What first world problem did you have today?

[Ichinisan]

Shart

Why would you do that?!

 

[Imp]

Gotta build my Ikea crap and vacuum with my Dyson tomorrow.

 

[nageov3t]

ordered a BLT at a restaurant, but the thing was too big to actually fit into my mouth given that I'm incapable of unhinging my jaw.

it was a bad ending to a bad day... the sandwich would have been amazing if the bread was twice as long and the sandwich half as thick, but it was like 12" of BLT sandwiched between two tiny waffle quarters and by the time I finished deconstruction the whole thing to make it edible I was pissed off, so I ended up just eating my fries and getting my torn-apart sandwich wrapped up to take home and make a salad out of it.

 

[shortylickens]

FUCKING obama and his fucking healthcare shit!

I've been trying for weeks to get an insurance plan and its always a huge long debate with the fucker on the phone and eventually I find out they cant give me the plan I want.

Insurance was much easier and cheaper before the so-called affordable healthcare act.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Ah yes, LaPlace Transform.
Turn calc into algebra, then back again.

Yo dawg, I heard you like math, so we put some math in your math so you can lose your goddamn mind while you integrate more goddamn variables.


(It is some nifty stuff though. Still, differential equations was a rough class for me.)

Yea.... something like that. Diff EQ was a class I had no real problems in. There were a TON of different transforms in my DSP class. Aliasing, sampling, bandwidths, all that crap used plenty of transforms (and OH GOD! INVERSE transforms! D. Luckily I only have to know a little bit about it since my main focus is in power.

 

[HeXen]

Well I found my joystick but I had forgotten that I took it apart and that's why i never saw it before in the box I apparently put it in. But I decided to buy another joystick anyway, I got the ServoStick which changes from 8 way to 4 way with a button push, I decided I liked that idea better.
So my first world problem found a first world solution......thank you first world.

I now have another problem....what to eat at 8pm? Although I'm sure that's a question many 3rd world countries have right now as well, the difference is I have the option of choosing a solution and assume they probably do not. So I eat to them, the 3rd world people, watch as I eat for you. I just have to find what that is exactly.

 

[lxskllr]

FUCKING obama and his fucking healthcare shit!

I've been trying for weeks to get an insurance plan and its always a huge long debate with the fucker on the phone and eventually I find out they cant give me the plan I want.

Insurance was much easier and cheaper before the so-called affordable healthcare act.

You have Obama's number?! Mind sharing? I have a few things I'd like to discuss with him...

No insurance is the cheapest insurance. You gotta die some time. Enriching parasites before you go is disagreeable.

 

[Svnla]

It was so warm today, lower 80's this after and I did have to turn on the AC in the vehicle.

So warm for winter.

 

[Imp]

Found out I bypassed all of my surge protectors today by using a really old power tap that I thought was just a low-end surge protector. The phone was plugged into the power tap, which was connected to a VoIP modem, connected to my router, connected to my desktop... Been doing that for months. Woops.

 

[Charmonium]

Got a water distiller that broke down after just a couple of weeks. Had to get a replacement part that fortunately was still covered under the warranty. Took some emailing back and forth but they did eventually send it to me. Had to partially disassemble the unit to replace the bad part, which I don't really enjoy doing, but since I prefer not to drink tap water, I was just happy to get the rig back online. Hopefully I don't have the same problem again.

 

[Imp]

Got a water distiller that broke down after just a couple of weeks. Had to get a replacement part that fortunately was still covered under the warranty. Took some emailing back and forth but they did eventually send it to me. Had to partially disassemble the unit to replace the bad part, which I don't really enjoy doing, but since I prefer not to drink tap water, I was just happy to get the rig back online. Hopefully I don't have the same problem again.

I grew up in a household where it was frowned upon to drink directly from the tap because parents came from a country where tap water == death.

Nowadays, it feels weird to drink anything but previously boiled water.

And I just remembered, I dropped the handle thing of my Dyson onto the hose 3 times. Hope I didn't fuxxorz it because my model is discontinued and they probably don't make the part anymore... On the other hand, it's a *vacuum* cleaner. Worst case, it loses suction? Or will it explode?

 

[CZroe]

Well I found my joystick but I had forgotten that I took it apart and that's why i never saw it before in the box I apparently put it in. But I decided to buy another joystick anyway, I got the ServoStick which changes from 8 way to 4 way with a button push, I decided I liked that idea better.
So my first world problem found a first world solution......thank you first world.

I now have another problem....what to eat at 8pm? Although I'm sure that's a question many 3rd world countries have right now as well, the difference is I have the option of choosing a solution and assume they probably do not. So I eat to them, the 3rd world people, watch as I eat for you. I just have to find what that is exactly.

Once again you seem like the guy to ask about identifying joystick parts. Today I received an ASCII Stick II Turbo for Family Computer with a broken B button. I took it apart and found that the bottom of the switch had popped off and the inner spring + ball were rolling around loose inside. I can't find any part numbers or brands on the switch, but I'm pretty sure it's Seimitsu. I can find very similar-looking switches but not the exact same, so I can't confirm it.

The only markings anywhere are "3-E" on the top and "3-K" inside the base plate that popped off (not normally visible).

It's VERY similar to the ASCII Neo Geo stick on this page which they say has Seimitsu parts. It clearly uses the same buttons:
http://nfgworld.com/mb/thread/580-Neo-Geo-Joystick-Mech

I want to believe it's Seimitsu like they say but, then again, they also say...

They're nigh impossible to break, and the switches are usually name-brand and unlikely to ever need replacing

THAT clearly isn't the case.

I looked at the internals of other Seimitsu switches and it looks like they have silver-colored balls with conical springs where mine has a copper/gold-colored ball and a cylindrical spring.

I'm sure this is going to be the smallest size available and I can probably get away with using one of the ones I see with blade terminals on the back, but I wanted to get an exact replacement if possible. Of the lists of Seimitsu and Sanwa parts I can find, ALL have blade terminals. I just think it's strange that I can't find this exact switch when it has to be Seimitsu or Sanwa.

It doesn't appear that the switch is easily available from eBay and Amazon unless purchased with a whole button assembly. If I can't buy the exact same button I'd rather buy two so that I can make sure the two buttons feel the same and I don't want to spend too much buying the big button assemblies when all I need is the switch. The specialty websites I see individual switch on all seem like they are either going to gouge me on the part's price or gouge me on shipping.

 

[MongGrel]

I didn't drink enough free Gin Martinis at the wife's Christmas party at the country club.

J/K, was fun.

 

[monkstah]

A girlfriend that got so drunk last night that she threw up 15 times today.

 

[MongGrel]

A girlfriend that got so drunk last night that she threw up 15 times today.

You gotta know your limits, or things get ugly

 

[Fire&Blood]

Amazon is very late with shipping my headphones, (MDR V6) supposedly delivery on Sunday (?)

 

[Imp]

Opened a clamshell box for a flashlight, cut my hand on it while advancing the scissors through the stupidly narrow lip -- narrow edge created a knife. Only a drop of blood but why the hell do we still use these pieces of shit in 2015?

 

[CZroe]

Opened a clamshell box for a flashlight, cut my hand on it while advancing the scissors through the stupidly narrow lip -- narrow edge created a knife. Only a drop of blood but why the hell do we still use these pieces of shit in 2015?

They don't want you to be able to package back up and return it as new.

That's the truth.

 

[Imp]

They don't want you to be able to package back up and return it as new.

That's the truth.

Ya, now some minimum wage dude will get to process my returned as used box with HIV, Hepatitis A+B+C, and some Herpes because of the blood all over it.

 

[MongGrel]

Ya, now some minimum wage dude will get to process my returned as used box with HIV, Hepatitis A+B+C, and some Herpes because of the blood all over it.

Biological warfare FTW.

:sneaky:

 

[pete6032]

USB type C cable adapter delayed from Amazon, so I had to pick one up at Microcenter. The cheapest one they had was $40. Now I'm going to have to drive all the way back there to return in when the Amazon cable comes.

 

[Svnla]

About to purchase a pair of dress shoes at Amazon because of 50% off, looked around the site and then went back to the shopping cart and the price went up to regular price. Oh well.

 

[Jeff7]

Loose LiPo batteries can't ship by air. I got impatient waiting for them to get here by UPS ground from across the country, so I had to drive to the other end of town to a hobby store to buy a battery just because Amazon and UPS have to follow laws intended to prevent the loss of aircraft due to cheap, volatile batteries.

 

[shortylickens]

Neighbor lady goes on vacation, asked my mother to pick up her mail.
She lives way down on the end of the street but doesnt trust anyone to pick up her mail except my mom.
Mother gives me the keys and tells me to get her mail. If the little old lady knew about that, she

probably would have asked the post office to hold her mail.

I open mail box the first day she's gone. Its completely stuffed.
She has not retrieved her mail in a week.
I need to put it in her house.
Go to neighbor number two and ask for little old lady house key.
Return to neighbor one, keys dont work. Locks are grinding like a beat up old blender. Do not know how little old lady gets in and out of front door.

I go back to my house, get some graphite, put graphite in door.
Door sticks.
Frame and door are both warped.
I return home, grab sander and some other tools.
Sand door, sand frame,



long story short.....


I fix her door, locks, fans, porch light, and window.

I need to go back tomorrow and straighten up the place, and also bill her for the labor.

 

[IronWing]

Loose LiPo batteries can't ship by air. I got impatient waiting for them to get here by UPS ground from across the country, so I had to drive to the other end of town to a hobby store to buy a battery just because Amazon and UPS have to follow laws intended to prevent the loss of aircraft due to cheap, volatile batteries.

Stupid rules. LiFePO4 is safer than alkaline.