Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind

[Pblakeney]

Usually, but not always. The music notation software Sibelius and the school admin system iSams were both stupidly unintuitive, so unless you used them both extensively and frequently, you couldn't find anything by guessing.

I’ll have to take your word for that. 😉

 

[briantrumpet]

I’ll have to take your word for that. 😉

Yeah, both a bit niche, which is maybe partly why they got away with it.

 

[All uphill]

Usually, but not always. The music notation software Sibelius and the school admin system iSams were both stupidly unintuitive, so unless you used them both extensively and frequently, you couldn't find anything by guessing.

Intuitive costs big money, I'm told. Not something smaller applications can afford.

 

[briantrumpet]

Intuitive costs big money, I'm told. Not something smaller applications can afford.

I'm quite happy with DOS-level sophistication if the drop-down menus are vaguely logical.

 

[icowden]

Usually, but not always. The music notation software Sibelius and the school admin system iSams were both stupidly unintuitive, so unless you used them both extensively and frequently, you couldn't find anything by guessing.

Sibelius is just frustrating. For a system supposedly designed by musicians, it's often wildly annoying.

 

[briantrumpet]

Sibelius is just frustrating. For a system supposedly designed by musicians, it's often wildly annoying.

I've ended up with Musescore, after about 20 years with Finale.

 

[Pross]

I've ended up with Musescore, after about 20 years with Finale.

I use Sibeleus occasionally to copy out music then play the notes to help me learn parts. I find it very useful and fairly simple to use but so slow to keep changing the type of note. I think there are keyboard shortcuts I need to learn but I feel it’s probably something that would work better on an iPad with a stylus so you can just drag and drop the correct note annotation to the right place on the staves.

 

[First Aspect]

Last night I ordered some cheap wheels for my winter bike. I got a message this morning from the vendor (eBay) saying he "just noticed they are both front wheels - do I still want them?"

I can't decide if this is a lucky escape, or if I'm just irritated.

 

[Pblakeney]

Last night I ordered some cheap wheels for my winter bike. I got a message this morning from the vendor (eBay) saying he "just noticed they are both front wheels - do I still want them?"

I can't decide if this is a lucky escape, or if I'm just irritated.

"Just noticed"? Lucky escape.

 

[Pross]

Back wheels are over-rated, they weigh more too. Just go with two fronts.

 

[First Aspect]

"Just noticed"? Lucky escape.

Yeah. Irritated and relieved.

 

[Pross]

Someone reversed into the wife’s car in a hotel car park a few weeks ago. They somehow managed to reverse over the kerbed island between aisles. Luckily they reported it and after a bit of an insurance issue (the guy was in a hire car as he was visiting from overseas for work, hire company wouldn’t insure him as he was an inexperienced driver as well as foreign so it was supposed to go on the company fleet insurance but was overlooked) it went off for repair.

The damage was worse than you would expect for such a low speed bump but contained, as far as we could tell, to a dented bonnet and the grill / surrounding area being broken. Therefore, it came as a shock when she got an email to say it’s being written off at a value of £6600 (which is fair price). We could have had the car back as a Cat N with £2k taken off the payout for the scrap value so they are effectively saying it has £4.5k of damage. We did consider that option but couldn’t get a full report of the damage to quote against so it was too risky. It’s no wonder car insurance is so high if a few dented panels cost £4.5k to repair and it’s supposedly cheaper to just replace the whole car. The industry is severely farked.

 

[briantrumpet]

Omeprazole sometimes coming in unnecessarily large capsules and then only in unnecessarily large sheets of just seven capsules, when one is on two of them per day. It means I'm throwing away about three times as much unrecyclable stuff, plus my bags of candy are stupidly inflated every four weeks.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Tablet blister packs can be recycled. My local Boots takes them.

https://www.boots-uk.com/newsroom/news-item/boots-rolls-out-national-blister-pack-recycling-scheme/

 

[briantrumpet]

Tablet blister packs can be recycled. My local Boots takes them.

https://www.boots-uk.com/newsroom/news-item/boots-rolls-out-national-blister-pack-recycling-scheme/

I wish local pharmacies could offer the same (mine doesn't - I asked). I'd be interested in the actual costs/advantages (if any) of recycling a messy mixture of plastic and metal, or whether it's more of a marketing gimmick (given that it's Boots-specific).

I think it would be better if they minimised materials in the first place.