Being Mr. Kenny

You know, I think I might be switching allegiances. I’m getting sick to death of Firefox’s unpolished stupidness, I might just drop it completely and move over to Safari. I’ve already dumped Thunderbird because it couldn’t wrap text properly, and I’m just about ready to do the same to Firefox. You know it’s bad when the only thing keeping you on it is a third-party add-on (Web Developer).

I’ve tried installing the British English dictionary, but it still insists that “color” is spelt correctly. I hate the fact that even though it’s been ported to the Mac OS, it hasn’t bothered to change the appearance of the widgets (buttons, text inputs, drop-down menus). That to me is laziness. You’re making a Mac application, guys, show a little bit of respect for aesthetics. And drop your own spell-checker, use the native Mac one. Surely that’s easier than writing your own, anyway!

Good luck with version 3, see you then.

http://www.fogcreek.com/About.html

I don’t really want to be a software developer, but this is so amazing that it makes me want to work for them. Imagine if the government adopted this approach towards education? I think then we would finally live in a civilisation, and not this cesspit of bureaucracy we find ourselves in.

Death to politics! Death to the whole stinking lot!

I hate it.

That is all.

Mornings are a common theme in my blog posts I’ve noticed. This observation is easily explained. Simply, I hate mornings. More specifically, I hate getting out of bed.

I am completely puzzled as to why getting out of bed should be so unpleasant. Everything else that contributes to survival is pleasurable: eating, sleeping, being warm, etc. Surely waking up and getting on with the day is quite a large part of survival, so why should it be so horribly painful? Major design flaw in the human brain, I’m thinking.

The only thing that can make mornings more bearable, apart from the inspiration of the Spirit, is mango juice. Quick poem:

Mango juice

1. Tasty and delicious.
2. Fruity and nutritious.

Everyone who knows me will know that I love to eat. Strictly, this isn’t quite true. I love to eat when I’m hungry, but today I am tired of being hungry. The cost of eating is that you have to buy food, and frankly this makes the whole process of eating lose its shine. So today, instead of buying food and eating it, I am just not going to eat.

Seriously, it’s the only way my hunger will learn. It can’t just arrive unannounced and expect me to satisfy it. I have other things that I want to do today, and eating isn’t one of them. So I’m not eating today. No sir. No thanks.

That’s really the end of my post.

This is another reason why we should instigate Mourning Morning as quickly as possible. I have been looking forward to sleepily staying in bed this Saturday morning all week, but apparently my body got so much good quality sleep that it decided that 7.30 was a good time to be fully awake.

Naturally I completely disagreed, so forced myself to go back to sleep. I even tried to emulate Monday morning by getting my alarm clock to go off every 9 minutes (true alarm clocks go off every 9 minutes after snooze, not 10 — but here’s the mystery: nobody knows why*). I stretched out the lie-in until 11.11, and then was forced to get out of bed because I was aching and filled with misery. So much for lie-ins I tell you. It’s horrible. I’ve been getting up at 6 for the last, well, ever it seems, and I’m tired of it. No pun intended. This is too serious for puns.

What has happened to my student ability to sleep? I used to be able to waste my life perfectly happily, and now I can’t bear to stay in bed much past 9 before my conscience goes mental. Why, it’s almost as if I’m becoming a useful member of society.

The worst part is the the only vestige of the student lifestyle I have left is my poor, crippled finances. A cosmic joke, if ever there was one.

Anyway, I’d better get dressed. The house needs hoovering.

* This is true, actually, look it up.

A total moron recently wrote in to say:

Why did I just spam your blog? I spammed it because america is under attack by tyrannical individuals who every day are eroding the bill of rights and constitution of the United States. A wise man once said, (paraphrased) “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”. If you had a chance to stop hitler, napoleon, mao, lenin, or pol pot from coming to power, would you? Or would you blindly look the other way while they killed millions of people? Do you think it cant happen here? If you think it cant or wont happen in the US then you’re nieve, blind or both.

Give him his credit, he identifies that he’s just left spam. But also, don’t give him that credit, actually, because what kind of moron thinks that leaving spam is a valid, proper way to make your political ideas known.

What an incredible cretin. What an absolutely amazing, unsurpassably brain-damaged, self-absorbed pile of worthless crap. Does he really think that doing this kind of stuff is going to help his cause? This is the same as cold-calling. This is like people who turn up on your doorstep to sell rubbish you don’t want. It’s the exact same thing. This kind of spam is worse than the slime posted by invertebrates who try to push penis enlargement drugs, or porn, or loans.

I wish desperate failure upon his spamming campaign. Desperate, expensive failure. I hope his computer gets confiscated. Total moron, may you learn from your mistake and not try to use my blog as a soap-box for your views. That’s my job.