From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Subject: Re: Polls and Pans and designing geeks
Summary: I really loathe certain software 
Keywords: WARNING: compu-peeve 
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Organization: Sensitive Guys Martial Arts and Gun Club
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:29:54 GMT

In article <11103@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.072003.20091@talon.ucs.orst.edu>
tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford) writes:
>>
>>     Peeve: I hate doing the dishes more than life itself.  As a result,
>>I've taken to preparing meals with as few utensils/dishes as possible.
>>I'll prepare and eat a two course meal dirtying no more than five seperate
>>objects.  When desperate, I'll take a hotpad and a spoon and eat directly
>>out of a pot I've taken from the stove. Total dirty dishes: 2
>>In short, I'm sick and I need help, or a dishwasher.

	I hate doing dishes too.  Of course, while I was getting paid $7
per hour to do them it wasn't so bad, but you get the idea.  It's not the
dishes, per se, but the fact that I swear she dirties _every_ dish in the
place while I'm away from home.  Let me elaborate:

	I eat one meal per day, usually around 6:00pm.  I drink one
glass of milk per day, and that's about it for dishes used at home.
Each day finds an entire sink full of dishes.  I think little dish
gnomes are doing this, but a quick glance through the dishes finds several
glasses, many with the same contents (peeve1: people who cannot rinse out
a glass and perhaps drink from it again twenty minutes later.  This works
in coffee cups, but not when drinking milk or orange juice for some reason).
I also find that bowls are in uncommon usage.  There is one from her
breakfast, one or two from the typical ice cream and/or snack in the time
between work and when she cooks something, and then the dinner contents.
So who or what put the other fifty items in there?  This whole thing is
indirectly tied in with my food enjoyment peeve, since one can eat Dinty
Moore Beef Stew direct from the can and may even cook it by cutting the
top off the can and placing it on the burner.  This results in no more
than two dishes, these being the spoon and the glass.  Wash it down
with a bottle of beer and I don't even have a glass to wash.  So why
do I put up with the current system?

	PEEVE: I HATE COOKING!  It takes more time and effort than doing
the dishes does, I have little desire to eat, let along go through any
effort to prepare the food, and what's more I could really give a whit
if the dishes were done or not (so long as they *look* unencrusted...).
Hence, I put up with this for my own health.

>!!!Peeve: Our product (AutoCAD R11 for the Macintosh) will be on schedule.
>I look forward to the hoopla. This is my first product (well, I mean that
>I used to be a spat upon sysadmin and now am a new programmer - its
>my company's product) and I feel very good about it. 

	This is another peeve, somewhat indirectly brought about by the
above.  In a few of my classes are the Power-User Geeks.  These are guys
who, through no fault of their own, think Word Perfect and AutoCAD are
the only software people will ever need to have, or could possibly want
to use.  Anything that can be done to make these packages run faster is
certainly a Top Priority for them.  Big deal.  Sure, Word Perfect is a
good product given the limitations of the platform, and so is AutoCAD,
but these are hardly things to base your life on!  All I hear from
week to week concerns the exploits of our intrepid hero AutoCAD Al and
his fight to rid the world of anything that won't run on his PC.  Then
there is WordPerfect Warren, the man who thinks mail-merge is an advanced
feature available only to government agencies and sweepstakes publishers,
and who systematically wishes to rid the world of WYSIWYG systems because
"a real user should know what the different colors on the screen represent."
Where do these people breed at and how to we render the place uninhabitable?

	!Peeve: said compu-geeks above were including me in their tepid
Computer Wars conversation, bragging about their 25MHz 486 and 33MHz 386
and the like, when I was asked what I had for a PC.  "I've got an Apple
IIgs," I replied.  Great guffaws of laughter until I added, "Yeah, I
mostly use it as a front-end for my VAX 8250."  Laughter stops.  Shows how
much they know...

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