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[V-Adore]

I can't believe that that thing is typed in actual seriousness. Marijuana SEX MADNESS. In my experience, it's more like Marijuana SEX DISINTEREST AND/OR INABILITY.

NOTE- It APPEARS this has been a CLEVER RUSE by Mr. Geoffrey! WELL PLAYED, OLD MAN!

Yeah, it appears to have just been a lame pseudo-Pat troll. Our college blogs get a lot of those, because we're bored and sad, mostly.

[Bozack]

Yeah, it appears to have just been a lame pseudo-Pat troll. Our college blogs get a lot of those, because we're bored and sad, mostly.

You know, when I was a kid, everyone promised me that, when I got to college, the best years of my life would start. And seeing things like this, I'm starting to conclude that the years after college must be a living hell.

[jough]

You know, it's hard NOT to be like Pat sometimes.

I'm beta testing a video transcoding program called "Lathe" - basically it will take a ripped DVD file or a large avi and re-encode it for portable devices.  Its code base is taken from an open source program I've been using for years called Pocket Divx Encoder.  So I bought Lathe, and the first version was missing features from the freeware PDE!

I gave them a bug list of a dozen things wrong with the first version, and they fixed all but one of them and put out a new version.

The problem is, the new version created a bunch of new bugs in features that were working properly (or at least, *more* properly) in the previous version!

So I posted a bug list on their forums:

http://www.omniquiti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116

and the developers reply very defensively.  They seem to resent that I've found bugs in their software.

I'm also, of course, amazed at the positive feedback they're getting, even from people who post things like "Well, it crashes on me four out of five times, and it messes up the video so the sound is out of sync, but I love it anyway!!!!!"

Anyway, these people are obviously very young and don't have a lot of experience with customer service.  But it's like beating your head against the wall to try to get them to even acknowledge an easily repeatable bug or problem with the software.  What the hell can you do when you tell them their software burned down your house and they tell you that they like it better that way?

[Carlos del Vaca]

am i the only one with any collegiate beer pong experience?

Hells no.  I was the beer pong MASTER.  I wish I had video of the night I knocked a dude's half-filled cup off the table with an overhand smash.  It was RIGHTEOUS.

And yeah, three beers in an hour would have been considered nursing it 'round about my junior year.

[V-Adore]

You know, it's hard NOT to be like Pat sometimes.
(extensive frustrating-sounding beta-testing story)

I think it's a question of appropriateness of Patness, really. For example, beta-testing software... well, you're supposed to be critical and incisive. Your job is to bitch. It's the only way the program is ever going to not suck, and you've been basically been asked to Pat out at it. That I don't have a problem. I have a problem with it when it's unprovoked and reasonless, and especially if its only purpose is making other people miserable.

[arkabee]

Yeah, it appears to have just been a lame pseudo-Pat troll. Our college blogs get a lot of those, because we're bored and sad, mostly.

You know, when I was a kid, everyone promised me that, when I got to college, the best years of my life would start. And seeing things like this, I'm starting to conclude that the years after college must be a living hell.

hey, uh, bozack, QUCIK LOOK OVER THERE AT THE BUNNY, HAPPY HAPPY BUNNY LOOK LOOK!!!