Minor things that please you

[JayhawkCO]

I've had auto lights in every car I've owned since college

I don't like my lights turning on and off while I drive based on the cloud cover at that particular 30-second interval or whatever—so, in the one car I've had with automatic lights, I always just either turned them to 'off' or 'on' anyway.

Eh, it never bothered me. It obviously doesn't really change my level of visibility if it's cloudy, so it's only perhaps slightly annoying to people around me, but they'll be gone in a few minutes anyway.

[Max Rockatansky]

I've had auto lights in every car I've owned since college

I don't like my lights turning on and off while I drive based on the cloud cover at that particular 30-second interval or whatever—so, in the one car I've had with automatic lights, I always just either turned them to 'off' or 'on' anyway.

By me the auto lights are a big issue in the winter time.  They often will not activate low beams in Tule Fog.  It isn't uncommon to encounter people with newer cars in dense fog during the morning daylight hours with their low beams off because they auto lights activated.  CHP even had a social media campaign last year about not using auto lights in foggy conditions.

[1995hoo]

I don't like my lights turning on and off while I drive based on the cloud cover at that particular 30-second interval or whatever—so, in the one car I've had with automatic lights, I always just either turned them to 'off' or 'on' anyway.

My wife's Acura TLX has a light sensor on the dashboard that automatically adjusts the dashboard lights based on outside lighting. I find it overly aggressive at dimming the dashboard sometimes, and on several occasions it has dimmed the lights when I've been stuck in crawling traffic passing underneath the Beltway (this Street View is a rare instance of light traffic there}. Unlike my car, hers doesn't have a button on the dashboard that acts as a toggle to maximize the brightness and then turn it back to the dimmer setting again, which is a feature I find very useful because mine will dim the dashboard lights by default if I turn on the headlights, so when I use the headlights during the day I need to override that. In hers, you have to press the rocker switch repeatedly to adjust the brightness, which is annoying if all you want to do is override the default.

[kphoger]

So I guess this is another minor thing that pleases me, then:

My headlights are controlled exclusively by a switch.  No sensor deciding for me when they should be on.  Also, the dashboard lights are controlled by a dimmer switch.  No sensor deciding that for me either.

Oh yeah, and while I'm at it:

The temperature is controlled by a blue-to-red dial.  None of this silly business of picking a precise temperature and letting the car make that decision for me as well.

I decide when the lights come on.  I decide whether the air is warm or cool coming out of the vents.  (I decide when it's time to go into the next gear.)  I decide if it's OK to cross the edge line.  I decide if I'm too close to the car in front of me.  Just let me drive the dang car!

[Max Rockatansky]

I accomplished quite a bit today:

-  I started the morning with starting my grading project in the back yard.  I had to level 30x10 foot segment of my back yard with a shovel.  Once the grade was level and the weeds gone, I put down three sheets of weed block.  It was only 8:30 AM by the time I poured five bags of pea gravel, so I went to the store and bought an additional twenty bags.  I was done with laying bags of rock by 11 AM and finished the grading project a weekend before I planned.  The amount of work I put in was about the equivalent to seven miles running according to my fitness watch. 
-  I finished and scheduled two highway articles on our website by midafternoon.  I stopped to go grocery shopping with my wife.  Usually going to the store kills my motivation to do things on our site but for some reason I was still motivated after we got home.  I finished two additional articles this evening which leaves me with only nine open drafts left to finish.
-  During all the above I managed to get the laundry done.

The "minor things" that pleases me is actually managing to stay busy all day and the tasks I planned went better than anticipated.     

[vdeane]

Disney+ is actually smart enough to stick to the subbed/dubbed version of Sailor Moon Crystal (whichever you start watching) instead of ping-ponging between the two while playing each episode twice like I assumed it would based on the episode list.

[Scott5114]

Disney+ is actually smart enough to stick to the subbed/dubbed version of Sailor Moon Crystal (whichever you start watching) instead of ping-ponging between the two while playing each episode twice like I assumed it would based on the episode list.

I would assume that there's only one version of the video files on the backend and it's just loading the preferred audio and subtitle settings based on which you chose; the episode list is likely just a hack in the UI to make it easier to fire up an episode with the desired settings without having to go through some kind of settings menu.

[vdeane]

I would assume that there's only one version of the video files on the backend and it's just loading the preferred audio and subtitle settings based on which you chose; the episode list is likely just a hack in the UI to make it easier to fire up an episode with the desired settings without having to go through some kind of settings menu.

Yeah, that's why I was surprised when I saw the episode list; I would have assumed that the audio would just be a setting like with DVDs/Blurays.  On the other hand, Sailor Moon Crystal (unlike my Blurays of the 90s anime) has English language opening/closing credits, so who knows.

[PColumbus73]

I made a cheesecake yesterday, plain cheesecake with crushed Oreo thins.

[kphoger]

When I see a driver who realizes he's in the wrong lane to make his exit, and he puts his signal on to get over, but there's no spot to do so, and he figures that out—and, instead of slowing down to half the speed limit or some crazy thing like that, he simply turns his signal off and goes the wrong way, presumably to turn around at the next opportunity, as he should.  Just saw that on my way home from work.

[kphoger]

When there's a wreck or something up ahead on the highway, and the message signs say "LEFT LANE CLOSED", but I stay in the left lane anyway.  Most everyone else has moved into the other lane(s), so traffic there is all backed up, while I cruise on by (or at least go 15 mph instead of 5 mph) in the left lane, passing car after car.  They're probably all griping at me under their breath.  By the time I get up to the site of the incident, the lane isn't actually blocked at all anymore.  It's wide open by now.  They all got over for no reason, but not me.

Just happened to me today.

Never trust the sign.  Don't move over until you can SEE that the lane is ACTUALLY closed.

[Rothman]

When there's a wreck or something up ahead on the highway, and the message signs say "LEFT LANE CLOSED", but I stay in the left lane anyway.  Most everyone else has moved into the other lane(s), so traffic there is all backed up, while I cruise on by (or at least go 15 mph instead of 5 mph) in the left lane, passing car after car.  They're probably all griping at me under their breath.  By the time I get up to the site of the incident, the lane isn't actually blocked at all anymore.  It's wide open by now.  They all got over for no reason, but not me.

Just happened to me today.

Never trust the sign.  Don't move over until you can SEE that the lane is ACTUALLY closed.

Some Georgia putz on I-81 in PA was straddling lanes in a work zone to prevent the entirety of the capacity of the roadway from being filled.  When I passed him, he was visibly upset.

I suppose if he's mentally unstable, I shouldn't call him a putz, but then again, do we want visibly mentally unstable people behind the wheel?

[kphoger]

I use Bic Cristal pens at work.  This one I'm using now has looked like it's out of ink for—like, months and months now?  Yet it keeps on writing just fine.  I have more in the drawer, ready for whenever this one finally runs out.  But now I'm wondering if it never will.

[CoreySamson]

I use Bic Cristal pens at work.  This one I'm using now has looked like it's out of ink for—like, months and months now?  Yet it keeps on writing just fine.  I have more in the drawer, ready for whenever this one finally runs out.  But now I'm wondering if it never will.

I noticed this when I was at Staples the other day, but why is every single one of Bic's products just a word misspelled? To look cool? Patent? To differentiate themselves?

[kphoger]

I noticed this when I was at Staples the other day, but why is every single one of Bic's products just a word misspelled? To look cool? Patent? To differentiate themselves?

Geez, now that's going to annoy me.

Maybe I need to switch to using BiC razor blades, just so I'll have a BiC product that isn't misspelled.

[Molandfreak]

"Stic" makes sense since it's a cute word play to match "bic," but there's no reason to use "wite out."

[kphoger]

"Stic" makes sense since it's a cute word play to match "bic," but there's no reason to use "wite out."

BiC didn't come out with Wite-Out in the first place anyway.  The trademark for Wite-Out was registered in 1974, and BiC didn't acquire Wite-Out Products Inc. till 18 years later.

[The_Ginger]

I use Bic Cristal pens at work.  This one I'm using now has looked like it's out of ink for—like, months and months now?  Yet it keeps on writing just fine.  I have more in the drawer, ready for whenever this one finally runs out.  But now I'm wondering if it never will.

Bic Cristal, eh. I've never used them, and prefer the Pentel Energel, but to each their own.

[Molandfreak]

I use Bic Cristal pens at work.  This one I'm using now has looked like it's out of ink for—like, months and months now?  Yet it keeps on writing just fine.  I have more in the drawer, ready for whenever this one finally runs out.  But now I'm wondering if it never will.

Bic Cristal, eh. I've never used them, and prefer the Pentel Energel, but to each their own.

How can you say you prefer something else to something you've never tried using?

[The_Ginger]

I use Bic Cristal pens at work.  This one I'm using now has looked like it's out of ink for—like, months and months now?  Yet it keeps on writing just fine.  I have more in the drawer, ready for whenever this one finally runs out.  But now I'm wondering if it never will.

Bic Cristal, eh. I've never used them, and prefer the Pentel Energel, but to each their own.

How can you say you prefer something else to something you've never tried using?

Apologies. I simply meant that my preferred pen currently is the Energel.

[Molandfreak]

I use Bic Cristal pens at work.  This one I'm using now has looked like it's out of ink for—like, months and months now?  Yet it keeps on writing just fine.  I have more in the drawer, ready for whenever this one finally runs out.  But now I'm wondering if it never will.

Bic Cristal, eh. I've never used them, and prefer the Pentel Energel, but to each their own.

How can you say you prefer something else to something you've never tried using?

Apologies. I simply meant that my preferred pen currently is the Energel.

The energel is a great pen. I have no skin in this game and honestly think arguing about pens is more trivial than anything road-related unless you're regularly writing long documents by hand for some reason.

[The_Ginger]

I use Bic Cristal pens at work.  This one I'm using now has looked like it's out of ink for—like, months and months now?  Yet it keeps on writing just fine.  I have more in the drawer, ready for whenever this one finally runs out.  But now I'm wondering if it never will.

Bic Cristal, eh. I've never used them, and prefer the Pentel Energel, but to each their own.

How can you say you prefer something else to something you've never tried using?

Apologies. I simply meant that my preferred pen currently is the Energel.

The energel is a great pen. I have no skin in this game and honestly think arguing about pens is more trivial than anything road-related unless you're regularly writing long documents by hand for some reason.

The only long documents I write are for the Wiki or my website, and they both are typed 

[kphoger]

When I had a job that involved writing outdoors in zero-degree weather, pen choice became a bigger deal than it is for most people.

[Molandfreak]

When I had a job that involved writing outdoors in zero-degree weather, pen choice became a bigger deal than it is for most people.

Rite in the Rain pens and paper are a godsend for those jobs.

[Scott5114]

I noticed this when I was at Staples the other day, but why is every single one of Bic's products just a word misspelled?

They're French.