Hello, mortals.

Stuff I Like

Stuff That Is Fundamentally Wrong

The list is back, and it's growing! As always, I don't have opinions on these matters; I'm making objective statements of fact here.

• Neoconservatives
• Microsoft, their products, and their philosophy about everything (fonts excluded)
• Tailgating
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
• Getting a rack with five Is in Scrabble
• PHP
• Changing lanes without signaling
• The Religious Right
• Milquetoast Democrats
• Not waking up because you accidentally set your alarm for 7:30 p.m. instead of a.m.
• The smell of malt vinegar
• Digital Rights Restrictions Management
• Diabetes
• Clear Channel Communications
• Devices that take SD cards, but only up to 2GB
• Wearing shorts and tucking your shirt in (golf players excepted, whlie playing golf)
• Bad analogies
• Rain (except while I'm sleeping)
• Snow
• Tornadoes
• Temperatures deviating from 72°F
• The Java programming language
• Monster Cable
• How most people can't handwrite an ampersand
• Shared hosting
• Fluorescent lightbulbs that flicker
• Colorblindness
• The television show Club TV USA
• Day-quil. That stuff makes me vomit, you see.
• Wendy's "Honey Sauce". Are they too cheap to just use honey?
• go daddy dot com
• Products labeled "Made With Real Fruit Juice" that only contain 2% fruit juice
• Lung cancer
• Ticketmaster
• The Hummer H2
• The Hummer H3
• The Cadillac Escalade
• The Chrysler PT Cruiser
• The Pontiac Aztek
• The Buick Rendezvous
• Southeast Christian Church
• Littering
• Talk radio callers
• IT recruiters
• Radio and most TV commercials
• Mobile home parks within 10 miles of the city
• Outsourcing computer programming to cheaper labor
• Constantly referencing Monty Python and the Holy Grail or that "Spam" skit
• The Recording Industry Association of America
• How Louisville's #18 bus used to be always late
• The Creation Museum
• All sports talk radio, except for Jim Rome
• When a half-gallon of milk costs $1.39 and a gallon costs more than $2.78
• Dane Cook
• Caffeine withdrawal headaches
• Indiana's "In God We Trust" license plates
• Links on web pages that don't have underlines and/or are too close to the same color as the text
• IDEs and text editors that are not emacs or vi
• Top-posting in emails and online discussions
• Abstinence-only sex education
• Web-based control panels
• Elevators that don't ride smootly
• The War On Drugs (busting meth labs is okay though)
• When people put those removable letters on signs and mount the S upside-down
• Slogans. Like. This.
• Rubber dome keyboards
• Products whose names contain "OS" but are not operating systems. See: WebSiteOS (a crappy web-based control panel), HTML/OS (a crappy programming language)
• Sam Brownback
• Splinters
• Hypoglycemia
• Homophobes
• IHTML
• Kenny G
• Compacta
• John Duncan
• ColdFusion
• Fox News Channel
• The fact that Cherokee Unit No. 5 is no longer a municipality in Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was the best sixth-class city name, ever, you see.
• Gambling that does not involve games of skill
• People who find it perfectly acceptable to legislate against gambling that does not involve games of skill
• The lyrics to "On The Roof Again" by Eve 6
• People who hate Arial
• Powdered non-dairy creamer, a/k/a beverage whitener
• Panhandlers
• The suburbs
• XML as a panacea
• 8664
• That "Five Dollar Foot Long" song from the Subway commercials. That song needs to get out my head.
• The notion that Terry Meiners is funny
• 1024x768 web design
• Ben Stein.
• Florida.
• Fn Lock
• That overly perky female voice you hear on the grocery store intercom pimping products you don't need.
• Simon Leis
• Coinstar machines that don't have the "gift card with free coin counting" option.