Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

Duke said:

In reply to Puddy46 :

I agree Keurigs are wasteful, BUT:

Given the slightly brown diluted crap that your average office worker considers to be "coffee", it is a joy to be able to pop a K-cup in and hit the STRONG button to get a decent cup that actually tastes like something.

Because 90% of the coffee I ever drank out of one of those common office machines was too weaksauce to deserve the name, and heaven forbid the timid drinkers add a little water to their own cup if they can't handle what coffee actually tastes like.

 

You can get reusable cups and put your own grounds in them.  We had a Keurig in the breakroom where I used to work, and that is how we did it, because we had two employees who were fueled by coffee and it made way more economic sense that way.

In reply to Steve_Jones :

I'll keep that in mind. I'm sure this won't be the last time. 

RevRico said:

In reply to Mr_Asa :

That's the easy part. Politics, modern day pop journalism, meteorology, astrology, pretty much any of the academia pyramid schemes where the only use of the degree is to teach other people studying for the degree, advertising. Plenty of career paths for being completely wrong or unreliable all of the time. 

Meteorology is actually pretty damned accurate.  What people like to do is say "HA! You said it would be 73 and it only hit 68" while ignoring that the average temperature for your area really was 73.  I've had 10 degree temp differences just from driving a mile up the street in the morning!

Or I've seen it where there was a monsoon like downpour, and two blocks away the roads were dry.  Someone is going to say the weather man was wrong when in reality, weather simply is not that homogenous.

One thing that I did learn from a meteorology student is that weather cannot be accurately forecast more than seven days out, and is only really accurate three days out, because of the time it takes for the jet stream to go around the planet.

In reply to slefain :

I think bouillon cubes/hot water or jello is acceptable?  

Once I stayed in the hospital and had to fast the entire day.  Watching TV teaches you there are a lot of fast food commercials AND the crappiest food looks really good when you're starving. 

I just broke the AC mode control in the xB. Not sure exactly what let go, but something snapped and now the knob moves very freely. Hope it isn't too a-hard to get to and b- expensive. 

In reply to Peabody :

At my previous employer we had the early Oughties version of that. It made very good coffee but it was too expensive for the bossman, so we went back to those Bunn-O-Matics with secretary juice in them. 

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Yeah, we have one of those. It is less wasteful but using it makes a bloody mess, unfortunately.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I'll have to look into those.  At the end of the day, I'm just glad the coffee is "free".  I've been in a few places that charged the workers for coffee, which I'm pretty sure is against the Gevena convention.   

Datsun240ZGuy said:

In reply to slefain :

I think bouillon cubes/hot water or jello is acceptable?  

Once I stayed in the hospital and had to fast the entire day.  Watching TV teaches you there are a lot of fast food commercials AND the crappiest food looks really good when you're starving. 

Chicken broth is acceptable, but not jello oddly. So I had a few cups of English Breakfast tea to replace my coffee (gotta have cream in my coffee), two mugs of broth, and a bottle of an electrolyte drink. The broth really keeps the hunger pains away, kind of shocked actually. Really looking forward to lunch tomorrow though.

RevRico said:

Hey thanks berkeleywads. You've known I've had this appointment for a month, I really appreciate the 22 hour heads up that I need to pull $400 out of my ass to pay for it. You better berkeleying find something. Useless berkeleying corporate medical E36 M3stains. 

Well, at least I got something for my money. Gonna be an interesting few weeks. 

In the plus side, my back issue is about 20 years early, progressive, and permanent. So yay constant pain that will only get worse. Forever. 

In reply to RevRico :

Oooofff, that sucks, man.  Best of luck and medical science to you.

Scotty Con Queso said:

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

Been there and I sympathize. It usually happens at work and the drive home sucks. So I can't imagine driving cross country like that. May I suggest going onto 1800 contacts and having them over night shipped to an anticipated hotel on your stop? 

Unfortunately, I have a massive astigmatism in both eyes that require toric xr (extended range) lenses. It takes about a month between ordering them and me receiving them.

My prescription expired in December and of course I forgot/procrastinated and now I'm suffering the consequences.

I really hate myself sometimes lol

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

Yeah, I used to have multifocal toric contacts. They were at least 3x the cost of regular contacts and had to get custom ordered with long lead time. They worked great until they didn't, and a couple years ago I gave up and went back to full time glasses.

I've had to say "That's a product team decision" way too many times already this week.  I'm a berkeleying QA dork, I don't have the authority to make these choices.

Edit:  Two more times since I posted this less than half an hour ago! 

There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.

Okay, I really need for E36 M3 to stop needing to be fixed for just a damned minute here, people.  So far this year it's been the water heater, the furnace, two toilets, a couple things at work, the Saab, and now my wife whacked a pothole and has a flat tire.  What a pain in the ass.

Over the deep freeze (for here) 2 weeks ago, several things out at the cabin froze and need to be replaced/repaired in the plumbing system, for certain the filter housing. It took the cabin company nearly a week to get a plumber out to look things over to get them a quote for fixing everything (which I can't really complain much about- I don't doubt the plumbers have a LOT of work fixing frozen pipes). But the plumber was out there last Friday and they still haven't gotten an estimate for what needs to be done to maintenance (and thus, us, who will need to approve & pay for it). 

Besides- why aren't the maintenance guys just replacing the housing themselves? I know they've done it once, and I've done it at least once (maybe twice). It's pretty easy since all of the plumbing under the cabin is PEX, and you can get the housings from pretty much any other hardware store that carries a decent amount of plumbing supplies. Hell, if there's other breaks in the lines from freezing (which still surprises me given the cabin has taken similar freezes without issue) they're also PEX which should again also be pretty simple to fix. Nothing in the actual cabin should have frozen (which they've pretty much confirmed). I get that this is one of the slowest seasons for rentals out there, but I don't think we've ever not had it rented over Valentine's, and if the weather warms up a bit it usually will get rented over the weekends even in winter. 

Assuming nothing gets done before then (which seems pretty certain at this point), I'm going to have to go out myself on Friday with a new filter housing to see if I can get the place at least habitable for us to use even if it's not at the level we could rent it. 

Dusterbd13-michael said:

There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.

What do you think it's called?

Peabody said:

Dusterbd13-michael said:

There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.

What do you think it's called?

Duke said:

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

Yeah, I used to have multifocal toric contacts. They were at least 3x the cost of regular contacts and had to get custom ordered with long lead time. They worked great until they didn't, and a couple years ago I gave up and went back to full time glasses.

 

I've been trying to get LASIK or PRK for the past 20 years. Either I was outside of the correctable range or my prescription changed too often. Technology has advanced to the point where they can correct my astigmatism but all the places I've had consultations with are leery of my vision changes.

I just want to be able to berkeleying see 

Dusterbd13-michael said:

There's a special place in hell for people that piss on the seat.

Just think, you could be in a hell where people piss on the seat just for you.

There is no such thing as "universal bolt pattern" on the wheels you're selling. There are two of many, so what two are they? If you don't know then tell us what berkeleying car you had them on....give us a clue.

Wife: You never express your feelings or tell me what's going on inside or ask for help.  You just don't say anything and take it all on yourself.

Me: Okay.  Well, I'm really exhausted and frustrated because it seems like for the last several weeks there's been one expensive thing after another that's been breaking and then there's all the other little things that don't cost anything but take my time.  I just can't get ahead on anything because something new keeps coming along.  Every day, it's like there's 28 hours of stuff that I have to do but only 24 hours to do it and that doesn't include sleeping!

Wife, now crying: Why are you blaming me for all of this and making me feel like crap??

Me: ...

In reply to wae :

Sucks to have to walk on eggshells

In reply to wae :

If I didn't know better I'd swear you were married to my 8.5 year old