Minor things that bother you

[vdeane]

ADHD time blindness.  I can think "it's going to be really cold, you need time to scrape of the windshield if necessary and to warm up in the car before walking in to work", start preparing breakfast 5 minutes early, and end up leaving my apartment only 2 minutes early, resulting in me leaving 1 minute late, and scraping in just on time due to luck and therefore not having time to warm myself up in the car before I had to walk in (and my fingers are still cold from that; at least my ID badge actually worked, because I only managed to scrape out a couple seconds to hold it next to the air vent).

[hotdogPi]

An actual minor thing that bothers me: in this thread, and this thread only, when I click "new" and the most recent post is the final post of a page, it will send me to the beginning of the next page where there are zero posts.

[1995hoo]

I was on an early-morning Acela today. It was 18° outside when I boarded. So, naturally, the AC was on blowing cold air.

The heat finally came on 40 minutes later in Baltimore. My feet warmed up after I reached New York. I wonder whether I might wind up in the same railcar on the way home tonight.

[kkt]

ADHD time blindness.  I can think "it's going to be really cold, you need time to scrape of the windshield if necessary and to warm up in the car before walking in to work", start preparing breakfast 5 minutes early, and end up leaving my apartment only 2 minutes early, resulting in me leaving 1 minute late, and scraping in just on time due to luck and therefore not having time to warm myself up in the car before I had to walk in (and my fingers are still cold from that; at least my ID badge actually worked, because I only managed to scrape out a couple seconds to hold it next to the air vent).

Why do you need to do anything at all to the car if you are going to walk in to work?

[1995hoo]

I was on an early-morning Acela today. It was 18° outside when I boarded. So, naturally, the AC was on blowing cold air.

The heat finally came on 40 minutes later in Baltimore. My feet warmed up after I reached New York. I wonder whether I might wind up in the same railcar on the way home tonight.

In the Department of Weird, I'm in the exact same railcar on the trip home tonight (I recognized the car number on the outside). When I first got on in New York, everyone felt it was too hot. Go figure. It's cooled off since then.

[vdeane]

ADHD time blindness.  I can think "it's going to be really cold, you need time to scrape of the windshield if necessary and to warm up in the car before walking in to work", start preparing breakfast 5 minutes early, and end up leaving my apartment only 2 minutes early, resulting in me leaving 1 minute late, and scraping in just on time due to luck and therefore not having time to warm myself up in the car before I had to walk in (and my fingers are still cold from that; at least my ID badge actually worked, because I only managed to scrape out a couple seconds to hold it next to the air vent).

Why do you need to do anything at all to the car if you are going to walk in to work?

I don't walk to work, I drive to work.  But when I get there, I need to scan my badge to get through the turnstiles, and the chips in the badges are prone to freezing if when it gets really, really cold out (~15-20 degrees or less, I estimate), so I have to defrost it by holding it against the air vent in the car and then keep it pressed between my hand and thigh as I'm walking in to keep it from cooling off again.  And because my body runs cold, I'd like to have time to sit in the car holding my hands to the vents too, because my fingers were freezing even with my gloves on, and the office is an ice box that is incapable of warming them (seriously, it was 57 when I turned the space heater on, and I only stopped shivering sometime after lunch).  Not to mention that I'd really like to be relaxed rather than rushed getting in.

[Rothman]

For what it's worth, I walk to work every day with my ID on my belt and haven't had my card ever freeze.

[vdeane]

For what it's worth, I walk to work every day with my ID on my belt and haven't had my card ever freeze.

It was something one of the guards mentioned to me ages ago one day when my badge took multiple attempts (and some warming) to scan even if I held it right against the door.  To be fair, the temperature might have been negative that day.

[Rothman]

For what it's worth, I walk to work every day with my ID on my belt and haven't had my card ever freeze.

It was something one of the guards mentioned to me ages ago one day when my badge took multiple attempts (and some warming) to scan even if I held it right against the door.  To be fair, the temperature might have been negative that day.

Well, just saying I haven't had to do what you do to get into work, despite the card being out in the open on very cold days for a much longer walk than just from the lot into DOT MO.

Glitches happen.

[kkt]

ADHD time blindness.  I can think "it's going to be really cold, you need time to scrape of the windshield if necessary and to warm up in the car before walking in to work", start preparing breakfast 5 minutes early, and end up leaving my apartment only 2 minutes early, resulting in me leaving 1 minute late, and scraping in just on time due to luck and therefore not having time to warm myself up in the car before I had to walk in (and my fingers are still cold from that; at least my ID badge actually worked, because I only managed to scrape out a couple seconds to hold it next to the air vent).

Why do you need to do anything at all to the car if you are going to walk in to work?

I don't walk to work, I drive to work.  But when I get there, I need to scan my badge to get through the turnstiles, and the chips in the badges are prone to freezing if when it gets really, really cold out (~15-20 degrees or less, I estimate), so I have to defrost it by holding it against the air vent in the car and then keep it pressed between my hand and thigh as I'm walking in to keep it from cooling off again.  And because my body runs cold, I'd like to have time to sit in the car holding my hands to the vents too, because my fingers were freezing even with my gloves on, and the office is an ice box that is incapable of warming them (seriously, it was 57 when I turned the space heater on, and I only stopped shivering sometime after lunch).  Not to mention that I'd really like to be relaxed rather than rushed getting in.

Brrr.  I'm sorry your work is so cold!  My work was like that a lot.  The heater was original to the 1920 building so they couldn't order parts and decided it was easier to just let me freeze with a fan pushing in lots of air from the cold, north side of the building no matter what the weather was like.

[Molandfreak]

Speaking of ID badges, I had a white fob as a key to get into my most recent workplace, and the lanyard I used to carry it broke at an unfortunate time outside the recycling dumpster. I looked everywhere for it, but it had recently snowed and I was unable to find it. Over the weekend, someone managed to find it so I got it back and gorilla glued the button holding it in place on my lanyard.

[vdeane]

When PHPMyAdmin arbitrarily decides to discard a bunch of edits you've been working on.  Of course, it never tells me it's going to do this until I go to save them, at which point it blows away all my work and forces me to start from scratch.

Honestly, with how annoying working with my webspace is, it almost makes me want to risk the security concerns and make a real edit interface for my site's photo gallery instead of doing everything manually or via Perl scripts.

[Molandfreak]

I've noticed a heck of a lot of Gen Z Minnesotans are pronouncing words like bag, bagel, or agriculture incorrectly. 

It's not a big deal, but that shift essentially means losing an odd quirk that makes us unique.

[gonealookin]

I've noticed a heck of a lot of Gen Z Minnesotans are pronouncing words like bag, bagel, or agriculture incorrectly. 

It's not a big deal, but that shift essentially means losing an odd quirk that makes us unique.

Another odd quirk those Gen Z Minnesotans could stand to lose:  get with the rest of the country, a ramp is the thing you drive your car up so you can park your car in a garage.

[kphoger]

I've noticed a heck of a lot of Gen Z Minnesotans are pronouncing words like bag, bagel, or agriculture incorrectly. 

It's not a big deal, but that shift essentially means losing an odd quirk that makes us unique.

I know they say 'bayg' instead of 'bagg'.  But what's weird about the Minnesota accent for the other two?

[kkt]

When I park on an uphill slope and the trunk lid almost but not quite stays open when I open it, and falls shut whapping my head.

[Molandfreak]

I've noticed a heck of a lot of Gen Z Minnesotans are pronouncing words like bag, bagel, or agriculture incorrectly. 

It's not a big deal, but that shift essentially means losing an odd quirk that makes us unique.

I know they say 'bayg' instead of 'bagg'.  But what's weird about the Minnesota accent for the other two?

Pretty straightforward: Baygel and aygriculture.

[kphoger]

Baygel

I don't think I've ever heard anybody say 'bagel' any other way, and I've never lived in Minnesota.

In fact, it's the only the way the joke makes any sense:
— What do you call a seagull that flies over the bay?
— A bagel.

[Rothman]

Beg, fleg, whatever.  Just the MN accent.

[thspfc]

Anyone who doesn't say "baygel" is weird and performative.

[kphoger]

Anyone who doesn't say "baygel" is weird and performative.

bay = /beɪ/

gel = /d͡ʒɛɫ/

∴ bagel = /ˈbeɪ.d͡ʒɛɫ/

[GaryV]

When I thought of a minor thing that bothers me, but when I get back online here I forgot what it was.

[thenetwork]

The smaller businesses who want to look cool and go out to Sam's Club or Cosco to get the latest "state of the art" flashing  "OPEN" sign...

They put in their storefront window...


...Then leave it on all night long when they are closed!

[Molandfreak]

Beg, fleg, whatever.  Just the MN accent.

If everyone is secretly saying eble instead of able, sure. 

[JayhawkCO]

Beg, fleg, whatever.  Just the MN accent.

If everyone is secretly saying eble instead of able, sure. 

Having been born in MN and living there until I was 10, I have no traces of an accent. I listened to some recordings of myself when I was younger and I didn't hear anything there either. The only real remnants of my Minnesotan speech are some words/phrases that we say differently than other places. My cousins, however, who still live there have thiiiiiick accents.