Patrick:
[S]ometimes individuals are "unpopular" because everybody else is being a shit, and sometimes they're "unpopular" because other people are exercising reasonable judgement. If you lump the two kinds of situations together indiscriminately, you'll get morally incoherent results.
You just made my week.
With your leave, I am copying this into a large, legible bold font, possibly something like Caslon, and printing it on the largest format paper I can conveniently find, to live in a place of honor on my bulletin board.
Teresa, true: Al Gore is definitely Clark Kent. But the Palpatine-Lieberman comparison shots were too priceless not to share.
Rikibeth: My fiancee has already brought down the veto on the Imperial March at our wedding, I'm afraid. I'm still holding out hope for putting the Cantina Song in to the mix for the reception, though...
You can get a point-by-point breakdown here:
Is Joe Lieberman actually Emperor Palpatine?
Although the music I'm thinking of (for no direct reason I can identify) is "What Do You Get A Wookie For Christmas (When He Already Has A Comb)?" From the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Which, if anyone here has seen it, should induce wracking pain at the memory. You're welcome.
Glenn: I am reminded of Aaron Sorkin saying "I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like."
You know, I wasn't under the delusion that I'm the only person that gets that kind of tough love from white pieces of paper, but I have to admit that it's nice to know it goes all the way up to the top.
Worse than white pieces of paper, though, are glowing blank white windows on a computer screen. They scare me. I have to dirty up paper before I can face them, which oddly enough helps get over the other neurosis... okay, this is getting pathological. I'll stop.
I am amused and appalled, but not surprised, at how many of these delusions are isomorphic to those of artists and designers. Particularly, I think, designers.
I'm designing for a kind of user that doesn't yet exist. Oh, yes.
And I'm convinced that When I do it, it'll work is responsible for far, far too much consumer-product landfill space.
Oh, look, another convergence device...
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