Nothing weird noticed today. Yesterday I was getting all sorts of slowdowns and errors.
But once upon a time, when I posted a comment, the comment would post, and the page would be refreshed, showing my sparkly new comment. Now, it no longer automatically refreshes, and then I am forced to wear out my F5 key to see if the comment has posted.
Don't suppose anything could be done about the long-standing problems of posting a comment and getting a locked, blank, screen; that ID fields constantly go blank, particularly if one rests the comment options; that the comment options cease to work if one uses "remember info" for the ID fields; that there are no time-stamps on the posts; that when one uses "preview," the time-stamps on comments vanish?
Fixing any of these might be refreshing. Just an idle wish list. Also: ponies. (Actually, I'd much rather have a Segway; cheaper to maintain, and less smelly, particularly when chained to my balcony.)
Also, here's a real complaint: I signed up with a gym yesterday (I can't get motiviated to use my home gym, this place is 2 minutes from work). I had my first non-self-driven workout in years today. I feel like I'm going to vomit. How did I get so out of shape?
I tried to buy a soad from a vending machine today and it stole my money. Someone who worked in the building saw what happened, told me to wait, and came back five minutes later with a phone number for me to call. I called, and they are now mailing me a check for $1.40.
The NYU Law Review hasn't yet switched to blind review, even though I started complaining about its lack on the second day of orientation.
Washerdryer: in the 1st paragraph is your complaint that they are refunding your money? If so, you can send the check to the Unfogged Server Salvation fund. Every cent counts in the March of Dimes.
Prehaps you are complaining that the soda costs too much ($1.40). I agree; that's an outrageous price for a 20 oz. cool & refreshing beverage. Here at [location redacted] in Arlington VA, 20 oz. sodas cost a mere $0.75. All hail Donald Rumsefeld's mad skilz in negotiating with the Coca-Cola Corporation.
I just want to test publishing a comment but don't want to just write "testing" so I will observe that I went to Junior's for lunch with a vegetarian co-worker (who picked the venue I think knowing there was only meat on the menu as to have an excuse to eat cheesecake for lunch) and thought of Tia and her vegan ways because she wouldn't even be able to do that and would have been completely SOL.
27: It's that I had to through a series of transacations (which is not yet complete, I still need to recieve and cash a check for $1.40) in order to return to me to the status quo. Also, that I'm not really sure what to do with a check for $1.40.
Again, I'm not a big soda drinker, but I love that 1 liter soda bottles have taken over our grocery stores in NYC instead of 2Ls. It's so logical since everybody has to carry their groceries and most people live in small households. Yay logic!
30 is missing a "go" before "through," and has an extra "to" before "me."
Interestingly (maybe) they required no evidence of loss, so a lot of people could probably call and receive some small amount of money, as long as they know the location of one of this company's machines and how much that machine charges. But I assume if the company started getting a lot of requests to have checks mailed to the same address, that might set off some alarms.
At my university housing complex last year the machines were so unreliable at one point that the vendor should have been prosecuted for running an illegal gambling service.
Yeah, all that work for a dollar forty almost isn't worth it (except for the principle that's at stake).
I've gotten to the point where, on the odd occasion a machine eats my money, I walk away. OTOH, I have had Coke machines pay out jackpots. (Obviously one-armed bandits in disguise.) For some reason that does freak me out.
I would have gone with the normal polite step of asking who you know there, but the only 1L whose name I know went to my high school, so any name you might say won't mean much to me.
Don't play their game. Say to yourself, "I am a member of the dominant species on this planet," and just walk away (clutching the remnants of your pride).
At a campus at which I took summer class a few years back it was possible to put money on an account on your ID card and use the card in the vending machines. One day I put the card into a machine that was sold out of every drink, but because the machine had not registered that information yet it tried to retrieve a bottle anyway before informing me that there were none left and I would get a refund.
My card had over $10 on it and, instead of giving me just the price of one bottle, it "refunded" all the money on the card. The flow of coins began with quarters dropping slowly one by one; nearly five minutes later it ended, with nickels.
Fun. In my misspent youth I figured out at one point how to trick newspaper vending machines into giving back the coins I had put in them plus a random couple of dollars worth of other coins which had been put in them previously by other people. It's a timing thing, very easy to outwith these machines. I don't know if they have gotten any more secure since then.
1. My roommate must have forgotten I was coming home tonight because the townhouse is a fucking sty. I have never seen a dwelling so foul. Were I a cockroach, I would take one look around, say "hell no", and leave.
2. Despite this, I supposedly sexiled for most of the weekend. How she is going to get this house in shape to have a guest over in less than, oh, a month is beyond me.
3. The new sweater I wore to work today somehow managed to get clingier and clingier and lower cut as the day wore on. It was so embarrassing. I feel like my breasts went to work today, not me, because that's all anyone talked to. (I'm not expecting any sympathy from the guys on this but I figure the ladies will understand.)
Poor eyesight or a really off bottle of Mad Dog. (Its a non-exclusive OR.)
53.3 Oddly enough, I do symapathize. I did laugh too. Sounds like an awake nightmare or a comedy sketch.
Today's adventures with vending machines. I went to get a refreshing carbonated-beverage and, after carefully checking that the soda was not sold out, I put my dollar in the slot. Bam! The machine quickly dispensed four quarters. Further experiments - a quarter yielded smaller change - revealed that this was a change machine in the guise of a soda machine. Very clever.
Funny you say that. When I emailed the pic to a friend last night, I commented: 'I do like how even her dog looks like he's thinking "look what I have to put up with!"'
That certainly is a pigsty, but it actually looks not unlike the way a couple I know used to keep their house for long stretches at a time. In fact, there were times when my sister would specifically want me and no one else to take care of their cats because she and her husband did not want any of their friends to see the house in that state.
I don't want to read "E\merge/ncies and D\emo/cratic F\ail/ure." But I must vote tomorrow on whether or not to publish it, and don't want to vote baselessly. If someone else reads it, I promise to give some amount of credence to their opinion.
Counting this morning only:
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 10:46 AM
Also, observed at 10:46 AM, weird behavior of ordered lists.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 10:50 AM
This is what you get for mocking hentai fans!
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 10:51 AM
Nothing weird noticed today. Yesterday I was getting all sorts of slowdowns and errors.
But once upon a time, when I posted a comment, the comment would post, and the page would be refreshed, showing my sparkly new comment. Now, it no longer automatically refreshes, and then I am forced to wear out my F5 key to see if the comment has posted.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 10:56 AM
hentai fans
Are those the things that geisha girls flutter?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 10:56 AM
Admirers of cute anime vagendas are not to be mocked.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 11:01 AM
My knees hurt, and it's a little cold here.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 11:01 AM
I want to be taller. Also, Christ, what an asshole.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 11:04 AM
I've been noticing a lot of weird, oddly humorous, quirky comments Becks.
And some 403 errors.
Please fix them.
Posted by Andrew | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 11:08 AM
Emerson never just holds me anymore.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 11:09 AM
Also, post a comment, get a blank page. But on further investigation, the comment has arrived.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 11:15 AM
Comment page not refreshing, possibly due to failure to click 'post'.
And then, in all seriousness, refreshing kinda slowly.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 11:22 AM
Don't suppose anything could be done about the long-standing problems of posting a comment and getting a locked, blank, screen; that ID fields constantly go blank, particularly if one rests the comment options; that the comment options cease to work if one uses "remember info" for the ID fields; that there are no time-stamps on the posts; that when one uses "preview," the time-stamps on comments vanish?
Fixing any of these might be refreshing. Just an idle wish list. Also: ponies. (Actually, I'd much rather have a Segway; cheaper to maintain, and less smelly, particularly when chained to my balcony.)
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 12:01 PM
less smelly, particularly when chained to my balcony
Now that's kinky.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 12:05 PM
Gary, you might be pleased to know that I burst out laughing on seeing "Gary Farber comments on Complain Here!" in the sidebar.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 12:07 PM
I got the "Not authorized" screen for about an hour.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:10 PM
I was getting a 403 off and on for the last half hour (basically, whenever I checked back).
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:17 PM
Also, here's a real complaint: I signed up with a gym yesterday (I can't get motiviated to use my home gym, this place is 2 minutes from work). I had my first non-self-driven workout in years today. I feel like I'm going to vomit. How did I get so out of shape?
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:19 PM
Me too, I had a long period of no Unfogged due to 403 errors this afternoon too.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:25 PM
I think Ogged did that on purpose because the site was driving up the server load inexplicably.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:27 PM
Fuckin Mexicans
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:28 PM
ogged is still the magician behind the curtain.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:34 PM
Fuckin Mexican magicians
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:36 PM
Now the comment threads don't revert to the bottom any more, but I don't really mind that.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 1:40 PM
blog a little less weird since the swimming fellow stopped posting - otherwise, no complaints.
Posted by bill | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 2:28 PM
I tried to buy a soad from a vending machine today and it stole my money. Someone who worked in the building saw what happened, told me to wait, and came back five minutes later with a phone number for me to call. I called, and they are now mailing me a check for $1.40.
The NYU Law Review hasn't yet switched to blind review, even though I started complaining about its lack on the second day of orientation.
Bob doesn't post enough.
No one is making me a sandwich right now.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 3:33 PM
re 26
Washerdryer: in the 1st paragraph is your complaint that they are refunding your money? If so, you can send the check to the Unfogged Server Salvation fund. Every cent counts in the March of Dimes.
Prehaps you are complaining that the soda costs too much ($1.40). I agree; that's an outrageous price for a 20 oz. cool & refreshing beverage. Here at [location redacted] in Arlington VA, 20 oz. sodas cost a mere $0.75. All hail Donald Rumsefeld's mad skilz in negotiating with the Coca-Cola Corporation.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:03 PM
I just want to test publishing a comment but don't want to just write "testing" so I will observe that I went to Junior's for lunch with a vegetarian co-worker (who picked the venue I think knowing there was only meat on the menu as to have an excuse to eat cheesecake for lunch) and thought of Tia and her vegan ways because she wouldn't even be able to do that and would have been completely SOL.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:14 PM
Mmmm, glutinous cherry topping.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:15 PM
27: It's that I had to through a series of transacations (which is not yet complete, I still need to recieve and cash a check for $1.40) in order to return to me to the status quo. Also, that I'm not really sure what to do with a check for $1.40.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:19 PM
...and you know that part of their business plan is that most people won't be arsed, and they'll get to keep the $1.40.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:29 PM
I want to complain that 20 oz. sodas have taken over the country. I only want 16 oz.! Or maybe even something metric.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:37 PM
Again, I'm not a big soda drinker, but I love that 1 liter soda bottles have taken over our grocery stores in NYC instead of 2Ls. It's so logical since everybody has to carry their groceries and most people live in small households. Yay logic!
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:43 PM
30 is missing a "go" before "through," and has an extra "to" before "me."
Interestingly (maybe) they required no evidence of loss, so a lot of people could probably call and receive some small amount of money, as long as they know the location of one of this company's machines and how much that machine charges. But I assume if the company started getting a lot of requests to have checks mailed to the same address, that might set off some alarms.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:45 PM
At my university housing complex last year the machines were so unreliable at one point that the vendor should have been prosecuted for running an illegal gambling service.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 4:51 PM
Yeah, all that work for a dollar forty almost isn't worth it (except for the principle that's at stake).
I've gotten to the point where, on the odd occasion a machine eats my money, I walk away. OTOH, I have had Coke machines pay out jackpots. (Obviously one-armed bandits in disguise.) For some reason that does freak me out.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:00 PM
one-armed bandits in disguise
They always win in the end.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:08 PM
w/d, what year are you?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:12 PM
2L
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:24 PM
I suspect you don't know too many 1Ls, then.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:26 PM
You suspect correctly.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:29 PM
Very well, then. Carry on.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:36 PM
I would have gone with the normal polite step of asking who you know there, but the only 1L whose name I know went to my high school, so any name you might say won't mean much to me.
Posted by washerdreyerhave | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:58 PM
If a machine cheats me more than once I seal up the coin slot with tape or a wad of paper.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:59 PM
teofilo is Tim Gunn!
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 5:59 PM
I'll admit that I had to google Tim Gunn to figure out who he is. I still don't quite get the reference.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 6:04 PM
in re 37.
Oh that link was SOOO true.
Don't play their game. Say to yourself, "I am a member of the dominant species on this planet," and just walk away (clutching the remnants of your pride).
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 6:10 PM
46: Googling both Tim Gunn and phrases from 42 together reveals the probable answer.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 6:20 PM
I see. In the process of googling I discovered that there are an awful lot of bloggers following that show very closely. Interesting.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 6:32 PM
At a campus at which I took summer class a few years back it was possible to put money on an account on your ID card and use the card in the vending machines. One day I put the card into a machine that was sold out of every drink, but because the machine had not registered that information yet it tried to retrieve a bottle anyway before informing me that there were none left and I would get a refund.
My card had over $10 on it and, instead of giving me just the price of one bottle, it "refunded" all the money on the card. The flow of coins began with quarters dropping slowly one by one; nearly five minutes later it ended, with nickels.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 6:38 PM
Fun. In my misspent youth I figured out at one point how to trick newspaper vending machines into giving back the coins I had put in them plus a random couple of dollars worth of other coins which had been put in them previously by other people. It's a timing thing, very easy to outwith these machines. I don't know if they have gotten any more secure since then.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 03- 1-06 8:25 PM
md 20/400, why don't you just be md 1/20? you're using up bandwidth with those extra zeros.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 03- 2-06 8:32 AM
My complaints:
1. My roommate must have forgotten I was coming home tonight because the townhouse is a fucking sty. I have never seen a dwelling so foul. Were I a cockroach, I would take one look around, say "hell no", and leave.
2. Despite this, I supposedly sexiled for most of the weekend. How she is going to get this house in shape to have a guest over in less than, oh, a month is beyond me.
3. The new sweater I wore to work today somehow managed to get clingier and clingier and lower cut as the day wore on. It was so embarrassing. I feel like my breasts went to work today, not me, because that's all anyone talked to. (I'm not expecting any sympathy from the guys on this but I figure the ladies will understand.)
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 2-06 7:09 PM
52
Poor eyesight or a really off bottle of Mad Dog. (Its a non-exclusive OR.)
53.3 Oddly enough, I do symapathize. I did laugh too. Sounds like an awake nightmare or a comedy sketch.
Today's adventures with vending machines. I went to get a refreshing carbonated-beverage and, after carefully checking that the soda was not sold out, I put my dollar in the slot. Bam! The machine quickly dispensed four quarters. Further experiments - a quarter yielded smaller change - revealed that this was a change machine in the guise of a soda machine. Very clever.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 7:07 AM
52.2 Possibly she's going on the assumption that her guest won't notice.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 7:51 AM
Oh, I think he'll notice. And that picture doesn't convey the smell either.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 8:02 AM
The pug does not seem to have any problems with the staet of the apartment.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 8:04 AM
Funny you say that. When I emailed the pic to a friend last night, I commented: 'I do like how even her dog looks like he's thinking "look what I have to put up with!"'
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 8:07 AM
Hmm. Correct the typo, or leave it to fester? ...I will leave it as a silent testimony to my proofreading abilities.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 8:08 AM
she should blame the pug.
Posted by matty | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 8:23 AM
That certainly is a pigsty, but it actually looks not unlike the way a couple I know used to keep their house for long stretches at a time. In fact, there were times when my sister would specifically want me and no one else to take care of their cats because she and her husband did not want any of their friends to see the house in that state.
As for 53.3, guys do sympathize, but with whom?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 3-06 11:01 AM
I don't want to read "E\merge/ncies and D\emo/cratic F\ail/ure." But I must vote tomorrow on whether or not to publish it, and don't want to vote baselessly. If someone else reads it, I promise to give some amount of credence to their opinion.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 8:26 PM
w00t! Abdication!
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 8:55 PM
I've now read, taken notes on, and developed an argument as to my opinion, no thanks to youse guys.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:33 PM