Category: Rants
eFollett, This Means War
eFollett is one of the most awful companies around. They exist for the sole purpose to rob poor college students by charging inflated prices for textbooks. At the end of the semester, they either don’t buy them back for real market value or say they have no value. Protip: buy and sell on amazon.com. eFollett will not get another penny from me and I haven’t been to that crook bookstore in two years.
So I’m buying my books for next semester and I can tell you right now, I want to bash my history professor’s skull in and I haven’t even met the man yet. Rather than assigning normal textbooks, I look on the booklist and see the following:
First of all, give me an ISBN, a real title (not the course title) and a real author. It’s doubtful these two books have the same title. The info above tells me nothing. Now I have no choice but to buy these two books from the bookstore because it doesn’t give me enough info to shop elsewhere. I absolutely hate when professors write their own books for the class. I hate it even more when it’s sent to Kinko’s and consists of spiral bound printer paper that they make the bookstore sell for $50. Morons.
Clear means Clear
A few months ago, I got an LG ENV3. Good simple non smartphone, nice keyboard works well etc. You know what’s stupid? LG decided to put a voice command function on the clear button. This is dumb as shit. When I press the clear button, it should exit out of all menus and then go to the main screen. When on the main screen, it should just stay there and do nothing. The point of clear is to get out of everything. Instead, when you press clear, it goes to the voice command menu, one of the most useless features ever. I can access whatever I want by browsing to it. I don’t need to go voice commanding my phone. Anyway. when you push clear, this obnoxious voice screams out “PLEASE SAY A COMMAND” followed by a loud beep. This happens even if the phone is on vibrate or silent. So stupid.
I have always had this problem, but never got a chance to write about it, but am going to now since I just got the best text message from Waspito: “fucking CLEAR button should CLEAR. not yell at me to say commands. esp when my phone’s on SILENT during class. fucking ***t”
I am looking into a Droid
Google Ruined my Homepage
Some moron engineer at Google made a brilliant decision: let’s collapse the iGoogle themes to fit more widgets in for those of us with smaller screen resolutions. FALSE. What the hell is the point of having a theme if it gets cut off? Use your brains, Google. I would much rather see the entire theme and scroll for my widgets. At least make it an option. Fix it now, it’s pissing me off.
What my theme looks like:
What my theme should look like
My screen resolution is 1280×800. I know I’m not really doing well height-wise, but it’s not the worst. I like my Google themes to be seasonal, and they ruined it on me. Now everything’s cut off. Thanks Google
Update: 11/25/2009 – A Google employee replied back on their help forum and acknowledged that the users were upset. Google will be making a change to how this was implemented and will post back to let us know. I will keep you updated
Leeches
You know what pisses me off to no end? Leeches. People that have nothing better to do than to follow you around and chew your ear off about topics you don’t give two shits about. It always happens at the worst possible time also. Sometimes, I’ll have a minute to chat or will be in a good mood and won’t mind, but that’s when they’re in hiding. These leeches pop out either 1) when you’re exhausted 2) just failed a test 3) rushing to a meeting 4) just want to relax. And there’s no avoiding these people. There is absolutely a 100% chance you’ll run into them. It’s scientifically proven.
You know what’s the worst thing ever? When people who are walking in one direction run into you, and they do a fucking 360 and walk 20 minutes in the opposite direction from where they were originally headed to. I thought the stop and chat was bad, but I can tolerate that because it’s like 2 minutes tops, and you can walk away if you say you are in a rush. But this is 400 times worse, because you’re stuck. It’s like a guided missile just locked on target and it doesn’t go away. Then you wonder why people end up flipping out.
Off topic, but I just ate a fortune cookie. It read “Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.” Those Chinese. I’ll leave these leech dudes with them for a few days and they will rethink that fortune.
Come on, WordPress…
December 31, 2009
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You know what really pisses me off sometimes? WordPress. Never use the schedule post feature – it’s a useless piece of shit. WordPress allows you to write a draft blog entry and then schedule it to publish at a later date. Every time I do this, it always misses the schedule and then I struggle severely to get it published because it keeps scheduling it. Well maybe I don’t want it scheduled you stupid bitch, I just want it live. I set my end of the decade ramble to publish at 8AM and was supposed to wake up with it here. Instead it’s being a shithead and now I can’t get it published. This also happens on another WordPress blog I maintain. Could be a server setting, but it’s poorly documented. Fix your shit.
Edit. Okay so I Googled this a little bit. Seems like what happens is that WordPress runs a cron (automation) job. There’s a setting in wp-includes/cron.php where it checks every .01 seconds, so if the server is a slow piece of crap and can’t keep up, it misses it. I set it to check less frequently and that might work.
Change:
$cron_url = get_option( 'siteurl' ) . '/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron';wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array('timeout' => 0.01, 'blocking' => false, 'sslverify' => apply_filters('https_local_ssl_verify', true)) );
TO
$cron_url = get_option( 'siteurl' ) . '/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron';wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array('timeout' => 20, 'blocking' => false, 'sslverify' => apply_filters('https_local_ssl_verify', true)) );
A post (the decade recap) is scheduled for 11:45AM EST. It better work.
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