A Few Scattered Thoughts
I will defy taxonomy for this post.
I went to a coffee shop called Cafe Nero today. Everything there was in English (and Italian for style points). The waitstaff were wearing shirts that said “The best espresso this side of Milan.” I got a kick out of that, because we’re on the other side of Milan.
There seem to be two ways to enjoy Tool’s music. If you listen to the music, the lyrics are too complicated to follow. If you listen to the lyrics, you’re so blown away by whatever is trying to be communicated that you don’t really feel the music. I still don’t understand what “Lateralus” is about, but it’s something special either way you listen to it. Something about spirals. In fact, that whole Lateralus album kind of has a math/geometry thing (“Parabola” is another song title).
IE 6 has so many little pernicious [yeah, I had to look it up to make sure I knew what it means] bugs. Efendi sizes its main writing <textarea> percentage-wise to ensure good adaptation to netbook screens, etc. But if you hit a line wrap just right (one fraction of one character along the column that I split by not specifying by number of columns exactly), the whole business erupts in horizontal scrollbars. Now I can’t make sure I wrote “Now” rather than “No” without scrolling.
I’m marking that bug WONTFIX, because no other browser on earth is dumb enough to mess up line wrapping like that.
I wanted to lay down a tribute to the hundreds of Turks that every day put their lives on the line to avoid having to stand out an extra light cycle when crossing the street. We all owe them dearly for creating so much gridlock in the afternoon.