Shopping¶
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And a few bullets du jour:
- When shopping today the record store was already closed at 4. Lazy bastards.
- Checkout people having to chat to you – OMG, who'd want that?! (via 2lmc).
- In the same context: Sainsbury vs. Tesco and general Supermarket demographics.
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I strongly believe in things like
you are what you eat,
you are where you shop
andyou shop wherever is most convenient
. OK, that's slightly contradictory, but it works. Those ultra-cheap supermarkets are quite dire. - What a nice idea – freeing your books. (via wil)
- Yesterday the topic of who owns whom came up somehow – with someone claiming that bastard company Nestlé belongs to Kraft (i.e. Philip Morris, i.e. some crappy pseudo-Latin name these days) by now. Looking up on the 'net revealed it doesn't, but I couldn't find a handy overview type-of-thing that neatly lists the hierarchy à la Philip Morris aka crappy pseudo-Latin name owns Kraft owns Suchard who make Milka chocolates... That kind of thing in a comprehensive and easy to use way. Any pointers.
- While 'researching' this we referred to the 'No Logo' book. I dawned on me then that my copy is completely set in Rotis Semi Sans, which may be another reason why the font family looked so familiar to me back then. I don't think it's a good face for long texts, though.
- I also found that the attac people could use a prettier website with a working find field. Just because the bad guys have big websites doesn't mean you can't have one as well.
- An article on how it may be nice to use pictures to make big numbers easier to understand and on how people often overdo this – leading to completely ridiculous analogies.
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Apple run MSOffice 2004 ads on their front page these days. The main benefits are
Improved user interface using Quartz effects
– gee whiz –Record audio notes in Word
– aka useless in SimpleText since 1995 or so. I see huge productivity increases because of these. -
In the seminar talk I'll give tomorrow, I'll prove this little bastard
![\mathrm{ind}_t P =(-1)^n \left(\mathrm{ch}^{TX}(\sigma_P) \hat{A}^2(TX)\right)[TX]](http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/graphics/formulae/CohomologicalIndexFormula.png)
What will take most of the time, though, is explaining what the various symbols mean. Only the (-1) is obvious, and the [TX] perhaps, but everything else cries for technical discussion.
