Trivial Irrelevant Aggravations

[FishProf]

The publisher provided test bank questions refer to things NOT in the updated textbook.

[ciao_yall]

I write with my right hand, but for various reasons I mouse with my left. Usually I just put the normal mouse on the left-hand side of my computer and off I go.

The ergonomics guy at my new job came in and when he noticed I mouse left, thoughtfully provided me a super spiffy left-handed mouse. Yay.

Except... the buttons are reversed. So now I'm left-clicking when I should be right-clicking and it's driving me batty. But by the mid-afternoon I have the hang of it.

Meanwhile, the mouse I use at home is not reversed. So I come home from work and there I go, wrong-clicking again.

Oy.

[Liquidambar]

Except... the buttons are reversed. So now I'm left-clicking when I should be right-clicking and it's driving me batty. But by the mid-afternoon I have the hang of it.

You can switch the mouse buttons in your operating system settings.  (Another left-handed mouser here.)

[ciao_yall]

Except... the buttons are reversed. So now I'm left-clicking when I should be right-clicking and it's driving me batty. But by the mid-afternoon I have the hang of it.

You can switch the mouse buttons in your operating system settings.  (Another left-handed mouser here.)

I know, but I never bothered and now I'm used to it. I think it will be good brain exercise to keep getting the hang of different mice. Mouses?

[fishbrains]

Why did Dell put the Numbers Lock/Unlock key on my laptop right where it's so easy to accidentally hit it? I'm tired of hitting a number and then having my cursor take an excursion to somewhere across the screen.

[Sea_Ice]

After diligently searching locally for used furniture, and then for new furniture, I have given up.  The problem being tractable (= can be solved by throwing money at it) I ordered something reasonable on-line.

[apl68]

Gone are the days when one could furnish a place with what students left behind at the end of semester dorm clear-out.  I knew a married fellow PhD student who did just that back in the day.

[bio-nonymous]

People of the world: Please stop walking around in public using your phone like a boom box--NOBODY wants to hear your music!

[sinenomine]

I just walked in my front door accompanied by a flying insect that's now careening around my house at high speed, buzzing really loudly.

[apl68]

I found ants in my flour this morning.

[Sea_Ice]

I just walked in my front door accompanied by a flying insect that's now careening around my house at high speed, buzzing really loudly.

I can't decide if you need a kitten, or not... :)

[poiuy]

I just walked in my front door accompanied by a flying insect that's now careening around my house at high speed, buzzing really loudly.

When I walked in, I was accompanied by that curse of creation - a mosquito. It's singing high and loud around my ears and has bitten me in multiple bony areas that are very difficult to scratch. I have several itchy hives. The critter is eluding my attempts to swat it. I am sitting indoors covered in mosquito repellant.

[bio-nonymous]

I'll join in with the critter aggravations: the other night in bed I felt something on my leg. I whipped back the covers and saw a 3 inch long centipede--I whipped it off the bed, then grabbed a tissue, chased down / caught  the critter, and down the toilet it went. Centipedes and scorpions (and earwigs) are my most hated/feared creepy crawlies...

[the_geneticist]

I bought super concentrated food coloring gel.  The foil seal on the top has no pull tab and is sealed super, duper well.

How am I supposed to open the darn thing without risking poking myself with a sharp object and staining myself, the sharp object, the countertop, entire kitchen, etc?

[fishbrains]

I bought super concentrated food coloring gel.  The foil seal on the top has no pull tab and is sealed super, duper well.

How am I supposed to open the darn thing without risking poking myself with a sharp object and staining myself, the sharp object, the countertop, entire kitchen, etc?

Does the top of the screw cap have a pointy thing on it? If not, maybe a straight pin?