January 2011
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Where I'm At With Computers, Part 02
see Part 01
Part 02: Thoughts On The All-In-One Design
I like the idea of an all-in-one computer. I really do. It’s neat and tidy and, in the case of the iMac, really really beautiful. The iMac is the sort of thing I would buy just to mount on a spike.
Beauty isn’t the only thing that’s important, though, and there are some practical issues that have started to gnaw away at me.
Redundancy...
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Where I'm At With Computers, Part 01
I wrote once before about the iMac and why I liked it, and for a while now I’ve been planning to write an update of sorts: my opinions about it have changed quite a bit, and I thought it’d make for an interesting article.
Well, time makes fools of us all. Nine months is going-on forty-three in computer years, and I’ve become hopelessly out of touch with what’s current in...
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Vocal Update
Kurt Moll.
Tried singing again today for the first time in ages. Went remarkably well. Several times today I managed to siren all the way up and down my range without any breaks or cracks. This is real progress, and it seems to be taking place partly through having a generally better control over my muscles and partly through learning to relax rather than push. Actually, those are pretty...
None Of My Fucking's Your Business
The influence of nature and nurture on a person’s sexuality and the degree to which it’s a choice are interesting issues, and potentially scientific ones, but they’re also irrelevant to any discussion of gay rights.
We shouldn’t be saying “it’s not his fault he’s gay”; we should be saying that no one’s at fault.
It doesn’t matter whether sexuality is a choice or not. That’s not the point. What...
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Customer Feedback
I hear all the time about stupid customers in shops. You know, people complaining inanely about trivial things, people with a daft sense of entitlement, that sort of thing.
I am also aware of an issue that crops up all the time with both my vocal experiments and my guitar playing, and that is that we often have no idea what we look like or what we sound like until we see or hear ourselves from a...
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Flame Warriors: Caricatures Of Forumites
“Some years ago a minor spat ignited a searing flame war that threatened to consume a once-placid discussion forum. While the forum burned I amused myself by caricaturing the chief antagonists. (…)
Over time the roster of online belligerents expanded and eventually congealed into the netizen’s guide to Flame Warriors.”
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Upgrades And Corporate Linguistic Nonsense
So I’ve just been upgraded to Tier 3 of the writing job. This means I can get more money. This is good. However.
They sent an email which, though not actually unwanted, is a bit weird. Firstly, they said that they were upgrading me to Tier 3. Then, in the next sentence, they said that I was making various errors in the texts of mine they reviewed. Well, if there are errors, why’d you...
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OVER ONE THOUSAAAAAAND!!!eleventy
So I just sent off an email to the writing crowd for a request for an upgrade to Tier 3, which would potentially allow me some better income.
I went to check how much I’d earned so far with them.
One thousand five hundred dollars.
Jesus.