Just be grateful that you are not the lady in my workplace who somehow managed to copy the entire department on an email about mashing her husband's face into her boobs.
― A Lifeless Ordinary (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
wow bragging
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Okay, yes, it was me. Me and my wonderful boobs.
― A Lifeless Ordinary (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
3,000 replies of "take me off this thread" and people replying all to tell everybody to stop replying all.
seen this happen several times too. it's good to know there's ppl dumb as rocks yet still managed to not be fired by my employer. setting that bar wayyyy low.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
P sure there are rocks functioning at a level that would outpace some of my esteemed coworkers.
― A Lifeless Ordinary (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
please remove me from this thread thks
― mick signals, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
mick, it looks like you may have replied all by mistake. In future, please only reply all intentionally, as I have with my response to you. Thx.
― A Lifeless Ordinary (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure this thread was for me
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Rhonda???????
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
STOP CLICKING REPLY ALL
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
lmao silby
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
― DJI, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Kindle - footnote links
― Ste, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:20 bookmarkflaglink
jfc i am ready to do violence after trying to handle that shit. good call.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
please, i know people have said this already, but can people plaese stop replying to this thread as its clogging up my inbox thx!
― Fizzles, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
lol
/Kindle - footnote links― Ste, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:20 bookmarkflaglink/jfc i am ready to do violence after trying to handle that shit. good call.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
xxxp the email storms where people just joined in on the chaos by sending broccoli and pizza recipes... that's the good stuff
― mh, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
STOP REPLYING ALL GODDAMMIT
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
no the world needs more horny emails
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Rhonda's alive?
didn't we expense flowers to her memorial?
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
xp Kindle footnotes... are they not in a little popup box when you click the number in the text? Or, worst case, take you to the long note with a back button for where you were? If not, you're probably dealing with a file not properly formatted for your reader. Calibre could probably make it behave. But yeah it's all a lot of messing around ennitIngredientsAPPLE FILLING2 lb / 1kg Granny Smith Apples( green apples), weight before peeling1 tbsp white flour1/2 cup / 110g white sugar2 tbsp lemon juice (or water)1/2 tsp ground cinnamonTOPPING1 cup / 90g cup rolled oats / oatmeal (quick cooking is ok)1 cup / 150g white flour1 cup / 175 g brown sugar (loosely packed)1/2 tsp baking powder1 tsp cinnamon powder1/2 cup / 125g unsalted butter, meltedPinch of saltTO SERVEVanilla ice creamInstructionsPreheat oven to 350F/180C.Peel apples, then cut into 1.5cm/ 3/5” cubes.Place apple in a bowl. Sprinkle with flour, sugar and cinnamon, then pour over lemon juice. Toss, then spread out evenly I'm a 1.5 litre/1.5 quart baking dish. Place Topping ingredients in a bowl. Mix until clumps form, like wet sand (see video). Spread over the apples, crumbling with fingers if required to get that crumbly topping.Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Remove, cover loosely with foil to keep warm and let stand for 10 minutes before serving (let's the apple filling come together).Serve warm with vanilla ice cream!
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
after one of those mass email debacles someone in IT always needs to do fun metrics on the incident.
― Yerac, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
"emailing you all this survey, pls reply back to me with the reason you hit reply all on the last email storm"
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
yeah, footnotes on a kindle seem fine? you click and they appear? Seems like an improvement to physical books for me, where it's much easier to lose track of where you were when looking at a footnote. Though now this is making me wonder what reading Infinite Jest on a kindle is like.
xxxp
― silverfish, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
__born stupid__became stupid (drugs/alcohol/head injury/lab experiment/etc)__troll__all the cool kids were doing it__unable to control body (ie, you're a "spaz". requires doctor's note)
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Xpost Lotsa dimples in the Kindle
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
To: Grannistopher Percival DangerCC: company mailing list
Mr Dainger, you were meant to send your reply to just me, but you have instead replied all. Also you did not checkba box.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
BUY A KOBO AND STOP EMAILING ME
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
ALL HANDS MEETING, MANDATORY, 10AM FRIDAYRE: REPLY ALL EMAIL FW: STOP REPLYING FW: THIS IS CRAZYMICROSOFT TEAMS INVITE FORTHCOMING
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
WHAT TIME ZONE?
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Atlantic
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
halifax fat cats
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
im in IT
it was....a survey
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
― DJI
"An email storm (also called a reply allpocalypse)"...
missed opportunity to find some use for the phrase "reply alpaca"
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
The Reply to all debacle is similar to people on Twitter tweeting about 'X' saying "omg can't believe X is trending please stop talking about X"
― Ste, Friday, 6 December 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link
re the kindle footnotes, it's usually the tiniest of asterisks that I have to click. And so I guess fat fingers or small fonts are to blame. Also in a real book I don't have to click anything!!!
― Ste, Friday, 6 December 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
(I'm talking about the notes that appear at the bottom of a page, as opposed to the ones you have to jump to the back of a book for btw)
― Ste, Friday, 6 December 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
ok this is kind of cool. my kid's home sick, on the couch under a blanket, and i'm wfh. he's listening to radio 4 through the alexa. it's desert island discs and one of the choices was public enemy 'rebel without a pause' and my kid goes 'alexa, play songs by public enemy' - suddenly 'fight the power' is on. that's pretty rad.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 December 2019 09:27 (four years ago) link
When I first got my alexa i used to get up in the morning and shout Alexa play some jazz!
― Ste, Friday, 6 December 2019 10:06 (four years ago) link
tracer yr kid is now on an international terrorism watch list, sorry to report
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 December 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
I still treasure the memory of the day in my first IT job that someone moderately important emailed the entire organisation (presumably accidentally) a video of themselves skydiving, naked
btw this was in the 90s when video files were large (video compression in its infancy and not the default option for home video editing software) and network bandwidth was not - the entire infrastructure ground to a halt all day and people trying to check their email over dialup became very irate
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 6 December 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
xp
It's cool, the S1Ws will be crashing through Tracer's windows at any moment now to liberate the child.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Windows 10
That's all, just Windows fucken 10
Whatta sack of trash
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
ooh good we’re about to move on to that at work.
― Fizzles, Friday, 6 December 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
Made the mistake at home a while back, had it foisted upon me at work a couple weeks ago. Sucks.
C'mon, Microsoft. You cranked it all the way up to 95 at one point, only to slide all the way back down to 10? Weak, bruh.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
I've been on Windows 10 for a couple years and haven't had any problems.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
DIdn't ILX once have a "Subscribe to this thread!" function? That was insane.
― pplains, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Seriously, the postman couldn't even fit that effing DMB thread in my mailslot.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
worst euphemism ever
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
my experience of windows 10 was basically like the launch of Coca-Cola Classic after the New Coke nightmare that was Window 8. it's still slightly less functional and slightly more cluttered than 98/XP which is basically as far as PC operating system software actually needed to evolve for my purposes. so yeah, fits for the thread.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Like, much of the reason I've remained a PC head is that I can't stand the infantilizing 'here, let us handle that for you, techno-n00b' philosophy that seems to inform so much of Apple's stuff. But now Microsoft is gradually adopting the same approach. Really, it's the inability to opt out of their constant mandatory updates that sticks in my craw the most. No no, Windows, it's totally cool that you had to restart everything while I was away and close out the programs I was running and those unsaved files I had up. Whatever you think is best, father.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link