Things will mysteriously start to work again, flawlessly, once you give up trying to fix them.
Windows will always find a way to piss you off, and it will twist the knife at the same time.
Failure of one OS suddenly makes you think your alternative (working!) OS is utterly perfect in every single way - even though in real life it is not.
Having a second system is incredibly useful and comforting.
Being lazy about backing data up results in fear and panic, so it is better to just keep things backed up constantly, no matter how safe you think you are.
Good lessons all around, especially the one about praising the good OS when another fails on you.
I’m a day late in posting this. Hopefully some people won’t be offended. ;-)
But if you don’t watch Yahtzee’s reviews every Wednesday you’re not living.
Carl:
I feel like screaming about MS Office this morning. I should start a new blog/twitter just dedicated to that so people don't get sick of it.
Reesa:
laugh Did it hurt you personally, or do you just hate it in general?
Carl:
In general. But it feels like it's personal. I've been waiting for WORD to launch for about 5 minutes now. I installed Office 2007 and it's been going through a series of "configuration" I JUST WANT TO TYPE LETTERS ONTO A PAGE!
Reesa:
But Carl, Word is so much MORE than that! It transcends mere word processing. Why, it isn't even INTENDED for that anymore! Word is for LIFESTYLE CREATION. -Feel- the words, then let Microsoft interpret them for you, rendering them visible to the world in soul-stirring, dynamic bursts of PURE CREATION! There is no room in the world for simple TEXT! My god, man, would you tell Leonardo to think inside the box? Would you ask Einstien to limit himself to concepts the world already understood? LABELS KILL, CARL! Also, WTF, just use OpenOffice.
Here’s a brief list of movies that actually got a greenlight (meaning money, staff, cast, crew, equipment rental, script written and rewritten) and prove that Hollywood is the suck:
Meanwhile great and original sripts most likely pass from studio to studio (who are too afraid to take a chance on anything remotely original or new). This is why television is surpassing film in terms of creativity and storytelling.
And people wonder why I don’t go to the movies very often…
My wife and I were recently asked to be a part of the Nielsen TV Ratings. We were given $30 cash, and asked to log our viewing habits for a week.
For the longest time, I had assumed that there was some sort of magical box they put between your cable box and your TV that automagically logged what you watched. Oh no. You have to write it down the old-fashioned way.
Having never known how the ratings were compiled, I thought others may find this interesting.
There is also a magical box version. Two of my friends have one in their house, when we moved it was a giant pain because we couldn’t touch it. They had to send someone out to unhook it.
They have been a Nilsen family for over a year at least. They must do a mix of long-term and short-term homes. I think the long-term perk is they pay for the cable. But don’t hold me to that.
Near my apartment there is a place. A place called The Dairy Godmother. It is a frozen custard shop. The most amazing custard shop in all the land. Today’s special flavor was Red Velvet. They change every 2 days. It is super delicious. It always is.
I may have finally reached my limit. … RoboGeisha is the story of a robot geisha who fights ninjas, other robot geishas and robot geisha ninjas. The trailer consists of a long list of various robot geisha attributes, read aloud by a man with a ball-gag in his mouth. We learn that RoboGeisha has swords in her arms and that she can shoot rockets. She can also transform into a car, which is especially helpful when fighting assassins with mini-guns instead of breasts.
A co-worker showed me this trailer today. I suggested it be part of our new hire orientation.
