Please share your struggle of the day

[kick51]

Someone thought it was novel (no pun intended, ugh) that I was reading in a cafe that fashions itself counterculture DESPITE THERE BEING A FUCKING BABY SHOWER THERE THIS MORNING FUCK YOU CACS AND CACABES and asked to take my picture. Posed. I was literally a poser, and possibly a poseur. Now I know how the caged bird sings those French girls felt.

On a related note, I was wearing a shirt that had I known I would be photographed like an animal at the zoo while wearing, I would not have worn. With my luck this picture will become some Facebook meme like "hey check this out. people read. books. :deadpos".

oh man, you're epic bookreader guy!?

[TakingBackSunday]

prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

Welcome to lower/middle management.  You find that you have almost no authority but almost all of the responsibility.  You usually need to get to the next stage of management before you can actually enact the change you want.

So do you recommend staying where I am or GTFO?

[Human Snorenado]

prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

Welcome to lower/middle management.  You find that you have almost no authority but almost all of the responsibility.  You usually need to get to the next stage of management before you can actually enact the change you want.

So do you recommend staying where I am or GTFO?

Here's the thing- it's probably not gonna be any better anywhere else in the same sort of position. I would recommend developing a drinking habit or finding a different career path. Possibly both.

[Joe Molotov]

I dropped my Gen 1 Nook and broke it.  :'(

Now I have to decide whether to get a Nook Glowlight or a Kindle Paperwhite. Paperwhite seems like the better choice, but then I'd have to futz around with either converting all my epubs to mobi or jailbreaking it.

OTOH, the Kindle Voyage looks sick, but $200 man.

[Kara]

I miss my Kindle. Reading with Kindle Android is turrible. :'(

[nudemacusers]

paperwhites are awesome. i use calibre to manage my library; it's not the best interface but when you get it down it makes converting and sending stuff to the kindle a snap.


so i'm at my inlaws earlier today and my son wants to play baseball (to the level that a 3 year old plays baseball), so as I'm demonstrating how to put on the mitt I feel some weird sharp pains on my ringfinger. I pull off the glove thinking there is a frayed threading or something weird but it's just a hornet that stung me twice.  :'(

now my finger is all swoled up, hurts and my hand is all numb and cramped.  :'(

[nudemacusers]

kindle on a phone

[fistfulofmetal]

kindle paperwhite 

[Kara]

kindle on a phone

The things we do for love books.

[CatsCatsCats]

I've read books on my phone, I do everything on my phone, including this message

[Kara]

Can you do me with it?

[Rufus]

so i'm at my inlaws earlier today and my son wants to play baseball (to the level that a 3 year old plays baseball), so as I'm demonstrating how to put on the mitt I feel some weird sharp pains on my ringfinger. I pull off the glove thinking there is a frayed threading or something weird but it's just a hornet that stung me twice.  :'(

now my finger is all swoled up, hurts and my hand is all numb and cramped.  :'(

Fucking hornets should stick to eating pests

[chronovore]

I loved Stanza on iOS until its unsupported ass shat the bed with iOS 5 (or was it 4?). I had a huge collection of books on it, and read erryday on my iPod during my train commute. And I lost all the books when Stanza quit working, and I subsequently failed to recover it all from my iPod... probably could have extracted off the backup.  :'(

I must admit that I prefer the Kindle Paperwhite experience for e-ink visual quality. It’s just lovely. I don’t have nearly the collection I did on Stanza, but I still have plenty to read.

On some websites, I’ve also seen “send to Kindle” recently, which is nice for reading later.

[chronovore]

I find the backlight is too intense on iPad, and that dimming it makes it hard to read. I haven’t found the happy medium yet.

[Reb]

I hate reading on any device other than my paperwhite.

[Phoenix Dark]

Left my wallet at home. I left it on top of the coach in the front room, which means my cat is more than likely going to knock it off and potentially bite the shit out of it.

[chronovore]

Japanese advertising people have realized YouTube exists, and have begun adding UNSKIPPABLE advertisements, some of which are over a minute. Like, someone at the firm said, “Hey, we need an editor for this advertisement,” but then someone said, “No, fuck it, it’s going on YouTube, let’s just use ALL THE FOOTAGE.”

If I could get some time alone with the guys who’ve put these ads in place, I’d staple their rectums shut.

[Rufus]

Thank the gods for Adblock/µBlock.

[Madrun Badrun]

Turns out the sushi place is closed on mondays - wasted a 10 min walk.  I needs my raw fish.

[kick51]

FWIW I have a paperwhite and I love it. if only it could render color images and graphic novels doe :'(

it's pretty good for manga. 

unfortunately, it seems like the only good manga on U.S. kindle is Gyo by Junji Ito.  I guess 7 Billion Needles is okayish. 

other than that it's all naruto and hentai/yaoi.

japan has Berserk  :'(

[kick51]

FWIW I have a paperwhite and I love it. if only it could render color images and graphic novels doe :'(

it's pretty good for manga. 

unfortunately, it seems like the only good manga on U.S. kindle is Gyo by Junji Ito.  I guess 7 Billion Needles is okayish. 

Last I checked they had stuff like Lone wolf and Club and shadow assassin on there tho . I have all the drops of god series on Kindle too.

i didn't realize Lone Wolf + Cub was on there.  i guess I should caveat that I don't know shit about manga, but when i look on the amazon store, it looks like a bleak selection.

Torrent manga, transfer it to your device.

You're welcome.

tried it, didn't seem to fit properly.  there are probably ways to fix that, but i'm done learning shit like that

[CatsCatsCats]

About to phone in to see if I have jury duty tomorrow 

[CatsCatsCats]

Term ended, no need to report

[Kara]

I feel like my crack medical team has unintentionally defeated me the international banker. When you drop a couple hundo on medications you start asking yourself bothersome questions like "Should I really be putting this in my body?"

One of them is Soviet educated so I'd make a Doctors' plot joke at this juncture if y'all hadn't been unappreciative of my Defenestrations of Prague joke in AiA's vacay thread.

[Steve Contra]

I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(

[Kara]

I made a joke about variable interest entities that someone laughed at, then they looked at me seriously and told me not to try that one at the bar.

[Brehvolution]

I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(

The joys of running your own business or something else? 

[Steve Contra]

Business and some family stuff.  Mainly business though.

[Mr. Nobody]

More snow coming Thursday and Friday 

[brawndolicious]

How do you tell your friend that he shouldn't do amateur stand-up again next week because his delivery is really canned? There were a few polite laughs last night since it was his first time but I was laughing my ass off as I always do when someone bombs a joke.

[I'm a Puppy!]

How do you tell your friend that he shouldn't do amateur stand-up again next week because his delivery is really canned? There were a few polite laughs last night since it was his first time but I was laughing my ass off as I always do when someone bombs a joke.

You don't. I know a few comedians and the ones that are successful all admit that they were terribad at the beginning and they needed to fail for a good year or so before they got their delivery/pace down. The problem comes in if your friend thinks he killed it or if he knows he sucked but wants to keep at it.

[chronovore]

I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(

jesus I had no idea stress could give you some major physiological nastiness as a result... I am double, nay, triple fucked my friends. I could be shitting and vomitting blood any moment

Stress can indeed cause physiological conditions. It's bad for your blood pressure, your heart, it can cause muscle cramps especially in the back neck and shoulders, but also commonly in the arms, knees, whatever. Ulcers were recently proven to be caused by bacteria. The researcher who discovered this won a Nobel Prize. If you actually have an ulcer, instead of just an abundance of stomach acid, see a doctor and get some antibiotics.

[fistfulofmetal]

long-distance is rough

[lennedsay]

long-distance is rough

[Kara]

long-distance is rough

Yeah.

[king of the internet]

There's always exceptions but indefinite long-distance is usually a death sentence for relationships. Monogamy is a big sacrifice and you start to question if it's worth it when you're only seeing other on occasion. But more than that, you just tend to grown apart from each other over time, living separate lives like that.

Good luck out there.

[brawndolicious]

How do you tell your friend that he shouldn't do amateur stand-up again next week because his delivery is really canned? There were a few polite laughs last night since it was his first time but I was laughing my ass off as I always do when someone bombs a joke.

You don't. I know a few comedians and the ones that are successful all admit that they were terribad at the beginning and they needed to fail for a good year or so before they got their delivery/pace down. The problem comes in if your friend thinks he killed it or if he knows he sucked but wants to keep at it.

That's true, I think he knows he didn't do great but it's the sensitive stage where I want to tell him what he needs improvement on without hurting his feelings. He's just did it for fun.

[Brehvolution]

long-distance is rough

PM me if you want to exchange numbers and talk. I'm only an hour and a half away. 

[fistfulofmetal]

 

thanks. i appreciate it.

it's not as bad as i make it. we're planning for me living in the city with her soon, like in april hopefully. then when i'm settled and she's out of the temporary lease she's signed (last minute deal with people she knows) we'll talk about living together. i'm gonna be visiting the last week of march to see the city and look at apartments.

so it's not like we are looking at months a part. still. i'm not used to this. having the gulf of distance, not being able to readily see her whenever. it's just rough on me and it's only been a few days :\

[I'm a Puppy!]

one of the executive sponsors on one of my new projects last name is Freeze and everyone calls him "Mr. Freeze"
I'm going to have a seriously hard time not geeking out every time I hear that.

[Kara]

I use Greek letters in my work papers because I'm an (e.g. sigma for sum, that shit is in Excel fuck you ) and today someone asked me what all these triangles in my work papers meant and without thinking I blurted out, "Those aren't triangles, they're deltas. " as if I worked in a fucking lab where people would know what that meant.

I of course got the and had to think of a quick recovery to cover my status which then lead me down the dreaded path of bonding with other people.

Jingle, jangle, all along the banks of the Royal Canal...

[Kara]

 DP

[Steve Contra]

I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(

jesus I had no idea stress could give you some major physiological nastiness as a result... I am double, nay, triple fucked my friends. I could be shitting and vomitting blood any moment

Stress can indeed cause physiological conditions. It's bad for your blood pressure, your heart, it can cause muscle cramps especially in the back neck and shoulders, but also commonly in the arms, knees, whatever. Ulcers were recently proven to be caused by bacteria. The researcher who discovered this won a Nobel Prize. If you actually have an ulcer, instead of just an abundance of stomach acid, see a doctor and get some antibiotics.

Yeah, I'm doing all that.  But my stomach still has to heal

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I have a buddy who had a hernia. He waited until it was the size of a fist before he did anything with it. Now it's coming back (he looks like he has a beer belly from the side, and what's he doing? Ignoring it again.

WTF, go to the damn doctor man.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I use Greek letters in my work papers because I'm an (e.g. sigma for sum, that shit is in Excel fuck you ) and today someone asked me what all these triangles in my work papers meant and without thinking I blurted out, "Those aren't triangles, they're deltas. " as if I worked in a fucking lab where people would know what that meant.

I of course got the and had to think of a quick recovery to cover my status which then lead me down the dreaded path of bonding with other people.

Jingle, jangle, all along the banks of the Royal Canal...

Fuck! I know and can relate exactly to a Vularai post.

 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Gotta fly to Raleigh next week.
I have two choices:

Leave a noon and lose most of a work day on the way there but arrive at 10:40pm

Or leave at 7pm, get in a work day, but take a red eye flight with 3 connections and arrive at 8am.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards 7pm.

[Kara]

ed: I work some of the time in a lab, know what a delta means and i'd definitely still hit you with the if you said "those aren't triangles, they're deltas "

I'm taking a lambda on this one, I know.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

This year I'm working with options and that means it's gamma time.

[close]

[CatsCatsCats]

I have a buddy who had a hernia. He waited until it was the size of a fist before he did anything with it. Now it's coming back (he looks like he has a beer belly from the side, and what's he doing? Ignoring it again.

WTF, go to the damn doctor man.

Can sympathize with him, the surgery almost seems worse than having a hernia.

[kick51]

apparently you have to enter your tip ahead of time with this place I ordered food from.  awkward conversation when the delivery person didn't have anything for me to sign and I had no cash and they explained the system to me.  that's fucking backwards though!

[Huff]

Gotta fly to Raleigh next week.
I have two choices:

Leave a noon and lose most of a work day on the way there but arrive at 10:40pm

Or leave at 7pm, get in a work day, but take a red eye flight with 3 connections and arrive at 8am.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards 7pm.

I always pick the ones where I can get the drunkest on layovers

[Joe Molotov]

Amazon just randomly decided to charge me for Prime today, wtf. I haven't had a Prime account in like 2 years, I haven't even bought anything from Amazon since last Summer. Cancelled it and changed my password just in case I got h4xx0rzed.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Gotta fly to Raleigh next week.
I have two choices:

Leave a noon and lose most of a work day on the way there but arrive at 10:40pm

Or leave at 7pm, get in a work day, but take a red eye flight with 3 connections and arrive at 8am.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards 7pm.

I always pick the ones where I can get the drunkest on layovers

double the layovers means double the drunk. It's decided. Red eye it is.

[bork]

Someone stole my lunch today!   
 

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly? 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Someone stole my lunch today!   
 

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly?

I only had that happen once when I was a corporate guy. I goddamn did the patented fake black man melt down and nobody did it again. You should do that and if you're not black get one of your black buddies to do it for you. Trust me, nobody will fuck with your shit again.

[king of the internet]

Someone stole my lunch today!   
 

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly?

I only had that happen once when I was a corporate guy. I goddamn did the patented fake black man melt down and nobody did it again. You should do that and if you're not black get one of your black buddies to do it for you. Trust me, nobody will fuck with your shit again.

Aren't you worried they might call the cops? 

[bork]

Someone stole my lunch today!   
 

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly?

I only had that happen once when I was a corporate guy. I goddamn did the patented fake black man melt down and nobody did it again. You should do that and if you're not black get one of your black buddies to do it for you. Trust me, nobody will fuck with your shit again.

[Kara]

I bet it was one of those people from the train, bork.

[bork]

I bet it was one of those people from the train, bork.

First thing my co-worker said was "DUDE IT WAS JEAN JACKET LADY!"   

[Kara]

Speaking of .

Some of you may recall (though I hope you don't) that I discovered that a popular tax preparation program thinks that the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen still exists (). Well I've been working with another popular program this year and I finally had the chance to scope out its list of foreign states.

Y'all it was a pedant's wet dream. It doesn't say North Korea or Korea (Pyongyang), it lists the country's full legal name. I was particularly impressed with how descriptive the U.K.'s name was.

So of course what did I do? Look up Yemen.

This program also thinks that the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen exists and is the sole Yemen.

The only logical conclusion to draw from this? That the tax software industry knew about the Houthi insurrection for years. Majestic 12 communicating with software drop lists, it's exquisite in its simplicity.

I no longer know who I am and I feel like the ghost of a total stranger.

[Huff]

Tinder is ruined