I disagree with this because I hate, hate, hate skeuomorphic design.

It’s the reason I don’t use iBooks despite it being otherwise ok. Anything skeuomorphic I immediately discard, never to be used again.

It’s interesting (as in “stupid”) that in times of low AD, we’re arguing about how much important and necessary projects cost when with low interest rates, high unemployment and a fiat currency, money is free and there is no inflation risk.

People who don’t understand the economy – which is most everyone – are doomed to undertake very misguided actions, even the well-meaning people.

It speaks to how cognitively distant I am from other people in our little human world that I can’t make sense of the idea that anyone actually uses Facebook.

I know it means something to a lot of people, and around a billion people use it at least a bit. I understand all that intellectually, but I can’t process that on any emotional level.

When I think of signing up for Facebook all I feel is revulsion.

Let’s see, a privacy-violating, freedom-killing, internet-threatening mega-corporation run by a sociopath who will sell me out to the highest bidder at the first opportunity.

Well, fuck, that sounds great! Where do I sign up?

Then again, my parents never had to ask me, “If Bobby jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?”

No, for one thing, I would’ve probably been the one jumping off the cliff first and I’d tell Bobby to do whatever the hell he wanted to do, and if I died to tell my parents.

And for another, being social never mattered all that much to me. I like having friends, but I won’t have them at any price like most people will.

That has a lot of disadvantages. But it has a lot of advantages, too. I’ll probably never be one of the people in the guard tower at Auschwitz, thinking I’m walking the path of righteousness. Or going along to get along, at the least.

But it means I’ll always have few friends, no real acquaintances, and lack a support network.

But all in life involves tradeoffs. These happen to suit me best. Others make different choices.

I’ve been using some pro-level image processing software this evening.

The idea of using this on a tablet or a tablet-like or phone-like interface on a PC – fucking ludicrous.

Yeah, I know, 90% of people only consume, never produce. But that 10% is where everything else comes from. There will still need to be an OS and an interface for them – Windows 8, Unity and iOS sure aren’t it.

I have a 30” monitor, and a 23” monitor beside it, and I still don’t quite have enough screen real estate to use this software to its full potential. I could use two 30” monitors, or even three, to be able to use it really well as I need many things open, some of them side-by-side.

Try that on a single-task interface that only allows one things at a time.

I see most people who need to do real work migrating to Linux (perhaps KDE or XFCE) and the pro-level software following them there – meanwhile, everyone else is stuck in the Windows 8 ghetto.