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

I'm mad at all the memes about how PEOPLE ARE ON THEIR PHONES ALL THE TIME SMH WHEN ARE WE GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SHARED HUMANITY combined with YOUNG PPL THESE DAYS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES, IN MY DAY WE MADE A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE WE GOT OFF THE COUCH.

Before I had a smartphone, I kept a book with me 94/7 and took it out whenever I had down-time. I sure as hell didn't sit staring into space or at strangers' faces or at some fucking trees. I'd put my nose in a book, like a normal person who gets bored easily

Yes, Christ yes OTM

Sometimes when I am in the train using my smartphone along with everybody else, I hear a little voice in my head shaming us for being device addicts or zombies or whatever, but really its no better or worse than the people reading the POS free daily or listening to something on headphones or sitting thinking about whatever.

IIRC, people (Andy Rooney?) we're all worked up about headphones being alienating weren't they?

I love this piece
http://thehairpin.com/2014/02/i-will-not-soak-it-in

I took out my phone and started to text my friend.
...
Now, truly, this was so much more fun than forcing myself to look at the view from the bridge. I was like, fuck the view from the bridge. When I was making myself look at it, I was bored. I know what it looks like, that water and sky are blue, that islands are green, that sailboats are white. There’s no new information there. But this conversation had never taken place before, not exactly like this, and we would never be interested in these same things at the same time and be laughing at them the same way. I'm not saying another person wouldn't have liked the view more than the conversation, but I didn't need to be that person.

It only bothers me when people use that stuff at times when they clearly shouldn't be, e.g. the human Roombas walking with their face parallel to the sidewalk during rush hour and forcing people to navigate around them.

And by 'human Roombas', I mean that they mindlessly move in a particular direction until they run into something/someone. And that they suck.

not going to rail against phone addicts, will rail against all the app developers that overtly design their apps around addiction mechanics

fuck a candy crush

That I can't think of an easy way around a lengthy process of elimination when it comes to what may be a faulty memory bar. Ram in my computer. The thing will turn on to the point where I normally log in but then bluescreen. The code that's up at that point may be read as corrupt memory.
But it takes several minutes to get there. It also looks like it needs symmetrical amounts of RAM to start working so how do I work through 4 bar/sticks to work out which is corrupt?
Plus I'm having to think through this with a head still spinning from flu which has stuck around for the last month. & now 2 loads of antibiotics. Otherwise I'd've looked at this a while back.

Huh I broadly agree that you don't have to "soak it in" but lol at "human Roombas". it pisses me off trying to second-guess the movements of people who can't even be bothered to look up and see where the other people they might be about to walk into are

also I reserve the right to chuckle inwardly when I see a table of people who've all met up for lunch but stare at their phones all meal instead of talking to each other, but y'know for all I know they're housemates/classmates who see each other all day every day and don't really need that extra hour of conversation, plus sometimes I go to the pub and read or do a crossword instead of talking to anyone which I'm sure someone finds hilarious or rude so w/e, none of my business beyond that faint amusement

when I go to my parents' house they spend basically the whole evening from 5pm onwards in front of the TV "watching" basically whatever comes on ("watching" because my dad falls asleep and snores loudly and my mum usually reads a book or a magazine) and yet when I get my phone out because there is NOTHING ELSE HAPPENING it is me that's being rude. ???

Lately it bugs me to see people taking selfies when there's someone right there to take their picture.

hey Laurel, i didn't have to KNOCK PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY trying to get to the subway stairs at night when they were READING BOOKS because books didn't have GLOWING SCREENS THAT THEY COULD READ IN THE DARK!!!

if youre just talking about what to do on the train, just bubble away, tho.

> That I can't think of an easy way around a lengthy process of elimination when it comes to what may be a faulty memory bar Ram in my computer.

label them A, B, C and D

TEST 1: put A and B in. does it pass or fail?

TEST 2: put A and C in. does it pass or fail?

TEST1  TEST2  BAD
-----  -----  ---
PASS   PASS   D
PASS   FAIL   C
FAIL   PASS   B
FAIL   FAIL   A

difficulty comes when it's more than one bad stick.

books didn't have GLOWING SCREENS THAT THEY COULD READ IN THE DARK!!!

This is a major failing of books, it's true. Sometimes I read while walking between rooms in my house and it's always annoying when I have to pause because a light in one room is turned off.

Thanks koogs will see if that works.
Just found that I have Ubuntu discs and there is a memory check option there that is looking like it might work.

I was thinking about "human Roombas" on Friday when I was walking on the sidewalk and crossing the street while reading. But it was on paper. But it was a printout of a web page

hey Laurel, i didn't have to KNOCK PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY trying to get to the subway stairs at night when they were READING BOOKS because books didn't have GLOWING SCREENS THAT THEY COULD READ IN THE DARK!!!

Wait a minute. I'm not Laurel and I'm in Chicago but here we have long had electric or gas lights around our subway or elevated stairs so our people could read and more readily see a visiting New Yorker set on knocking them over.

When they write 'Never From Concentrate' on cartons of juice instead of 'Not From Concentrate'. It comes across so snobbish, as though the person buying it would be abhorred by the very mention of concentrated fruit juice. Never mind that concentrate has a smaller carbon footprint, it's important your juice is exactly the way you want.

I will say, much as I find these 'look up at life's rich tapestry, you droid' stuff condescending and pretty simple-minded, I will make an exception for those moments when really you should be making conversation / not just checking Facebook or whatever. I have friends over to my house quite often and sometimes I wonder if some of them only come round to use my wifi connection.

I just think it's good manners to know when and when not to use your phone: public transport, fine; but at the dinner table when other people are there? I dunno, I'm not into that.

What if the people are really really boring?

Do it all the time. I'm not that interesting so I'm doing my dinner companions a favor

I'm on the fence about smartphone usage at lunch in the office kitchen. On one hand sometimes I like the ritual of forced chatter. On the other hand it's saved me many times from interminable political rants or descriptions of minor tv shows/celebs from way before my time.

What if the people are really really boring?

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, November 17, 2014 1:27 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obv it depends on the situation. like if it's a lazy breakfast time, then cool read the paper, look at your phone. but if it's a dinner party or restaurant time, i can't help feeling like the most boring (not to mention rude) thing you can do to your companions is to block them out. Often what happens as well is once one person starts checking FB on their phone, it's not long until everyone's doing it. Again, it's down to context and replying to a text message isn't so bad, but if someone came round for dinner or I was eating a meal out with someone and they just whipped out their phone and started chatting to other people, I'd need to weigh up whether it was time to do the same thing or just make my excuses and leave.

I think it's reasonable to want to resist the bleed of work and/or internet life into every sphere, to think that there should be times and places carved out for not simultaneously being somewhere else. I don't really think the subway is one though.

the tube is abominable. the sooner i can wear a VR headset on public transport the better.

In our office kitchen, you have two choices: look at your mobile or watch Gunsmoke.

My parents used to tell me it was rude to read at the table, too...I thought if the family dinner table offered anything as interesting as my book they'd already have my attention.

IDK, my group of friends seem to be okay with the phone checking. We all mostly met on Twitter anyway, so it follows that we'd be checking it while out.

bunch of ilxors all sitting around looking at zing on their iphones

I've seen it happen.

IDK, my group of friends seem to be okay with the phone checking. We all mostly met on Twitter anyway, so it follows that we'd be checking it while out.

Some of us who you met IRL just know "that's our Jeff!" and love you all the more for it.

And of course your phone habit helped me meet a guy at a gay bar when you were ignoring me, playing a game on your ~2004 flip phone

Here for you, bro.

Women on the Internet calling their children their "littles". Fucking stop it right now.

"I'm a mama to three amazing littles." Horrible. I hate you. Stop.

That is terribles

that's a hell of a lot better than calling them DD, DS but I understand.

http://www.halieellis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/the-littles.jpg

is DD/DS a british thing?

I used to see "DW" and "DH" a lot and I thought it was some kind of weird domestic partner/common-law marriage designation before I realized what it stood for.

Probably mentioned upthread but also calling the pets their fur kids.

not a british thing - dear daughter/dear son and also horrible, yes

PP - that's exactly what it makes me thing of.

Ugh yes "furbabies", fuck off with that shite.

When the whippetlurcher eventually kicks the bucket, I will make short shrift, possibly WITH KNIVES, of any commiseration involving the concept of The Rainbow Bridge.

Swapped over to Ubuntu after not being able to get into my computer which had Windows xp still loaded for ages and having teething problems.
I just tried to remove a lot of stuff from a memory stick which was full. Ubuntu created a trash folder on the memory stick and dumped everything in there which it is now refusing to empty.
I haven't used the Operating system b efore to any length so I'm just wondering if this is typical behaviour for it.
I assume that the memory stick was formatted to Windows since it was reformatted a couple of times to clear everything out of it. Would that be effecting this process?

& the fact that I've had some headspinning flu for the last month plus which I don't think has cleared up after a 2nd batch of antibiotics. & now it seems like my hair is falliing out. NO end of fun.

i don't use ubuntu but i think there will be some way in the desktop of selecting the trash folder and deleting its contents permanently.

failing that, in a terminal, sudo -s to root, change into the directory, *check* and *double-check* you are where you want to be and rm -rf * to delete all the files / directories

Thanks for that. Have seen that command suggested elsewhere but wasn't sure how to do it. &head still not being clear of flu ain't helping.
Have been hoping it might just be a case of me not being used to the OS & it possibly coming clearer if I could think straighter.
The files having been put on the memory stick from a different OS wouldn't have any relevance would it? Would hope that you could delete a Windows xp created file with Ubuntu anyway.

yeah, they are all just files*

(* although linux had read-only access to ntfs files for a while, but i think that stick will be plain FAT and easy to delete)

When the whippetlurcher eventually kicks the bucket, I will make short shrift, possibly WITH KNIVES, of any commiseration involving the concept of The Rainbow Bridge.

My consolation was that our Great Dane very likely took a huge shit on that Rainbow Bridge. I mean, she was probably excited and all.

spent last weekend reshelving cds (yes i still have cds on shelves shaddup)

I'm pretty sure we've covered this but let me just restate again for the record FUCK non-standard sized cd cases.
And stupid non-standard spine printing where it's upside down & you have to have the back cover facing forward for the spine to read correctly and rraaaaaaaaaaaaagggggh stupid

and digipacks whyyyyyy