Rants and Raves thread

I agree on the salt. When I dine out whether it is sit down to a good meal or a quick fast food stop when on the road I may as well accept 3-5 lb. gain from the sodium. Since my heart troubles I have to watch the sodium in everything. It is hard to find a lot of things that are not loaded with it. I take lasix to help with the fluid retention but sodium knocks that right out the door.
 
Here's another hated phrase to add to my ever-growing list of hated phrases:

"a-MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAzing!!!"

As in, "they serve the most a-MAAAAAAAAAAAzing steak!"

Now you'll start noticing how over-used it is!

You're welcome. :good:

Lee
 
RANT - I HATE the new Weather Channel format!! I used to get "Local on the 8's" and it WAS LOCAL weather - 36 hour (temp, wind, heat index or wind chill etc), 7 day and 10 day (hi, lo and precip) forcast. NOW it still says "Local on the 8's" BUT it ISN'T LOCAL. It's national!! I HATE it!!
 
lilbopeep said:
RANT - I HATE the new Weather Channel format!! I used to get "Local on the 8's" and it WAS LOCAL weather - 36 hour (temp, wind, heat index or wind chill etc), 7 day and 10 day (hi, lo and precip) forcast. NOW it still says "Local on the 8's" BUT it ISN'T LOCAL. It's national!! I HATE it!!
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That is because whoever provides your cable or satellite is not sponsoring the local feed. We used to have that and it was always local for Buffalo, which was alright since that was fairly accurate for what was heading our way. Now we get the Elmira feeds because I subscribe to local channels. Took 3 years of watching NYC and paying more to watch "crime in the city" local news before we finally got locals.
 
Rant turned Rave - Rant because of some cable problems, but then the cable tech discovered that I had a low signal coming from the box at the street into the house. RAVE...The picture quality on my television is now unbelievably better. It's a whole new viewing experience, and I'm loving it. I guess the signal weakened gradually over a long period of time, and I just never noticed the decline in picture quality :bonk:.
 
we're at "the end of the line" - anything whot happens anywho between "us" and the world shows up immediately.

Comcast here has gone completely digital - there is not such thing as a "decline" when dealing with zeros and ones - it's good or it's total garbage, can not miss that difference.....

the phone company has been installing fiber optic - but it's not in our neighborhood comma yet. can not wait to dump Comcast . . . .
 
RANT CBS SUCKS!! TWC blacked CBS. I think CBS is wrong to want so much of an increase. I am thinking of buying a small TV that I can plug in and watch CBS for free.
 
Rave~My shopping experience on Amazon the other day

I don't know if this was just a fluke or not, but it made me happy. I was looking for a transformer for my home alarm system. I did a little research and ended up on Amazon. The transformer was only about $15, but the shipping charges were about $7, some even more than that. I'm tight and didn't want to pay that much for shipping, so I go to several local places the next day. Noboby had one.

The next day, I go back to Amazon and start looking for the one with the best shipping rate. I put one in my cart, hit the little button to calculate shipping, thought it was too much, and deleted it from my cart. I did the same thing with three other transformers from different vendors.

Finally I decide that I'm just going to have to bite the big weenee and pay the shipping charges. I go back to the first transformer, add it to the cart, and ***Magic***free shipping.

I know Amazon tracks what you view because they have that "recently viewed items" on the bottom of the page. I don't know if they track what you put in and out of your cart or not, but it sure seems like they do.

Anyway, free shipping and extremely quick delivery :D I'm going to have to try that little trick again and see if it really does work or if I just got lucky.
 
Cooksie, I've been resisting Amazon Prime, but heck, I find myself ordering from Amazon about once a month.

I'm thinking it's worth the $75 a year or so!

Lee
 
Cooksie said:
I know Amazon tracks what you view because they have that "recently viewed items" on the bottom of the page. I don't know if they track what you put in and out of your cart or not, but it sure seems like they do.
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I know you're right. Scarier than that, I put something in my card left it there. Then I went over to Facebook to check on my great grandson and right in my feed was a reminder from Amazon that I left the site with something in my cart.
 
Adillo303 said:
I know you're right. Scarier than that, I put something in my card left it there. Then I went over to Facebook to check on my great grandson and right in my feed was a reminder from Amazon that I left the site with something in my cart.
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Dang, I didn't know they could do that :huh:

QSis said:
Cooksie, I've been resisting Amazon Prime, but heck, I find myself ordering from Amazon about once a month.

I'm thinking it's worth the $75 a year or so!

Lee
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I'm not sure if you can still do it, but I read somewhere that you can "share" an Amazon Prime thing with family/friends. I'd go for splitting the charge by three or four. I don't order enough to justify the $75.
 
Dell :angry: - They've got their printers (or at least the one that I have) fixed so that they won't print anything unless both color and black cartridges have ink. My color ran out and it won't do diddly squat, even if I'm just trying to print black/white.

Then there's the price of the cartridges :(. I looked at the compatible cartridges, which were better priced, but I was skeptical to go that route. And this was not direct from Dell, I know better than that :mrgreen:.

I'll never buy another Dell printer...ever.
 
did you check to see if you could over-ride the "I'm outta' ink!" thing?

I switched to color lasers long time ago - but I dimly recall some ink jets could ignore the message. all the lasers I've had can be set to ignore the "and I need toner" thing - they'll go on for months . . . .
 
Thanks Chowder, but I'm pretty sure you can't do that on this one. It's a Dell p703w. I was reading around yesterday and landed on Amazon reviews. That...Surprise, you're out of Ink...message was the major complaint. It's a stupid way to design a printer, but I'm sure it kept Dell busy selling those high-dollar cartridges.

I bought mine when it first came on the market, so there weren't a lot of reviews, negative or positive. It was one of those deals where you buy a computer, and you get so much credit to spend on some of their other products. I chose the lemon printer :bonk:. It's black, but it should be yellow.

Out of 22 reviews on Amazon, it rated 19 one-star reviews :lol:.

If, however, you can tell me something to try, I'm more than willing.

Edit to Add - I didn't put those links to Dell in there. They just appeared....Spooky.
 
Cooksie said:
Dell :angry: - They've got their printers (or at least the one that I have) fixed so that they won't print anything unless both color and black cartridges have ink. My color ran out and it won't do diddly squat, even if I'm just trying to print black/white.

Then there's the price of the cartridges :(. I looked at the compatible cartridges, which were better priced, but I was skeptical to go that route. And this was not direct from Dell, I know better than that :mrgreen:.

I'll never buy another Dell printer...ever.
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ALL printers I have used at home AND work no matter what brand have the same problem!! AND I ONLY print in black cart so HOW can my color carts run out!?!?!?!?!?!????!!!!!!
 
....something to try....

look at a laser printer - color or b&w. they have come down significantly in price.

don't know how much you print - but around here the cartridges last 2+ years. when I was using ink jets it was $50-$70 in cartridges every 2-3 months.

I really have to laugh at the reviews that talk about pennies per page. what they don't seem to realize is every time you have to "clean the print head" on an ink jet you whack about 1000 pages off it's life (or some nbr of pages - just seems I'm forever cleaning the head and buying new cartridges....)

and stick to OEM toner cartridges. been down the generic / refilled route, never works out in the end.
 
That is a major pet peeve of mine also. I have a fancy spancy cannon that we got for my wife to do photos ...works great but when I wanted to print something in black and white but was out of yellow it would not print. Arrrrgggg made me so mad. Then I just wanted to scan a doc and dang if it would not let me do that. Crazy. said I had to fill the yellow ink cartridge. I was upset enough that I called in to complain and they did give me a work around. Sly suckers. They don't want us to know about it but if you complain you get the secret way to get er done. Not the right way to do business but I was glad to get the info.
 
lilbopeep said:
ALL printers I have used at home AND work no matter what brand have the same problem!! AND I ONLY print in black cart so HOW can my color carts run out!?!?!?!?!?!????!!!!!!
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because the metric for "out of ink" is "pages printed"

you could print 2000 / whatever the nbr is per cartridge - of totally blank pages - zero ink usage - and the printer will tell you it's out of ink.

do a little Googling with the model number and something like "ink bypass" - not all the makers "admit" to their secret menus of things you can control...
 
Peeps, I've got a really, really old HP that will let you print black and scan even though the color is out. Maybe it's just the newer printers that have this sucky feature of shutting down when one cartridge is out. I don't know.

Doc, I did see a get around fix for what I think was Canon....the Maintenance tab under Printer properties and then do some reset or other.

My printer properties has no maintenance tab. I guess it's supposed to be maintenance free :yum:.

Chowder, I'll look at the laser printers. I really don't want to buy a new printer right now but may later. Thanks for the advice on sticking with the OEM. I almost went that route, glad I didn't.

I googled my little heart out for "ink bypass" and "ink reset" with the model number and came up with a couple of things - Dell series 20 cartridges can't be reset (Dell forum). There's some kind of chip in there. I guess that's to keep people from refilling.

They are Sly Suckers!

Thanks for the help.
 
Thanks, Chowder! I saved those two possible fixes for later. My cartridges are out for delivery, so I should be printing away this afternoon.
 
Been a tough month.

NJ had temps in the teens and below for a week or better. Then we got rain. The roads were cold enough that most of North Jersey and the surrounding area had ice covered roads almost instantly. You probably read about this. I was out in it. I was lucky, I gently slid to a curb. No real impact, no damage "yet". Using the curb as a guide I gently rolled back. I did pop a discarded Snapple bottle (glass) I seemed to avoid damage. I got home intact.

The next day I had a very low tire. Turns out the sidewall was damaged, no fixing that. Two new front tires. Oh my truck is an 8,000# diesel dually. Love driving it tires are significant $.

A day or two later, I had my chimney cleaned. Turned out the terra cotta liner is shot. Chimney had to be relined.

Checking over the snowblower for tonight's "event" noticed that the gearcase that drives the auger stripped out. I won't be able to get parts to rebuild it for a week or so.

More hot chile for dinner, all is not lost.
 
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