Comments on: You know what pisses me off?

By: Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:07:19 +0000

This is the best post evar!! Ur a total genius!!!1! (just kidding :) these people are indeed olympically stupid.

I especially concur w/ your opinion on multitasking, which I have always defined as doing a bunch of things very badly at once. I wonder how many people realize that not even computers can literally multitask, they just switch very quickly from task to task.

By: Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:07:19 +0000

This is the best post evar!! Ur a total genius!!!1! (just kidding :) these people are indeed olympically stupid.

By: dran

dran — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:29:46 +0000

Ha! Science. Sure, if you want to be all sciency. But of course an argument based on 'there are people who don't follow the statistical tendencies' will disagree with one based on measuring the statistical tendencies. The fact is studying the outliers doesn't get done as often.

The quote, though, seems to imply people who avoid the maladies of old age are more than outliers, so that's wrong, okay. But they're defining naturally different than you and that's not totally wrong.

As for information overload, yeah, that person is wrong too. But I mean, you gotta have hope! Hope to overcome the limitations of the present. Denying them is fooldardy but it can help overcome them if denial is later mixed with a dose of logic and consistency.

By: houlios

houlios — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:28:27 +0000

Hah! This annoys me too, most recently in regards to healthcare. Every time some fucker says, “The government is gonna ration healthcare!” A million people nod in agreement and get indignant about how horrible rationing is. Oh wait! Healthcare is already having the shit rationed out of it, that's part of the problem. Its rationed by the size of your bank account, its rationed by your job, and its rationed by your health insurance company. HOWARD DEAN SCREAM! AHHHHHHHHH!

By: Kira

Kira — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:22:36 +0000

My pet peeve along these lines is academics (and anyone, but academics are the worst culprits) who say that the internet “age” makes everything more complicated, more complex, totally different, new and unimproved, etc…

At a conference recently, I asked a guy whose entire paper was about how the world is now more complicated because of the internet what he meant by more complicated. The moderator clarified my question by asking “yeah. is it 10 percent more complicated? 90 percent?” The guy just got annoyed. He didn't have an answer. He hadn't even thought about it. It was just a phrase he knew most people would accept and so he based his ENTIRE paper on it.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:12:35 +0000

The “Somebody on the internet is WRONG” comment reminded me of our days with the wonderful blog by the inventor (or someday inventor) of the Algorithm Machine. Man I miss those blog entries. Crazy is so much fun to read.

By: shanusmagnus

shanusmagnus — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:38:16 +0000

No, I'm trying to avoid the “Somebody on the internet is WRONG” trap, though
I don't always avoid it by much. I had literally opened up a “comment”
window and had my fingers poised above the keyboard before I shook myself
and said “what the fuck am I doing?”
A happy medium is for me to respond on my own blog. That way at least I get
something out of it besides frustrated.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:24:21 +0000

I read through the second blogs comments eagerly hoping to see you smack her down, but unfortunately either I missed it or you didn't do it.