Posts tagged with “confession”

Quick Takes

Just thought I’d throw this out before I head off to dinner. Just a short list today.

• Just like my disdain for the term “webmaster,” I’m also opposed to “power user.” In my experience, power users are people that try to do things for themselves or think they know “a lot” about using computers. Fascinatingly enough, they also seem to come to me to fix their computer more than the average Joe. Why? Because the average Joe is scared out of his mind that he’s going to frig something up. Power user Bob isn’t afraid to attempt an upgrade of his BIOS during a thunderstorm.

  Also, it seems like the only individuals that actually use the term power user are the ones that need emotional reinforcement: they were probably something special back in the days of Windows 3.1. Boy oh boy, they could navigate those DOS prompts like no other. But today, when their biggest tricks involve making your computer faster by doing a “defrag” or “clearing the prefetch,” they’re all washed up.

  If that’s truly the case, then I guess I do feel a little sorry for these guys, though. They’re clinging to their power term like a right-wing nutcase clinging to the sanctity of marriage.

• I cried my eyes out during the House’s season four finale. I’ve never cried that much over a TV show in my life.

• Every week, I get an email from Mint telling me how much money I have left in my bank accounts. I never look forward to it.

  Anyhow, every time I look at it, I cry a little bit and think, “Where is all of my money going!?” And then I realize that I’m paying for my own health insurance and feel only slightly better. Obama Care cannot come fast enough.

That’s all, folks.

3oh!3

This afternoon, I’d just like to say that whenever I see the band name “3oh!3,” I’m reminded of an opening CDATA tag in XML: <![CDATA[

Now granted, I’m a geek. And its really not that close, but when I see that, I say to myself, “Hmmmm… wonder if that’s what they were going for,” even though I know that I’m the only person on the face of the planet that’s geeky enough to make that connection.

Just wanted to throw that out there.

Confession?

I just wanted to put it out there that when I eat that trail mix that has raisins, peanuts, almonds, and M&Ms, I usually pick out all of the M&Ms. After eating this stuff with the M&Ms for almost a month now, they’ve started to taste not good to me (they don’t taste bad, just not very good). Maybe it’s my subconscious telling me that it’s something I shouldn’t be eating anyway (like drinking soda) or I’m just losing my sweet tooth (unlikely; you’ve seriously never seen me in a candy store) but regardless it’s disturbing.

…and if I forget to pick them out and I bring a handful of the trail mix back to my desk, I usually pick around the M&Ms to eat all the other salty delicious bits. When I’m done, I’m left with a surprisingly large pile of M&Ms. I throw them away.