Sweet Dreams

I can't remember now if this was a dream or just an early morning idea. Maybe a bit of both.
Anyhow, last night I looked at a book on Bruegel, which also had several pieces from Hieronymus Bosch. So either I dreamed or thought of wandering around in a Bosch-like world that moves around with limited flash animation. Imagine one of those paintings totally alive with moments of motion. totally brain-damaging. :)

Also... Ever notice that Bosch's Garden of Delights looks a LOT like PepperLand? Same layout and basic forms. I think some of the meanies also match up pretty well with some of the demons. I wonder if that was intentional.

Amusement and Annoyance

Heehee. So I went and looked up my Amazon.com order for this book I wanted and just for grins, I thought I'd see what books the recommend for me.

I was somewhat amused by the response. http://circle.twu.net/photos/amusing/amazon.jpg

Ha! NONE! They can make NO recommendations for me! I fit no consumer patterns! ^_^

Of course, the truth is, my pattern is quite predictable. I just don't buy things from Amazon.com unless there's no other way I can purchase them. I don't make sense to them because I only buy at local independently-owned bookshops.

Anyhow. The annoyance part now. I'm in the ARB so that means I'm stuck using a PC. First off, let me say that Internet Exploder crashed 3 times just looking at www.space.com. Also, unlike Unix and the Mac, it does not have TAB auto-completion of text. In fact, it doesn't even remember URLs well and thinks there's a difference between http://some.stupid.address and some.stupid.address.

Next, OMFG MS-Paint sucks ass. Sweet monkey Jesus. I'll write them a better paint program if they want. For FREE! The can have it, just get rid of that f***ing piece of crap. You'll notice my screen-grab looks really assy. MS Paint (apparently) doesn't let you set the quality of the JPG so somehow they managed to make it REALLY blocky _AND_ a massive file size (454K) Seriously. WTF. The .GIF it generated was even more pathetic. Seriously. WTF.

Now finally... About their filesystem structure... Gah. Simply idiotic and the file browser too... UGH. And ... EIGHT AND THREE with the whole ~1 crap when you open a terminal prompt and do DIR? STILL!?!?!?! Holy freaking crap!

Why why why WHY are people still using this OS? Gah. I switched like two years ago and have never regretted it.