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

Maybe she tells the interesting dreams to you only.

― Jeff, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:27 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe I'm more interesting than you give me credit for!

oooooo

We've got a drop-down menu list of photographers on one of our internal sites. This is what I see when I'm trying to search for an item by that category:

Fred Allen
Jim Baker
Arnold Coolidge
Kim Davis
Kevin Effington
Zack Farner
Nell Garland
Phyllis Hathaway

THAT IS NOT A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/dead-poets-society-is-a-terrible-defense-of-the-humanities/283853/

this is a shit article

shit

you really think so? I totally get where he is coming from. The brand of "reading" endorsed by Dead Poets Society seems ready-made for feel-goody high-concept advertisements.

did someone think high school english as portrayed in a movie was the same as grad school critical theory? i bet they feel dumb now

The brand of "reading" endorsed by Dead Poets Society seems ready-made for feel-goody high-concept advertisements.

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:00 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally, i just feel like

- he didn't need 3500 words to make his sort of obvious point about a 20 year old movie
- putting 'appreciation' in opposition to close reading is fucking nonsense

"everyone says english departments overanalyze things well thats stupid you have to analyze things instead of just having feelings about them"

its a spirited defense of bloodlessness

- putting 'appreciation' in opposition to close reading is fucking nonsense

^^^ a million times this

And it's what I think when people get het up about analyzing jokes. For me, picking apart a joke doesn't "kill it," it gives it a second life.

Otherwise entertaining podcasts where they can't be bothered to edit out the boring 20 mins at the start where set up and complain about Skype glitches, etc etc

^^^

How Windows 7 likes to display every new folder window with the following 'details':

#
Title
Contributing Artists
Album

So instead of just me clicking a button or two so I can see file size and date, I have to unclick all these mp3-centric options and then click all the stuff 'on'. Thanks, MS.

Also, I have received multiple used printers that 100% work in other versions of Windows but REFUSE to do so in Windows 7. Ease of use w peripherals should be the fucking FOUNDATION of your OS. Otherwise this is just DOS in drag.

the literary equivalent of fandom

god forbid people would be fans of literature

Huge 2500 page print job, diligently replenish paper as I go so printer doesn't stop .... 10 sheets shy of finishing it's completely out of paper RAGH FUCK YOU

also the printer trays hold -just shy- of a ream

hate that so much

ok that is ludicrous
also i am so tired right now that i had to type ludacris next to that to see if i spelled ludicrous right, to make sure a red underline would appear if i didn't

sad commentary on ludacris' fortunes

people who are not a) e.e. cummings and b) i GUESS bell hooks but who c) foist their special snowflake requirement of only printing their name in lowercase on everyone who surrounds them

uncapitalization of a person's name actually has the opposite effect of what it purports to be for

there was someone like this at my last job—decidedly NOT an iconic anything—who did this and i never even met her just read her emails and the promotional materials put out by her office but STILL when i think about her i just wanna yell and capitalize things

there's basically no falser act of false humility, although I'm not sure people who do it now even recognize its origins in false humility

do they think of themselves as like orthographic bodhisattvas

what would they do if everyone else suddenly capitulated and de-capitalized themselves too

would the world become a better place

mAkEs YoU tHiNk . . .

BELL HOOS

Hmmm, j.

i GUESS bell hooks

haha

Frankly, even e.e. cummings can go fuck himself on this one.

i kind of figure he gets 'first!!!!!!!!!' rights, kind of like in the modern era people put up with prince's naming shenanigans just for the sheer audacity of it but would not have cottoned to anyone else replicating it

There's this trendy rhetorical argument device that I see a lot lately where people say "___ has only really been the norm for the past 5,000 years or so, which is pretty short in terms of human history" -- it's this very TED Talky/NYTimesy kind of thing.

It's so maddening. It's like "I have the other 45,000 years of modern human history backing ME up" - as though you actually have any fucking clue what the context of human life was in, say, 32,000 BCE.

- when a blog does a "link round up" and instead of linking to the source of something, link to another blog that links to the source. Example - "edible spoons" link does not go to the person who came up with the technique, but to another blog that links to the blog of the person who came up with the technique.
- recipe blogs with chatty copy about the recipes interspersed with photos when I just want to look at the damn recipe to see how big a pain in the ass it is going to be. Most recent annoyance, but I blame the Pioneer Woman for starting the trend. (I'm totally making those wings, though.)

that last one drives me crazy. love Pioneer Woman but fffffuuu with the photo catalog of cutting vegetables and how lovely your mixing bowls are

I have mixed feelings about PW. If she stopped making self-deprecatory comments about her weight or wink-wink asides about how things are "low calorie," her website would be about half as big. But her recipes are okay sometimes.

I've had great success with quite a few of her recipes, i don't really read much of the commentary/blogifying anymore

her chicken & DUMPLINGS! recipe was holyyum

It's so maddening. It's like "I have the other 45,000 years of modern human history backing ME up" - as though you actually have any fucking clue what the context of human life was in, say, 32,000 BCE.

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See also the motherfucking "Paleo diet." Hey, caveman, part of the paleo era was foraging and hunting, so hop to it.

also p. suspicious argumentative move in light of say recency of universal suffrage, women's property ownership, abolition of human ownership, universal literacy, shitting indoors

Un-capitalized names are pretty annoying, but really I think I'm more annoyed with the NYT and Chicago Manual of Style. But then I guess I go back to being annoyed with E.E. CUMDUMPSTER for making it a question in the first place.

As to that Cummings question, according to paragraph 8.6 of the manual, it is fine to capitalize his name, in part because “one of his publishers, not he himself, lowercased his name.” (The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage also calls for the capitalization.) But the Chicago Manual says it is not all right to capitalize the name of the writer bell hooks because she insists that it be lower case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/books/28chic.html

We actually went through a period at our publication where headlines used the word IPad.

I woke up after a bad nights sleep and came into the room where the computer was. I set up a torrent download but instead of it asking me where I wanted to put the torrent contents as it has done right up to last night it just adds the torrent to the torrent engine.
So I now can't work out where the control for setting things up so it gets a prompt is. Or why it would change like that overnight. Can't think of anything I did last night.
Did run c-cleaner 2 days ago which meant that some settings on other things were lost and I had to re-set up but torrent thing was set up last night i.e. since that.
So am wondering if its because I'm half asleep or what the f*** is going on with this computer that would mean that changed.

Oh yeah this is on u-torrent so maybe somebody else will have found something similar happening and a fix for it. Don't want to have to direct everything fully manually as in set destination once the torrent is flowing which is the only thing I could find that worked earlier.

Soundtrack albums that include dialogue snippets from the film in the middle of tracks, so you can't avoid them

Online shops where you buy something for a really good price, and then they decided they're selling it too cheap, so they tell you it's out of stock and refund you, but you know they're lying because it's still listed as being in stock but at a much higher price.

People who make outlandish statements (on social media or otherwise) who, if challenged in any way, say they can't be bothered to back these up and just say stuff like "whatever, if you don't get it you don't get it" or words to that effect.

I'm probably the one being the dick in this situation too, I admit, but I definitely have a lower estimation of people who don't know how to have a discussion and instead get really offended and act like you're trolling or arguing with them instead of backing up their own bullshit.

My brother does that, it's infuriating. "I don't have to justify myself" when he's said something awful and factually incorrect.

no one at a job should ever say "use common sense" when telling you work policy

ie" How many times should we attempt to call the customer back?"

"use common sense"
???

bought a mug in the disney store yesterday.

shall i put that in a box for you?
yes please
(takes out box big enough for two mugs)
actually, that's a bit big, i can make do with just a bag...
ok, plastic bags are 5p...

Recyclable/biodegradable vs EVIL* innit

*plastic, not Disney, if that wasn't clear

but when you factor in the cost of transport of the heavier box and the fact that the bag was 95% recycled plastic (and which i will re-use) it all gets a bit confusing.

walking across a parking lot that I have to walk across to get home from the main road. I'm wearing a high vis coat that I was wearing that morning because I was going to be visiting a community garden to watch a compost workshop. Anyway, with this thing on I'd expect I was pretty visible. This car starts backing into me. Really hate that, would think that if a car is starting from stationary and sees somebody walking across a certain area they aren't going to start until they've seen the person pass, similarly when they are going to start backing into a location they hadn't been in before where somebody is walking they would wait for the person not to be in that area. Don't people reversing look at the area they are backing towards?

Or do idiots with cars automatically have the right of way