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THESE ARE A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT I HATE (just like that old song)

Television. Broadcast TV is the worst. I don't get to watch a lot of television but when I do I understand why Elvis liked to shoot his all the time. To paraphrase Marx, television is the opiate of the masses. Perhaps the only thing worse than actual TV is TV Guide. I recently had the misfortune to peruse a friend's copy looking for something. Oh my God! What a pretentious, self-congratulatory piece of crap! If that is not bad enough, they don't even list daytime programming for during the week. They just say Monday through Friday "various programs". Doesn't this obviate the actual use of a guide, knowing what is going to come on? That is like a weatherman telling me that there will be weather in the next few days.

On a similar note: desk calculators that round off. What in the name of God's green hell is the use of a calculator that rounds off numbers? That is not even a calculator! It is an estimator! If I have a math problem big enough to need a calculator I will want to be able to see all the tenths past the decimal.

posted by zailo @ 12:40 PM

Wednesday, February 11, 2004