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I think I’m going to like working here…

I got this apron from work.
…yeah… I know it’s a game company
…I don’t know what aprons have to do with video games either. Maybe we’re making an online cooking game, who knows? Nobody ever tells me anything. I mean, it’s kind of random, but it could be worse. They could have given us… like…. socks or something. What? You know, socks! With like, the company logo on them? Stop looking at me like that, it’s not THAT weird. At least socks are practical… This one time, at E.A? they gave us these metal chunks that kind of looked like the company logo… nobody had any clue what it was. I would have loved to have been at the meeting where that got approved… “Okay, we’re partnered with a junkyard to provide us with chunks of old Buicks that sort of resemble our logo… we can hand them out as presents to the employees!” …So weird. What was I talking about? Oh yeah…
How do you like your burger?

Thanks to Ripley for the modeling assist.

Oh, and just in case you’re thinking they don’t do “real” clothes, I can attest to the fact that at some point recently they made some of the nicest hoodies I’ve ever seen. Like, better than my GapHoodie.

Okay, need to get the kids outside before all three of us lose it.

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Posted on June 14th 2008 in General, Hey Cool, People, Places, Software

One thing Apple does a little too differently, and F-Lock YOU!

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Okay, riddle me this, Apple Fans:

Let’s say I have a list of 26 songs (let’s call them “A” through “Z”) in iTunes, and I want to select *some* of them. I click on the beginning of my selection (let’s say “L”) hold down shift, and start cursoring down to select “M, N, O, P” and keep going until I hit “S,” but through the magic of poor reflexes, I actually go one more line to “T.” I now have L throught T selected in a highlighted range that’s one more file than I wanted.

With me so far?

So, everyone think about what you would like to THINK would be the way to unselect the T track. Don’t answer me yet. Just keep it in your head for a second.

I, as a old fogey user of Paperclip, Geos, Windows, OpenOffice, WP51Dos, and freakin’ Nano user do the following:

Keeping the shift key down, I hit cursor up.

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why the range increases above my current selected range, to now include K? T is still selected.

Really? K? That’s what people tend to do? Click somewhere in the middle of the range they want to select and then hit cursor-up/down to select in both directions? REALLY?

I mean, c’mon. Who asked for that?

Maybe it’s only in iTunes under Windows, but somehow I doubt it.

And I’m looking at you too, Microsoft/Logitech.

F-Lock. F-Lock?

Let’s make the default of the function keys something OTHER than their normal response? BRILLIANT! A round of Nobel prizes, for my FRIENDS who came up with this. Thanks so much for dooming 5 years worth of my fellow technicians to having to hit F-Lock (to put the functions keys BACK to their initial setting) and then F1, F2, F6, F8, or F11 to choose their boot/setup options.

Oh, and you have to do that during the two seconds of the POST (Power On. See? Tease!) when you’re allowed to do anything other than go back into Windows again.

Pfft. F-lock. I mean, really.

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Posted on May 31st 2008 in Grumpy Old Man, Hardware, Software

Some time in June, Mozilla’s going to try breaking a record.

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Now that Sage works again under Firefox 3, I can say “Yeah, I’ll go” when the new version is finally released.

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One thing Apple does a little *too* differently, and F-Lock YOU!

Some time in June, Mozilla’s going to try breaking a record.

One thing Apple does a little too differently, and F-Lock YOU!