[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

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makare

I love my job but I hate taking breaks there. I don't have time to go anywhere else and every break room has fucking sports on ALL THE TIME.

It's so annoying. :(
 
Annoying side effect to a holiday weekend: nobody tells me about an issue, so it balloons into something I now have to go into the office for tonight to salvage.
 
Couple of dudes got removed from the property this morning for robbery. Came back this afternoon this afternoon looking for their stuff.

Room was a crime scene. It's all evidence, right? Anyway, all their stuff was removed by the police during the arrest. I don't think you're ever getting it back
 
Couple of dudes got removed from the property this morning for robbery. Came back this afternoon this afternoon looking for their stuff.

Room was a crime scene. It's all evidence, right? Anyway, all their stuff was removed by the police during the arrest. I don't think you're ever getting it back
I'm not going to lie... sometimes it's deeply satisfying when that happens: usually it's with vehicles that belong to dealers that wreck, and then the owner comes back to claim their car that "got stolen" about a half hour prior to the wreck. Yaright.
 
The "victim" in this case nearly got nicked himself. Hung around the property when the state trooper told him to go home. Now.

(He didn't get robbed on the property, if that's what anyone's thinking.)
 
Dear Prince,


FUCK YOU.

I get that piracy and bla bla bla royalties and bla bla bla and this is your art and bla bla bla. I do.

but almost every effin' video of yours on youtube has had the audio cut because of the stick up your ass. Or your lawyer's ass. I don't know who directly is responsible but for now I'm blaming you.

I still love purple rain and am kind of pissed at my roommate for deleting it off the DVR or pissed at the DVR for deleting it because it had been there too long or something.

What I'm trying to say is that we are frenemies.
 
Out left field, but I need to get this out.

All peoples of the world need to stop misusing the word HACK in regards to accounts and data devices. If you have an easy to guess user name and password, no one hacked your account, you handed them access to your account via being a dumbass.
 
He apparently has dozens of music videos he's shot, but refuses to put into circulation, as well as at least one movie and documentary. No one really knows what is going to happen with this stuff when he dies... considering how eccentric he is, he might just bury it with him.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Out left field, but I need to get this out.

All peoples of the world need to stop misusing the word HACK in regards to accounts and data devices. If you have an easy to guess user name and password, no one hacked your account, you handed them access to your account via being a dumbass.
Oh god, this. Hacking implies bypassing actual security measures. It's not "breaking and entering" if your front door is wide open and all the lights are on.
 
Oh god, this. Hacking implies bypassing actual security measures. It's not "breaking and entering" if your front door is wide open and all the lights are on.
Yes it is

Out left field, but I need to get this out.

All peoples of the world need to stop misusing the word HACK in regards to accounts and data devices. If you have an easy to guess user name and password, no one hacked your account, you handed them access to your account via being a dumbass.
Hijacking seems like a more appropriate term for when someone "hacks" someone else's account in something.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Um, it actually "IS" breaking and entering if you don't live there...

Just saying, bad analogy.
If that's true, it's utterly stupid. What'd I break? Nothing. It's just entering.

Fine, I'll use a different analogy.

It's like going out in your front yard naked and then claiming your neighbors are peeping toms.
 
This may sound geeky, but the usage of the word hack is akin to the usage of the word cyber. It's a word that people who have no clue about technology use to describe things they don't understand about technology.
 
I want nothing more then to draw. I haven't finshed the comic and I'm am frustrated...but I have real world things to do.

To many things on my plate! I am so god damn angry.
 
I feel a real rant should be something heart breaking or awful. My poor time management skills aren't wither...just unfortunate and frustrating.

Also, I get distracted easy. Here's what this weeks comic will be:

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Note my massive todo list.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I just noticed today that when I close my eyes, relax them, and then open them again, they aren't even in the same plane. I don't mean they unfocus, of course they do that... it's just I expected them to stay in the same horizontal plane after all these decades of muscle memory. It irritates me that my right eye , when looking at the door of the bathroom stall after quickly opening my eyes, hits the wall about a half inch higher than my left eye (and, now that I notice it, it works out to be about half a cm at monitor distance). I guess this means I can't ever relax, or I'll go all derpy.
 
I just noticed today that when I close my eyes, relax them, and then open them again, they aren't even in the same plane. I don't mean they unfocus, of course they do that... it's just I expected them to stay in the same horizontal plane after all these decades of muscle memory. It irritates me that my right eye , when looking at the door of the bathroom stall after quickly opening my eyes, hits the wall about a half inch higher than my left eye (and, now that I notice it, it works out to be about half a cm at monitor distance). I guess this means I can't ever relax, or I'll go all derpy.
Probably a good idea to go see an ophthalmologist just to be safe.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I humbly submit that you must provide a video of this occurrence so we may confirm the veracity of your claims.
It's probably not enough to notice just from looking at my eyes. An inch at like 5 feet... my trigonometry is a little rough, but I think it's under 5 degrees difference, and in an eyeball sized sphere, that's not much.
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Probably a good idea to go see an ophthalmologist just to be safe.
I have a fair idea that's what got me into this mess in the first place - bent glasses to fit my misshapen face and uneven ears. Now I've been LASIK'd, so oh well.
 
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makare

I have concluded that third year law students are the most apathetic people on the planet. We do not care about anything any more.

I think we are dead inside.
 

GasBandit

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5 degrees would be noticable on a closeup, but you're right - 1 inch at 60 inches is under one degree, which would be difficult to see even very close.

However, most people probably have the same issue, but due to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking and the speed of the human eye moevement you don't normally notice it.

It may just be that your eyes need more exercise to pick up speed so they're finished moving by the time the masking ends.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for alternate explanations...


[eye scream]
Well, to make this observation I had to actively suppress my eyes readjusting - something years and years of staring at "magic eye" posters has made me very good at doing, but even with me doing my damnedest to relax the eye muscles, they still snap back into the same horizontal plane within a quarter to half second. As long as my eyes are open it isn't a problem... it just bugs me than when I close my eyes, one goes a little above the other.

 
If you're even one minute behind on your SiriusXM bill, their legbreakers will call you EVERY FUCKING DAY.

If it weren't for the investment in the equipment (and the fact that local radio SUCKS), I'd cancel right here and now. I told the lady on the other end I'm tired of the harassment and I'm reporting them to the state AG. Then I blocked their number.
 
5 degrees would be noticable on a closeup, but you're right - 1 inch at 60 inches is under one degree, which would be difficult to see even very close.

However, most people probably have the same issue, but due to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking and the speed of the human eye moevement you don't normally notice it.

It may just be that your eyes need more exercise to pick up speed so they're finished moving by the time the masking ends.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for alternate explanations...

[eye scream]
 
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makare

I feel like such a loser I have to borrow 30 dollars from my friend. I cant wait until I can work full time over christmas break. And next semester I will, hopefully, keep this job all the way through. Not having a job sucked so badly :(
 
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makare

Oh my god... we have two days left of Debtor Creditor and no one understands bankruptcy.. the prof said he is going to review and here we are hearing about Afghanistan and the Moscow olympics! wtf?! *head desk head desk head desk* :aaah:
 
Slept wrong on my left shoulder Monday night and woke up yesterday in agony from compressing the shoulder joint into the collar bone somehow (my mattress is extremely firm, and cheaply made so this is no big surprise). At first it was just joint pain, which I could live with, but then my dumbass self went and worked out and didn't tell my trainer that my shoulder hurt until after doing bench, inclined, and military presses. It was fine throughout the workout, but about half way home once my muscles had a chance to cool down and tighten up, the pain started up again and I started getting some numbness in my hand. Yeah... have a slight impingement now. Note to self, when experiencing a structural shoulder injury - no matter how slight - tell the trainer before working out, not while working out.
 
Oh my god... we have two days left of Debtor Creditor and no one understands bankruptcy.. the prof said he is going to review and here we are hearing about Afghanistan and the Moscow olympics! wtf?! *head desk head desk head desk* :aaah:
Ugh, I hate profs like that. I had a comp sci instructor once who just absolutely sucked at teaching. We literally spent 3 weeks going over two-dimensional arrays in C, then had a midterm that had one question about arrays and covered a butt-load of information that she never got around to teaching us that wasn't in the damn book.
 
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makare

my co-counsel is completely losing it. I don't blame her at all. I cannot wait for this to be over with. One more day.....
 
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