5321

For me it’s the buttons that typically go. They’ll either stop recognizing clicks, or start thinking that every single click is a double click.

Maybe I game like a motherfucker or something, but I don’t think I’m doing anything out of the ordinary; pretty much just work, school work, gaming, and interwebbing.

I used to strictly buy Logitech, but I figured when I had problems with a couple of theirs that perhaps their quality went to shit, so I started buying other brands and in different price ranges, which either had problems being recognized more than 6 inches from the receiver, or would chew through batteries in about a week, or the mousewheel would start skipping around or stop working all together, or it would suffer from the typical button problems mentioned above. I’ve never really gone for any special gaming mice or anything, and I don’t know if they’re specially designed for more rigorous use, or if they simply have a a lot more buttons, and stupid color schemes; but if there’s a cost effective quality mouse out there I’m all ears.

I’m not a fan of corded mice. Hell, I’m not even a fan of corded keyboards – or game controllers. I’ll suffer along with a corded keyboard, but pulling a mouse cord around my desk drives me nuts. I have rather large hands, so tiny little notebook mice and the like just won’t cut it for me, which is one reason I loved my Logitech MouseMan Optical, it was a heavy brick of a mouse, and large. Everything now days is so light and flimsy I find it unappealing.

Junk junk junk.

5322

I love my Logitech G7 (cordless). It’s got some wear and tear on it so I was looking at what’s available these days. Shocked to see that there are some new ones available through Amazon for an outrageous amount of money (something like $275) and some used ones. Guess I’ll keep loving it until it goes to that rat hole in the sky.

5323

Sigh, I hate when I accidentally break a client’s website. ONE line of code (for an H1 tag) and the entire content block of the home page disappears. So mad at myself (though thankfully the client didn’t seem upset).

5324

Along that same line: spend all day to work out an advertising agency’s design into HTML and CSS, then realize you’ve only really tested it in Chrome. Open it up in IE and… back to square one!

5325

Oh god, fuck IE, seriously.

5326

Can someone who is close to Bristol, CT, go find Colin Cowherd and punch him in the balls for me? Thanks.

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5328

My step-mother has been me that in a chain email for ten years. I see she found you too.

5329

That must have been a freaky experience. Please give us some details!

I just saw that posted on FB and without thinking too much about it reposted it here. I hadn’t read it yet and the argument was amusing, though I didn’t buy the whole setup of the exam and receiving that “A”.

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Hmm, there appears to be a key word missing in my post.

I’m not bagging on you for posting it, just lamenting the fact I get sent chain emails.

5331

I got chain political emails from my family for a while, but before the 2008 election I sent two of them back, using reply=all, with point-by-point rebuttals with referenced sources. That family member doesn’t speak to me anymore.

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5333

One side of my family sends me chain emails with various racist drawings, insights, and articles about how Obama, and his kind, have destroyed the world. I didn’t actually think people created this type of content anymore, but ever since these family members of mine discovered what a computer was (two or three years ago), they’ve been a personal crusade to show the world how poor insecure white people go about hating the black man.

I’ve since asked them to stop emailing me, and have tried to filter out all their bullshit (95% success rate). I actually asked them “Please don’t email anything, unless it’s important.” But of course, regular drawings of various Monkeybama caricatures, 15 unemployed black jokes, and an article about how true white Christians are the only ones looking out for this nation under God, are obviously at the height of importance in their world, and something I really need to give some serious thought to.

I don’t use Facebook, but one day I need to swing by and see if their Facebook walls are decorated with little swastikas and KKK hats. They’re also big fans of plastering the Confederate flag everywhere (trucks, tshirts and tattoos), but that’s the closest I suspect they come to announcing to the outside world how they really feel (me being family of course should totally agree with them). Some may argue that the confederate flag isn’t racist in and of itself, but racist or not, all I ever see is this:

5334

Ugh. I’m fortunate not to be plagued with such family.

5335

I’m not sure why, but I’m not inclined to pointedly tell them I’m sick of their racist bullshit. I never really speak to them, and they live 2000+ miles away, but for some reason I just end up trying to leave them alone rather than cause some sort of stink. My dad and step mom never go to the lengths seen in the emails, but they have a tendency to drop a few racist witticism and insights into random every day conversation. There’s an obvious resentment there (and there always has been to my knowledge), but I just get the feeling I’ll only make things worse by addressing it. My typical reaction is to ignore it, or change the subject. My (in)action sort of perplexes me. I’m usually pretty open with my thoughts, for better or worse.

Sometimes I just don’t feel like I know them well enough to have that sort of serious discussion with them (I’ve spent my adult life distancing myself from them and alienating everybody).

So I guess it could be said that their continued bullshit is partly my own fault.

5336

I guess I was lucky in that my parents were pretty progressive in their thinking when I was growing up (though my mother has regressed as she’s gotten older) but my grandfather had some racsim in him. Luckily it didn’t come up much and his second wife was always quick to call him on it, at least when I was present.

But when you have family issues you strongly disagree with you have two options. Either “keep the peace” by letting is slide or minimizing your response or seperate yourself from them. My brother has chosen the latter path with my mother and her issues while I ultimately choose to maintain the relationship, though I don’t let everything pass without comment. But you ultimately have to decide if you want a relationship with your blood family or not. And I’d rather not regret things later. People are what they are.

5337

I don’t think that anything anyone says will convince someone else to cut out the racism. It takes a relationship, a new friend, a moving story told by a stranger that indirectly does the job. So I myself wouldn’t put a single bit of blame on you, kerzain.

5338

Sometimes, depending upon the age of your parents, you won’t change their mind. Period.

When I was about 20 or so I was in love with a girl named Virginia. She was half Cherokee and half African. She was to all appearances a black girl. I would bring her home and we’d have dinner with my parents. It was all good until I discussed marriage with my mother in the kitchen. My father came out of the living room and it was all about how this would never happen while they were alive.

The burst of racist bullshit was amazing. I kept asking them WHY? And their answer was, just because it’s not done. And thy were positive that they were not being racist. They were just looking out for my future.

We didn’t speak (parents and I) for almost 4 years after that. Long after Virginia and I broke up. Eventually I swallowed my pride and made amends. Now we don’t speak about it.

5339

I had a similar conversation with my parents when I was in my teens (Mexican girlfriend, I wasn’t even dreaming of marriage at that point, and I’m pretty sure my main goal in those years had something to do with boobs). Although they didn’t forbid me, like your parents, they did say they’d be ‘disappointed’ if I ever decided to marry someone who couldn’t give them grandchildren that would ‘look like a Townsend’, to which I replied “I guess I should just marry June (a cousin)”. That remark earned a long sermon about why any of this was so important to them. At one point they also said they’d be ‘disappointed if any of us kids ever decided to be gay’, because two of my cousins had come out a few months apart about that time and they felt the need to remind us about the importance of being straight.

The joke is on them though, I’m never gonna have kids~ Unfortunately for my spite though, my brother finally managed to give them a grandkid a couple weeks ago, about twenty years after they started expecting one from any of us.

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Four year olds throwing tantrums get annoying sometimes when they are not yours. And probably if they are yours as well.

I am worried about the kid, though (it’s my roommates daughter). She’s normally pretty relaxed and quiet and well spoken for age, but sometimes she goes into these tantrums that nobody can calm where she just totally wears herself out screaming and barely forming words. To the point where she’s thrown up before. Maybe thats normal though.