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I figured I'd take a page from Some Woman and do an Awesome/Blech!/Whatever journal entry. Since Slashcode sucks and I can't put tables in, I'll do this in sort of a bulleted list thing. I think this is a pretty cool idea. I edited her selections a bit, but I kept the overall theme the same. The "Whatever" category turned into a "I really don't get people's obsession with this" category.

Here it is:

Music
Awesome: Sophie Ellis Bextor
Blech!: Nelly
Whatever: John Mayer

Operating Systems
Awesome: Windows XP; Mac OS X
Blech!: Windows 98; Windows ME; Debian
Whatever: Gentoo

Applications
Awesome: Dreamweaver MX; Photoshop 7; EditPlus
Blech!: The GIMP; vi
Whatever: emacs

Fonts
Awesome: Tahoma; Georgia
Blech!: Comic Sans MS (aka "The Soccer Mom font")
Whatever: Times New Roman

Hardware
Awesome: Pentium IV 3.06GHz
Blech!: VIA chipsets
Whatever: AMD processors

Companies
Awesome: Dell; Apple; Adobe; Macromedia
Blech!: Disney
Whatever: Microsoft

TV Shows
Awesome: Six Feet Under
Blech!: Raymond; Survivor
Whatever: Friends

Politics
Awesome: Bill Bradley
Blech!: Dubya
Whatever: The anti-French sentiment

Famous People
Awesome: Steve Martin
Blech!: Olsen twins (gah!)
Whatever: Osbournes

Movies
Awesome: L.A. Story
Blech!: Boat Trip
Whatever: Jurassic Park; Lord of the Rings

Alcohol
Awesome: Pina coladas; strawberry daiquiris
Blech!: Beer
Whatever: Wine

Restaurants
Awesome: In-N-Out Burger; Chipotle burritos, Mai-Kai
Blech!: Buffet places; crappy American ripoffs of Mexican and Chinese food (see: Indiana restaurants)
Whatever: "All vegetarian, all the time" places.

Feel free to add whatever you want in the comments (or whine about my choices...) ;)

Update 3/25 4:26PM PST: Added the fonts and restaurants categories.

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  • how dare you put vi in the Blech! category :)

    • Re:hey! (Score:2)

      by Servo ( 9177 )
      vi is the coolest most versatile app since dd!!!
    • All your text are belong to us!

      Jeez - vi is everywhere, it is easy to use, and powerful. What's not to like?!

      • something interesting:

        http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html [oreilly.com]

        it appears that there are significantly more vi users than there are emacs, and some evidence to back it up!
        • For the very reasons that vi is available on every (*nix) system and works right out of the box, this is why I never bothered with anything else.

          I followed your link, and when I read what TO'R wrote, I checked out my vi book - the intro says nearly the exact same thing. :) In the article, he says that he wasn't credited, but under Printing History it says,

          June 1998: Fourth Edition; updated, minor corrections by Tim O'Reilly.
          So nyeh!
          • I used to hate vi. it was hard. but on our operational machines its the only editor. It is everywhere! So you grow up and realize its pretty damn cool.

            Now I find myself doing :%s/teh/the/g in word/outlook/notepad/ etc.

            I also like slickedit- they've got a nice product.

            but VI. Yeah, vi.

            • Re:hey! (Score:2)

              by Tet ( 2721 )
              Now I find myself doing :%s/teh/the/g in word/outlook/notepad/

              What really bugs me is that I find myself hitting the escape key in web forms and the like...

              • YES- ALL THE FRICKIN' TIME!

                Escape, and CTRL-F, CTRL-G, and SHIFT-G.

                • Re:hey! (Score:2)

                  by Tet ( 2721 )
                  BTW, echo ab teh the >> ~/.exrc
                  • BTW, echo ab teh the >> ~/.exrc

                    I do that too. Plus a bunch of other useful corrections. Its a helluva timesaver. The keystroke I find myself missing most often in other applications is Ctrl-P (text completion) - its terrific!

                    SlashChick, you're probably annoyed by all the vi/emacs zealotry in this thread, but why not give one of them a try for a couple of months and see how you like it? You'll need about that long to get comfortable with it, but after that your life won't be the same again. Somethi

            • Oh yeah, when I'm at work, I don't know how many times I've typed:
              c:\> ls
              'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
              operable program or batch file.

              c:\> vi
              'vi' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
              operable program or batch file.
    • I just lost most respect for you.

      LONG LIVE EMACS!!!

      (yes, complete joke about respect... but I AM an emacs user) :-P
  • I'm a newly die-hard Mac OS X convert, but on Windows, my "programmer's editor" of choice was TextPad [textpad.com]...hands down.

    And a good bowl of Tom Kha Gai and some Pad Thai kick Polynesian butt anyway.

    *:^)

    Kinda hard to type with a spoon and/or chopsticks in your hands, tho.

    boB
  • Margaritas rule. Everything else is just a warm-up. <hic>
  • Note: See subject.

    The only thing I might disagree with is that... no... no disagreements.
  • I need an unbiased woman's opinion on this. I've been told by at least one woman that Ronin [imdb.com] is purely a "guy thing." In contrast, I think it's the best (perhaps only) "thinking man's action flick" in the past decade (especially the bit where Deniro talks Jean Reno through his own surgery - a must see on wide screen - watch for the mirror so you can see the wound!). My wife steadfastly refuses to enter the fray.

    While it might fail to enter your "all time" list, where do you catagorize Ronin in general

    • Hi,

      I haven't seen Ronin, but it looks like a guy flick to me.

      I asked my boyfriend whether he had seen it, and his response was "It has a BMW in it." (He's just a liiiiiiittle obsessed with them.) So... guy movie, although I wouldn't mind seeing it anyway.

      Erica
    • I've known some girls who could did Ronin, but I suspect the Deniro factor was a strong influence.

      As far as "only thinking man's action film," you haven't seen the sleeper masterpiece The Way of the Gun, or else you're insane.

      "For the record, I will call myself Parker. My partner will be Mr. Longbough." Whee.

  • While not necessarily an advocate of these things, I feel like high sentiment about them is warranted, so I kind of want to be the devil's advocate here about your indifference.

    Whatever: Gentoo

    Okay, Gentoo is essentially Linux From Scratch made easy. That's kind of hard not to feel good about, in my opinion. All the advantage of building your own linux system, which includes the satisfaction of having done it and making sure that everything's built for exactly the same system, and that you get to pick

  • Safari has made me a convert. Mmmm.. Lucida Grande.
  • the only thing about vi is that its pretty much standard with every distro. Don't know what style machine you are on? doesn't matter- edit that config file with vi.

    So given the ubiquity of vi and its utilitarian purpose (edit stuff when theres nothing else around) it is almost exempt from opinion; you may not like it, but its always there. Its like notepad on windows. There is no like/dislike, it just is.
  • Operating Systems
    Awesome: Windows XP; Mac OS X
    Blech!: Windows 98; Windows ME; Debian
    Whatever: Gentoo

    I am still stunned... Debian in Blech!
    I can understand that some peoples found it hard at first (mostly during the installation, but still it's getting better), but to put it in Blech, I found this a little harsh.

    My main computers (at work, at home, workstations and servers) are all Debian machines. The packaging system is just toooooo cool. You want something, you apt-get install it (which for those w

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