Really Boring Stuff Only III: Resurrection

[rojo]

My Amazon Echo I ordered on Prime Day finally arrived yesterday. I broke Amazon's chat support Indian this evening.

Hello,
Here's a copy of the chat transcript you requested:

Initial Question: When I ask my Echo to play a band or genre, is there any way to exclude songs with explicit lyrics? My 5-year-old daughter asked the Echo to hear Katy Perry this morning and learned an unfortunate new word. How can I prevent this in the future?

06:02 PM PDT Gayathri(Amazon): Hello, my name is Gayathri. I'm here to help you today.
Thank you for being a Prime member.

06:02 PM PDT Steve: Good evening Gayathri. I hope your day is going well?

06:03 PM PDT Gayathri: No worries, I'll help you with this.

06:06 PM PDT Gayathri: Please follow the below steps :
- If you have multiple Household profiles, check that you're on your account profile. You can say, "Which profile is this?"
- Say the name of the music exactly as it's listed on Amazon.
- Make sure the music is available. If you're trying to play music from a streaming service, make sure that your subscription is current.
- Check the home page of the Alexa app to see if Alexa heard you correctly.

06:08 PM PDT Steve: There's only one profile. Alexa heard us correctly, because Katy Perry did play. The music is (obviously) available. But I need to filter songs that have explicit lyrics. I don't want my daughter to start singing about fucking.

06:09 PM PDT Steve: I'm sure you can understand. I doubt her Kindergarten teacher would approve.

06:09 PM PDT Gayathri: Please try to uninstall and reinstall the app once now.

06:10 PM PDT Steve: Erm... I'm not sure you understand the problem. What will an uninstall and reinstall of the app on my phone accomplish?

06:12 PM PDT Gayathri: Please try to uninstall and reinstall the alexa app once now.

06:13 PM PDT Steve: What do you expect this to fix?

06:15 PM PDT Steve: Did you change a setting in my account, and I need to reinstall to inherit the change?

06:16 PM PDT Gayathri: No, Steve.
Have you uninstall and reinstall the alexa app?

06:16 PM PDT Steve: I have not. I'm still waiting for you to answer my question. What will an uninstall and reinstall fix?

06:17 PM PDT Gayathri: I'm helping you with all part of troubleshooting we can try.

06:18 PM PDT Gayathri: Pleas try to do it once now.

06:18 PM PDT Steve: What are you troubleshooting?
The app communicates fine. Alexa understands me fine. Alexa connects to wifi fine.

06:18 PM PDT Gayathri: Please try to deregister and reregister the app once now.

06:20 PM PDT Steve: I'll be happy to as soon as you explain how doing so can possibly solve my problem. How will re-registering the app prevent Alexa from playing songs with explicit lyrics?

06:21 PM PDT Gayathri: Please be on hold while I check this for you.

06:21 PM PDT Steve: *nod* Take your time Gayathri.

06:22 PM PDT Gayathri: In this case, it will be easier to assist you on the phone. Please provide me your phone number so that I can connect a call to our phone specialist.

06:23 PM PDT Steve: Sure. It's <my number>.

06:24 PM PDT Gayathri: Thank you.
When your phone rings, please answer it.
You may hear ringing while we connect you to Customer Service.
Connecting your call.
Your call is now connected.

06:24 PM PDT Steve: Indeed. Thank you Gayathri. I hope you have a wonderful evening.

06:25 PM PDT Gayathri: You are welcome.
Thank you for contacting Kindle support. Have a great day!
We look forward to seeing you again soon.
If you do not have any further questions, please feel free to click the "End Chat" link to close this window.

Thank you.
Amazon.com

Phone support tech made more of an effort, but Amazon has no solution for people in my predicament. I resolved it myself by setting Pandora as my default station service, and setting my Pandora account not to allow explicit content.

Still, Gayathri provided ample amusement for the evening. I enjoy the sport of frustrating incompetent support techs.

 

[NINaudio]

Ahh, good old tech support: "did you restart?"

Yes, multiple times.

 

[Alex2507]

My Amazon Echo I ordered on Prime Day finally arrived yesterday. I broke Amazon's chat support Indian this evening.



Phone support tech made more of an effort, but Amazon has no solution for people in my predicament. I resolved it myself by setting Pandora as my default station service, and setting my Pandora account not to allow explicit content.

Still, Gayathri provided ample amusement for the evening. I enjoy the sport of frustrating incompetent support techs.

Suddenly I want to listen to more Katie Perry.

 

[killdozzer]

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS

Daaaaamn...

 

[Pogre]

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS

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Daaaaamn...

Chuck eye steak?

 

[killdozzer]

Nope. According to the "Beef Made Easy" guide (which I use when I communicate with people from USA, because some names differ), this is a rib-eye steak (circled blue). But it hasn't been trimmed at all. Which I don't mind because several bits around the rib-eye are just as lovely in a different way. I removed the bone to avoid scratching my steak pan.

I did, eventually cram it in side. No choice. But it was one of the better red meat marendas I had in a long while.

 

[TheWarrior]

http://www.thirdculturemama.com/french-vs-american-butchery/#.WY23jq2ZNE4

For those with additional questions.

 

[Pogre]

Nope. According to the "Beef Made Easy" guide (which I use when I communicate with people from USA, because some names differ), this is a rib-eye steak (circled blue). But it hasn't been trimmed at all. Which I don't mind because several bits around the rib-eye are just as lovely in a different way. I removed the bone to avoid scratching my steak pan.
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I did, eventually cram it in side. No choice. But it was one of the better red meat marendas I had in a long while.

Whoever cut it left the cap on, which makes it look a little more like chuck. The chuck and ribeye are the same piece of meat. It goes from chuck to ribeye as you get deeper into the loin and gets more tender. Up until recently I was a butcher of 30 years. I've done it all my life. What you have there is a large end ribeye steak. My favorite cut.

 

[Pogre]

This is me a few years ago helping a buddy cut up his elk.

We just threw some plastic on his kitchen table, bought some beer and had at it! I got a couple of nice steaks for helping (I did most of the work, lol) out.

This was from my crew for my birthday.

That's me cutting. I'm pretty sure those are ribeyes. If not they're ny strip steaks.

 

[rojo]

This was from my crew for my birthday.

Just be glad they didn't label the penis.

 

[TheWarrior]

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That's me cutting. I'm pretty sure those are ribeyes. If not they're ny strip steaks.

NY strip is my favorite. I don't need the fat for flavor when I can deglaze the pan!

 

[Pogre]

Just be glad they didn't label the penis.

Tube steak wrapped in underwear...

 

[GO-NAD!]

Just be glad they didn't label the penis.

Looks like someone had already eaten it...

 

[GO-NAD!]

I didn't see it but I believe it. I drive like a maniac and that thing still never needed gas. I tried to get my wife to take it and sell her MB but she wouldn't go for it.

I have no trouble believing a diesel-powered vehicle never needing gas.

 

[speakerman39]

This is me a few years ago helping a buddy cut up his elk.

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We just threw some plastic on his kitchen table, bought some beer and had at it! I got a couple of nice steaks for helping (I did most of the work, lol) out.

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This was from my crew for my birthday.

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That's me cutting. I'm pretty sure those are ribeyes. If not they're ny strip steaks.

Never tried any Elk. Is it more like beef or pork? Just grilled (3) T-bones and man were they ever tender. Never had any that tender before. Two are gone already. Not sure what happened to them......LOL???? Any ideas? BTW, those look more like strips than rib eyes to me in the bottom pic.


Cheers,

Phil

 

[Pogre]

Never tried any Elk. Is it more like beef or pork? Just grilled (3) T-bones and man were they ever tender. Never had any that tender before. Two are gone already. Not sure what happened to them......LOL???? Any ideas? BTW, those look more like strips than rib eyes to me in the bottom pic.


Cheers,

Phil

Elk and venison are pretty much the same taste wise. If you've had neither it's like really lean beef. Sometimes it can have a gamey taste to it. I used to like to hunt close to cornfields because those deer would have a little more fat. I personally don't mind the gamey flavor. It can turn some folks off. As long as it's cooked right and seasoned properly with salt and pepper it's really pretty good.

 

[speakerman39]

Elk and venison are pretty much the same taste wise. If you've had neither it's like really lean beef. Sometimes it can have a gamey taste to it. I used to like to hunt close to cornfields because those deer would have a little more fat. I personally don't mind the gamey flavor. It can turn some folks off. As long as it's cooked right and seasoned properly with salt and pepper it's really pretty good.

Oh I love deer meat. It is very popular here in KY. Mutton is also another popular meat. Of the two, I much prefer mutton. I am just amazed as to how tender the T-bones I grilled today were. However, I prefer Rib-Eye/Chuck-Eye to all cuts of meat. Especially, when it comes to Prime Rib. Thanks for the info!


Cheers,

Phil

 

[killdozzer]

Up until recently I was a butcher of 30 years.

One of my trades is Chef. Man, let's open up a place. It'll have the best sound of all restaurants. Of course, you're right about the cut. Chuck leads to Loin, but since you have to decide where to separate them, most of the Rib-eye ends up under the ribs, hence the name.

BTW, congrats on placing it, you're 100% right. I also like these large cuts. They have several muscles in them so you can have different aromas all in one steak.

 

[killdozzer]

if I may say so, you look too young to have 30 years of anything. In a good way.

 

[Pogre]

One of my trades is Chef. Man, let's open up a place. It'll have the best sound of all restaurants. Of course, you're right about the cut. Chuck leads to Loin, but since you have to decide where to separate them, most of the Rib-eye ends up under the ribs, hence the name.

BTW, congrats on placing it, you're 100% right. I also like these large cuts. They have several muscles in them so you can have different aromas all in one steak.

I used to trim the cap off of that first cut on the chuck and sell it as a chuckeye steak. It's pretty much a ribeye tho. Looks like they left the cap and the tendon on yours. That's why I thought it might be off the chuck. When you break the rib from the cuck you count the vertebrae, leaving 7 ribs on the loin. That's how I was taught.

That pic is probably ten years old, but I still look the same, so thank you! I'm 47 years old now. My dad owned a slaughterhouse and a mom an pop store with 4 smokehouses. We cured and smoked all our own hams, bacon beef sticks, smoked cheese, garlic bologna, European bacon (sliced from a cured, boneless pork butt) and more that I'm sure I forgot.

I grew up in the sticks in farm country. A slaughterhouse does pretty well in farm country. My dad put me to work cleaning guts, shoveling poop and blood, salting hides, cleaning the pens... yeah. I got on the block too and made stew meat, trimmed bones, grind all the buger... Lots of fun stuff for a 12 year old. I was a journeyman cutter before I was 18.

I'd give my guys crap every once in a while for taking to long to get things cut and I'd hear, "Not all of us were born with a knife in our hand like you were!"

*The cap I'm talking about are the pectoral muscles. We called it "pec meat". Nice and lean. Kinda part of the flat cut of a brisket,