Wednesday, April 26, 2006
bah!
When I first heard System of a Down I really liked them - really.
I still like their riffs and the tempo at which they play - fast; and Science on Toxicity is a killer tune.
But last nite I saw the video for a single from Mesmerize (which I listened to briefly before having to run away lest I vomit in my shoes) named Lonely Day.
The tune is fine and the video quite good, but the lyrics, *sigh*, the lyrics. Fucking appalling.
Purposefully grammatically incorrect (offensively so), infantile and featuring THE WORST last stanza of any song that I've ever heard. Horror.
Also, a while ago I succeeded in messing up Windows badly.
I was under the impression that somehow Task Manager had died and so I used what was left of it to kill Explorer (which seems to be a good catch all solution to anything going wrong on the desktop). I landed up in a terrible state.
Now I find out that this behaviour is a feature!
It turns out that Task Manager can run in 'Tiny Footprint Mode'.
To see this wonder of MS design in action, simply double click Task Manager where the (beautifully drawn) arrow shows.
The window will collapse to this:
Double clicking the border again will revert it back to normal mode.
Now I can see how this can be useful if you want to monitor a process for a long time and don't want Task Manager to take up too much screen real estate.
But for any poor fool (like myself) that doesn't know about this feature and who accidentally ends up going there.
And who then decides to try to fix the situation by killing explorer (which then sometimes does not start up again) the outcome will be a total UI meltdown even though the underlying OS is still fine.
And to add insult to injury there is a last cute little kicker - if you reboot Windows with Task Manager in Tiny Footprint Mode (hoping to restore it) it will conveniently stay in Tiny Footprint mode. Nice!
I still like their riffs and the tempo at which they play - fast; and Science on Toxicity is a killer tune.
But last nite I saw the video for a single from Mesmerize (which I listened to briefly before having to run away lest I vomit in my shoes) named Lonely Day.
The tune is fine and the video quite good, but the lyrics, *sigh*, the lyrics. Fucking appalling.
Purposefully grammatically incorrect (offensively so), infantile and featuring THE WORST last stanza of any song that I've ever heard. Horror.
Such a lonely day
And its mine
The most loneliest day of my life
Such a lonely day
Should be banned
It's a day that I can't stand
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
Such a lonely day
Shouldn't exist
It's a day that I'll never miss
Such a lonely day
And its mine
The most loneliest day of my life
And if you go, I wanna go with you
And if you die, I wanna die with you
Take your hand and walk away
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
Life
Such a lonely day
And its mine
It's a day that I'm glad I survived
Also, a while ago I succeeded in messing up Windows badly.
I was under the impression that somehow Task Manager had died and so I used what was left of it to kill Explorer (which seems to be a good catch all solution to anything going wrong on the desktop). I landed up in a terrible state.
Now I find out that this behaviour is a feature!
It turns out that Task Manager can run in 'Tiny Footprint Mode'.
To see this wonder of MS design in action, simply double click Task Manager where the (beautifully drawn) arrow shows.
The window will collapse to this:
Double clicking the border again will revert it back to normal mode.
Now I can see how this can be useful if you want to monitor a process for a long time and don't want Task Manager to take up too much screen real estate.
But for any poor fool (like myself) that doesn't know about this feature and who accidentally ends up going there.
And who then decides to try to fix the situation by killing explorer (which then sometimes does not start up again) the outcome will be a total UI meltdown even though the underlying OS is still fine.
And to add insult to injury there is a last cute little kicker - if you reboot Windows with Task Manager in Tiny Footprint Mode (hoping to restore it) it will conveniently stay in Tiny Footprint mode. Nice!
// posted by werner @ 11:12:00 am 
