David Thorne's humor site collecting comedic email exchanges and essays, often with absurd clients, coworkers and strangers.
Commenters love it, calling the emails very funny, with the spider story and the Missy exchange singled out as favorites.
See http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html for an amusing and related story told in emails.
The software equivalent I find goes like this:
Business person rings up to ask us to develop a software package to run his business. The spec is always somewhat vague and very idiosyncratic. The businessman then explains that once we have developed this software for him then we will be able to sell it to lots of other businesses and that he will only ask for half the income in exchange for his amazing business knowledge. Plus, of course, we will be able to use his (free) implementation as a reference site.
We usually manage to contain our enthusiasm and decline these wonderful offers.
I've got to say that the beginning of your post reminded me of this so much: http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html
In all seriousness, coming from a Mediterranean country to the UK, the summers can be quite annoying with the light starting a little after 4am and if you don't have a good set of blinds it can get very disruptive.
Your solution (ugly as it maybe ;) ) it's actually quite good as it does not require a lot of effort or DIY that a landlord could object to.
I tried for ages to get DALLE to draw me a cartoon spider, but gave up in the end. All the other cartoon animals that I asked it to create were perfect, but it could not draw a spider with eight legs. It's like the one thing that every child knows about spiders, but DALLE just wasn't able to it, no matter what prompt I tried.
It reminded me of https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html so much that it just started to make me laugh with each new attempt.
I agree that time spent does not equal good design. But years of experience is always required before doing good design in a short time.
Always a good read :)
"...you were asking me to design a logotype which would have taken me a few hours and fifteen years experience..."
from http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html
It's sad the Troll now means asshole. Ken M [1] style trolling is one of my favorite things on the internet. Even David Thorne's [2] slightly more aggressive Trolling is fantastic.
I think we need to separate this from online bullies.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_M
[2] https://27bslash6.com/missy.html
Completely missed that on previous watches of the film. 27b-6 is a reference to George Orwell's address; Apartment 6, 27B Canonbury Square, Islington London.
It's also the website of David Thorne, who is always amusing if you're looking for some vicious sarcasm: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html