I'm still here. The laptop is still trying to recover from the latest round of vicious "updates" that consumed TEN. FULL. HOURS. yesterday. The word processing program is still disabled and Chrome is not running at capacity. I don't know whether I'll be able to write and post regular posts for a few days; currently Blogspot is running, though my blog feed is fouled up, but it's very hard to write on the laptop because it has that 'optical mouse" garbage that jerks the cursor into odd places whenever a shadow passes over the battery case. (If you've noticed that the posts here don't look alike, that's because some of them were written in Libre Office and some in "older versions" of MS Word.)
Microsoft undoubtedly thinks they're selling people on Edge and Word-in-the-cloud. They are wrong.
So how can Microsoft hope to sell people on Edge or Word-in-the-cloud? First of all they can recognize that anything that is Web-dependent, or that lacks physical data storage, or that may later try to force sales of other gadgets by not working with real keyboards or some such folderol, is unsuitable for serious writing and will be tolerated here only if it works--from inside a drawer--as a router. Then, after correcting that deeply silly idea of trying to sell people silly little tablets that don't even have hard drives, Microsoft might try paying people to use their products. Of course, given Microsoft's record with paying people to use Bing, they'd have to pay cash in advance! Then, actually using these programs would have to be the smoothest, most efficient computer experience imaginable. To confirm that Microsoft's new management had learned something from its disgraced ex-employees' mistakes, competing programs would have to flow like a dream, too. Still, there'd have to be a contractual agreement that if Microsoft allowed any plagiarism-bots to see anything that's not been published to the world, they were, under strict FCC supervision, paying ten cents for each word they read. And, of course, any attempt to turn camera or microphone software on a Computer Owner or on per home, any tolerance for any site's even mentioning p-ct---s or h--e ad-----es or ph---s, would result in a substantial prison sentence.
Microsoft is out of touch with reality. Bill Gates is a megalomaniac who belongs in a padded cell, but he just may have been the sanest blighter in his company. If Microsoft's decision makers were sane, they'd know that they lost all credibility and all respect when they failed to pay people who had been using Bing, and need to crawl slowly up out of the sewer into which they dived, desperately scrubbing themselves and pleading for pardon at every breath. They will work with Windows 10 if their Lords & Masters the Customers will graciously condescend to let them! And with Windows 7! And with Windows 93! One computer per person per lifetime! Or they can eat their hubris, choke, and die.
Animals
Video, in which whales splash and dive as if they enjoyed putting on a show for the humans squealing enthusiastically on the bank--and then we see that they're dodging ships that are probably polluting the ocean. Though they may be trying to signal to the humans.
Comedy
Synchronized Air Swimming.
Food
To most of us, a canned tomato is a canned tomato. If we want a special flavor, the real Yellow Pink Center or Arkansas Traveller tomato experience, we raise our own heirloom tomatoes and let them ripen on the vine. If we just want red sauce, the store brand of diced tomatoes will do. Some Italian cooks, however, eagerly pay more for San Marzano tomatoes. And apparently they may not be getting what they're paying for...
Music
Julie London.
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