(more) Cognitive Overflow

kellyoxford:

Look you have plows, we have plows, you have vehicles, we have vehicles.

Wrong. That’s a false comparison.

Washington hasn’t had a snowfall close to this for seven years. It doesn’t make sense for Washington (or Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc) to invest in the quantity or quality of plows and trained drivers that you see in Canada, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, etc.

While 3’ of snow in DC is 3’ of snow in Canada (or 91.44 cm if you prefer), they’re not the same.  If you live in a place where it’s more commonplace, it’s manageable. As it is, the infrastructure doesn’t exist here to handle this.

Lay off and we won’t tease you during your next heat wave about how you should have more air conditioned houses and buildings.

(I shouldn’t take this personally or even reply. I’m sick of this snow.)

marco:

• media
• brand
• trend (as a verb, incl. “trending”)

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Can we add “invite” as a noun?

“I will invite Kevin to the party. I will send him an invitation.”

“I want Kevin to try Google Wave. I hope he gets an invite invitation.”

finermac:

In Snow Leopard, when you have multiple displays and Exposé all windows, you will only see windows open on the current display. In Leopard it would move all the windows together onto the main display.

Yes, but if you have multiple displays and Exposé app windows, the arrow keys don’t work. Overall, I do not like the changes to Exposé. I find it takes me longer to locate the window I want in the all window Exposé.

finermac:

Although Exposé has been vastly improved in Snow Leopard, Apple did let go of one of its great qualities in doing so. Under Leopard, although the windows were haphazardly thrown together instead of being neatly organized in a grid, they were all displayed at relatively correct sizes. So if you had a long and narrow Safari window beside a shorter and wider one for Mail, they would retain their relative dimensions even in their pint-sized Exposé thumbnails.

Not so in Snow Leopard. As shown in the screenshot above (click on it to enlarge it), the thumbnails of windows in Snow Leopard occupy the maximum space their position in the grid allows them, which means that if you have two windows that have about the same aspect ratio but are of very different sizes, they’ll appear to be of exactly the same size in Exposé mode (although you can roll your mouse over them and hit Spacebar to quickly blow them up to their actual size).

I love the new Exposé in Snow Leopard but this is one change that has had me searching for the right window and being confused by others that looked like it on more than one occasion.

Oh yes indeed. And then take a small, yet very skinny window like my Adium contacts list and it shows up much larger than my large Firefox or Mail windows. It drives me batty.

I’m on Twitter. I have a dormant blog. I follow lots of news sites and blogs using Google Reader. Do I really need to be on tumblr too?