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Height Filt

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Height filters are taking off on dating apps. Are they getting in the way of finding true love?

My thoughts are is that we should let the women obsessed with height have these filters. I mean, this no longer affects me directly unless my partner gets run over by a Cybertruck or decides she’s tired of a grumpy old paratrooper.

As we all know, though, many women are in fact extremely fixated to an unhealthy degree on height1, even to the point of shaming their “friends” who date someone they deem “not tall enough.” (Far more than men are allegedly obsessed with boobs.) And these are invariably intolerably terrible women.

So, men, my advice is so let these women sort themselves out of your lives. Sure, that might mean being single for longer. But why would you want to be with someone not really into you anyway?

These women are truly only hurting themselves. My advice is to let them. It is amusing to watch them carp about not being able to find anyone and then die alone.

  1. This article attempts to “both-sides” it but most men don’t give a crap about height, while many more women do.

Not a Pod Person

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I wish I could appreciate and deal with things like audiobooks and podcasts but I just cannot.

My brain zones all the way out. So, so soporific. So sub-snail slow. I tried to listen to a podcast once and almost expired from utter boredom. The good new is that it (as they all are) was so plodding I could have 10 different thoughts between each word.

The rest is all bad news. Those things are just not for me.

All About Them

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What’s the worst trait you’ve noticed among Redditors?

Having very little life experience and declaring rather mundane and extremely common events and occurrences to be “impossible” or things that “would never happen.”

It’s weird how completely sincere they are about their belief in the impossibility of the quotidian. Part of it is just that many on Reddit are quite young, but part of is that anti-social basement dwellers post the most. And they’ve done and seen the least.

Host Parasite

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For a while I worked at a hosting company. Sometimes as a side business, though, we did field installs for customers. Since I was one of the few people there who knew enough in disparate areas (solution design, security, hardware, networking, software, racking, cabling, etc.) I usually got picked to go to customer sites to set things up.

One of our major customers was a nightmare on the phone so I knew it’d be even worse in person. And sure enough when I arrived they were hovering over me, asking how long it was going to take and saying they were losing money while things were down (they had chosen the time for the migration). But after an hour or so I got everything racked, networked, set up, running and ready to get back into full operation1.

When it was all done the hoverer said, “I notice there’s only one server. I thought this would be a cluster. It’s not redundant this way.”

This customer had specifically said they did not want a cluster on multiple phone calls where I stressed this solution would not be redundant and that if enough items in the single server failed2 the virtualized machines hosted thereon would indeed crash harder than a 737 MAX.

So I said, “On our phones calls I noted the chosen solution would not be redundant and if you wanted something with more resiliency it would require two servers. You said this was too expensive and not to do it.”

“Oh. I thought your company would just provide it anyway. That’s poor customer service that they don’t,” the customer said angrily while sighing loudly. This “provide it anyway” would mean giving the customer about $10,000 worth of free equipment. Not even close to happening.

I didn’t really know what to say to that so I took the wiser path by saying nothing and got out of there as quickly as I could. When I made it back to HQ, I let my manager know about the exchange and closed the ticket out.

The customer wasn’t done with their carping, though they let the redundancy “issue” go. The next day they called claiming their new server was only running at 10Mbs. I knew that was impossible because the networking equipment we installed wouldn’t even negotiate a 10mbs connection (100Mbs and above only), so I remoted in to take a look. Somehow, they’d misread 10Gbs as 10Mbs. When I pointed this out they got very defensive and claimed it had said 10Mbs before.

Right.

Customers be crazy, man.

  1. What I did would’ve taken most people a full day, but I’d done some clever stuff in advance to reduce the setup time.
  2. It had dual power supplies, RAID 6, etc.

Felis

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By the way, I scored 800/800 on the reading portion my SAT. Long ago.

And on the math portion I scored, “Are house cats supposed to sit for this test?” I think I knew how to do maybe one question on the math part and I’m pretty sure I got that one wrong too.