Siracusa Says

John: At a certain point, you need multiple windows. You need to be looking at more than one thing at once. You need these persnickety little controls to do certain types of tasks. And the mouse is not a finger.

Marco: I thought this was going to be a short show, we’d like barely get to an hour 20, have no idea what to talk about because the news wasn’t that interesting, and I thought we’d be scraping around for desperation topics.

John: I can talk to people all day about how they’re not using computers to their fullest potential. Like, think of this way: when you see somebody else use a computer, do you feel like they could be doing it better or faster?

Casey: Of course!

Marco: Yeah, all the time.

John: I have that feeling so much. I cannot look at other people using computers.

Casey: I cannot imagine what it’s like for you!

Marco: This is the hell of your life.

John: It’s not as bad as having two hands on the mouse, slowly bringing the cursor up to the close box, but that’s what it feels like. And I feel better when I see, you ever see the people who do everything in one window but do everything on keyboard, those touch typist people? At least I feel better about those people because they may not be as efficient as they could be, but it’s clear that they have a system. And so, it’s like just a flurry of commands, and the screen is splitting and flashing and changing from one thing to the other, and they’re probably doing more work than they have to, but things are happening. Versus the person you see using the computer and you make a suggestion, and it’s like, alright so, I gotta go to that server, I guess I get a new window here, and I could type S, S, H…

I think it might true in the same sense that if you’ve ever gone skiing and worn yellow ski goggles cause you were born in the 70s, you put the ski goggles over your face, yellow or orange ski goggles that are like super yellow or super orange, right? But then after you’ve had the goggles on for a little bit, your brain adjusts and you stop noticing that everything looks like pee.

The Markdown is meant to be readable as is by human beings, and not merely, like HTML, a, you know, sort of a pre-compiled format that you chuck into a threshing machine and that it grinds out into the real format.

John: A feeling I would get when I used to tell… this is going to sound nerdy…

Casey: NO!

John: The feeling you get when you tell people about special relativity.

Marco: Have you done this a lot??

Casey: Yeah, this is just something you do from time to time?

John: When I was a kid I used to do it, right, so here’s the thing

Casey: This is the least surprising thing you’ve ever said

John: This polarizer thing, if you haven’t ever seen this before, it will give you a similar feeling of learning about special relativity. Special relativity when you explain it to people, or when you first learn it, in my case when you’re a kid or whatever, like the ideas behind it, like wait a second. Everyone in the world has known that this is true, and no one has told me??

Maybe the money thing is even better. Maybe you’re super spiritual with you and your five friends and there’s an org chart among your five friends, but is somebody asking for money? As soon as somebody’s asking for money, you’re in a religion.

Aside from all the awesome things the space program does having to do with space, how do you like your microwave oven?

John: Are there hard pear people?

Marco: Yes!

John: I’ll eat a hard pear, right? I’m not against it. But you’re saying people who don’t like soft pears? It goes too soft and they’re like, “that’s it, I can’t handle it.”?

Marco: Yeah, people who just basically treat pears like apples and just bite them when they’re solid as a rock.

John: I can do that, I’m not against that, but I agree that they get… it’s like banana ripeness, have you seen the variability in the ripeness of bananas people are willing to eat? Some people will eat them super green to where you feel like they’re going to get a stomach ache, some people wait for them to go entirely brown on the outside, and some people are in-between. I think pear is, maybe the continuum is more abbreviated?

John: I will eat a pear when it’s way too hard because it’s better than not having a pear.

I don’t think I would feel impaired if hundreds of thousands of people were following me and everything I said got angry responses. People get angry about everything. Including me.

When I saw another masked person, we make eye contact and be like “Can you believe these people?” Like, what are they doing? You’re going to be in a tube with other people breathing each other’s air, and you’re not gonna wear…

And then occasionally you’d see there’s a mask but then it’s a chin mask. They got the chin mask. They’re not at a restaurant. They’re not eating, they’re not drinking from their water bottle. They’re chin mask… they’re sitting there.