Kappa Danielson covering James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain.”

Great version. She really does a nice job with it.

In The Hunger Games books I really enjoy how much of a role Suzanne Collins places on fashion, and how geeks (mostly male ones) with no historical knowledge at all condemn taking fashion and its semiotics seriously.

Of course if any of them had the slightest knowledge of history, they’d know how much fashion has been used as a signifier and itself a form of rebellion in revolutionary times.

There is not as much documentation out there as should exist because study of the topic itself is denigrated and seen as not worthy.

I like when people complain about it though because it immediately marks their ignorance.

Since everything is becoming idiot-friendly and I am not an idiot, most tech is becoming very hard for me to use as I have to constantly fight with it to get it to do what I want.

For instance, the Google “results for similar searches” that obscures search results. Yeah, it is a minor thing but it means nearly every search I attempt takes longer.

Also, making a quoted search not be a verbatim search is just inexcusable and every single developer and manager who had anything to do with that should be fired with no severance.

Eventually, I will not be able to use anything as the effort it takes to make it work for me is too much and just not worth it.

We don’t need to make everything idiot-friendly. We just need to make fewer idiots.