Sturgeon's Law

• Adobe Acrobat. I need Acrobat to do two things: work with Word and work with Firefox. My old version worked fine with Word but was barely functional with Firefox. So I "upgraded." My new version is great with Firefox but not integrating with Word.
  
• My new glasses. My optometrist/optician stopped carrying the frames I've been getting the past three years because I looooove them. Instead I got a pair that is pressing on my ear and sitting too low on my nose and generally driving me batshit insane.
  
• Wikipedia. Mob rule? Check. Little administrator fiefdoms? Check. Entries that sound like they were written by PR hacks? Check. Error-ridden "facts"? Check. Deletion of clearly documented actual facts? Check. Communism, prohibition, Wikipedia.
• Whichever construction company ripped up the street in front of my apartment to do utility work, left the street ripped up for three months to utterly ruin my shocks, then finally came back and fixed everything in less than two days.
• The US Postal Service. No, it's not okay when I get home at 5 PM and you're still not done delivering my mail. May every litmag switch to e-mail submissions.
  

Labels: not poetry, whining

# posted by Steven D. Schroeder @ 5:33 PM