Lazy load. Somehow it irks me. It’s feels like I’m walking in the opposite direction on an escalator. Cornucopia crap.
But it’s probably just me showing my age and lawn.
fire
2823
That’s really surprising from JPL. Animations are a pretty common thing with amateur astronomers, usually showing things like Jupiter rotations, so you’d think the pros would be better at it than the amateurs.
RichVR
2825
This is a personal one. I had a friend over to visit one week and he ended up putting a BHO bullshit program on my laptop that has infected the MBR. So now I have to nuke the damn drive. OTOH I will be installing a bigger drive. Why are people so damn stupid?
Because they are made by other people.
Long bookmark names.
Oh, there’s an interesting web site I’d like to bookmark. Bookmark pane: “Damn Cool Site | This damn cool site does this and that and can solve the meaning of life for you while telling you a nice story about a duck going for a walk to do some shopping…”
I always delete everything after the web site name itself.
BANG. BANG. BANG. click.
I was watching an episode of Major Crimes, and one of the characters was trying to qualify at the range. They depict him shooting a semi-auto, and he’s surprised when the pistol runs dry. Which is complete bullshit, since if a semi-auto doesn’t lock open after firing the last round, there’s something wrong with the weapon.
You see that as a surprise in movies now and then as well, when the hero has emptied his semi-auto and doesn’t know it’s empty.
ShivaX
2830
Silencers that sound like cat farts and aren’t heard by people 20 feet away in movies and video games.
marxeil
2831
Doesn’t qualify as nerd rage, but does induce rage and I don’t want to start a new thread for it.
Yesterday I went into one of the toilet at work, opened the lid on the sit and found a big fat turd looking at me. Now I know its not going to jump at me and soil my shirt or anything, but its vile.
Why can’t some people flush after their goddamn selves. Its a small office and the toilets are always very clean so there’s no excuse for not doing so. Apparently this has been going on for some time because I saw today that someone put a note on the doors asking that people flush.
There’s a thread for that.
marxeil, look for the most underperforming person who secretly thinks he should be CEO and make a loud, public accusation, complete with smart phone photographs. It’s the only way to solve this sort of thing. Even if you choose wrong, it’ll make the real bandit think.
Also, let us know how it goes!
marxeil
2835
OK, I’m a little disappointed. I was expecting a thread about unflushed turds.
Where’s TimElhajj when you need him?
Edit: Haha, oops, he’s already here.
Well in that case, I recommend the choggle pants thread. And by recommend, I mean “eeeewwwwwwwwwww”.
I am here, spreading wisdom, peanut butter and sometimes a bad smell.
marxeil
2839
Nah, I’ve managed 10 years here without knowing what’s Choggle Pants. I’m trying for another 10.
Amazon started life as a book store. They’ve had that part of their business for a long time.
Brick and mortar book stores organize their titles alphabetically by author. There are a lot of good reasons for this. It’s easy to browse, if something by an author looks interesting their other work is right there, and if you’re looking for a few favorite authors it’s easy to find their stuff.
You know what Amazon still can’t do after all these years? Sort books alphabetically by author. Or any kind of alphabetical order, for that matter. If I want to browse new SF there, I have to take whatever random order they’ve chosen for that moment. No, I’m not looking for what’s cheap or what’s popular. I’m just looking for books, in some sort of rational order.
RAGE.
Barnes and Noble at least gives alphabetical by title. Which is still stupid for fiction, since it usually separates books by most authors, excepting the few of course who churn out masses which all seem to have the same name with subtitles. At least it’s not “by popularity,” which might as well be “whatever order the stock guy felt like this morning.”
However, Barnes and Noble opens the F&SF category with “James’s Picks,” claiming he’s “passionate” about his “speciality of a decade.” His picks? A Terry Goodkind novel, a Star Wars tie-in, some soft-porn thing, and the most recent Dragon serial by Naomi Novik.
RAGE. Jebus Rice, get someone who actually has some taste to curate your F&SF section. James is clearly “passionate” about anything he thinks will sell, because it’s hard to see any of these rising above the Bored Desperate level for a serious F&SF reader. The Novik novel is probably the best of the bunch, and that series deteriorated into charmless travelogues around book 4.
