Yeah, I just won’t eat arthropods except shrimp, and then only without legs, head, and tail.
Because: arthropods.
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The big trend I want to see die is pictograms and “decluttered” intergaces where you can’t figure out what you’re supposed to click. I wish there was an app that did nothing but count useless non-interface clicks from users on whitespace heavy websites looking to accomplish something.
Windows used to have a button that literally said, “Start.” Sometimes it’s okay to just fucking tell me what things do with words. I did learn to read. I’m quite proud of it.
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Knowledge isn’t power. It can increase the efficiency of those that exercise power. If you doubt this think of how impotent you felt the last time you read an article on climate change/racism/gun control/police brutality/gerrymandering/whatever issue hits closest to home.
Don’t just get informed, organize.
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As I explain to their adherents “I don’t speak picture-ese!”
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Again, this isn’t the fact thread.
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Right, sorry, got OT there.
Anchovies are actually delicious on pizza.
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Damn straight they are.
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Probably true but having a mainstream OS where I can drop to a worthwhile command line or use other POSIX stuff without conjuring the dark lord cygwin is great. Spotlight is great (I’m glad Windows 7 added a similar functionality to the Start menu but it still (comparatively) sucks … even in 10). Plus the keybindings make sense. I never realized how convoluted it was for OS level key combinations to share the same meta space as application level key bindings.
iTunes is a total piece of shit though. I also hate iOS. Just like … all of it. Hardware’s good though.
I think you mean fall and raining. 
*Canada joke*
It might be the stuff of the gods but after that time they fooled me into buying a small $22 pizza (which also wasn’t the stuff of the gods) because their walk in menu had no prices on it, I’m not giving them any more of my money. Not until they come by and apologize with a free pizza. 
The Dune miniseries is good. Or, maybe more accurately, I enjoy it. Their sequel series also has James McAvoy. Plus really bad CG! James McAvoy though. 
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All the likes for this. I hate iTunes with a passion but it’s a necessary evil. It definitely gets worse and worse every release, especially if you have a huge and carefully curated library. They constantly break features as well. I wonder if they do any QA at all, sometimes.
I also hate that they keep adding new features but their SDK (at least on Windows) hasn’t been updated in years. Want to use automation to “heart” tracks instead of relying on star ratings? Well, tough shit to you, pal.
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I don’t mind Brandon Routh on Legends of Tomorrow.
I couldn’t stand Matt Smith Doctor Who (my slavering lust for Karen Gillan and Jenna Louise Coleman kept me watching)
I never particularly liked Mad Men.
Game of Thrones is kind of a joyless slog to me.
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That’s the only one use I need, though I also like it on cheesesteak sandwiches.
But if I’m eating a cheeseburger, it’s gonna have a slab or two of American goddamned cheese on it. Any other cheese and it ain’t a cheeseburger, it’s a fancy-pants ground-beef sammich. With cheese.
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I only wished they continued doing the series. It was cheap looking and took a lot of liberties with the books. But dammit cheesy TV Dune is still better than a lot of stuff that would be on.
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As someone who uses the modified Dvorak+[QUERTY-⌘] layout, I can’t like this enough.
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##I liked the new Ghostbusters movie.
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Oh, I would never say Apple doesn’t have it’s virtues. I enjoy the POSIXness of it all. But its reputation for being intuitive is just persuasive marketing. I’m not sure how true it may have been at one point (I started learning to use computers with MS-DOS and a command line interface basically at the same time I was learning to read. I’m not entirely sure how.) But when I sold computers for a while, I was never a fan of the, “This person ‘doesn’t know computers’ so let’s throw an Apple at them” approach. Often it meant having to learn an entirely new OS, and one which I feel in its efforts to seem intuitive kind of eschews handholding.
The main OS and certain Mac-only applications like FinalCut are fine, but iOS and iTunes are and always will be garbage. Ever since WinAmp went under I’ve been trying to find a good music manager, but they all kind of suck and I don’t have the skills, time, money, resources, or the patience to write my own app. That means I will literally pay money for an app that doesn’t suck.
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I use Foobar2000 for my audio library, and the level of interface customizability is topped out. But it has a steep learning curve and generally looks ugly if you don’t put in some elbow grease to learn it’s config file syntax.
The biggest reason why I use it is the damn fine spectrogram that comes built in.
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I certainly don’t agree that it is necessary. I have been using Macs since the late 90s and never used it. My audio is all in FLAC so I use VLC to play it, or simply copy them to my iRiver.
Slavering? Oh, dear!
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I don’t particularly ever want to buy a house and I don’t really see any good reason why I should. I’ve lived most all of my adult life in places where you can rent a lot more than you can buy, and I like not being on the hook for shit like “fixing the roof” and “replacing the stove”. Mr. Bells and I plan on getting a fancy apartment in a building with a ton of amenities, in a place where we can walk to stuff, when the kids are out.[quote=“Mangochin, post:193, topic:83415”]
I couldn’t stand Matt Smith Doctor Who
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ME TOO. And I gave up on Game of Thrones in book 3 or 4, because I just got depressed.
Ooh one more: I think Snow Crash is boring and I’ve never been able to finish it.
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