Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Spent the last two weeks putting Lexile numbers on books.
It's basically the new system to determine a kid's reading level, as opposed to saying "soandso reads at an X grade level." The downside is, we have to look up
Every.
Single.
Book.
in the library through this horrible search engine Lexile runs to get the numbers, write them in the book and add the number to the book's catalogue page.
It is the worst.[DOUBLEPOST=1461352022,1461351955][/DOUBLEPOST]For example if I look up a book called "Not Like You" and it exists in the Lexile system, the first results are Shakespeare's "As You Like It." What fucking sense does that make?
It's basically the new system to determine a kid's reading level, as opposed to saying "soandso reads at an X grade level." The downside is, we have to look up
Every.
Single.
Book.
in the library through this horrible search engine Lexile runs to get the numbers, write them in the book and add the number to the book's catalogue page.
It is the worst.[DOUBLEPOST=1461352022,1461351955][/DOUBLEPOST]For example if I look up a book called "Not Like You" and it exists in the Lexile system, the first results are Shakespeare's "As You Like It." What fucking sense does that make?
A relative is being a moron on Facebook and provoked my wife.
So now I have to choose to either take the mature route and stay out of it, or stand by my wife and make things worse.
So now I have to choose to either take the mature route and stay out of it, or stand by my wife and make things worse.
It's Facebook. The only mature route is not being on Facebook.
Who would you rather be cross with you, the wife or the moron?
I left a while ago, then my wife said it looked weird that she was married to no one. I pretty much only use it to post photos of my rats or to collaborate plans with a cousin and our friend.
I told my wife to just block the moron like I did years ago, but maybe now that we've been married five years she feels more comfortable starting fights with my family. So good for her, I guess?
I'm hesitant to get involved on there because I don't want my other family and friends to have to see a bunch of arguing and shit on their homescreens.
Pain sucks. Real deep I know. I'm still tired from whatever last night was supposed to be.
Getting? It's always been political, though not every joke is political in nature, he leaves little to the imagination as to his views.
Today's comic is silly anyway, he's complaining about a bureaucracy's schedule. I guess his circle of friends have been whining about it since the announcment.
I recall a discovery channel (or similar) video on the process of getting a new bill ready for printing. The plates are still carved by hand, the art done by hand, and it takes years to roll out a new bill since they incorporate new anti-counterfeiting technologies, have to deal with new machinery, etc, etc. 5 years to roll out the $20 bill doesn't seem long given all the work that will be going into it.
To people like Munroe, though, who have grown up not knowing what it's like to not have the internet, and instant digital everything, I suppose it seems terribly inefficient and antiquated. I expect he knows all this, though, and simply disagrees with the process.
Yes.
The only other alternative would be to assume you have leveled so much that you are now dumping points into "Curmudgeonly."
--Patrick
The "like" is because I agree 500%.
You're exaggerating his youth, though. He's slightly older than I am, and I assure you I grew up playing outside and getting dirty because we didn't have no internet in my youth, no sirree! We had to get out smut on floppy discs from classmates! The good old days!
Err, I mean, well, yes
I don't think the comic's so much about "how slow the process is" as it is about how circular and weather-vane-like some of the decision making is - something bureaucracy and democracy and over-communication tend to cause, sadly.
I had been testing/interviewing for a library assistant position within the county. Five full-time positions were available. I got an email earlier today saying that I was ranked #4 on the eligible list. Great, that means I might actually get one of the openings!
Then I just received another email stating that a "technical difficulty" gave me the wrong ranking. I'm actually #48.
Well fuck.
Then I just received another email stating that a "technical difficulty" gave me the wrong ranking. I'm actually #48.
Well fuck.
This one just felt really kludgy to me.
It felt like the way that show 7th Heaven felt when it was ramming its values through my screen.
This is happening right now...
I so badly want to just delete my Facebook again. I'm tired of having a window into my family members' psyches.
Audience groups for your postings and "See less posts from [person]" are two great tools to improve your Facebook experience.
That's pretty much going to be the whole list.
But I hear you. Trouble is that I then hear about it from my wife, who doesn't want to just set everyone on ignroe.I'm sitting here waiting for my prescription. The lady next to me waiting has requested a strep test. I'm so paranoid
You never realize how often people just blatantly ignore/don't care about signs until you're the one putting them up and enforcing them.
GasBandit
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I wanna buy Factorio, a lot. It looks like just exactly my kind of game. I love base building/management type stuff and it looks right up my alley. But there's two problems.
The lesser problem is, it's still at full price. Granted, full price is $20, and I've paid more for games, so I could probably rationalize my way past that.
The greater problem is, I'm worried it will suck me in and my other projects will suffer because of it. >_< So I'm leaning heavily on the lesser problem as an excuse not to buy it. God help me if the steam summer sale has it 50% off.
The lesser problem is, it's still at full price. Granted, full price is $20, and I've paid more for games, so I could probably rationalize my way past that.
The greater problem is, I'm worried it will suck me in and my other projects will suffer because of it. >_< So I'm leaning heavily on the lesser problem as an excuse not to buy it. God help me if the steam summer sale has it 50% off.
Rimworld is another game like Factorio you might dig.
GasBandit
Staff member
Not helping!
Welp, I'm single again.
We had a long conversation tonight. As it continued, we realized it sounded like a breakup. And that's what it was. We realized there were things about each of us that clashed. They were personalities traits that likely wouldn't change. So...we mutually decided to break up now, after four months, before it got more serious.
It hurts like hell, but I think it was the right call.
We had a long conversation tonight. As it continued, we realized it sounded like a breakup. And that's what it was. We realized there were things about each of us that clashed. They were personalities traits that likely wouldn't change. So...we mutually decided to break up now, after four months, before it got more serious.
It hurts like hell, but I think it was the right call.
That you guys could talk it out and end thing respectfully is really classy. I know being single can suck, but it's so much smarter than hanging on for all the wrong reasons.
Yeah, I think it was one of those relationships where we both wanted it to be more than it actually was.
I still doesn't make it hurt any less, I know. My sympathies, dude.
Yessssss do itttttt.Not helping!