Happy Birthday Niren & Mita!
When my parents went to a secret lab that made me deep in the underground heart of a secret region of the Himalayas the mad scientists gave my parents a scantron and said, "You have 32 attribute points you can use to make your son. Use them wisely for they will determine his life for as long as he lives." This was all inside of a cave with a faint sound of water dripping far in the background as ominous neo-Italian opera music played. So my parents used the attribute points to give me the following...
Eyes: Like a hawk. Parents didn't read the fine print cause it actually said, "Like a hawk*. *Hawk is used to mean confused platypus."
Ears: Like an elephant's only more human.
Stomach: Invincible. Can process any type of input. One stereotypical superhero type vulnerability: eggs
etc. etc.
Anyway by the time they got to brain they were almost all out of points so....
Brain: Like an angry coconut's.
I don't know what the point of that story was, I just wanted to say "angry coconut".
Also if you ever start playing a video game with someone who is new to the game. Don't try to be a nice guy and teach them all the buttons, just point them to the manual. It takes a lot of the pain out of it and more than likely you'll avoid getting yelled at for trying to swindle a victory.
Have a look at this flaming blunder in the MacOS X finder. I personally know Apple is working on this, but even then, this is totally unexcusable. Good one Finder team. I guess this is what happens when the central Human Interface team is disbanded and you get a bunch of engineering yahoos designing the file management UI of an OS. However the MacOS 9 and MacOS X Finder team is the same, so this inconsistency is even worse. There is some solace in knowning that problems like this are being acknowledged and that the Macintosh community is so unforgiving with bad UI that problems cannot be brushed aside. Even with Jobs' excruciating attention to detail he can't possibly catch all of the problems. None the less the concept of file management is so core to an OS' primary UI that it should be done with the utmost care and highest level of perfection. I know Apple can deliver on the promise of great UI, sometimes it takes longer than most of us are willing to wait.
Quotses:
"Did you know that Texas has never lost a game in which they have outscored their opponents..." - ABC Sports announcer
"Roads are a suggestion, Marge. Just like pants." - Homer S.
"You need to take your Xbox home and make a stand." - Ram K.
"A small brown rock fell out of me. I call it Pheobos." - god pimp Frank
Linkses:
My guest appearance on Penny-Arcade.
I wanted to laugh, but I know in my heart I would have done the same thing.
Good thing I'm too lazy to ride my bike a lot.
Oh how I wish Santa finds it necessary to delivery this to me personally.
