The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Good guitar pickin'
Despite being a pianist myself, I could never grasp how people can play instruments where it takes both hands to play all but 6 notes.
But at least they can play chords (two or more notes simultaneously). What about the poor people who play woodwinds & brass who need both hands and their lips to play just one* note at a time.
* Query: I'm not sure, but is it possible to get a two-note chord from a flute? Two resonances based on multiple open holes? I never looked into the details of acoustic instrument resonances.
It's called multiphonics if you want to look into it further.
Good night as it is night time here.
Good night, Sleep tight; don't let the pins and needles bite.
...good night, sleep tight, and don't let the flying sharks bite.
Complaint: Since the last OS update predictive text and spellcheck on iOS has been garbage... it's been "correcting" common words to unknown or nonsense words... like for some reason it keeps "fixing" good to "goid" and "there" to "threase"... there are lots of other weird misspellings and ignoring of very common words that even 90% finished it offers no predictive spelling for like for example if you start to type "troublesome" usually by the time you get to "troubleso" it will offer up troublesome or troubleshooting... but instead it's still like "derrrrrr?" at "troublesom" with no substitutes... Googling the problem is just useless.
"Goid" is Brooklynese for gourd. "Threase" is the word, is the place, is the motion
Threase is the way we are feeling
and they laughed at the Newton for its autocorrect.... (I had a 130 and MessagePad 2000, loved the mp2000!)
My brother's name is Evan, and somehow or another his name on the contact information in my phone turned to "Evanse", so that's just who he is now.
I once had a phone that insisted on changing "like" to Luke. And several of the phones I've had seem to like changing "the news" to "the Jews". I'm tired of telling people how I don't Luke how the Jews is biased. And if you backspace and correct it, it just replaces your correction with something else stupid while you're not looking.
I have a normal sized and piccolo sized recorders, I sometime put both on my mouth and play just the top holes with a hand each
it harmonises as I think a 4th or 5th interval apart ( would need to check and don't know offhand where I stored them)
As we now have our first modern electric oven, I was amazed to learn the bottom drawer is no longer a broiler, and you can just stuff things in there. However, I don't stuff anything in there because technically it's called a "warmer" and we don't want overly warm stuff. But the newer ovens actually call it a storage compartment. I think it's like those map holders in car doors that nobody will ever put a map in.
...I put all my cast iron cookware and baking pans in that bottom drawer..
On all the autocorrect/autocomplete complaints - you do know, don't you guys, that you can turn that feature off, right? I'll never understand why people put up with this crap. And I hate it personally with a vengeance, because it has turned my students into autocomplete zombies who cannot finish their own sentences anymore.
Edit: Love the stories about the weird suggestions though, so there's that. Maybe it was really invented for pure entertainment value?
Bake a batch of cookies before bed, then put the warm cast iron pans in a towel and use them as bedwarmers.
Eat the cookies as necessary.
I dismay at the reliance on calculators.
Even for me. I used to be able to add, subtract, and multiply in decimal, octal, hex, and binary in my head. Now I have to use a calculator to balance my checkbook.
Nobody uses their brain anymore, it's all done for us. I also dismay at the rise of the audio-book.
Yeah, yeah, it lets people "read" great literature that they wouldn't have attempted otherwise, and safely unbore themselves during a long drive. But actually reading well written books is what teases our language abilities forward. Especially for English spelling and punctuation.
I don't count sheep to fall asleep. I rather count in binary.
101100010011ZZZZZZZZZZ...
Non-complaint: Wheee... my new recliner chair has arrived. Mmmm..., new, cheap-ish, pseudo-luxurious, probably-comfortable, lazy decadence.
Complaint: It's unassembled, in a huge cardboard box, in the only spot in my livingroom/office slightly big enough to hold it, I can just barely squeeze by it to get to my desk or kitchen, while it is simultaneously blocking removal of my old broken chair. Didn't plan this one right, did I?
The alternative was to leave it on the porch, in the snow.
Now I've got to play musical chairs to get the old chair out to make room to assemble my new chair in the warmth. And, upon doing that, I'll become one of those people who put broken, upholstered furniture out on their open-weather porches like some unsophisticated clod.
Gotta find someone who'll take it, and the box trash, away.
Complaint my computer has been crashign at intervals for a while 9since we had a thunderstorm after hot weather, though it wasn't close). It had been good, no crashes since early Decemeber, but I've had four this month - one of which didn't generate a crash report.
Complaint-with-knobs-on I bought Who Crashed? after this started, on froum recommendations. Apparently it wasn't coded to just shrug and say "Sorry, I haven't a clue."
So it's probably a driver, not hardware. Unless it's hardware. But it could be a driver. Or hardware. Or a driver.
As mathematicians know, one number is either bigger than, less than, or equal to another number, unless it's complex.
How do I divide by zero?
Or find a square root of a negative number? Can zero be negative?
Dividing by zero is easy; the answer is always infinity.
A negative number doesn't have real square roots since a square is either positive or 0.
Zero is neutral and neither negative or positive.
A Monty Python take off ???
...would love to do the first part but no counter space to roll out the dough. Barely enough room for the toaster, a small cutting board, and the coffee pot (the latter a necessity) The kitchen is really tiny, not much bigger than a galley in a Boeing 737.
..or imaginary.
...I wondered about that, though apparently no moose or moose trainers were involved and no mention of Spam.
I just liked the realism