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

The new financial aid director made the change in classification because he said that the old classification "post-grad professional program" was in violation of federal law. He determined that the program had whatever attributes that make something "undergrad program" and did not have the attributes that make something a "post-grad professional program." (I know I pretty much just explained what "classification" means there....) The program's director said that this new financial aid director is all about compliance compliance compliance, so he's re-assessing all sorts of shit.

While this is true having a bachelor's degree is a prerequisite to admission to the program, my guess as to why the program is being classified as "undergrad" is that undergrads at this particular institution can tack the certificate onto their bachelor's degree -- but not even as a minor, but as a discrete credential they receive at the same time as their bachelor's degree.

But that doesn't make sense as a reason to classify it as "undergrad." What a dick.

I've complained about this before I'm sure but shit like this from an Adobe Acrobat forum:

Keep getting "renderable text" error when I need to OCR PDF's from FrameMaker.
Misha Ko May 23, 2013 7:36 AM

My solution has been to individually extract all those pages, then open them up in Photoshop, flatten them and widen the canvas size to standard 8.5 x 11. But that's a little tedious and time-consuming and you have to delete the original page from your document, after importing the OCR-friendly page.

Is there a printer definition, or something you can set up when you're generating your PDF's in the first place, that will get rid of that annoying "renderable text" error?

Very first reply, from a "Community MVP":

Re: Keep getting "renderable text" error when I need to OCR PDF's from FrameMaker.
Bernd Alheit CommunityMVP
Bernd Alheit May 23, 2013 7:59 AM (in response to Misha Ko)

Why want you perform OCR on the documents?

But I liked the OP's response

Misha Ko May 23, 2013 8:03 AM (in response to Bernd Alheit)

Because there is text in the graphic images that are on each page.

OCR is a useful tool to make scanned documents searchable, but also for making the text available in any graphic.

Is that OK with you?

Oh that kind of shit makes me rage.

otm. rage!!!

three separate areas near work all have construction going on, single lane crawl & i cant fucking go anywhere without seeing 900 traffic cones

and my shortcut to work is closed completely bc theyre building a housing development so i have to go the long way and fffuuuuuu

I mean, here's a handy idea. If you see someone asking a question about a routine or process you feel is unnecessary, why not start the conversation on a more positive note like "Have you considered moving the file directly to its target folder instead of moving it to your desktop first?"

Not "Why are you dumping shit from your flash drive straight to your desktop?"

And hey, you can use that line of reasoning in all sorts of facets of life and not come across as an asshole. And I'll tell ya, it's amazing how much happier life can be when you're not coming across that way al the time.

present company and this thread excluded.

that's a really good elucidation of something that i struggle with sometimes

fuckin a++++

"my car won't shift gears and I'm pretty sure the brake line is severed!"

'y r u attempting to drive places?'

i hate people that can't use 'worst case scenario' correctly. like, my rule of thumb was always to think about what the likely worst case was and add 1-2 days to it when I forecasted to a customer. and y'know, if an unexpected delay comes up, I would, y'know call them.

except my costly $2,800 repair (outside of warranty), which was supposed to be a "9-hour repair, worst case scenario Thursday" has dragged to Saturday. nobody has called me to let me know this (I had to find out by calling myself). i hate that the only reason this garage got my business was 'i have roadside assistance and this place is one mile away'.

(more rational angry than irrational but frustrated at trying to get around in the 'juggernaut' public transportation state that is Florida)

- underwear with the brand name embroidered into the elastic waistband

y u hate BTTF?

Had to google that because I definitely thought you were referencing a brand of underwear...

Like this. Also the name of Lane Bryant's line of underwears makes me IA, too.

https://dtpmhvbsmffsz.cloudfront.net/posts/2014/06/23/53a83f6b3a3efc61b429a209/m_53a83f780b47d33ad82a1f29.jpg

Although I kind of like the idea of me going back in time and somebody thinking my name was Cacique because it was embroidered on my underpants.

"You've had a severe startle, Mr Of the Loom"

(ok obv that's not embroidered but I don't get very adventurous w/ the underwear I wear)

that reminds me of cacık

http://happymoneysaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/capture-20121025-070854.png

Ha!

-People who show up at parties and expect to be greeted with thunderous applause and cessation of activity

You know Fonzie?

Also people on the phone who ask for telephone numbers and wait until you are half way through to mention they don't have a pen and have to run off to find one.

I do this every time. I don't know why. But I don't ever mention that I don't have a pen, I just run around frantically like an idiot looking for a pen while I pretend that I'm writing it down.

Or when people constantly interrupt to confirm the number before you can even get two digits out.

My number is five-four "RIGHT, FIVE...WHAT? FIVE FOUR?" Yes, five-"YOU ALREADY SAID FIVE; ARE THERE TWO FIVES?" No, just one. The number is five-four-sev-"WAIT, WHAT'S AFTER FOUR? HOW MANY FIVES?"

^^ !!!

ugh

Containers that are designed to stop you getting stuff out of them - like the bit at the bottom of a peanut butter jar that's wider than the rest of the jar.
http://www.wingyipstore.co.uk/images/Product/medium/S2H6558.jpg

YES x 1000

and moisturizer bottles where the pump doesn't reach all the way down & you have to upend the whole stupid thing for half an inch of lotion

Yes! Or have at it with a knife. At least the flimsier ones.

ia not at "drunken noodles" or "drunken goat" cheese or w/e, but at the shameless alcoholic basic beyotches who order these things because LOL BOOZE PARTY I CAN HAS SOJU APPLE MARTINI WITH BOBA

guess my main ia here is when there are two dozen great things to eat on the menu and ppl go straight to the "drunken" whatever because "haha it sez drunken letz get wasted"

Oh gross people really do that? People older than 11, I mean?

Dear Oracle,

I still do not want to install the Ask toolbar, and I find it kind of vulgar that the 5th-richest person in the world (source: some Google result I didn't read) apparently wants to grub around for small change by tricking people into not noticing that the installer for almost-weekly Java updates automatically defaults to "Yes, please install some shitty crapware like you normally got loaded with rubbish shareware ten years ago" every single time, no matter how often the user has already said "No".

Also, many of your products are hilariously bad, and I especially like how your Financials range doesn't even work unless you have a dangerously out-of-date version of Java, as owned by, oohhh... you.

Love and kisses etc.

(perhaps this is one for the worst tech company thread but it was hard enough to find this thread with the Java installer using all my CPU)

ha, i had that just this morning too and refused the update. the ask toolbar is bad enough but the 'this may uninstall older versions of java' disclaimer scares me - company still uses java 1.5 to compile some of its legacy stack.

omg i hate it i hate it with a fire

Listicles are starting to make me irrationally angry. Esp since every single one seems to have at least one instance of the "writer" emphasizing something via the period. at. the. end. of. every. word. thing. Which itself makes me IA even when not in a listicle.

I think this thrillist post I saw shared on FB was also reminding me how that site makes me IA.

Recipes that are written in an irrational order such that you waste time, and realize this about 1/4 of the way in and get IA with yourself for not checking whether or not the recipe writer had bothered presenting it in a sensible order.

otm

Someone has put our deflated, yet still human-height mascot costume in the corner of the main bathroom, because we have no other storage space left--every time I go in there, before the slow fluoro lights kick in, I see this figure lurking in the corner in the gloom, like the guy at the end of Blair Witch

irrationally terrified?

Fuck. That. Shit.

http://weknowgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bugs-bunny-on-toilet-gif.gif

GAH

http://i.imgur.com/a3Xp4Gq.jpg

Better than marbles in the medicine cabinet, ya snoop!

i assume the 'Java Auto Update' task bar thing will stop flashing eventually. it's been only 2 minutes so far.

The council or whatever body have erected weird telegraph posts to hold nets so that when the new term begins the school on the side of the park can use one of the large expanses of grass as a sports field. As far as that goes its ok, one could just walk under the nets and between the poles. I just looked out to find out that they are now constructing fencing under the poles which means cutting across the field/grass as I used to will be made much more difficult.
& that's supposed to be a public space. So really annoyed that how to walk across an open public space is going to be dictated in future. I'm hoping that this isn't about to be an announcement that since this is now a school sport field it is no longer a public space.

Large, tall nets are for gaelic football btw. That has goal posts in H shape that have points scored for going over the cross bar as well as under. I don't really know the game but I have seen that much. I thought when the nets went up that that would be the total of the inconvenience and it would at least prevent balls from landing in the adventure playground and on people walking down the footpaths around the park.

If they are introducing control to the park in any way I wish they'd do something about the diog owners allowing their dogs to foul everywhere. Still not seen anything up to suggest anything along the lines of that is your dog, if it messes that is your responsibility , children play here and they shouldn't be having to deal with dog mess and the possibility of ensuing disease.

I have wished "Die in a fire" innumerable times on the universe in general and on particular individuals. I am surprised that karma has not (yet?) visited at least second-degree burns on me.