Oh Desire2Learn, you are a truly a joke.

Probably have been solved if you guys had say… redundant data centers with fail overs hosting the LMS?

Guess not.

I miss UWACE, why? because the people who designed UWACE had a bit of brain matter in their skull.

This is UWACE:

• Doing a quiz online
• 20 minute limit
• If you use all the 20 minutes, the quiz is automatically handed in for you.

This is Desire2Learn:

• Doing a quiz online
• 1 hour limit
• If you use all the time limit, D2L saves the quiz as in progress, then it disable the submission since the submission time has passed. It also does not let neither the student nor the TA to see the quiz.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Since when is getting 0 marks better than getting some marks? Fuck you D2L.

Thank god that it was only a 0.66% discussion, and the TA agreed to remark it for me.

Today I received this email today from HvZ:

It has been brought to our attention — repeatedly — that human players are not wearing their armbands during game hours and in play areas because they suffer under the delusion that “Oh because I’m not wearing my armband I’m safe from zombies.”

The mods have some words for you, but they’re a bit rude, so here’s the slightly more courteous version: HvZ is a game that we hope will be enjoyed by all players, including those on the zombie team. What you are doing is deliberate cheating and breaking the don’t be a D-bag rule.

The game is balanced around people playing during the day and during the missions. We understand some people aren’t on campus during the day. Missions don’t need 100% attendance and it is expected that some fraction of people won’t come. If your idea of fun is to only play the missions and spend your day in peace, not wearing your armbands, suit yourself. Just remember that the people around you will know whether or not you were there. So if you want to win, they better know who you are.

It’s about having fun. You know who you are. If you are trying to win this way, I hope your self-esteem is boosted by your hollow victory and you can brag to all your friends about that time you went with a bunch of nerds and shot foam darts and pretended to survive a zombie apocalypse without actually encountering zombies.

– Captain Jack Harkness

Also, the corollary to that is: in the event of a real HvZ. One simply does not go to the MC/DC to do homework. Also, one simply does not win HvZ in real life, since there will be more zombies. As well as using nerf guns, are you kidding me? Derpy human with non-semi automatic arms…

If the HvZ game was real, the fat mod will be killed in the first day.

Put your hands up if you have a tablet!

I see lots of people putting their hands up, iPads, Xooms, etc.

Logs on to D2L with my Xoom, can not download PDFs. Have to get notes from Laptop.

Useless software is useless.

Please do us Android tablet users a favor, detect the useragent, and switch to mobile.

Seriously, what the hell is a Lagrangian?

What the hell is a Lagrangian? What kind of voodoo math is this?

YOU ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT? Yes, this user may not have said which post, but at least UWACE appended the course name to the email.

More reasons why D2L sucks hairy monkey nuts.

Desire2Learn is one of the most idiotic companies I have yet to see. Disable right click? For your stupidity, I have not included one, but TWO memes for you.

Seriously? no right click, D2L, you must be fucking stupid. Yes, I know there is that stupid and god awful spell check icon, but no right click context menu to fix spelling mistakes? Really?

Does right click and what do I get?…

What the fuck? Since when does a right click which brings up the context menu to fix a spelling mistake mean I want to print something? I guess they do not know the difference between spelling error and printing since they are almost the same function, right?

Hmm if I really want to make a copy of the test or quiz I can just: disable JavaScript when the page loads, use the screenshot button on my keyboard (command-shift-4 for OSX), or physically take a picture of the screen using my digital camera. There is the difference of what they call “security” and my annoyance. Unfortunately, D2L delivered the latter along with the Darwin award. Congratulations.

Also for all you Firefox users out there:

Firefox -> Perferances -> content -> Advanced (by the enable JS checkbox) uncheck “Disable or replace context menus”

To enable right clicking.

When I switched to D2L I thought it was going to be the new cool upgrade to the idiotic…but still functioning AngelLMS aka UWACE, but upon closer examination, it is just as bad as UWACE. To me it feels as though I own a home that requires the simplest of locks, but I am being forced against my own will to use a complicated master lock. I ask you what is the point of a master lock when a simple functioning single key lock works just the same? Sure the master lock is newer and “improved”, but the single key lock does the trick with half the effort. In simple terms, D2L is similar to the master lock, minus the ” new and improved” factors and with more flaws then myspace. If Bill Gates donated 5 cents for every fucking iframe D2L generates, he would be poor.

Shitty software is shitty, and will always be shitty. That is all.

27 pages… 42 questions

42 QUESTIONS

FOURTY TWO QUESTIONS

At least I passed… So… That’s 1 course in the bag.

The Alloy and KWIC stuff screwed me over in the final -20 marks instantaneously…

Oh well 80% :)

Stupid things my roommate did:

1. The door have a handle for a reason, next time you close the door please be kindly to turn the handle down, close, and release handle gently, I swear to god, I will find you when you get married, I will break into your house, and slam random doors while you are having sex with your wife.
2. If you are going to steal shampoo from a CSer…. Well big mistake there, we don’t take showers so when the shampoo bottle gets light we know what happened. Hell next time, study their pattern. They are smart. Steal their shit right after when they use it, so that next time they won’t notice the difference.
3. Okay you numb fuck! Last time I closed the bottle’s cap, and today when I took a piss, hey! guess what? it is open, if you are going to use my shit, at least leave it the way you found it! Fine, I just won’t buy anymore shampoo and you can get the next round, I guess I will just have to shower more :)

So in the past few weeks the co-op people seems to be sending me a lot of emails about potential job matches for me for some bloody reason. Continue Reading »