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AI’s CWoB: YellowText

“Of course, the big plus about cocaine is that it works great for the first couple of weeks,” I mused. Let’s be fair. You get your first whetevers for free (if “Walker: Texas Ranger” has taught me anything), and you get days and days of enhanced alertness and productivity without distractions like sleeping and having to leave the room before going to the bathroom.

But even as the steel door in front of the post office started ratcheting down and I skidded underneath it on my belly like Pete Rose trying to make it to third and beat the point spread, I dismissed the thought. Cocaine gives a great demo, but once you’re stuck with the decision on a day-to-day basis you quickly come to regret it. I chose Macs over Windows for exactly this reason. End of aside.)

AI’s CWoB: YellowText “You wouldn’t think that a tech company could stay in business for a whole decade when their flagship product is a word processor that can’t even do boldface. When the app in question is as well-done as BBEdit, though, it makes sense. BBEdit (technically, it’s a programmer’s text editor) is the official word-processor of YellowText and I’ve used it to write hundreds of columns and articles. Other word processors have more features, but I find that BBEdit represents the most negligible obstacle between my Art and the mechanical process that converts it into glorious, filthy cash. At no point, for instance, has my Writing Trance been broken by a cartoon character that bounded onto the scene to comment that it looks as though I’m writing an interior monologue scene and would I like to format it as an address label instead?
It also has a tendency not to destroy my manuscripts and I really do find that absolutely charming.”

“Kids will see the bloody truth behind their moms’ pretentious pelts. Accompanied by graphic photographs of skinned carcasses and animals languishing on fur farms … All they can do is cry-just so your greedy mommy can have that fur coat to show off in when she walks the streets.”
You know, being vegetarian and all that is one thing … and fur is wrong … but they are passing these ‘comics’ out to small children at nutcracker performances for christmas. Um. Well, at least mommy “walks the streets” in their hypo so we can see that the skin trade is a trans-species opportunity. Too bad Aesop’s not around to spin this a bit better. That feisty June Cleaver (*bah du dum*) look about her sure does something for me though.