(10:02:43 PM) Ryan: FUCKING MS WORD
(10:02:44 PM) Ryan: It doesn't have to contact the fucking server
(10:02:51 PM) Ryan: It doesn't need to copy font and link information
(10:03:03 PM) Ryan: just copy the goddamn text from the website and paste the goddamn text in the document
(10:03:19 PM) Mr. Wonderful: yeah
(10:03:39 PM) Mr. Wonderful: I have major issues with the fucking user friendly shit
(10:03:40 PM) Ryan: I will find the person who oversaw the development of Office 2007
(10:03:56 PM) Ryan: I will find his home, and I will bludgeon him to a pulp with a box copy of office
(10:04:02 PM) Ryan: No jury in the world will convict me.
(10:04:19 PM) Mr. Wonderful: There is no single option for just, shut off all fucking auto-shit
(10:04:21 PM) Ryan: Especially if any jury member has ever worked a desk job.
(10:04:41 PM) Mr. Wonderful: yeah
(10:04:44 PM) Mr. Wonderful: I HATE it
(10:05:29 PM) Mr. Wonderful: I've looked it up online, one of the hottest topics on these tech help blogs is "how can I just make word do X"
(10:05:33 PM) Ryan: So to get around it, I have to first copy it to notepad
(10:05:36 PM) Ryan: fucking notepad
(10:05:41 PM) Mr. Wonderful: like, why can't I stop it from indenting
(10:05:47 PM) Ryan: Doesn't need complicated links bullshit
(10:05:49 PM) Ryan: I KNOW
(10:06:01 PM) Ryan: It doesn't need to try to be smarter than me
(10:06:09 PM) Mr. Wonderful: Smarter than I*
(10:06:11 PM) Ryan: It types things. That's what it's supposed to do.
(10:06:20 PM) Ryan: Thank you, you're right.
(10:06:22 PM) Ryan: My rage is blinding me.
(10:06:23 PM) Mr. Wonderful: if you had the paperclip, you'd have known that
(10:06:39 PM) Ryan: Go to hell.
And even Linux isn't immune to copying formatting when you just want the text. I hate having to launder stuff through GEdit before pasting it into an OpenOffice document. I want to copy the text, dammit. I can format the thing myself. If I wanted the original formatting I'd just print that.
Although, to be fair, GEdit does suck a lot less than Notepad.
In any comparison sentence using the conjunction "than", it is always I, not me. The whole sentence and idea is really "he is smarter than I (am smart)." We tend to say me more often, so to us it sounds right, but grammatically it is not.
Are you sure? It seems to me that "smarter than me" is correct because 'he' is the subject and 'me' is the object. I've never heard of a rule where 'than' causes both nouns to take the nominative case.
That's what I was taught in high school. I remember it very specifically, my grammar teacher was very adamant about this point.
But you know what. I'm going to look it up. It's entirely possible I was taught incorrectly.
Edit: Found it. It's a subject of debate, actually. My point was the implied second clause that is dropped, though some could argue that "than" should function as a preposition instead and force the pronoun into the objective.
When making a comparison with "than" do we end with a subject form or object form, "taller than I/she" or "taller than me/her." The correct response is "taller than I/she." We are looking for the subject form: "He is taller than I am/she is tall." (Except we leave out the verb in the second clause, "am" or "is.") Some good writers, however, will argue that the word "than" should be allowed to function as a preposition. If we can say "He is tall like me/her," then (if "than" could be prepositional like like) we should be able to say, "He is taller than me/her." It's an interesting argument, but — for now, anyway — in formal, academic prose, use the subject form in such comparisons.
We also want to be careful in a sentence such as "I like him better than she/her." The "she" would mean that you like this person better than she likes him; the "her" would mean that you like this male person better than you like that female person. (To avoid ambiguity and the slippery use of than, we could write "I like him better than she does" or "I like him better than I like her.")
Edit edit: Notepad doesn't suck. I was just frustrated that something as simple as notepad could do something that MS Word could not (copy paste fucking text from the internet).
(14:29:57) Bruce: So, do I go make myself a gin and tonic with lemon slice?
(14:30:06) Bruce: ...I just realised how gay that sounds
(14:30:51) Ryan: Really?
(14:31:01) Ryan: Gin and tonic is a gentleman's drink to me
(14:31:09) Bruce: It's for women here
(14:32:37) Bruce: And gays
(14:32:44) Bruce: And I'm technically neither
(14:33:06) Bruce: Curse my inability to ovulate or settle for cock!
(14:33:30) Ryan: It's a girly/gay drink in Britain?
(14:33:31) Ryan: That's sad.
(14:33:44) Ryan: Girly drinks in the US are fruity drinks
(14:33:59) Bruce: Well I do like the occasional long island ice tea
(14:34:38) Ryan: As do I
(14:34:54) Bruce: Wow, we might as well just come out to each other now and spoon...
(14:35:16) Ryan: I call big spoon.
(14:37:45) Bruce: I sleep naked
(14:38:10) Ryan: Then I definitely don't want you behind me :S
Ryan says: (3:23:32 AM)
something interesting happened here
Lauren says: (3:23:37 AM)
oh?
Ryan says: (3:23:56 AM)
I was contacted by a London based financial related magazine and invited to write a 3 page article about upcoming outsourcing trends for 2010
Ryan says: (3:24:28 AM)
I wonder if this has anything to do with my article in Computerworld Hong Kong the other month
Lauren says: (3:25:43 AM)
oooOOOOOoo
Ryan says: (3:25:47 AM)
He randomly called me
Lauren says: (3:25:50 AM)
you're gonna be a famous economist
Ryan says: (3:25:56 AM)
And I just got back froom pooping
Ryan says: (3:25:59 AM)
I almost missed it.
Lauren says: (3:26:03 AM)
LOL
Lauren says: (3:26:05 AM)
I love you
Grae says:
Krragk-iYoOp *click**whrrrrrrr* sssvvvsss-CHNK.
I HAVE OUT DONE YOU IN THE REALM OF SILLY SOUND EFFECTS. Do you realize what you have done? You merely encourage me to enact these strange skills in public, you've killed me socially in the long term you horrible horrible bastard!
Lauren says: (8:10:43 PM)
Ryan my darling!
Lauren says: (8:11:05 PM)
how is work this morning?
Ryan says: (8:11:14 PM)
Lauren, my...
Ryan says: (8:11:15 PM)
Um...
Ryan says: (8:11:23 PM)
Texan.
Lauren says: (8:11:28 PM)
well fuck
Ryan says: (8:11:29 PM)
...
Bruce says: (10:36:44)
I was just going through the belt archives
Bruce says: (10:36:57)
You need to do the refrigerator challenge.
Ryan says: (10:37:13)
It's going to be a big glass of nothing
Ryan says: (10:37:18)
Wait, no
Ryan says: (10:37:21)
Sliced cheese. I think.
Bruce says: (10:40:35)
You really need to stock that fridge
Ryan says: (10:42:03)
Nop
Ryan says: (10:42:06)
Full time job
Ryan says: (10:42:12)
Cooking eats my very valuable free time
Ryan says: (10:42:22)
Plus, eating out is about the same price as eating in, so I have no real incentive to cook
Bruce says: (10:42:25)
Because getting boned in a video game is so important :P
Ryan says: (10:42:48)
At least one of us is getting laid.
Bruce says: (10:43:02)
It's not her fault, it's the hormones!
Ryan says: (10:43:37)
No, not you
Ryan says: (10:43:46)
Me and my game character
Ryan says: (10:43:53)
I'm not getting laid, but my game character is.
Ryan says: (12:56:05)
damn it all
Ryan says: (12:56:07)
my poo schedule is out of sync
Bruce says: (12:58:10)
...nice
Ryan says: (13:00:32)
Normally I poo first thing in the morning
Ryan says: (13:00:37)
It's a nice way to start the day
Ryan says: (13:00:42)
But I just pooed now
Ryan says: (13:00:49)
I may not be able to poo tomorrow morning
Ryan says: (13:01:00)
My schedule will feel out of sync and offbeat
Bruce says: (13:07:27)
That's...disgusting
Ryan says: (13:15:37)
wat
Ryan says: (13:15:43)
There is no way in hell that disgusts you
Ryan says: (13:15:46)
You're fucking Bruce
Ryan says: (13:15:50)
You revel in the sickest of perversions
Ryan says: (13:15:53)
Don't give me that bullshit
(9:50:43 PM) Cindy: Ryan's here
(9:50:59 PM) Mr. Wonderful: Hit him!
(9:51:00 PM) Mr. Wonderful: he's late
(9:51:28 PM) Cindy: I did!
(9:51:39 PM) Cindy: he's starting his computer
(9:51:55 PM) Mr. Wonderful: Good, hit him again just to make sure he learned his lesson
(9:52:36 PM) Cindy: I will, but he looks like a hippie today
(9:52:58 PM) Mr. Wonderful: lol
(9:53:04 PM) Mr. Wonderful: he can't look like a hippy
(9:53:22 PM) Mr. Wonderful: he's too businessy
(9:53:47 PM) Cindy: no, he will dress like that when we have client visit
(9:53:58 PM) Cindy: normally he looks crappy at office
(9:54:11 PM) Mr. Wonderful: that's his regular look
(9:54:14 PM) Cindy: and a bit retarded:P
Bruce says: (09:43:36)
Imagine a swiss system in one of the world's up and coming superpowers
Ryan says: (09:44:02)
No motivation to
Ryan says: (09:44:20)
China's got a lot of soft power, and rapidly growing hard power
Ryan says: (09:44:38)
Their base defense is 'our economy is still surging, so fuck you'
Bruce says: (09:45:18)
Hehe, hard
Ryan says: (09:45:26)
Yes, I giggled a bit when I typed it too.
Bruce says: (09:45:40)
Rapidly growing too, eh?
Ryan says: (09:46:26)
Oh it's pulsating with growth
Ryan says: (09:46:34)
Throbbing, if you will
Bruce says: (09:47:00)
I'm a bit scared of continuing this conversation now...
Tanya says (14:56):
are they afraid to put things in their vajayjay?
american girls are so badass
they're like, fuck you period, and put a cork in it
instead of letting it all leak out like a baby
Comments
(10:02:44 PM) Ryan: It doesn't have to contact the fucking server
(10:02:51 PM) Ryan: It doesn't need to copy font and link information
(10:03:03 PM) Ryan: just copy the goddamn text from the website and paste the goddamn text in the document
(10:03:19 PM) Mr. Wonderful: yeah
(10:03:39 PM) Mr. Wonderful: I have major issues with the fucking user friendly shit
(10:03:40 PM) Ryan: I will find the person who oversaw the development of Office 2007
(10:03:56 PM) Ryan: I will find his home, and I will bludgeon him to a pulp with a box copy of office
(10:04:02 PM) Ryan: No jury in the world will convict me.
(10:04:19 PM) Mr. Wonderful: There is no single option for just, shut off all fucking auto-shit
(10:04:21 PM) Ryan: Especially if any jury member has ever worked a desk job.
(10:04:41 PM) Mr. Wonderful: yeah
(10:04:44 PM) Mr. Wonderful: I HATE it
(10:05:29 PM) Mr. Wonderful: I've looked it up online, one of the hottest topics on these tech help blogs is "how can I just make word do X"
(10:05:33 PM) Ryan: So to get around it, I have to first copy it to notepad
(10:05:36 PM) Ryan: fucking notepad
(10:05:41 PM) Mr. Wonderful: like, why can't I stop it from indenting
(10:05:47 PM) Ryan: Doesn't need complicated links bullshit
(10:05:49 PM) Ryan: I KNOW
(10:06:01 PM) Ryan: It doesn't need to try to be smarter than me
(10:06:09 PM) Mr. Wonderful: Smarter than I*
(10:06:11 PM) Ryan: It types things. That's what it's supposed to do.
(10:06:20 PM) Ryan: Thank you, you're right.
(10:06:22 PM) Ryan: My rage is blinding me.
(10:06:23 PM) Mr. Wonderful: if you had the paperclip, you'd have known that
(10:06:39 PM) Ryan: Go to hell.
And even Linux isn't immune to copying formatting when you just want the text. I hate having to launder stuff through GEdit before pasting it into an OpenOffice document. I want to copy the text, dammit. I can format the thing myself. If I wanted the original formatting I'd just print that.
Although, to be fair, GEdit does suck a lot less than Notepad.
In any comparison sentence using the conjunction "than", it is always I, not me. The whole sentence and idea is really "he is smarter than I (am smart)." We tend to say me more often, so to us it sounds right, but grammatically it is not.
Also, I've lost my sense of grammar long ago. I blame the internet.
Also also, it is with great irony that I can say that Clippy was awesome. I cannot resist saying this now that he has been safely retired.
But you know what. I'm going to look it up. It's entirely possible I was taught incorrectly.
Edit: Found it. It's a subject of debate, actually. My point was the implied second clause that is dropped, though some could argue that "than" should function as a preposition instead and force the pronoun into the objective.
Edit edit: Notepad doesn't suck. I was just frustrated that something as simple as notepad could do something that MS Word could not (copy paste fucking text from the internet).
(14:30:06) Bruce: ...I just realised how gay that sounds
(14:30:51) Ryan: Really?
(14:31:01) Ryan: Gin and tonic is a gentleman's drink to me
(14:31:09) Bruce: It's for women here
(14:32:37) Bruce: And gays
(14:32:44) Bruce: And I'm technically neither
(14:33:06) Bruce: Curse my inability to ovulate or settle for cock!
(14:33:30) Ryan: It's a girly/gay drink in Britain?
(14:33:31) Ryan: That's sad.
(14:33:44) Ryan: Girly drinks in the US are fruity drinks
(14:33:59) Bruce: Well I do like the occasional long island ice tea
(14:34:38) Ryan: As do I
(14:34:54) Bruce: Wow, we might as well just come out to each other now and spoon...
(14:35:16) Ryan: I call big spoon.
(14:37:45) Bruce: I sleep naked
(14:38:10) Ryan: Then I definitely don't want you behind me :S
something interesting happened here
Lauren says: (3:23:37 AM)
oh?
Ryan says: (3:23:56 AM)
I was contacted by a London based financial related magazine and invited to write a 3 page article about upcoming outsourcing trends for 2010
Ryan says: (3:24:28 AM)
I wonder if this has anything to do with my article in Computerworld Hong Kong the other month
Lauren says: (3:25:43 AM)
oooOOOOOoo
Ryan says: (3:25:47 AM)
He randomly called me
Lauren says: (3:25:50 AM)
you're gonna be a famous economist
Ryan says: (3:25:56 AM)
And I just got back froom pooping
Ryan says: (3:25:59 AM)
I almost missed it.
Lauren says: (3:26:03 AM)
LOL
Lauren says: (3:26:05 AM)
I love you
Zlamzambo says:
Hello
Grae says:
yo
blah
Zlamzambo says:
bluh
Grae says:
blur
Zlamzambo says:
blue
Grae says:
blau
Zlamzambo says:
bahu
Grae says:
bluhrrr
Zlamzambo says:
bluhr-govamp
Grae says:
glaurhgr-r-rraaak
Zlamzambo says:
Grici-HAH *pop* *click* Woo-vamplo
Grae says:
Krragk-iYoOp *click**whrrrrrrr* sssvvvsss-CHNK.
I HAVE OUT DONE YOU IN THE REALM OF SILLY SOUND EFFECTS. Do you realize what you have done? You merely encourage me to enact these strange skills in public, you've killed me socially in the long term you horrible horrible bastard!
Zlamzambo says:
+1 Point!
Whooo
Grae says:
+1 point, Party_Down debuff added.
Zlamzambo says:
weee
Ryan my darling!
Lauren says: (8:11:05 PM)
how is work this morning?
Ryan says: (8:11:14 PM)
Lauren, my...
Ryan says: (8:11:15 PM)
Um...
Ryan says: (8:11:23 PM)
Texan.
Lauren says: (8:11:28 PM)
well fuck
Ryan says: (8:11:29 PM)
...
Totally found a new signature quote.
I was just going through the belt archives
Bruce says: (10:36:57)
You need to do the refrigerator challenge.
Ryan says: (10:37:13)
It's going to be a big glass of nothing
Ryan says: (10:37:18)
Wait, no
Ryan says: (10:37:21)
Sliced cheese. I think.
Bruce says: (10:40:35)
You really need to stock that fridge
Ryan says: (10:42:03)
Nop
Ryan says: (10:42:06)
Full time job
Ryan says: (10:42:12)
Cooking eats my very valuable free time
Ryan says: (10:42:22)
Plus, eating out is about the same price as eating in, so I have no real incentive to cook
Bruce says: (10:42:25)
Because getting boned in a video game is so important :P
Ryan says: (10:42:48)
At least one of us is getting laid.
Bruce says: (10:43:02)
It's not her fault, it's the hormones!
Ryan says: (10:43:37)
No, not you
Ryan says: (10:43:46)
Me and my game character
Ryan says: (10:43:53)
I'm not getting laid, but my game character is.
damn it all
Ryan says: (12:56:07)
my poo schedule is out of sync
Bruce says: (12:58:10)
...nice
Ryan says: (13:00:32)
Normally I poo first thing in the morning
Ryan says: (13:00:37)
It's a nice way to start the day
Ryan says: (13:00:42)
But I just pooed now
Ryan says: (13:00:49)
I may not be able to poo tomorrow morning
Ryan says: (13:01:00)
My schedule will feel out of sync and offbeat
Bruce says: (13:07:27)
That's...disgusting
Ryan says: (13:15:37)
wat
Ryan says: (13:15:43)
There is no way in hell that disgusts you
Ryan says: (13:15:46)
You're fucking Bruce
Ryan says: (13:15:50)
You revel in the sickest of perversions
Ryan says: (13:15:53)
Don't give me that bullshit
(9:50:59 PM) Mr. Wonderful: Hit him!
(9:51:00 PM) Mr. Wonderful: he's late
(9:51:28 PM) Cindy: I did!
(9:51:39 PM) Cindy: he's starting his computer
(9:51:55 PM) Mr. Wonderful: Good, hit him again just to make sure he learned his lesson
(9:52:36 PM) Cindy: I will, but he looks like a hippie today
(9:52:58 PM) Mr. Wonderful: lol
(9:53:04 PM) Mr. Wonderful: he can't look like a hippy
(9:53:22 PM) Mr. Wonderful: he's too businessy
(9:53:47 PM) Cindy: no, he will dress like that when we have client visit
(9:53:58 PM) Cindy: normally he looks crappy at office
(9:54:11 PM) Mr. Wonderful: that's his regular look
(9:54:14 PM) Cindy: and a bit retarded:P
Imagine a swiss system in one of the world's up and coming superpowers
Ryan says: (09:44:02)
No motivation to
Ryan says: (09:44:20)
China's got a lot of soft power, and rapidly growing hard power
Ryan says: (09:44:38)
Their base defense is 'our economy is still surging, so fuck you'
Bruce says: (09:45:18)
Hehe, hard
Ryan says: (09:45:26)
Yes, I giggled a bit when I typed it too.
Bruce says: (09:45:40)
Rapidly growing too, eh?
Ryan says: (09:46:26)
Oh it's pulsating with growth
Ryan says: (09:46:34)
Throbbing, if you will
Bruce says: (09:47:00)
I'm a bit scared of continuing this conversation now...
Tanya says (14:56):
are they afraid to put things in their vajayjay?
american girls are so badass
they're like, fuck you period, and put a cork in it
instead of letting it all leak out like a baby