Because of “designers” and their related pharisees, myrmidons and sycophants jacking around with frameworks and 10MB javascript libraries that load afresh every two seconds, web pages are now as slow as they were back in 1996 when I was still using dial-up and every so-called web master in existence thought it was totally neato to embed a five megabyte Java crapplet in each page.

This slowness is true over even a gigabit connection.

You know if design had anything at all to do with users, this would not be the result. But modern design has nothing at all to do with users.

It has to do with what is stylish and with what makes the internet more like cable television, and whatever the latest buzzword fad is that pleases technically-clueless executives in charge now of the direction of most everything on the web.

I really miss the wild west, individualist and exuberantly silly days of the early web where people were trying new things and even in spite of the 5MB Java downloads over dial-up. Then it was a rare arena where the corporate mindset hadn’t yet infected and ruined it all.

Now, it is another vast wasteland.

Why do FA types think there is such a thing as naturally skinny?

Ain’t nobody naturally skinny. Just like no one is naturally fat. How does this myth develop? Chris Hemsworth and his wife are skinny because they worked hard to get and stay that way.

Since I lost weight, I’ve been called “naturally skinny” five or six times. Unfortunately it’s been in professional situations where a cutting comment wouldn’t be appropriate, but damn I feel like anyone who worked to lose weight should be given one free punch or kick (your choice) when someone calls you “naturally skinny.”

NO MOTHERFUCKER I AIN’T.

I’ve often wondered how much the fact that that people have such trouble losing weight is just related to the self-justifying mythology that says that there is no point in not eating that entire cake and slurping down that 32 oz Mt. Dew because no matter what you’ll be the size of a house anyway?

“Naturally skinny” pisses me off.

OMG I’ve been using Pages on my iMac and it’s so vastly better than Word I’m kind of chagrined that I hadn’t used it much before.

What I want it to do is just there — what I don’t want it to do (basically everything Word does) just doesn’t happen.

Pages is how software should be.

How a company can write something so great as Pages and so shitty as iTunes is pretty mystifying.