This is way more fun than writing about Gnome 3 or the idiots who run that project.

Never seen anyone playing a cello standing up like that. But it works.

Good god, Gnome 3 is a dung heap.

Messed with it again for a few minutes today. People use this? On purpose? It makes Mac OS look positively a paragon of customization and options.

Gnome 3. When you absolutely positively don’t need to get a fucking thing done.

My blog is all jacked up again. Not because of that blogging software I tried — it has been that way a while. Not sure if its my host or WordPress but the blogging software just exposed a problem that has been there a while.

But anyway, I found a command finally to put my iMac screen to sleep while leaving the compy running.

It’s pmset displaysleepnow at the terminal.

For all you true Mac believers afraid of typing commands, the “terminal” is the scary box — mine is black with green text hearkening back to my youth but by default it’s white these days — where you type long fearsome phrases. 😉

God, I fucking hate apps.

Apps are what you get when there are too many dumb people. Apps are dumb people paradise.

Too stupid to use a computer?

There’s an app for that!

Also, Netflix is now useless as they once had everything I could want to watch. Now they have almost nothing.

So it’s a pirate’s life for me.

In this case, I disagree with the prescription here for dealing with anti-vaxxers.

We can’t make people vaccinate themselves and their children. But we can make that a more expensive proposition for them, and a less dangerous proposition for the rest of us, by speaking out and making unnecessary anti-vax choices less societally acceptable.

Though I usually disagree with the use of the carceral system as a deterrent — or even the idea thereof — this is one of the rare cases where using it as a disincentive would be effective.

Because it is almost all upper-middle-class people who don’t vaccinate. And nothing would deter them more than seeing a few percent of their fellow yuppie peers in the slammer for a good long stretch.

This would actually work in this case. Throw a few thousand anti-vaxxers in federal prison, the rest will be screaming, but they will be vaccinating.

At least most of them, because for most religion is only a pretext, an excuse, not a true belief foundational to their anti-vaxxing madness.

Wah? I’ve been hit in the head loads of times and I didn’t get any powers.

How about this for a movie script: A man who hates math gets punched in the face and turns into a math savant.

All of those people who hit me in the head in middle school: thanks for your assistance in attempting to help ameliorate my poor math showing. Alas it did not work.

For your efforts, all I got was a couple of concussions and a bloody nose or two.

I know you meant well.