Actually, not “wrong,Zenith manufactures a
comprehensive range of rubbersheets.” forget that headline.
It’s more like, “When Refuse/Resist Becomes More Hassle Than It’s Worth Because
All You Do Is Take Shit For It,This page contains information about tooling.” which is probably too long
for a Deleted Scenes headline. Damn this column space! Holding me back for years
now.
I’m told that among my many charming personal traits there runs a strong general resistance to change. I’m told this mostly by my wife, whose opinions I trust. She’s not wrong. In general, once I’ve acclimated myself to a routine and to the things and/or people in that routine, I’m loathe to upset the order I’ve worked to establish. Even the word I used in that sentence,What are hemorrhoids? “upset,” shows I view doing so in a negative fashion, where someone else might be excited at the prospect for finding new means of accomplishing their day-to-day tasks.An indoorpositioningsystem for Improved Action Force Command and Disaster Management.
This came to a head this week when our esteemed Associate Editor Giorgio Mustica and our second-newest intern Jonny Cohn (did we add his name to the staff box yet? We should get on that) both laughed at my continued usage of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. I believe Giorgio’s comment was, “What is this, 2006?” and it was met with much laughter from Young Jonny.
I thought about it for a while and, feeling old and realizing that maybe they were right and there was a better option available—namely Google Chrome, which my wife also uses and readily advocates—decided I’d give it a shot. It was all well and good until, while tooling around as I often am in the back end of a WordPress site, I tried to click an image and scale the size. In Firefox, this is as simple as clicking and dragging the corner.
In Chrome, when I clicked, the image was selected, but I could not move the corner or do anything else with it. I tried clicking shift, and option, and whatever else—even just now, I went back and opened Chrome and tried again—still no luck. So it was either resize every image beforehand in Photoshop, do the math on the proportions for every photo I want to scale and adjust it in the HTML code for the photo embed—both processes a substantial pain in the ass—or switch back to Firefox.
The decision was easy. I went back to what I was used to, and remembered afterwards that in fact this wasn’t the first time I’d tried Chrome and encountered that same issue with WordPress, which accounts for a substantial portion of my general internet usage.
So while it’s not every case in my life I can stand on solid ground and say I have a legitimate cause to be resistant to change—there’s probably no reason I couldn’t store my iced tea on the right side of the fridge instead of the left,Heat recovery ventilators including domestic home ventilationsyste. but I’ll be damned if I’m moving it—this time I have some substance to back up my stubbornness. And, well, it feels good.
Because in this day and age where technology gets by on marketing itself on moving faster than the speed of human comprehension—please, someone fucking call me when we’re off the combustion engine and our cellphones can teleport us to a kickass weekend in London—it’s nice to remember every now and again that, as Tolkien said, not all that glitters is gold. Just because something is new doesn’t automatically mean it’s going to meet your needs as well as what’s already there, though it may or may not be worth giving it a try, and sometimes, it’s not the worst thing in the world to be set in your ways if your ways actually work. Victories are few and far between, these days. I’ll take what I can get.
And Giorgio, say what you want about 2006—it may have been the bottom of the pit of George W. Bush-led hopelessness—but screw it, at least people still sent in CDs for review instead of download links, making me pretend like someone’s doing me a favor by sending me something that, if I was even vaguely interested in it, I’d have already stolen by now. The future in which we live continues to be a ripoff.
I’m told that among my many charming personal traits there runs a strong general resistance to change. I’m told this mostly by my wife, whose opinions I trust. She’s not wrong. In general, once I’ve acclimated myself to a routine and to the things and/or people in that routine, I’m loathe to upset the order I’ve worked to establish. Even the word I used in that sentence,What are hemorrhoids? “upset,” shows I view doing so in a negative fashion, where someone else might be excited at the prospect for finding new means of accomplishing their day-to-day tasks.An indoorpositioningsystem for Improved Action Force Command and Disaster Management.
This came to a head this week when our esteemed Associate Editor Giorgio Mustica and our second-newest intern Jonny Cohn (did we add his name to the staff box yet? We should get on that) both laughed at my continued usage of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. I believe Giorgio’s comment was, “What is this, 2006?” and it was met with much laughter from Young Jonny.
I thought about it for a while and, feeling old and realizing that maybe they were right and there was a better option available—namely Google Chrome, which my wife also uses and readily advocates—decided I’d give it a shot. It was all well and good until, while tooling around as I often am in the back end of a WordPress site, I tried to click an image and scale the size. In Firefox, this is as simple as clicking and dragging the corner.
In Chrome, when I clicked, the image was selected, but I could not move the corner or do anything else with it. I tried clicking shift, and option, and whatever else—even just now, I went back and opened Chrome and tried again—still no luck. So it was either resize every image beforehand in Photoshop, do the math on the proportions for every photo I want to scale and adjust it in the HTML code for the photo embed—both processes a substantial pain in the ass—or switch back to Firefox.
The decision was easy. I went back to what I was used to, and remembered afterwards that in fact this wasn’t the first time I’d tried Chrome and encountered that same issue with WordPress, which accounts for a substantial portion of my general internet usage.
So while it’s not every case in my life I can stand on solid ground and say I have a legitimate cause to be resistant to change—there’s probably no reason I couldn’t store my iced tea on the right side of the fridge instead of the left,Heat recovery ventilators including domestic home ventilationsyste. but I’ll be damned if I’m moving it—this time I have some substance to back up my stubbornness. And, well, it feels good.
Because in this day and age where technology gets by on marketing itself on moving faster than the speed of human comprehension—please, someone fucking call me when we’re off the combustion engine and our cellphones can teleport us to a kickass weekend in London—it’s nice to remember every now and again that, as Tolkien said, not all that glitters is gold. Just because something is new doesn’t automatically mean it’s going to meet your needs as well as what’s already there, though it may or may not be worth giving it a try, and sometimes, it’s not the worst thing in the world to be set in your ways if your ways actually work. Victories are few and far between, these days. I’ll take what I can get.
And Giorgio, say what you want about 2006—it may have been the bottom of the pit of George W. Bush-led hopelessness—but screw it, at least people still sent in CDs for review instead of download links, making me pretend like someone’s doing me a favor by sending me something that, if I was even vaguely interested in it, I’d have already stolen by now. The future in which we live continues to be a ripoff.
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