Posts in the category “rants”

I’ve been on hold waiting to talk to someone at Tesla support for twenty minutes now.

Which app’s score presentation do you think I prefer?

I appreciate that the CBS one shows the pitching data, which is (traditionally) the second-most important meta data about the game. But the fact that I can’t tell who won the game, which is the most important data point anyone wants to see, makes their alert more annoying than it is useful. If it wasn’t for the CBS football pick’em games, I’d delete the app entirely because of this dumb alert. The app from The Athletic is far superior.

The font size of the instructions on a box of Near East couscous is insultingly, aggressively tiny.

I’m getting really tired of companies trying to sell me $85 pairs of gym shorts.

Dear Amazon Music,
If I say, “Alexa, play Taylor Swift songs,” I don’t want to hear anything else. I don’t want to hear songs that remind you of Taylor Swift. I don’t want to hear artists that sound like Taylor Swift. I want to hear… Taylor Swift. This should not be hard.

A great part of parenting is when your child suddenly decides to stop liking something they’ve eaten literally every day for years. So now I have four dozen boxes of Froot Loops in the garage that will never be eaten.

If your HTML form does not perform its submit action when I click the RETURN key, it is broken.

Things are definitely going downhill on the bird site. I logged on this morning and was greeted with multiple hardcore xxx videos / images when viewing a fairly innocent trending topic. First time that’s happened in 15+ years.