September 2009
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“One (sometimes one of the extremely few) of the benefits of the annoyingly rabid...”
– kung fu grippe
I think I might be done bitching about Adobe now, because I’ll never say any of this as well as Merlin just did.
But I do have one thing to add that might put some of the massive failure that is CS4 into perspective: most of the mistakes Adobe is making on OS X can be...
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Bloom County Complete Library vol. 1 (updated...
smartasshat:
dwineman:
Available from Amazon (and to show you how much I mean it, that’s not even an affiliate link.)
[…]
You can buy it here through Team Lucy Kate’s Amazon.
OK, so the real reason that wasn’t an affiliate link is that Amazon closed its affiliate program to North Carolina residents due to tax laws. But yes, by all means, buy through this link and support Team...
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Wherein my wife and I forge a cross-cultural...
Me: You're just going to have to get used to the fact that we Jews are not big people. We're tiny. Pixie-like.
Wife: Yeah, right. Maybe fat pixies.
Me: Well, you gotta eat.
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I don't know much about politics
but it strikes me that if you’re the minority party, and the opposition controls the executive branch and both houses of Congress, and they happen to want to pass a bill that will greatly improve the lives of a large percentage of your constituents, costing you even more votes in the next election, and while you have no moral basis on which to oppose said bill but your political base is for...
“She went for a moonlight swim in what turned out to be a crocodile.”
– Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
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It’s redundant to say “forward slash.” No less pointless than “backward backslash.” But only a fool Would call a virgule A right-leaning stroke oblique dash.
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suite /swēt/
n. A collection of loosely related, non-interoperable, untested software, often with matching icons and coordinated marketing, sold for an insanely high price in one box. (See also: Adobe Creative Suite)
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Will someone please tell Adobe
that when you implement a full-screen mode for multi-hundred-dollar Mac software, you have to test it:
With multiple monitors
With the Dock on the side and not just the bottom
With Wacom tablets
With Spaces
With Exposé
With Command-Tab
With Show/Hide Application
With your own bloody “Arrange windows” feature
With the rest of your multi-thousand-dollar software...
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This is completely awesome:
kaffeineme:
dwineman:
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Weeds is a great show, but it has an understanding of technology befitting a 1980s sitcom. Over five seasons we’ve seen:
A Nintendo DS that needed new batteries
A manual breast pump that required electricity (they even added foley of its nonexistent motor giving out)
A guy who could singlehandedly tap a phone call using nothing but a laptop
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I...
“There are limits to my realism.”
– Admiral Adama, Battlestar Galactica, “Sine Qua Non”
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I just almost died from cute
The baby turned 11 weeks old today, and she’s just started doing this thing where she tries to get your attention by making unhappy noises, but when you look at her she giggles. Sometimes she even turns her head and gives you a sidelong “Haha gotcha” look.
Eleven weeks old and already toying with our emotions. Should I be terrified? Because I’m a little terrified.
merlin:
“Thing I learned lunching with my 79 year old mother yesterday: Dylan Thomas once ran his hand up her skirt.”
— Madeline, who still hasn’t shared the details of what happened under my mother-in-law’s Milk Wood
Alone in the hissing laboratory of his wishes, Mr Pugh minces among bad vats and jeroboams, tiptoes through spinneys of murdering herbs, agony dancing in his...
The sad state of copy editing these days
Tracy and other administrators said the books took up too much space and that there was nowhere else on campus to stock them.
Oh, man. What an unintentionally hilarious quote. Let me fix it:
Tracy and other administrators said there was too much empty space on campus not taken up by books. They went on, “Get rid of all the books? Heavens no. Why would we do that? Then we’d be...
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Chart of Internet charges at US hotels →
mrgan:
USA Today has a table of 40 largest US hotel brands and whether they charge for Internet access. It’s still amazing to me that any hotel charges for this. People often say luxury hotels slap on the fee because hey their guests can afford it, but then why not also charge extra for the use of basic-cable TV, bathrooms, the A/C…? The Internet is a really, really fundamental service in the 21st...
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The baby just laughed in her sleep.
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The new Canon EOS 7D has a wireless flash...
Which means you can put your flash (or multiple flashes) on a tripod across the room and the camera will set it off remotely using black magic.
Also nineteen autofocus points, 1080p HD video, digital level (yes, a digital fucking level that you can see through the viewfinder), and all-new smarter everything. And it causes $1000 less divorce than the 5D Mark II.
If my wife asks, these are flowers...