August 2008
10 posts
“It’s not enough that they are a brilliant painter, they also have to wear...”
– Get More Creativity By Making Fewer Choices: Creative Creativity: A Daily Guide To Creativity And New Ideas
Weeks ago: trying to actually print the documents...
Jay Hathaway: Argh!
Rachel G. Effingboring: dude, what's up?
Jay Hathaway: Need to send in this form for my loans, and I can't get to it. Because the website is retarded. and I locked myself out with wrong passwords. and their phone number is busy.
Rachel G. Effingboring: um... wow. hopefully the website will heal itself soon
Jay Hathaway: I'm just going to sit here calling this number until they answer.
Rachel G. Effingboring: yeah, sometimes that's all you can do. they're probably choked with calls about it
Jay Hathaway: Do these people only have one phone line? Holy shit.
Rachel G. Effingboring: what company is it?
Jay Hathaway: It's HESAA. Oh balls. I got in, but "no application exists with that reference number."
Rachel G. Effingboring: dag. maybe something's wrong with the site
Jay Hathaway: Ok, now I got something.
Rachel G. Effingboring: good. something positive?
Jay Hathaway: Ugh, not really! An FDF file. Weinersauce. I need Acrobat for that shit. I forgot how broken this site is on a Mac.
Rachel G. Effingboring: weak.
Jay Hathaway: Booting up Windows via Parallels NOW.
Rachel G. Effingboring: indeed.
Jay Hathaway: I can't understand how people use this!
Rachel G. Effingboring: what's wrong?
Jay Hathaway: Ok, so the PDF is populated with data from their site, and I need that to print. But I don't have a printer, so I need to save it. But I can't open it in Acrobat Reader, which is the only thing that can open it. and I can't print it to PDF like you can on a Mac. So what I have is a form that I can't print, or a blank form that I can.
Rachel G. Effingboring: why can't you open it in reader?
Jay Hathaway: It's online, so it keeps opening in IE. When I open it in reader, it's blank. It's a special kind of PDF, with an FDF file that fills in the form
Rachel G. Effingboring: ah, so you need the whole acrobat suite, not just reader
Jay Hathaway: Is there a way to just print out a window to PDF in WIndows?
Rachel G. Effingboring: no, i think you need to have software. http://www.primopdf.com/
Jay Hathaway: Now I have to install .NET. Oh my god, this must be what it's like to not know how to use a computer. It's terrifying.
Rachel G. Effingboring: windows keeps you on your toes like that, yeah. *hugging work mac* i hug this thing every day.
Jay Hathaway: Once this PDF thing is installed, how do I use it? I can't install a printer on the virtual machine, I think. and it wants to act like a printer. :(
Rachel G. Effingboring: i'm sorry. i'm confused why it wouldn't open on your mac?
Jay Hathaway: Because it's not designed to. This site/file format hates Macs. I can't even get to it on the Mac. The site looks completely different in IE.
Rachel G. Effingboring: will IE install on a mac?
Jay Hathaway: They cancelled it
Rachel G. Effingboring: do you run firefox or safari?
Jay Hathaway: I tried both.
Rachel G. Effingboring: aren't there free web services that will do it?
Jay Hathaway: The file doesn't contain all the information, so I can't really put it into anything. It's just an IE window, as far everything else is concerned.
Rachel G. Effingboring: ah, okay, i see now. what about a screenshot?
Jay Hathaway: FUUUUUUUUCK. It just made my Windows Adobe Reader the default PDF viewer on my Mac. Now every time I open a PDF, it tries to open Parallels. FUCKKKKKKdhsdfhjdshjsbjsbf
On Hold with HESAA
I spent 1 hour, 22 minutes and 25 seconds on the phone with HESAA, the state loan institution for New Jersey, trying to figure out in what way my paperwork is incomplete.
Make what you will of the following information:
I have this email saved:
From: NJCLASS@hesaa.org Subject: NJCLASS Loan Application Reference # : [REDACTED] - documents received Date: August 19,...
“The Japanese have put the progression of the drinking life more succinctly than...”
– LIQUOR AND LIT
“I ask them if any of their friends hate art. No, they answer, but some fail to...”
– Click opera - I came so far for beauty
“Increasingly, American children are in a lose-lose situation. They’re...”
– Remember ‘go outside and play?’ - Los Angeles Times
The ReBirth Museum →
How did I not know that Rebirth was freeware? Since 2005?! Really?! I wonder if I’ll finally make that demo now.
“I think one of the points of In Summer is that for teenage boys, being “cool”...”
– An Interview with Jeremy Jackson, AKA Alex Bradley