...why linux users continually bitch about no linux releases for games.
Well, guys, it could be that linux is designed to allow you to tweak the shit out of everything, which is a nightmare for support - do you want to pay twice as much for games so the game companies can hire spport techs that are multiple times more expensive? Thats the thinig about windows, it doesnt allow the average user to fuck it up that much, so there are less things to worry about in the minutia.
Especially when many of you guys usually have multiple machines laying around. For christ's sake, load one of them as windows, or as a dual boot, and go to town with the gaming.
If you know what you're doing, the problems with windows aren't worth worrying about, and since youre only using it for gaming, who the hell cares if IE or outlook is a hunk of crap. Youre not using them on that machine anyway. Just shut up, build yourself a game box out of whatever parts you got, and get playing.
Machine got owned? Format and reload! Or Not! Depends on how much you want to play that game you just bought! Life is unfair!
(Then again, I do understand the base human joy of bitching about things; please - don't stop on my account.)
Mr. Gelernter said his own family's computer became so badly infected that he bought a new one this week. He said his two teenage sons were balking at spending the hours needed to scrub the old one clean of viruses, worms and adware.
Well boys, sounds to me like your lazy asses don't need to be playing hours of Counterstrike online anymore then, do you? Have funn looking up stuff for your schoolwork in the library with those big old dusty retro books.
Retro is cool, right! Just like being a lazy do-it-for-me spoiled little shit! Have fun slacking in the land of the ludite, you little puds.
Mr. Gelernter blames the software industry for the morass, noting that people are increasingly unwilling to take out their "software tweezers" to clean their machines.
While the software industry often puts out some fairly sloppy shit sometimes, thety can't be blamed for the most basic of human conditions these days: People are incredibly lazy, and cannot be bothered with actually having to LEARN anything.
I say, "fuck 'em. Throw your fucking money away, you dumbasses, and stop asking us why we think we're better than you when you ask us for free repairs and we laugh in your faces."
Why? Because the product is NOT an innovation. Its basically a Mr. Microphone...
for those of us old enough to remember those commercials - Hey, good lookin'! - Mr Microphone was this shitty little microphone that would broadcast a weak FM signal and you could be on the radio! Truly one of the greats of the 1970's.
...and a power converter from your cigarette lighter to plug into your iPod. This is not innovation, and in reality, its not even really clever. Its a bunch of guys that will sell you some electronics that they've soldered together and worked into a nifty molded case. None of these technologies are new in the clightest, nor is the idea of combining them.
Doesn't one of the satellite radio technologies use the same FM transmission method to get the cound to come out of your car stereo?
I almost want to get an iPod just so I can NOT buy one of these things.
Yes, I do beleive I have to chime in with a huge "YEAH! ME TOO!" of High agreement.
SlappyJack says:
IF YOU DO NOT VOTE, YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE.
That's if, pure and simple. You can be the nicest guy on earth, who spends all his money to connect lonely orphans with unwanted kittens so they both get the love they need. You could be a guy who resularly pulls elderly women out of burning buildings on a dauly basis. You can be a guy who walks on water and heals the sick.
BUT IF YOU DO NOT VOTE, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE.
"Oh, its only one vote" <-- ASSHOLE.
"Why bother, they're all the same" <-- ASSHOLE.
"I don't like any of them" <-- THEN GO WRITE THAT IN, YOU LAZY ASSHOLE.
Why list the phone number as 1-800-PRODUCTS, when it is actually 1-800-PRODUCT? You listed an incorrect phone number, then when someone points this out, you call them stupid?
Speaking of being the one that pisses me off... I used the word "PRODUCT" because is a generic name and then i'm not splashing the name of the company all over the place, a name you couldn't spell with seven letters.
should not have to analyze you site to determine where the links are
Holy christ! You must be bucking for promotion for a "youngest project manager in the organization" or something! You just jumped directly to blaming the developers without more evidence of what the hell you were being told!
Either that, or youre a disciple of that Most-Hated Blowhard Jacob "Don't Make Me Think Beyond The Brainstem" Neilsen.
The links were actually changed to a non-eye burning shade of blue to... well... quite similar to the ones on http://www.wollborg.com/, actually.
Things like article titles and Product names... That's a fairly universal convention, even was back in 2000, and they still weren't smart enough to click on them until big "Click Here" buttons were put everywhere.
I wasn't gonna make this a flame, but screw it:
Dear Mouthy Punk.
I was goofing off and you hadda to get all stupid serious.
I once worked at a site and we had to take a lot of the nice looking CSS out becuase people werent smart enough to know what was a link and what wasn't. We did find a nice maroon, though.
Then again, our customer base was so dumb one guy actually faxed us to ask for out phone number becuase the number on the site, basically like this: 1-800-PRODUCTS, had one number too many.
Way to get users to follow a link? No, you dont make the Title of the linked article hot, you do this:
ARTICLE TITLE blah de blah, more google, theyre evil/no theyre not. RIA sucks/pay for youtr fucking music. Linux rules/shut up n00b... CLICK HERE.
People are almost compelled to click on anything that says "Click Here."
More fun with users: use CSS to make your linked text type BOLD on hover and listen to complaints as the rest of the text scarily shifts over.
There's a lot to take onboard here and consider. But you can't go far wrong with your SEO if you try to grow your site as organically as possible.
If any of you have worked in a small online shops you know what a fucking holy war this is between marketing and pretty much everyone else. I specifically remember saying at one point, "Do we have to make ALL of the money RIGHT NOW?"
Good for Google for coming forward and telling peole they won't be a part of that slimy shit.
Bad for Google for saying all of this to drive up prices on their AdWord sales.
I have nothing to say about the topic other than I used to be a stage electrician and I loved my SOG tool, even though I used pretty much nothing but the knife on it.
The collest ting about it iwas A) It was a lot cheaper than a leatherman, and B) the pliers had this cool geared slight force multiplier on it.
In reality, when youre in the field, nothing compared to a full set of tools.
Crappily embedded midi files in elevators, bathrooms, and every virtual object "owned" by god-fearing midwestern housewives
Crappily embedded 6 meg bitmaps to wrap a virtual baseball
DoubleClick webbugs in your vitrual space to know who keeps peeping in your virtual windows so scumbags from South Florida can sell you virtual viagra, virtual calais, andd virtual farm animals fucking virtually knocked-up britney spears.
"Block Clothing from this server"
"NOTE: These virtual tattoos are optiimized for virtual tits of the size D cup or larger."
Glickman said that the average movie costs $98 million to make and market. Less than one in ten movies re-coup their original investment from the domestic box office and six in ten never recoup their investment
Did anyone think to tell Mr Glickman that most of us would LOVE to go see movies on the big screen and help the industry recoup their investment if thay would maybe save that $48 million dollar marketing budget, and use the $50 million for making the movie to make GOOD movies? You could even take $10-12 million from that marketing money saved!
No, don't ask your MARKETING department what they think, OF COURSE they're going to tell you you need to market crap to make a profit - they're the MARKETING DEPARTMENT you stupid fuck! Their entire business is based on getting as much money out of everyone else as possible.
Other than the occational chunk or porn and a few south park episodes when my shitty cable company didnt carry the cartoon network (this was back in the day) I don't think I've ever downloaded film or television from the internet. it's just a shitty way to watch a movie.
I watch DVDs on my laptop because its all i got right now and it really licks balls compared to going to the theater.
Mr Glickman, stop being a whiny cock. Make decent movies more often than once a year, and we'll all start going to see them again.
I mean, what's the next step, Mr Glickman? Will you pull a page from the bible of the retards in the Airline Industry and beg the government for some free money?
I USED to have all of my email saved back to when I first crawled out of the ooze and finally figured out how to use one of these new-fangled computing-machines for something beyong being a glorified television set. I had a ton of stuff, including those emails that were sort of sentemental.
Then some fuckers broke into my apartment and stole my machine. Being a moron, I hadn't yet backed it all up anywhere. very, very sad.
Both VRE and MRSA survived on a keyboard 24 hours after contamination, according to the study.
VRE can cause urinary tract infections and infections at the entry sites of intravenous or dialysis lines.
in other words:DO NOT PULL IT AT INTERNET PORN ON A HOSPITAL COMPUTER
Related tale: I had my first sysadmin gig working for a web company tending the servers running for live, online cam girls. Yes, the little sweeties that lay there on a bed and do a little self touching and you can talk with them in a chat room.
They had a few with audio, but this was 1998, and the shit was buggy - if not buggy, lets say jittery.
Anyway, you'd have to run in and fix a flamingly crashing Windows server or two that was on a rack in the room with the girl (of course, you just had to reboot the goddamn thing) and, in the interest of haste, use the keyboard she was just typing on after she had her fingers in her crotch.
We just kept TITANICALLY LARGE vats of tat disenfectant hand gel at every station, followed by a thorough hand scrubbing.
Man, that was a good gig. I mean, really.
UNRELEATED:I found a really cool pub in London where I can get wireless access. Unfortunately they insist on playing a lot of Alannis Morissette. LIVE Alannis Morissette.
the shit I do to stay connected. fuckin' BT.
Holy Shit, the music just changed to AC/DCs Shoot to Thrill maybe this place ain't so bad after all.
Because the e-Scrabble URL is of no use to you, it should be transferred to Hasbro.
Holy Christ on a Crutch! Am i not the only guy that just about shit himself when he read a lawyer actually come right out and tell a private individual "Give my titanic corporation your domain for free."
I mean really. Copyright violation, yeah, sure. I can see that. Maybe. Stupid move on their part, definately. but telling him he's got no use for something he purchasaed... no. no fucking way.
Ol' Jared should reply as such:
Dearest Lawyers that weren't good enough to litigate in an actual courtroom,
Plase pass the following message on to your clients:
Fuck you Hasbro. Fuck you and your dogs right in the ass, becuase if you want the goddamn domain now, you're going to have to pay through the fucking noses to get it.
I was not squatting on the domain, as I was putting it to good use - a use that was actually FREE ADVERTISING for your product.
I will now be making a came called "Fuck Hasbro Up By Scrabbling Up this Mountain of Corporate Bullshit and Stivcking them to the Wall with a Nailgun." I have in fact talked to id software and thay thing my using their nailgun in my free game that I make no money off of to advertise their much loved game is a fantastic idea.
Especially because it makes old dinosaurs like you look like the idiots you are.
lick my balls, and my asshole, too.
Hugs & Kisses, Jared
For fun and adding fuel to the fire, make sure to email Hasbro and tell them what giant penises they're being at this moment: Hasbro Toy Media Inquiries Only: 401-727-5318 - gcarvelli@hasbro.com
Hasbro Games Media Inquiries Only: Phone: 413-526-2309 hvantassel@hasbro.com
For Consumer Inquiries: http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.customer_care/dn/def ault.cfm Phone: 800-327-8264 (I think it would be nice to call them and let them konw that you'll no longer be a Hasbro customer.)
For those of you that are into serious pencil and paper geekery, be aware that Hasbro is connected with Wizards of the Coast, so you might wanna not buy from them, either.
Also,heres the contact information of that Law Firm:
Their site: http://www.pbwt.com/Contact/index.html
we should proceed to let them know via massively bumped weblogs that we're watching. Go on in and roll around a bit.
Firm Address and Contacts: Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP 1133 Avenue of the Americas (between 43rd and 44th Streets) New York, NY 10036-6710 212-336-2000 Fax: 212-336-2222
To contact a specific lawyer, please look them up in the attorney directory. Our administrative directors are listed below: Marvin J. Brittman - Executive Director - 212-336-2950 - mjbrittman@pbwt.com Donna M. Abramo - Director of Human Resources and Operations - 212-336-2867 - dmabramo@pbwt.com Michael J. Greis - Director of Finance - 212-336-2122 - mjgreis@pbwt.com Lisa Smith - Director of Marketing - 212-336-2995 - lsmith@pbwt.com Patricia L. Hartnett - Legal Assistant Manager - 212-336-2583 - plhartnett@pbwt.com Christina Belanger - Managing Clerk - 212-336-2747 - cbelanger@pbwt.com Michael Gasparino - Director of Information Services - 212-336-2665 - mgasparino@pbwt.com Robin L. Klum - Director of Professional Development - 212-336-2733 - rlklum@pbwt.com Christina M. Senezak - Head Librarian - 212-336-2930 - cmsenezak@pbwt.com
I, for one, would GLADLY have the clouds of foul smelling smoke back in order to not have to hear the mindless prattling of every dicktard in my general area.
A work associate of mine was telling be about this art installation he once worked on. They took about 600 laser pointers and hung them from a ceiling (pointed down) on small springs in a smallish room. When people walked on the floor of the room above, it made the pointers jiggle all over the place in a not-so-quite random way and "draw" little designs on the floor.
Very interesting effect.
Sorry, I can't find any images of it, but it's cool to think about.
No, I didnt ask if thay had to put big signs everywhere telling the unwashed masses "DO NOT STARE INTO THE POINTERS, YOU STUPID FUCKTARDS."
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Especially when many of you guys usually have multiple machines laying around. For christ's sake, load one of them as windows, or as a dual boot, and go to town with the gaming.
If you know what you're doing, the problems with windows aren't worth worrying about, and since youre only using it for gaming, who the hell cares if IE or outlook is a hunk of crap. Youre not using them on that machine anyway. Just shut up, build yourself a game box out of whatever parts you got, and get playing.
Machine got owned? Format and reload! Or Not! Depends on how much you want to play that game you just bought! Life is unfair!
(Then again, I do understand the base human joy of bitching about things; please - don't stop on my account.)
Well boys, sounds to me like your lazy asses don't need to be playing hours of Counterstrike online anymore then, do you? Have funn looking up stuff for your schoolwork in the library with those big old dusty retro books.
Retro is cool, right! Just like being a lazy do-it-for-me spoiled little shit! Have fun slacking in the land of the ludite, you little puds.
While the software industry often puts out some fairly sloppy shit sometimes, thety can't be blamed for the most basic of human conditions these days: People are incredibly lazy, and cannot be bothered with actually having to LEARN anything.
I say, "fuck 'em. Throw your fucking money away, you dumbasses, and stop asking us why we think we're better than you when you ask us for free repairs and we laugh in your faces."
...you are just not smart.
Doesn't one of the satellite radio technologies use the same FM transmission method to get the cound to come out of your car stereo?
I almost want to get an iPod just so I can NOT buy one of these things.
"Journalist"
What I highly friggin overused term.
SlappyJack says:
That's if, pure and simple. You can be the nicest guy on earth, who spends all his money to connect lonely orphans with unwanted kittens so they both get the love they need. You could be a guy who resularly pulls elderly women out of burning buildings on a dauly basis. You can be a guy who walks on water and heals the sick.
BUT IF YOU DO NOT VOTE, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE.
"Oh, its only one vote" <-- ASSHOLE.
"Why bother, they're all the same" <-- ASSHOLE.
"I don't like any of them" <-- THEN GO WRITE THAT IN, YOU LAZY ASSHOLE.
Speaking of being the one that pisses me off...
I used the word "PRODUCT" because is a generic name and then i'm not splashing the name of the company all over the place, a name you couldn't spell with seven letters.
should not have to analyze you site to determine where the links are
Holy christ! You must be bucking for promotion for a "youngest project manager in the organization" or something! You just jumped directly to blaming the developers without more evidence of what the hell you were being told!
Either that, or youre a disciple of that Most-Hated Blowhard Jacob "Don't Make Me Think Beyond The Brainstem" Neilsen.
The links were actually changed to a non-eye burning shade of blue to
Things like article titles and Product names... That's a fairly universal convention, even was back in 2000, and they still weren't smart enough to click on them until big "Click Here" buttons were put everywhere.
I wasn't gonna make this a flame, but screw it:
HOT is SEXY!
People LOVE SEXY!
I once worked at a site and we had to take a lot of the nice looking CSS out becuase people werent smart enough to know what was a link and what wasn't. We did find a nice maroon, though.
Then again, our customer base was so dumb one guy actually faxed us to ask for out phone number becuase the number on the site, basically like this: 1-800-PRODUCTS, had one number too many.
Way to get users to follow a link? No, you dont make the Title of the linked article hot, you do this:
People are almost compelled to click on anything that says "Click Here."
More fun with users: use CSS to make your linked text type BOLD on hover and listen to complaints as the rest of the text scarily shifts over.
offtopic, anyone?
If any of you have worked in a small online shops you know what a fucking holy war this is between marketing and pretty much everyone else. I specifically remember saying at one point, "Do we have to make ALL of the money RIGHT NOW?"
Good for Google for coming forward and telling peole they won't be a part of that slimy shit.
Bad for Google for saying all of this to drive up prices on their AdWord sales.
You forgot:
- are there full body searches to find post its?
You can easily write a TON of CC numbers down and put the paper in your shoe and there you go.
8 x the comments compared the article below it dealing with helping the childres - who, if you didn't know, are our furure
heh.
I will proably never buy a console:
- I hate those fucking little tiny joypad thingies
- Who the hell wants to download crappy amateur porn to their television sets, and how the hell can you use perl scripts to scrape it all in?
- I've yet to see a console feature "Clippy."
I mean, really.
I have nothing to say about the topic other than I used to be a stage electrician and I loved my SOG tool, even though I used pretty much nothing but the knife on it.
The collest ting about it iwas A) It was a lot cheaper than a leatherman, and B) the pliers had this cool geared slight force multiplier on it.
In reality, when youre in the field, nothing compared to a full set of tools.
(i guess i DID have a piece to say)
HOWEVER...
Your link in your sig is fucking PRICELESS.
Crappily embedded midi files in elevators, bathrooms, and every virtual object "owned" by god-fearing midwestern housewives
Crappily embedded 6 meg bitmaps to wrap a virtual baseball
DoubleClick webbugs in your vitrual space to know who keeps peeping in your virtual windows so scumbags from South Florida can sell you virtual viagra, virtual calais, andd virtual farm animals fucking virtually knocked-up britney spears.
"Block Clothing from this server"
"NOTE: These virtual tattoos are optiimized for virtual tits of the size D cup or larger."
Did anyone think to tell Mr Glickman that most of us would LOVE to go see movies on the big screen and help the industry recoup their investment if thay would maybe save that $48 million dollar marketing budget, and use the $50 million for making the movie to make GOOD movies? You could even take $10-12 million from that marketing money saved!
No, don't ask your MARKETING department what they think, OF COURSE they're going to tell you you need to market crap to make a profit - they're the MARKETING DEPARTMENT you stupid fuck! Their entire business is based on getting as much money out of everyone else as possible.
Other than the occational chunk or porn and a few south park episodes when my shitty cable company didnt carry the cartoon network (this was back in the day) I don't think I've ever downloaded film or television from the internet. it's just a shitty way to watch a movie.
I watch DVDs on my laptop because its all i got right now and it really licks balls compared to going to the theater.
Mr Glickman, stop being a whiny cock. Make decent movies more often than once a year, and we'll all start going to see them again.
I mean, what's the next step, Mr Glickman? Will you pull a page from the bible of the retards in the Airline Industry and beg the government for some free money?
Doughnuts^HGoogle, is there anything they can't do?
I USED to have all of my email saved back to when I first crawled out of the ooze and finally figured out how to use one of these new-fangled computing-machines for something beyong being a glorified television set. I had a ton of stuff, including those emails that were sort of sentemental.
Then some fuckers broke into my apartment and stole my machine. Being a moron, I hadn't yet backed it all up anywhere. very, very sad.
Lesson: back your shit up.
Both VRE and MRSA survived on a keyboard 24 hours after contamination, according to the study.
VRE can cause urinary tract infections and infections at the entry sites of intravenous or dialysis lines.
in other words:DO NOT PULL IT AT INTERNET PORN ON A HOSPITAL COMPUTER
Related tale:
I had my first sysadmin gig working for a web company tending the servers running for live, online cam girls. Yes, the little sweeties that lay there on a bed and do a little self touching and you can talk with them in a chat room.
They had a few with audio, but this was 1998, and the shit was buggy - if not buggy, lets say jittery.
Anyway, you'd have to run in and fix a flamingly crashing Windows server or two that was on a rack in the room with the girl (of course, you just had to reboot the goddamn thing) and, in the interest of haste, use the keyboard she was just typing on after she had her fingers in her crotch.
We just kept TITANICALLY LARGE vats of tat disenfectant hand gel at every station, followed by a thorough hand scrubbing.
Man, that was a good gig. I mean, really.
UNRELEATED:I found a really cool pub in London where I can get wireless access. Unfortunately they insist on playing a lot of Alannis Morissette. LIVE Alannis Morissette.
the shit I do to stay connected. fuckin' BT.
Holy Shit, the music just changed to AC/DCs Shoot to Thrill maybe this place ain't so bad after all.
Holy Christ on a Crutch! Am i not the only guy that just about shit himself when he read a lawyer actually come right out and tell a private individual "Give my titanic corporation your domain for free."
I mean really. Copyright violation, yeah, sure. I can see that. Maybe. Stupid move on their part, definately. but telling him he's got no use for something he purchasaed... no. no fucking way.
Ol' Jared should reply as such:
For fun and adding fuel to the fire, make sure to email Hasbro and tell them what giant penises they're being at this moment:
Hasbro Toy Media Inquiries Only: 401-727-5318 - gcarvelli@hasbro.com
Hasbro Games Media Inquiries Only: Phone: 413-526-2309 hvantassel@hasbro.com
For Consumer Inquiries: http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.customer_care/dn/de
Phone: 800-327-8264 (I think it would be nice to call them and let them konw that you'll no longer be a Hasbro customer.)
For those of you that are into serious pencil and paper geekery, be aware that Hasbro is connected with Wizards of the Coast, so you might wanna not buy from them, either.
Also,heres the contact information of that Law Firm:
Their site: http://www.pbwt.com/Contact/index.html
we should proceed to let them know via massively bumped weblogs that we're watching. Go on in and roll around a bit.
Firm Address and Contacts:
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
1133 Avenue of the Americas (between 43rd and 44th Streets)
New York, NY 10036-6710
212-336-2000
Fax: 212-336-2222
To contact a specific lawyer, please look them up in the attorney directory. Our administrative directors are listed below:
Marvin J. Brittman - Executive Director - 212-336-2950 - mjbrittman@pbwt.com
Donna M. Abramo - Director of Human Resources and Operations - 212-336-2867 - dmabramo@pbwt.com
Michael J. Greis - Director of Finance - 212-336-2122 - mjgreis@pbwt.com
Lisa Smith - Director of Marketing - 212-336-2995 - lsmith@pbwt.com
Patricia L. Hartnett - Legal Assistant Manager - 212-336-2583 - plhartnett@pbwt.com
Christina Belanger - Managing Clerk - 212-336-2747 - cbelanger@pbwt.com
Michael Gasparino - Director of Information Services - 212-336-2665 - mgasparino@pbwt.com
Robin L. Klum - Director of Professional Development - 212-336-2733 - rlklum@pbwt.com
Christina M. Senezak - Head Librarian - 212-336-2930 - cmsenezak@pbwt.com
Hey, THANKS!
Now I can go into the other room and stab my eyes out!
FREAK.
I cannot tell you how GLAD I am to have missed Part 1.
oh, and uh...
What the FUCK?!?!
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I, for one, would GLADLY have the clouds of foul smelling smoke back in order to not have to hear the mindless prattling of every dicktard in my general area.
I'm just sayin'.
All this laser pointer talk reminds me...
A work associate of mine was telling be about this art installation he once worked on. They took about 600 laser pointers and hung them from a ceiling (pointed down) on small springs in a smallish room. When people walked on the floor of the room above, it made the pointers jiggle all over the place in a not-so-quite random way and "draw" little designs on the floor.
Very interesting effect.
Sorry, I can't find any images of it, but it's cool to think about.
No, I didnt ask if thay had to put big signs everywhere telling the unwashed masses "DO NOT STARE INTO THE POINTERS, YOU STUPID FUCKTARDS."
you may now mod this out of existence
So, is shining a light, especially one which meets US safety regulations (as all laser pointers must) at someone "assault?" How about a flashlight?
... well, all the time.
Man, I hope flashlights don't get classified like that... our entire lighting crew would have to start filing charges against each other.
Example [stagehands working 50 feet in the air, in the dark]:
"Hey! You got that 25 footer i need for this..."
"What?" [looks up to talk to me]
"That twenty-fiv... WAAAAUGH! DUDE! Headlamp."
"Oh, yeah. Sorry."
"s'cool. I'm just going to sit down a minute so I don't fall off this truss..."
This is a true story. It happens roughly
Names withheld to protect the semi-innocent
LED headlamps, greatest thing ever.
I find your sig insightful and compelling.