It's Personal...

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:29 pm

I have never had an issue with micro-usb. The products attached to them, sure, but never with the micro-usb itself.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:59 am

MicroUSB is a fucking terrible charging standard. And Apple is a fucking terrible company for patent-encumbering what should by all rights be the new industry standard.

Fuck MicroUSB and fuck Apple.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 6:01 am

Why do you people have trouble with microusb? What are you doing with your chargers?

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 6:18 am

The damn thing keeps bending so it doesn't fit quite right anymore. I think that might be because I like checking stuff on my phone while it's plugged in.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:17 am

i found a way around that for the most part:
phone with removeable battery, get an extra and an external charger.
when the one in the phone is empty, swap.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:34 am

Ahaha, some people came here with the desire to do a photo of some of the staff and students showing off the new nice technology we have. The problem with this is of course that we don't have any. You know what great new things we have?

Rechargable batteries for the digital cameras
A colour photocopier.

If they just want expensive stuff, regardless of how long we've had it, then uh... the cameras themselves, I mean they're digital and they work at all. Oh and laptops. Some of them work.

It's just hilarious that they're trying to do a photo-op for the tech we don't have, compared to any private school or any school in the city.

(Anybody who works in a support position here, as opposed to ignorant teaching staff, wants the Minister of Education to resign. Or contract Dutch elm disease.)

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:45 pm

Got quite a scare today when I recieved an email thanking me for purchasing a Kia I did not, in fact, purchase. Fortunately, it turned out to be for another guy with the same initials.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:38 pm

It is cold out. Single-digit Fahrenheit during the day.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:33 pm

You wuss! Don't you know we have Russians who post here?!

I am like the worst person in the world when it comes to tolerating temperatures.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:49 pm

We've got another 6-10 inches of snow coming this weekend to Indianapolis. Yesterday I was reading 8-14". Supposed to be the biggest snow of the season, for what was already about an inch shy of being a record breaking season in terms of total snow (but still not as effectively bad as 78-79 blizzard where the drifting made snow pile up to housetops according to my dad).

Most annoying is that schools are already out of snow day exceptions and trying to figure out how to get the required quota of school days in... and I don't see how they won't cancel school on Monday since the buses can't maneuver without nicely plowed streets. Streets which are destroyed by the cold and the plows, with potholes all over the place. I outright avoid some streets. Some spots were thankfully patched last week, but there's some maneater pot holes out there.

Man, and I was planning on painting my son's room with a construction vehicle and dinosaurs theme as a belated birthday present rather than shoveling snow all Sunday. Maybe I can get a base coat down anyway.

Wheeee

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:40 pm

Hire a neighbour kid to shovel snow. $10 should be good, depending on age. If you really only have teens around, maybe go $20.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:01 pm

Since we aren't in the 60s, absolutely no on will shovel for you for 10 or 20 dollars, so if you are going to do that, be prepared to go way the fuck higher.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:53 pm

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:56 pm

ubernoob wrote:
Kaelik wrote:Since we aren't in the 60s, absolutely no on will shovel for you for 10 or 20 dollars, so if you are going to do that, be prepared to go way the fuck higher.
Depends on how small the walkway/driveway is and how much snow there is. Minimum wage is 7.25. If shoveling a single persons walk/driveway only takes half an hour (big if obviously), then that's double minimum wage for a person that can reasonably only demand minimum wage. Plus, kids are dumb. It only takes one chump.

Kids don't have bills to bay, and if you live in a suburb their parents make way more than that and it changes your expectations.

Being more than minimum wage is meaningless when it is not a steady source of income and it is hard work for people who don't fucking need the money and can't get anything they really want for 10 bucks.

As for one random idiot being willing, how many hours are you going to spend finding kids and asking them to shovel your lawn to get the one dumb one?

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:27 pm

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 1:50 am

Yeah, my driveway is probably 120'+ worth since there's a lot more area at the base. If there's a foot of snow it ain't getting shoveled in under an hour. Last time snow came down heavily this winter I shoveled 3 times in one day to keep it from getting out of control.

Neighbor kids don't go door to door being entrepreneurs around here it seems anyway. Besides I'd rather shovel it myself than pay. If were gonna pay then I'd get a snowblower so that I could have fun with it.

I'm about done with the base coat for my son's room today. I'll hafta post pics when I'm all done with the detail stuff.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:44 am

Yeah, I haven't seen neighborhood kids giong around being entrepeneurs in a long time. The one kid who did do it actually made a business model out of it and basically financed his college education and then ended up selling his business + client list to some random dude who ended up pissing it all away.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:01 am

huh. Meh, if I were a kid and someone offered me $20 to shovel a (reasonable) walk, I would.

TheNotoriousAMP · Post by **TheNotoriousAMP** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:18 am

Prak_Anima wrote:huh. Meh, if I were a kid and someone offered me $20 to shovel a (reasonable) walk, I would.

Hell, 20 bucks is two hours of moving furniture for me, so I'd take it with pleasure.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:25 am

Hell, I've been helping friends move and they've been handing me a twenty each day I've helped, which is usually an hour of moving boxes. Today I helped 'em for about three and a half or four hours, taking breaks into account, and got two meals out of it. To say nothing of all the "we're not going to bother to move this, want it?" stuff.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:10 am

Unless a ton of snow falls in the next few hours. It was a completely underwhelming 'storm'. Maybe 2-3 inches here. It wasn't worth shoveling it was so light.

Son was very happy with his room when he returned from grandparents tonight. Only complaint was that I didn't paint his bed. I still want to paint detailed stuff but I have the base coat and various decals up so it looks finished enuff fer now.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:34 pm

we didnt even get more than a dusting. that makes me happy.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:26 am

This week's going to suck.

One of my cousins died of a heart attack today. Only about forty years old. A little overweight, but otherwise healthy.

Nice guy. He'd been saving up for years to build a house...actually not far from me, come to think of it. For him and his family. A couple more years and they would have been able to just pay for it all outright.

And now he's dead.

Fuck.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:11 am

Damn. I'm sorry.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:28 pm

I just discovered that Rhythmbox will play zip files if they have music files in them.