities" to mean "stuff that is important" in a distinctly NON prioritizing way.

Comes up in vague political discussion a lot -- "what does this say about priorities?" GTFO, unless you are actually making a choice between one thing that YOU want and another, you are not actually talking about priorities.

gaaah surewest dvr sucks ASS so much. I've complained about it before but to wit, just last night

- checked scheduler to make sure Breaking Bad would record on Sunday. It showed that there was a conflict. but there's nothing else scheduled to record O_o --- checked the settings of the season pass, and it showed 'Channel: 0', like it had wiped or forgotten the settings. it's been on the same channel for how long? ragh.

- set it on Sunday to record Broadchurch this week. noticed last night it hadn't recorded. I set it to record 'first run only' so I don't end up with a dvr full of repeat airings'...but the info on the show shows original air date as March of this year. Which is when it aired IN THE UK. so I have to set it up to record reruns as well as first runs because the stupid system thinks it's a rerun

raaaaaaaaaaaagh if surewest didn't have fibre optic interwebs I would throw the thing in the fucking trash.

I don't know that this "irrational" anger, but anyway: Working on some marketing stuff at work for a new partnership deal we're about to launch. Back at the start of this I asked the product manager if they wanted to take a stab at the copy (the audience for this is kinda specialized) and they said, "No, Marketing can write it. Here's the partner's media kit and website for reference."

Great. I submit a draft to the product manager and his team, who proceed to take a steaming dump all over it. "We don't like this in-your-face appeal, we don't like the positioning, blah, blah, blah." Hey, dickhole, I gave you the opportunity to write the copy and you said "No." If you then have requirements for how you want this product positioned, TELL ME IN ADVANCE, but don't come back at me with this garbage.

The icing on the cake? He pedantically takes issue with a particular word choice, condescendingly noting, "By the way, Partner X is a website, not a publication." I then pull up the media kit HE SENT ME and C&P the second sentence in it: "Partner X is the leading publication for . . ."

It's 2013, Old Dude, people have been using "publication" for online outlets for at least a decade. If you're gonna step to me, you best step hard.

xp Broadchurch was not that good by the end

Oh no. That is sad to hear.

i don't believe u kinder

also I guessed the end and I never guess these things :(
Olivia Colman is still awesome though

They way you've described these people, Phil, I suspect their title really is called Partner X?

It's actually Racer X but I signed a confidentiality agreement.

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IA that I read a single NYT article yesterday and it said "you have read 5 of your 10 articles for this month!" and I thought "huh, already?" and today I clicked on a single NYT article to find "you have read all 10 of your articles for this month! subscribe to read this article"

last time I checked 5 + 1 < 10

Not anymore...thanks, Obama!

Ha. I suppose it didn't specify what number base it was using. I have possibly read 10 articles in base 6.

Should probably bear in mind too that I might get angrier actually reading the articles than unexpectedly not being allowed to read them (see quiddities thread for reminder).

i just open them all in incognito window

i'm not gonna pay just so i can hate-read the style section

that tbf is a terrible negative attitude

What you want is a really good negative attitude.

Someone tagged me in a really bad user-created someecard that doesn't even have anything to do with me, and now it shows up in my facebook photos

untag yourself.

delete your facebook

move to a potato farm

hate it when I go to a quiet place in our office to read and suddenly everyone in the buidling decides to stand nearby and have loud unignorable conversations

jerks >:(

Shit yeah, I have a co-worker that seems to always come and sit with me and talk bollocks at me when I've taken the smallest hidden-away corner of the canteen and am sitting with my nose in a book. Do I fucking *LOOK* like I mind if you sit with me? Oh, and don't ask what I'm listening to because chances are you *won't* have heard of whatever it is because you've never heard of anything that isn't Take That or Paolo Nutini, and the fact that you're asking means that I'm pretty much not listening to it now anyway.

anyone who asks anyone what they're reading while that person is reading needs to go piss up a fking rope

And then LAUGHS NERVOUSLY when you explain what it is that you're reading because it's not by JK Rowling or Stephanie Meyer.

yes x 1000

And then tells other people about you and makes you feel like some sort of freak for reading, I dunno, like Martin Amis or something. This isn't complicated or weird stuff, you guys!

I get the feeling she'd be sorely disappointed if she heard my "weird" music and realised it was just music and not, y'know, a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.

years ago a friend loaned me a Brian Greene physics book that I started reading at work and seriously for like months afterwards got 'LOL EGGHEAD' from coworkers as though I was reading some hardcore advanced theorem textbook.
I wanted to explain "um but see I'm reading this because I DON'T UNDERSTAND PHYSICS AT ALL and this makes it easy for spongheads like me" but they were all such uncurious ignorant weirdos about it it wasn't even worth explaining

i am interested in what ppl are reading

sorry

Okay but don't judge me when the answer is "Star Trek book."

I like being asked in a natural conversational way --- some ppl just hate quiet rooms and have to barge in all BLAH BLAH WHAT ARE YOU READING

hate it when I go to a quiet place in our office to read and suddenly everyone in the buidling decides to stand nearby and have loud unignorable conversations

This place is commonly referred to around my office as "Pplains' desk."

:(

Hey, I asked for the window. My bad.

a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.

this is my new favourite band

Deerhoof?

I was thinking No-Neck Blues Band but that could work.

. . . and grooving with a pict

- seeing 360 new answers in the Breaking Bad thread while I'm still working through Season 4
- trying to make my eyes glaze over every time I see the words "Breaking Bad" in any form of social media