I have learned from organizing my iTunes library, that you need to be more honest with yourself when rating things for those ratings to have any meaning.
It’s no wonder all sorts of stupid videos show up on the Most Popular list at YouTube. Nobody seems to know how to rate anything but five stars or one star. Everywhere you go it’s like this. Go to any online store, Yelp, the iTunes App Store, whatever. About all the ratings tell you is that something either definitely sucks or that it probably doesn’t suck, but you have no real idea of how good it may be.
People rate things based on irrelevant attributes. “Yeah, this hard drive sucks because it got damaged in shipping and they wouldn’t overnight me a new one!” What does that have to do with the quality of the drive? “Yo, this place is the bomb. The waitress was super hot!” Um, so that means they have good food there?
I got my Circa notebook last week and I’ve noticed an inherent flaw in the design of the covers. I don’t think it would be a problem with the plain covers, but it is for the book cloth and leather ones. As you can see from the picture, the plastic part of the cover that connects to the discs is obviously thinner than the rest of the cover. This causes a bit of a gap which in turn buckles the paper every so slightly in the middle. Thus, the paper is not entirely flat and makes writing on it slightly sloppy. It’s a minor irritation and one that I believe can fairly easily be fixed with a bit of super glue and something to fill in that gap. The trick will be to find a way to do it without making it look like crap.
I just ordered my wife and I our very first Circa notebooks. Her birthday is tomorrow and I think she’ll like this. Probably not as much as I do, but most people look at me quizzically when I get rather giddy over office supplies.
She already has a day-planner and Circa is out of most of the 2010 calendar stuff anyways, so I got her the Meal Planner sheets and Recipe Cards. She likes to plan meals so I thought it would be perfect for her.
I loaded up on Annotation Grid sheets and got a 3-pack of Tasker Pads for us to share. I’m starting out with the relatively inexpensive Junior Designer Bookcloth Notebook. If I like it as much as I think I will, I’d like to get either the Bomber Jacket or Lakota notebook.
I’ve been pretty happy using Pilot P-500 extra fine pens, but I intend to explore my pen fetish more fully some day. Ah, to feel the texture of the paper as the nib of a fine fountain pen glides across it! I will know such joy one day! ;-)
Source: Merriam-Webster
intransitive verb
1 a : to make a distinction <discriminate among historical sources> b : to use good judgment
2 : to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit <discriminate in favor of your friends> <discriminate against a certain nationality>
I’m curious, when did the secondary definition get added? It’s actually listed as the primary definition at dictionary.com. I particularly love how part b of the primary definition is “to use good judgement”.
So, when does it become unethical to discriminate? When it’s not fair? What’s fair? Until it’s something that people can even talk about, I guess most of us will just continue doing it safely in silence. I wonder how amusing it is for a person with the talent/skill to read others like open books. How painfully predictable we all must seem.
You know what? I give what I can, when I can, which is more than most can say. We’ve been quite fortunate in recent years and remember quite well what it’s like to not be, so giving to charity is important to me. So when a guy calls and sounds like he’s talking to me between drags on his cig and a mouthful of nachos and then hangs up on me before I get 2 seconds into my polite, “I’m sorry but I can’t right now”, it hardens my heart for a moment. I’m not sure which was worse, this one or the one where the guy asked me, “What, you don’t like vets? You got a problem with veterans!?!”
In my humble opinion, the odds are that most legitimate charities don’t do a whole lot of cold calling, and I’m pretty sure a legitimate one isn’t going to ask me “what the hell” my “problem is”.
I am going to do my best to give every year more than the last, and to also come up with better comebacks for the jerks of the world.
A serif font with spray paint? I’m seriously impressed.
Oh so true!
More wildlife in the office. A flying squirrel I believe.
