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That’s all. I just wanted something officially out there.
You know what? That’s not all - I often feel like Microsoft Office products should actually work well with one another. Like a sitcom family that actually likes one another and has meaningful dinner conversation.
One Quick note on this weird image - is this family tri/quad-racial? what the hell is going on in here? Got to love fearful marketers who simply feel compelled to include every race possible (except African American apparently - maybe that’s what their eating?) Ugh. Idiots. Anyways,
Instead, you get Powerpoint trying to pull Excel in while acting like a bouncer at a club - yo - you’re cool enough to park outside, but don’t think you’re bringing any of your features up in here.
Everytime you enter a chart or a freaking grid from excel, it freaks out - says fine - you can put this in your deck, but it has to stay an excel “object”. Great except that f**king object doesn’t sync well with Powerpoint and if you click it too fast / adjust it / leave the tabs open, etc., powerpoint not only freezes but often crashes.
There are plenty of professionals out there who use Powerpoint daily, and most of us who do usually have to try and integrate more than just pretty pictures and some basic charts: we’re actually data people trying to visually represent something our audience isn’t bright enough to figure out on their own. Hell there are entire companies & products dedicated to making the terrible powerpoint experience less-shitty.
Whatever. Fuck Powerpoint.
oh and there’s more content coming soon. for all 3 of you that follow me.
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What does that make the stormtroopers?!
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Truph.
Sean Connery and why his portrait is in my home
So my latest idea, amongst others, is for a new time management / anti-passive aggressive tool called Cloud Calendar. Still working on the name as apparently Apple already has a product with the same name.
Tag line:
“Why not just let everyone who dictates your schedule anyways finally do it in an organized, open manner?! Keep track of all those “dinner with my parents - your going” you don’t care about but have to go to, with Cloud Calendar!”
Obviously the target for this would be men in painful relationships. Anyways, the concept is that it would help men to manage their schedules by taking them completely out of the equation: my product will not even let them do anything other than buy the app. Most “spoken for” men don’t manage their own lives (thank god), yet often have to make excuses to everyone around them for scheduling mishaps and conflicts. Why not just let everyone else (who’s scheduling YOUR life anyways) manage it?! Let the disputes between Mom’s or Dad’s for Christmas be fought between them! What about all those times you thought you could go for a beer with friends but really were supposed to be Christmas decoration shopping?
Really though, this would probably help stop the people who cause these issues, simply by making them public. Passive aggressive people are really just passive aggressive because if they acted that way in a direct manner, we’d be free to judge them mercilessly for their ridiculously imposing, self-serving demands.
Oh totally aside, new tee-shirt line concept: The MikeS “Revolution through Ridicule” Bitter line: Black apparel, white lettering:
“I’m happy because she tells me I am.”
“I’m here because I was told I want to be here.”
“I’m in this relationship because I was told No when I tried ending it”
and a nice tie in to the Cloud Calendar:
“I don’t know what my plans are, please ask her/my GF / my wife”
Given the 46%+ failure rate of marriages, you have to figure I’d at least have a market size of 50% of the population + people in bad relationships in general :) This is a good idea.
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The Kegway. Hail.
Weather Win
Midgets - selling themselves short
Wow. 100 posts of ridiculousness. 1 set of MikeS related shirts printed. People following this blog/site: 3. People offended: at least 2.
Offended to following: 66.6%
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Been a crazy what, 2 years?! Figured this was a good time to post our rating!
http://websitegrader.com/site/whoismikes.tumblr.com/
Hey! I apparently write at the high-school level! Alright public school system, you succeeded with me- oh…I went to a private school…that was….paid…for. Jesuits_fail?
Some other interesting stats on that goofball site. Regardless - I still say I need to be on here more. Lots happened. Got rid of the narcoleptic GF, picked up a new one (now with cooking action!), definitely a lot better off. Giant handbags still suck, and MikeS moved to a new house (apparently he was NOT in Nicaragua).
Anyways, LTW.
Cate Dunn
Tricerocopter. Bring the noise.