What induces nerd rage in you?

Glanderence1 · 2011-05-27T14:09:53.000Z

Haha Jake!

Hanacker · 2011-05-27T16:12:00.000Z

Meghan Bowyer:

Do not IM me with work questions when my status icon CLEARLY states that I am at lunch! And don’t do it AGAIN when I’m on my afternoon break! You know I can’t just ignore that little blinky window and let the problem sit until I’m done, I’m way too Type A for that!

What’s an afternoon break and how do I sign up to get one?

Dean · 2011-05-27T20:11:02.000Z

Dear Sony-Ericsson,

I’ve had your stupid phone for three years now. I’ve gotten used to the crappy software you make me use to get pictures off of it. Please don’t make me download a new suite of software that replaces everything from itunes to Windows Media Player to Photoshop just because you think I should. Oh, and once I’ve done that, DON’T REMOVE THE ONE FEATURE THAT I USE WHICH WOULD BE GETTING PHOTOS OFF MY PHONE.

Thanks,
Dean

PS
Oh, hey, look at that, Win7 is now smart enough to recognize my phone as a type of flash drive and let me get my photos off just by moving them. See ya, Sony!

jerri_blank · 2011-05-28T06:40:18.000Z

I don’t know if this is nerd rage or just regular rage, but WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR OWN FACEBOOK PROFILES. Ladies, you got the right to vote, and you have the right to a Facebook profile whose name isn’t an unholy mashup of you and your husband’s names. Don’t fret - even with your own identity (scary thought!) you can be on each other’s friends list and see each other’s wall posts and all that good stuff, so the separation won’t be TOO profound.

Jesus Christ on a cracker…

Zylon · 2011-05-28T06:47:56.000Z

What.

Hans_Lauring · 2011-05-28T07:12:04.000Z

jerri blank:

I don’t know if this is nerd rage or just regular rage, but WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR OWN FACEBOOK PROFILES. Ladies, you got the right to vote, and you have the right to a Facebook profile whose name isn’t an unholy mashup of you and your husband’s names. Don’t fret - even with your own identity (scary thought!) you can be on each other’s friends list and see each other’s wall posts and all that good stuff, so the separation won’t be TOO profound.

Jesus Christ on a cracker…

I know like two or three people who have e-mail addresses like that and it’s stupid… but I’ve never seen a shared Facebook profile. Ever.

And couldn’t you replace the word woman with man in the above rant? That they are stupid in love and want to do everything as a weird mutated being isn’t necessarily chauvinistic. To be honest -anecdotal only - of all the people I’ve known like that it has been the woman who have insisted they do everything as a single unit from then on.

kerzain · 2011-05-28T07:21:43.000Z

Is it ok to share an online dating account?

Alistair · 2011-05-28T07:24:31.000Z

You’ve seen company facebook pages? And you’ve heard of ‘families’?

Scary oppressive group identities.

kerzain · 2011-05-28T07:34:57.000Z

I’m amused by the millions of women who immediately lose all identity and simply reinvent themselves as ‘tylersmomxoxo’ (with requisite profile pic of a baby, or dog) or some shit when they spawn. Then it’s just baby stories and kid pictures from that point on. They would do this on Linkedin if they could.

Mightynute · 2011-05-28T11:54:55.000Z

kerzain:

I’m amused by the millions of women who immediately lose all identity and simply reinvent themselves as ‘tylersmomxoxo’ (with requisite profile pic of a baby, or dog) or some shit when they spawn. Then it’s just baby stories and kid pictures from that point on. They would do this on Linkedin if they could.

I just stop thinking of them as people, once they show that they’d rather be a role than an individual.

jerri_blank · 2011-05-28T12:03:53.000Z

Hans Lauring:

I know like two or three people who have e-mail addresses like that and it’s stupid… but I’ve never seen a shared Facebook profile. Ever.

Here’s one for you.

Hans Lauring:

And couldn’t you replace the word woman with man in the above rant? That they are stupid in love and want to do everything as a weird mutated being isn’t necessarily chauvinistic. To be honest -anecdotal only - of all the people I’ve known like that it has been the woman who have insisted they do everything as a single unit from then on.

Sure - I mean, honestly, here’s no telling from one case to another who’s driving the urge to merge. I have a former college roommate who had one of those joint FB accounts with her hubby, and a bunch of us gave her so much hell she got her own account. Now when there’s a status update, we actually know who posted it.

Ugh - and my parents had me set up a joint e-mail address for them when I was down there for Mother’s Day. If my mom used e-mail much at all, I would have tried harder to talk her out of that.

Calelari · 2011-05-28T17:05:19.000Z

jerri blank:

I don’t know if this is nerd rage or just regular rage, but WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR OWN FACEBOOK PROFILES. Ladies, you got the right to vote, and you have the right to a Facebook profile whose name isn’t an unholy mashup of you and your husband’s names. Don’t fret - even with your own identity (scary thought!) you can be on each other’s friends list and see each other’s wall posts and all that good stuff, so the separation won’t be TOO profound.

Jesus Christ on a cracker…

Are they all up in Christian Culture?

jerri_blank · 2011-05-28T17:18:35.000Z

Calelari:

Are they all up in Christian Culture?

That post describes my former roomie to a T.

Omniscia · 2011-05-28T17:46:51.000Z

jerri blank:

Jesus Christ on a cracker…

What kind of cracker, though?

I always figured him for a Carr’s table water cracker kinda guy, but I suppose matzo would be more culturally appropriate.

Not that the two taste that dissimilar.

Eilonwy · 2011-05-31T22:11:29.000Z

12345

jerri_blank · 2011-06-01T08:56:09.000Z

Today I had to register my organization on a federal government web site because we get a federal grant. The site requires you to come up with a 10-character password, and the password has to contain 2 uppercase letters, 2 lowercase letters, 2 numbers and two special characters.

Then the system e-mails it to you TWICE, IN PLAIN TEXT, WITH YOUR USERNAME.

Creole_Ned · 2011-06-01T11:00:38.000Z

jerri blank:

Today I had to register my organization on a federal government web site because we get a federal grant. The site requires you to come up with a 10-character password, and the password has to contain 2 uppercase letters, 2 lowercase letters, 2 numbers and two special characters.

Then the system e-mails it to you TWICE, IN PLAIN TEXT, WITH YOUR USERNAME.

That is so wrong and dumb it’s almost kind of cute! Bonus points for being a government website.

Blips · 2011-06-05T10:39:34.000Z

newly released YouTube videos that are 480p and below in quality. There is NO BLOODY reason for it!!!

Zylon · 2011-06-05T10:50:12.000Z

Blips:

newly released YouTube videos that are 480p and below in quality. There is NO BLOODY reason for it!!!

Cellphones say hi.

Blips · 2011-06-05T11:11:17.000Z

Zylon:

Cellphones say hi.

I should have been clearer: newly released videos that are not recorded on cell phones / smart phones / etc.