Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
--Hermann Goering--
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Later last night I installed GMarks on the new laptop, and all my 2,375,984+ bookmarks were there! But, in looking for the code to download, I came across some disturbing forum discussions - it seems that the guy who wrote it hasn't been maintaining it, and Google has changed some interfaces, and although GMarks SAYS it bookmarked a site, and the bookmark is there when you look, the next time you start up it may or may not be there anymore. Uh oh.
In the meantime I figured out how to make folders on the Firefox bookmark toolbar, and put some of the most important there, so maybe I'll just slowly transition to that.
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I also discovered that my favorite online shopping site - the rather expensive boutique with a great online outlet, with nice sales, who gives me discounts and free shipping because I'm a favored shopper, and most importantly whose sizing runs pretty much the same across all items - yeah, that place - the place where with outlet, discounts, sales, and specials I have actually received a box containing seven items with original tags totaling over $400.00, for a total cost to me of $5, which led me to ask how the heck they are staying in business - well, they may not stay in business. They are in big trouble.
Actually, I'm not surprised. Not because of the deals, but because the quality of their stuff has fallen badly over the past three years, but the catalog list prices haven't. They still have boutique prices on chintzy stuff. It's getting harder to find the quality pieces, so customers are dropping out. I've been frequently disappointed lately, but I pay so little it doesn't bother me if half the lot is crap.
But - everything always fits, and I am hard to fit. I am really going to miss them if they disappear.
(Fifteen or twenty years ago, Speigel was like that. Really nice stuff that pretty much always stayed true to size. But then it all turned to crap.)
I'm still fussing over my documents. Commenters "Z" and "Rocky" say there are some Word knockoffs available, but I haven't looked yet. Those green quotes at the top of my blog posts are randomly generated from a Works document. I have something like three more post drafts set up, and then I won't be able to get to the quotes for a while, I guess.
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I'm rather proud of my calmness with this system transition. I still hate the "apps", but it's easy to get to a desktop interface, and that's familiar. I haven't freaked out yet, not like this person:
It's true. She really did take a hammer to a brand new $1300 MacBookPro, right out of the box, because she couldn't get it to immediately play a Lady Gaga video. The guy she's talking to, who isn't responding, is her husband of three weeks, and I suspect she's really wanting to bash him, not the laptop. Notice how she starts with threatening little taps.
(There's a video on her channel from just before this one, where you do hear him respond, and a video after this on Lamarr Wilson's channel (to which I am subscribed, that's how I found it all). Lamarr had seen this video, and rushed over to her place to find out if it was true. She seemed to think Lamarr could get it to work after she'd bashed it all to Hell. Lamarr was pissed, because he's been saving for a MacBookPro for ages and isn't there yet. Lamarr's involvement convinces me that it is for real.)
Yup. Proud of my restraint. I would NEVER wear green lipstick, either.
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