February 2011
330 posts
I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling - Charlie Brooker →
guardian.co.uk
Here’s a familiar, mundane scenario: you’ve got an iPhone with loads of music on it. And you’ve got a laptop with a new album on it. You want to put the new album on your phone. But you can’t hook them up and simply drag-and-drop the files like you could with, ooh, almost any other device. Instead, Apple insists you go through iTunes.
Microsoft gets a lot of stick for producing clunky software. But even during the dark days of the animated paperclip, or the infuriating “.docx” Word extension, they never shat out anything as abominable as iTunes – a hideous binary turd that transforms the sparkling world of music and entertainment into a stark, unintuitive spreadsheet.
Plug your old Apple iPhone into your new Apple Macbook for the first time, and because the two machines haven’t been formally introduced, iTunes will babble about “syncing” one with the other. It claims it simply MUST delete everything from the old phone before putting any new stuff on it. Why? It won’t tell you. It’ll just cheerfully ask if you want to proceed, like an upbeat robot butler that can’t understand why you’re crying.
This is a sensational column, that I highly recommend reading.
Reblog if you're a fucking weirdo.
“I don’t mind most religious people. I talk to them. You know, I listen to them banging on… “I prayed very hard and then the fairy came.” Did he? Good. Have a biscuit. I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. “You have to let the fairy into your heart.” Look, I wouldn’t let him into my garden. I’d shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn’t. Now have another bicky and be quiet, please.”
—Dylan Moran on religion. (What It Is)
“Ridcully practiced the First Available Surface method of filing.”
— Going Postal, Terry Pratchett… I use a similar method myself… probably shouldn’t.
If you think there's something wrong with making sure the language you use doesn't contribute to the oppression of anybody, you are almost certainly a douchebag.
…I don’t consider myself a douchebag for thinking “Baa Baa Black Sheep” shouldn’t have been altered for “political correctness”.
I agree- “Baa Baa Black Sheep” is sang as such because black wool was fairly rare and therefore a valuable item for trade in rural areas… changing it to “Baa Baa Fluffy Sheep” or “Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep” not only makes little sense in and of themselves but also in the wider context.
Even if you were to take “baa baa black sheep” as a racial reference, it is still intentionally celebrating the unique, rare and special quality of the black wool. Surely then it is a celebration of those qualities as opposed to making any kind of negative remark?
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“Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree!”
—―Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad (via heroineofmasyaf)
Smallville
I’m not much of a fan of the show, but after watching the latest episode and being amused when “a billionaire with tons of gadgets” and “a wondrous woman who will throw (Clark) for a loop” was mentioned… I decided to look up the episode list/titles for the rest of the season.
It would seem that within the next SIX episodes, Clark should have donned the cape and tights… and one of those six episodes is called “Booster”… I can only assume that one of my favourite DC heroes may be making an appearance soon.
If means was no obstacle, what Doctor Who character or object would you cos- (or cross-) play for the 2012 Gallifrey One convention? I wanna be a Weevil.
Hm, possibly #8 since I quite like his costume and I did at one point have hair like his (and still would if I cut it a little shorter).
A boring person with an interesting life… go on, ask you know you want to :P
