teyla: Cartoon Ten typing on top of the TARDIS like Snoopy. ([h] made of fail)
teyla ([personal profile] teyla) wrote2008-11-26 10:46 pm
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The fail burns my eyes.

I'm quite a forgiving person. I love discussions, but I don't like fighting or bearing grudges. But the more I think about what people got up to today, the more I feel like setting the uni on fire and watching it burn to the fucking ground.


I've got two group presentations to get done. One's due tomorrow at 10 a.m., the other one is due next Tuesday. I've always made the experience that group presentations are tiring, but this is taking it to a whole new level.

My Thursday presentation group wanted to meet up at 1 p.m. today. I was there at 1:15. The next person to show up did so at 2:30. No one else turned up. We didn't get anything done, because the girl who did turn up hadn't typed her shit up - she'd written it all out on paper. Yeah, that helps a lot, thank you very much. I totally feel like wading through three pages of illegible scribblings so I can type up your keypoints for our presentation.

She then left to work on some audio editing with her other presentation group. A minute later I get a phone call that I should tell them how to hook the audio recorder up to the computer. I had the same problem, sitting there not knowing how to do that. I downloaded the manual from the internet. But I guess that was too much to ask from three media students.

So I go hook up the recorder, and then I sit down to do some rping - because there was fuck all else to do. Ten minutes later one of the girls asks me if she can check her email on my computer. I say sure, alright, and she goes ahead and checks her email. Then she checks facebook, and her her bank account, and then she goes Christmas shopping on fucking Amazon.

We then all go and have our studio class, which should have been going on till 9. We were done by 7, though. I needed to talk to three people about presentation things, but they were all so quick to get out of there, I didn't really get a hold of them. One of them needed to give me his stuff for the Thursday presentation, and while I was booting up my laptop to put it from his stick onto my computer, I was trying to get a hold of the other guys. I turn back around, and the guy is touching my motherfucking laptop. Seriously, does he have a death wish?

Anyway, turns out he saved his file in a .docx format, which I can't open without a converter, but he was out of there so quickly, I couldn't tell him to please send it to me again as a .txt or .rtf. So I downloaded the converter, and it turns out that his file are 100 fucking words copypasta'ed from Wikipedia.

The second guy I was trying to get to give his stuff to me hadn't done it yet and told me he'd send it to me tomorrow morning - when our presentation's at ten. I was like, fuck no you won't, so he's sending it tonight, but he hasn't yet (it's 11 p.m.).

The third guy I needed to talk to I managed to catch on my way back home. He was pissed at me because the third person in our group, stupid girl, never manages to make our meetings and decided going home for five days is more important than getting together our presentation. I got a little pissy with him, but we settled on meeting up tomorrow and doing all the work stupid girl and other girl in our group haven't done. And now I'm sitting here waiting for all those fucking idiots to send me their shit and will probably be busy with this all night when I really would have other, more interesting things to do.



And this is what the Master has to say to this:


[identity profile] kiwi-from-hell.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I do sympathize. I do everything I can to get out of group work. EVERYTHING. Doing the work of five people is seriously so much easier than trying to get five people together to do the damn work.

I have a presentation and lab report for next Wednesday that relies on group data. Half the fucking group can't even download the software to input their stuff (and apparently it's too hard to go to a computer lab, where all the necessary software is already installed). I sympathize greatly with your ranting.
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[identity profile] mikes-grrl.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That...is FAIL.

Wow. I wish there was some way you could do the presentation that would make the non-performers look like idiots. You know, have one of the stupid girls play Vanna White or something.

...why yes, I do believe in public humiliation as a suitable punishment for stupidity. Yes, I do. The Master agrees with me.

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh... I totally empathize here. I learned a long time ago never to rely on the "group" part of group projects, but sometimes it's unavoidable due to the way the project is assigned or whatever.

Anyway, give it a couple of weeks and I can guarantee nobody will touch your computer ever again. My Obsidian is $1800 + custom built HP with sexy graphics and self-upgraded ram and soon to be upgraded HDD, and later probably I'll buy a tablet with better everything. (by later I mean after I join the Air Force and make money for sitting in a classroom learning how to build networks.)

I quickly got the reputation for being a "Crazy Laptop Chick" because I literally punched a guy for checking his email while I was backing up my harddrive.

Another good way to dissuade the "really quick check my email it'll only be five seconds!" is use a non-traditional OS with a non-traditional web browser. I am currently using Ubuntu with Seamonkey, though, really, any KDE linux using Konqueror would work just as well.

And if you need those fancy media programs, (as I suspect you do) you could always dual boot! I do!

ANyway... :D

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Now, now; if stupidity were a crime punishable by death, how would the world keep moving? I sure as hell ain't gonna start flipping burgers or butchering cattle in the near future. You?

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Once you go opensource, you don't go back, and I'm a Vista lover.

Heh, you think I don't have gay porn out the ears on my baby? I have alternate user accounts on both builds though, just in case I have someone around who needs computer access that I can't say no too. For instance, my humanities instructor has taken to grading papers in the student lounge where I hang out. Saying no to her is just not smart. (I also find that it helps smooth things between roommates. Especially once you get the reputation of Crazy Laptop Chick. My roommate was really pleased she could tell people she was allowed to use MY baby whenever she needed to. And she guarded the pass to that account like a precious treasure. But this is only if you feel up to playing the horrific game of dorm politics. And fixing their computers.)

There's no one saying you have to give those alternate accounts ANY privileges beyond child-level internet access.

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I can picture his face if that happened. Hee. "What? Whatwhatwhat what? You want me to WHAT?"

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Because he can't cook, even when the Master plays the redemption card.

"You know, maybe I wouldn't be so inclined to destroy your pet planet if you just made me a burger every once in awhile. Is it really too much to ask Doctor, really?"

(okay, so my master is a bit off... :D We're lucky I have enough brain cells to post. Let's just pretend that that was heavily sarcastic or something.)

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, definitely yes. I agree with you, I'm just saying, thee might be a need to compromise. Although, really? no password? My computer is like, UBER password protected. And then some! Though I had a slightly different upbringing than you, so that may be part of it.

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, just realized the irony of using the calqu "uber" in this post and lmao. Probably I should sleep. Or eat. Maybe that'll tone down the hilarity.

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
"NO! No that does NOT count. I think that you are deliberately provoking my wrath. So I will most certainly not get angry. But you have only 10 minutes to procure my burger through other means."

(MAH! closer! Though a bit old school...)
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[personal profile] or_timelords 2008-11-27 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"And how am I supposed that when I'm chained to the stove?"

Because if I'm doing this, I might as well do it right. ;)

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, so sleep and/or food DEFINITELY a priority. Heh. Not HAPPENING (well, maybe the food thing), but a priority. I still have to analyze "One" (your fault) and write an essay about the cultural impact of Land Grant Law and water rights in Southern California and New Mexico. (which is exactly as boring as it sounds, fuh reals)

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
I don't save passwords for anything.

It causes problems for something, but I do keep the confirmation emails in my gmail, so I can usually find it somewhere. :D

[identity profile] callmeliterator.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
*flips sonic screwdriver in the general direction of the burning stove.*

"Ten minutes! Tick tock, Doctor!"

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