Posts tagged “rants”

What is the appropriate way to deal with the sunk cost fallacy after being on hold with the IRS for 90+ minutes?

Don’t trust anyone who makes the middle of the word experiment rhyme with spear.

Selling Christmas wrapping paper that is impervious to standard scotch tape should be considered a war crime.

If your phone system is smart enough to let me know my hold time is likely to exceed one hour, it should be smart enough to let me leave my number to call me back. Also, you’re severely understaffed.

It’s not even Thanksgiving yet so cool your jets on that Best of 2021 article, captain.

I don’t know if I can handle another sideways flat-screen mirror-embedded exercise device commercial.

I cannot fathom why so many of Publix Greenwise organic products are paradoxically packaged in single-use non-biodegradable plastic.

The Venn diagram of people who eat organic and people who hate plastics is just a circle!

Pro Tip: There are exactly two things you can try AND do. You can try AND fail or you can try AND succeed. Otherwise you try TO do something.

It is baffling to me that I can no longer reliably use iTunes to manage the music on my iPhone. I have tens of thousands of tracks which I’ve lovingly curated and maintained for over a decade, and dozens of custom dynamic playlists, which are now essentially useless.

The only truly bad part of DirecTV Stream is the design of the remote control. It’s impossible to know which button you’re pushing by feel and the backlight only lasts 3 seconds. The old DirecTV remotes were intuitive and simple and the new ones are just awful.

What Is This?

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bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.