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1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Happy pooping, amigo.

Wait...did you get an advanced preview of our Christmas card this year?  Because that's our Christmas wish for friends and family.  It's the little things that make life worth living.

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I would like to punch two men in the face. Although I have no proof, I’m confident both are TAMU engineers. 

First, the guy who designed the Christmas light strings in which a tiny wire is required to contact another tiny wire in an insert to complete a circuit, which is required to make all the lights on the string work. If just one of the lights on the tree gets slightly twisted, or disturbed, or looked at in a cruel manner, the circuit is interrupted and the whole string is dead, until you go light-by-light, pulling the damn things out, figuring out which filament isn’t making contact. I would like to punch that guy in the face. 

I’m no electrical engineer, but it seems to me that it would be incredibly easy to design a string of lights in which the circuit functions regardless of whether any individual light is functional, is seated correctly, or is even present in its seat  

Second, the guy who decided to use that design of light strings to tie into pre-lit artificial Christmas trees. Inevitably one or more of the strings on the tree will go bad. Then the user is required to go light-by-light on a light string that’s tightly wrapped around the branches in a completely random way. Doing so means getting one’s hands and wrists repeatedly abraded by the artificial branches and needles, and it’s almost impossible to find the offending light because the lights are all tucked in among the branches. 
 

Screw those guys. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, nnm said:

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I would like to punch two men in the face. Although I have no proof, I’m confident both are TAMU engineers. 

First, the guy who designed the Christmas light strings in which a tiny wire is required to contact another tiny wire in an insert to complete a circuit, which is required to make all the lights on the string work. If just one of the lights on the tree gets slightly twisted, or disturbed, or looked at in a cruel manner, the circuit is interrupted and the whole string is dead, until you go light-by-light, pulling the damn things out, figuring out which filament isn’t making contact. I would like to punch that guy in the face. 

I’m no electrical engineer, but it seems to me that it would be incredibly easy to design a string of lights in which the circuit functions regardless of whether any individual light is functional, is seated correctly, or is even present in its seat  

Second, the guy who decided to use that design of light strings to tie into pre-lit artificial Christmas trees. Inevitably one or more of the strings on the tree will go bad. Then the user is required to go light-by-light on a light string that’s tightly wrapped around the branches in a completely random way. Doing so means getting one’s hands and wrists repeatedly abraded by the artificial branches and needles, and it’s almost impossible to find the offending light because the lights are all tucked in among the branches. 
 

Screw those guys. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, nnm said:

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IMG_1469.thumb.jpeg.be08516e5b71fc118184cce5784c190a.jpeg

I would like to punch two men in the face. Although I have no proof, I’m confident both are TAMU engineers. 

First, the guy who designed the Christmas light strings in which a tiny wire is required to contact another tiny wire in an insert to complete a circuit, which is required to make all the lights on the string work. If just one of the lights on the tree gets slightly twisted, or disturbed, or looked at in a cruel manner, the circuit is interrupted and the whole string is dead, until you go light-by-light, pulling the damn things out, figuring out which filament isn’t making contact. I would like to punch that guy in the face. 

I’m no electrical engineer, but it seems to me that it would be incredibly easy to design a string of lights in which the circuit functions regardless of whether any individual light is functional, is seated correctly, or is even present in its seat  

Second, the guy who decided to use that design of light strings to tie into pre-lit artificial Christmas trees. Inevitably one or more of the strings on the tree will go bad. Then the user is required to go light-by-light on a light string that’s tightly wrapped around the branches in a completely random way. Doing so means getting one’s hands and wrists repeatedly abraded by the artificial branches and needles, and it’s almost impossible to find the offending light because the lights are all tucked in among the branches. 
 

Screw those guys. 

I just did this yesterday. Man do I feel you.

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Posted
10 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

When you’re walking barefoot in your house and your pinky toe catches a piece of furniture and you collapse and want to die. 

Slammed my finger in the truck door a week and a half ago.  Pretty sure it broke it, but not bad enough to go to the hospital.  The initial 5 minutes or so, the pain was so bad I forgot how to breathe.  I'll take stubbing the pinky toe over that any day.

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This was mentioned upthread, but why the hell can't printer manufacturers develop a printer interface that is simple and bulletproof?  I recently jettisoned my HP printer because it constantly refused to communicate with the home network, despite being 3" from the router.  I did some research, and bought a Canon ImageClass laser printer because it was supposed to be the best at stability of connection with a home network.

It's not.  I recently had to spend 3 hours on the phone with Canon support to get this stupid thing to work.  I have a basic home network with a mesh router and everything connected to that. It should be simple.  It's not.

I'm not technically illiterate.  But this is a regular problem, and it absolutely drives me insane.  After that 3-hour call with Canon, and supposedly getting everything worked out, I had to reset everything again yesterday to print something for Mrs. NNM.

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I’m screaming sick of phone menus allowing commercial businesses to get by without employees. For example, my primary care physician has a very nice office, conveniently located and friendly, professional staff.  It is literally impossible for one of us to communicate with the other by any means other than in person, face to face or by phone having an audio-only conversation.  In the past year, she has scheduled no less  than three FaceTime conferences for which I expected to be on call at specific times.  So far, we have actually accomplished 90 seconds of one call, which ended abruptly and completely, without warning. None of the others worked at all. Tech is 90% bullshit 90% of the time. It makes me surly.

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