What first world problem did you have today?

[IronWing]

I'll be short with this one, because I'm still in bed but tried to reply in a Reddit post on my phone so it took me 20 minutes to type out a story I was trying to share just now. I long press the text and try to copy it all in case it gets lost or doesn't post and instead it gets overwritten with an accidental letter touch. There is no undo. Fffffffffffffff me. That's the last time I type anything longer than a paragraph on my phone, even if it's using swipe.

If you ask me what the story was about, I'm going to f'n lose it.

Since you already lost it anyway, what was the story?

 

[highland145]

Since you already lost it anyway, what was the story?

It's under a box in the bathroom.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'll be short with this one, because I'm still in bed but tried to reply in a Reddit post on my phone so it took me 20 minutes to type out a story I was trying to share just now. I long press the text and try to copy it all in case it gets lost or doesn't post and instead it gets overwritten with an accidental letter touch. There is no undo. Fffffffffffffff me. That's the last time I type anything longer than a paragraph on my phone, even if it's using swipe.

If you ask me what the story was about, I'm going to f'n lose it.

I know the feeling. I hate using mobile for anything other than reading. I don't understand people who ditch their computer and go only mobile, I can't see how one can live like that.

 

[Skunk-Works]

I can't stand typing on a phone either. How people use that crap is beyond me. And yet you see these drones walking around with their smartphone in front of them. You feel like telling them to put that shit away, look up and see life.

 

[Chaotic42]

I can't stand typing on a phone either. How people use that crap is beyond me. And yet you see these drones walking around with their smartphone in front of them. You feel like telling them to put that shit away, look up and see life.

I hate it when the hallways at work get clogged with them. Half of them are wearing headphones everywhere they go too. You're at work, go back to your desk or take a break, but get the hell out of the way.

 

[Skunk-Works]

I hate it when the hallways at work get clogged with them. Half of them are wearing headphones everywhere they go too. You're at work, go back to your desk or take a break, but get the hell out of the way.

I've seen a lot of people like that in the store. Headphones included. In fact, just today I seen a nice smoking hot athletic babe with her smartphone and headphones.

 

[Chaotic42]

I've seen a lot of people like that in the store. Headphones included. In fact, just today I seen a nice smoking hot athletic babe with her smartphone and headphones.

Lots of the early-20s crowd at work wears them non-stop. In line for food, at the urinal, on their way to meetings, it's weird.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Never been a fan of headphones myself especially in public. I want to be aware of my surroundings. But yeah see lot of people walk around completely oblivious. Had a coworker like that. He was on night shift and someone came in to do a cut over late at night and he never even noticed lol! He did not answer the phone half the time since he never heard it.

 

[FeuerFrei]

The MRI tube was too constricting today, had to reschedule at a different imaging center.

 

[DietDrThunder]

<Taps playing> Last night I booted up for the last time the first PC I ever built (shortly after joining Anandtech), and it booted into Windows XP flawlessly. It was born 5/17/2001 and the parts consisted of:

1) EPOX 8K7A motherboard,
2) AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHZ CPU (then updated in 2004 with an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred 2.0 GHz CPU) ,
3) 1GB of Crucial DDR2 SDRAM (upgraded to 2GB),
4) 3DFX VooDoo 3 Video card (Upgraded to an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder Video card),
5) 30GB Western Digital 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Upgraded to a 120GB WD HD),
6) Pioneer 16X DVD Burner,
7) 3 1/2" floppy disk reader,
8) 3COM 10/100 NIC PCI Card,
9) a Sound Blaster Live PCI Sound Card
10) a generic ATX case with power supply bought at Fry's
11) a PS2 Keyboard and mouse.

I pulled the hard drive this morning and took it to Goodwill for recycling. It was preceeded in life by a Commador 64, a Tandy TRS-80, an IBM PS2 model 50Z, and a generic 486 PC bought from Computer Warehouse.

12/6/2017 will be marked by me as a sad morning. May it rest in pieces </Taps Playing>

 

[IronWing]

I searched Costco's site for "chainsaw". Search returned "Prostate Health Complex Softgels".

 

[pete6032]

Lots of the early-20s crowd at work wears them non-stop. In line for food, at the urinal, on their way to meetings, it's weird.

What kind of workplace is this? Corporate office?

 

[clamum]

Agreed on the whole headphones thing. You really need to listen to music (most likely, or podcasts etc) 24/7? Mmmm hmmm. The "nose stuck in a phone constantly" thing is dumb but the headphones one is even worse IMO, haha.

My epic problem is that I got a nice new 12" memory foam queen mattress (I've had the same twin bed since I was in high school a decade and a half ago, or thereabouts) and while I like it, it sleeps way warmer than my old mattress. I do have fleece/flannel sheets on it, which I normally do during winter, but I'm afraid even if I put regular sheets on it that it will still be too warm. I was told that there's such a thing as a "mattress cooling pad" or something like that (not electronic or anything goofy) so I'm looking on Amazon for something. I hope I can figure something out, it would really suck to wake up sweaty every morning with such a nice mattress. FML

 

[dtgoodwin]

My work changed our PTO policy to allow us to carry over 60 hours instead of 40 due to changes in paid sick time legislation. As a full-time exempt employee, I am only allowed to take time off in 8-hour blocks. So either I leave 8 days unused and lose 4 hours, or I carry over 7 and end up with 56. Why they can't allow a policy for carryover that agrees with the policy for usage is beyond me.

I always try to carry over the maximum, but I don't want to lose any, so I guess that's 7 days. I currently have 104 hours left in the year which means I have to find 6 days to take off between now and Dec 31st.

 

[highland145]

I searched Costco's site for "chainsaw". Search returned "Prostate Health Complex Softgels".

lolol Frequent costco shopper?

 

[IronWing]

lolol Frequent costco shopper?

Um, nevermind.

Actually, no. Go run the search and see what you get.

 

[highland145]

Um, nevermind.

Actually, no. Go run the search and see what you get.

You're right. Chain saw...

 

[Red Squirrel]

I guess that would take care of a prostate problem.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Had to lay down inside the mRI scanner for 40 minutes, holding a position that pinched something dislocated in my neck. Torture. Not sure I'm the same person as when I laid down.

 

[highland145]

Had to lay down inside the mRI scanner for 40 minutes, holding a position that pinched something dislocated in my neck. Torture. Not sure I'm the same person as when I laid down.

Well, I can lay down with you and you'd get the same results.

+1 for good results....



IRL, going Friday for the left bicep. The right repair/surgery/pt/fap/etc was zero pain compared to the superman position in the MRI. I'm taking some hydrocodones if I have to MRI the left. Heck, I'd hit the crack pipe to avoid that.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Had to lay down inside the mRI scanner for 40 minutes, holding a position that pinched something dislocated in my neck. Torture. Not sure I'm the same person as when I laid down.

I had a GABA Calm™ tablet in my mouth dissolving slowly and delivering GABA, Taurine, Glycine and N-acetyl-L-tyrosine into the bloodstream. First three are calming agents - glycine especially.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I made a database system for at work, I went to send out an email to everyone to say that it's ready, then it occurred to me I should probably whip up some quick documentation on how to use it, then it dawned on me that it will require a bit more than just quick documentation as the system is more featured than I realized. Just because I know how to use it (given I wrote it!) does not mean everyone else will figure it out. I don't like writing documentation. I'll do that next time I'm on day shift or something, because when you don't feel like doing something, you can just put it off to later. Procrastination 101!

 

[Kaido]

My old Chromebook finally bit the dust, so I got a replacement off Amazon. It had a very annoying sticker on the wristpad that kept digging into my skin, so I got out my heat gun to remove it (which is something I do to computers on a regular basis). I slowly started peeling the sticker off, but suddenly the plastic started bubbling up! I freaked out because it looked like Hexxus from Ferngully was escaping my laptop, so I ripped off the sticker & let the plastic cool down. I've never seen this happen before on ANY plastic laptop EVER. I do sticker removals on a weekly basis & have never run into this! Holy cheap plastic Batman!

As Billy Mays once said, but wait, there's more! Once the plastic cooled down (note: there's still a noticeable, permanent 2" wide embossed bubble at this point), I decided to clean off the sticker residue, which oddly did not come off with the sticker. Typically, I use a heat gun & slowly peel off the sticker & all of the residue comes off with it. It looked like a standard sticker, so my guess is the cheap plastic or whatever didn't want to let go of the sticky stuff. I couldn't find my bottle of Goo Gone, so I grabbed some rubbing alcohol & a paper towel and THE PAINT STARTED STRIPPING! Now, obviously rubbing alcohol can be used as a paint stripper, but I wrongly assumed that, like most laptops, this particular laptop was just grey plastic, not painted. Oh no, no sir. This was a light-grey plastic laptop painted with dark silver paint.

So now my brand-new Chromebook has a two-inch welt with a swirl of stripped paint on the wristpad I guess they really aren't making things like they used too...

 

[Charmonium]

My ancient ReplayTV DVR finally died. I had the output piped to a cable that runs to the office on the other side of the house. So I had to reroute the signal. Except now for some reason I'm getting all sorts of interference. It's so bad that the tv says there's no signal.

I don't know what the problem is. It's the same cable run I've always used. The only difference is that it's now going through a splitter and then a signal amp. Maybe I'll try putting the amp before the splitter.

 

[dtgoodwin]

I had a GABA Calm™ tablet in my mouth dissolving slowly and delivering GABA, Taurine, Glycine and N-acetyl-L-tyrosine into the bloodstream. First three are calming agents - glycine especially.

Does GABA help you? I'm always fighting anxiety and am looking for alternatives to traditional medicine which isn't helping.