...and their invective is just noise

[avram]

I think my weather menu app just may be on crack:



I’ve downloaded the most recent version just in case.

I wonder if there’s a cut-off age for when people stop absorbing current slang. I think I picked up “on crack” as a synonym for “crazy” at some point in my late twenties, after resisting it for a few years. And I can remember the first time I heard “way” as an intensifier (“way cool”) in college, and my roommate being surprised when I started using it.

I think I’ll continue to resist “ass” where my generation uses “crap” or “shit” (“that looks like ass”); it just sounds prissy to my ears, like something you’d say on TV when you couldn’t say “shit”.

Comments

[scottbateman.livejournal.com]

What is the other stuff in your menu bar--the scissors, the button, and the two little lines?

[avram]

From left to right:
The scissors are from an app that remembers my last ten clipboard entries, and gives me access to them.
The double-dash is from an app that displays how many unread mail messages I have. (None, at that time.)
The blue key is from Youpi Key, a utility that lets me assign scripts and macros and other things to keyboard combinations or its own menu.
Then there’s the weather thing.
The magnifying glass is the icon for Searchling, which gives my Google search in my menubar (invokable from a keyboard shortcut, so I can do a search without touching teh mouse).
The next one indicates the strength of my local wireless Ethernet signal.
Then the battery level indicator, and then the day and time.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what the hell do those symbols mean, anyway? It's 72 degrees, it's gonna snow, and you're gonna be attacked by Sherlock Holmes and Banshee, it seems to me.

[acrobatty.livejournal.com]

But then Daredevil will come to his aid, see?

[liiepirtae.livejournal.com]

I need this program.