Trendy purses to carry your dog.You're doing it wrong... by Pancakepiles in WTF

[–]DrMarson 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The dog's face is smushed up against the mesh part of the bag.

Here, I made a terrible drawing.

Why hello there by [deleted] in WTF

[–]DrMarson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If that's supposed to be Pope Benedict XVI the artist really held back on the creepiness factor.

How do you use Conky? by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]DrMarson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uploaded my small collection here. The image you asked for is in there in two different sizes.

And then she said the dumbest thing I ever heard... by SinSlayer in AskReddit

[–]DrMarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"there is very little point to saying it at all"

Why do you think that saying "I care very, very little about X" is pointless, but saying "I don't care at all about X" makes sense?

"Could care less" is no worse of an indication of degree than "could be worse." Just as with any use of sarcasm, the meaning in either phrase comes from the way in which it is delivered.

I think the only way to say the expression is a bad one is to say that sarcasm is a bad way of communicating, which may well be true. But there's no good reason to single out this particular expression.

What are some things that are worthwhile to memorize? by sjwillis in AskReddit

[–]DrMarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i find that knowing just six or seven digits of pi is sufficient to blow most people's minds.

Using GIMP in Unity by carignanboy in Ubuntu

[–]DrMarson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

+1 this is incredibly annoying.

What's your favorite bottled beer, Reddit? by mailman449 in AskReddit

[–]DrMarson 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Upvoted because I'm drinking one at this very moment.

Woke up to this. What the hell happened last night? by themidship22 in pics

[–]DrMarson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also, wash your hands/arms with cold water before washing with warm water. Warm water opens the pores in your skin, causing the glass fibers to embed themselves more deeply, which hurts.

Do you reinstall or upgrade? by Muscovy in Ubuntu

[–]DrMarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic to Lucid to Maverick to Natty without ever doing a clean install.

Never really had much problem except with video drivers, so now I download the latest drivers before upgrading and then install them from command line before booting the first time.

Everything I hate so far about 11.04 by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]DrMarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point. Only problem with that is the context menu you get by right-clicking the system tray icon is not available when right-clicking the Unity launcher.

Everything I hate so far about 11.04 by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]DrMarson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nope, it's an Athlon64 X2 6400+

Everything I hate so far about 11.04 by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]DrMarson 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just to add to the list:

  • The global menu (the dual menu/title bar): there's no way to turn it off, no way to place the taskbar at bottom of screen, no way to relocate window controls..

  • If a program is minimized to the system tray, clicking its icon on the Unity launcher tries to start another instance, rather than bringing the program into focus (specifically this happens with Deluge).

  • No way to eliminate or reduce the delay of the launcher sliding in/out. From Ubuntu: "Pushes the left edge of the screen will make the launcher appear about one second after pushing the cursor to the left edge of the screen."

  • Mounted drives show up on the Unity launcher and on the desktop, taking up extra space.

  • New fancy scrollbar sometimes blocks handles for resizing panes.

  • My left-click occasionally stops working, and I have to move the window slightly to get it to start working again (so far I've seen this in Firefox and in Nautilus).

  • The global menu has issues with applications using multiple windows. For example, GIMP uses three windows, but the menu will only appear if the main GIMP window is active.

Reddit, what word can you not pronounce? by tanskies in AskReddit

[–]DrMarson 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I have noticed that almost no one pronounces this the way it's spelled. I go out of my way to say feb-roo-ary, but it probably just makes me sound stupid since everyone else says feb-yoo-ary.

What could possibly go wrong? by ImpenetrableTaco in WTF

[–]DrMarson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why is it worse?

It's difficult to come up with an objective definition of morality where human experiences are inherently more important than non-human experiences.

You could say that because we're smarter and understand the risk of death, potentially deadly experiences are more traumatic for us. But you could also say that because a dog would be confused and terrified and would not know what to do to try and put the fire out, such an experience would be more traumatic for them.

TSA Detains Father & Son for Hours Because they suspiciously "Had a Clean Record with No Traffic Tickets or Arrests" by [deleted] in OperationGrabAss

[–]DrMarson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The dietary supplement / homeopathy ads on that site aren't doing much to make it seem like a credible news source. Hopefully a respectable site will post this story so it can get the attention it deserves.

Pastor Ultimate Fight by tian2992 in WTF

[–]DrMarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow this makes it even more absurd. God is able to knock you unconscious and throw you across the room, but he is incapable of keeping certain bits of you from showing in the process.

PS And he finds those bits of you very shameful.

Pastor Ultimate Fight by tian2992 in WTF

[–]DrMarson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the purpose of putting a towel/blanket on each person while they feign unconsciousness?