>> ^peggedbea:

i definitely want something faster to access than a laptop, ill get phone calls from people who want appointments while im shopping for groceries or picking my kids up from camp, i want to be able to open the calendar app quickly and book an appointment. also when im checking clients out at my wellness center and i have to wait for 3 other people who work out of there to check out their clients before i can use the comp to check my client out and see my schedule to book their next appointment.... and i see a laptop being too bulky to set on a dresser and play ambient music during sessions.
and gaahhh the ridiculousness of CD's that get lost, or scratched or borrowed (i don't mind sharing, it's just that they always seem to return scratched)... so sure i could get an ipod, but id rather just buy one gadget to take care of everything...
also, sometimes at night when i'm closing up or batching out or whatever i like to sit in the floor and figure out what stock i have/need, how much money i have/owe/made that day, what percentage of it i want to reinvest and what new equipment i'd like to get when its time... instead of doing that with tons of tiny pieces of paper and my shitty memory to rely on, i think a tablet in my lap with my bank accounts and quick books and schedule and the websites of my suppliers on it would minimize my time at work.
im so ridiculously right brained i have to work super hard to stay organized and on top of my business so i don't revert to my ways of winging it on the fly and crash my business into the ground or get so stressed out by all the psychic clutter that i burn it all down catharticly
also, how reliable is it in terms of memory? am i going to overload it making it play music and book appointments all day? is it going to crash in the middle of my last session and force me to pull out the 1990's technology?
>> ^dag:
Laptops are just so damn cheap these days, it's true - and generally a lot more functionality than a tablet.
The benefit of a tablet over a laptop for me are two things:
1. Form factor - I can take it to bed and read it like a book, whip it out on the bus - or in economy class seats on a plane - with a lot less fuss than a laptop.
2. Quickness - I don't mean processor speed, I mean just getting to a bit of functionality that I need at that moment. If I want to open a calendar app on a laptop, I need to open up the laptop, wait for it to unhibernate- hunt for the app and then wait for it to launch. About a minute to do that. Versus about 10 seconds on tablet.



A big part of this for you is how the thing feels in your hand and how it handles in the scenarios you envisage. The operating system is quite solid I'm led to believe. It should be very reliable.

But I'm not sure how well joined up it will be if you're trying to run an entire business of it where you need data from one app to cross over to another. This strikes me as fundamentally basic and obviously straightforward on a personal computer but you'll need an actual living, breathing ipad owner to confirm this is possible.

can I come instead? >> ^peggedbea:

wtf? no texas sift up???? you don't want to smoke a joint with me and choggie and listen to our beautiful coon ass poetry and eat our delicious baked goods??? also, we give amazing hugs.

in the fort worth area you have me, inflatablevagina, drax and alternating weekends brain is up from houston we're all buddies and meet regularly on my porch.... i also go to houston a lot... where my boyfriend (brain) and his brother are old sifters. the boyfriend would go, his bro wouldn't. choggie lives there, i bet he'd be down. also ctrlaltbleach is in htown but ive never met him. austin is smack in the middle of the two cities and has the best bar scene by far and at least four of us are usually down for a weekend trip to austin, given enough notice. oooh and geesussfreak is somewhere in the hill country area... near austin. >> ^dag:

Tempting. Especially the baked goods. What's the best city for a Texas Sift up and how many Sifters / permanently banished Sifters could you rustle up?>> ^peggedbea:
wtf? no texas sift up???? you don't want to smoke a joint with me and choggie and listen to our beautiful coon ass poetry and eat our delicious baked goods??? also, we give amazing hugs.
we might be abrasive on the internet, but it's totally a front to how soft and cuddly we are on the inside. >> ^dag:
What the hell! Where's your dedication? Where are you at MG? I may be swinging by Austin on my travels. >> ^MarineGunrock:
. Six hours (one way) is a long drive for drinks. Maybe next time!

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Tempting. Especially the baked goods. What's the best city for a Texas Sift up and how many Sifters / permanently banished Sifters could you rustle up?>> ^peggedbea:

wtf? no texas sift up???? you don't want to smoke a joint with me and choggie and listen to our beautiful coon ass poetry and eat our delicious baked goods??? also, we give amazing hugs.
we might be abrasive on the internet, but it's totally a front to how soft and cuddly we are on the inside. >> ^dag:
What the hell! Where's your dedication? Where are you at MG? I may be swinging by Austin on my travels. >> ^MarineGunrock:
. Six hours (one way) is a long drive for drinks. Maybe next time!

Moving this video to peggedbea's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

@dystopianfuturetoday, @NetRunner, @longde, @peggedbea, @Shepppard, @hpqp, @Gallowflak

I got a question for you. Blankfist has taken any comments and comment upvotes you have made about the bk33 racist comment as being 100% in favor of instabanning him.

Sorry to bother you, but could you come to this Sift blog and say what you actually think?

"Should racist remarks lead to a non-probationary member (1) being permanently instabanned or (2) should there be a process where a member is warned that a remark has gone too far and if offending behavior is repeated, THEN they will be permanently banned?"

To keep it simple, could we not define the "process" at present? Otherwise, this will devolve into complications.

>> ^peggedbea:

to prove a fact during a political argument with my conservative mother, i googled the topic and pointed out the 7 webpages at the top of the list that confirmed my statement.... she told me google was a left wing conspiracy...
that's how brilliant they are. even the 1 most place everyone else goes to verify/fact check what they hear.. is going to tell what you heard from this right wing media outlet is less than true, but only because of its obvious liberal bias.


It also helps that Beck has explicitly added Google to his conspiracy theories.

But yeah, it's really really insidious how they've weaponized people's natural confirmation bias into a paranoid delusion of persecution when anyone presents information that conflicts with their preconceived notions.

It's a well known fact that reality has a liberal bias.

>> ^peggedbea:

to prove fact during a political argument with my conservative mother, i googled the topic and pointed out the 7 webpages at the top of the list that confirmed my statement.... she told me google was a left wing conspiracy...
that's how brilliant they are. even the 1 most place everyone else goes to verify/fact check what they hear.. is going to tell what you heard from this right wing media outlet is less than true, but only because of its obvious liberal bias.

Her secret? They come with happy endings most likely.



>> ^MarineGunrock:

Damn. You must be good.>> ^peggedbea:
massages baby, massages.

Damn. You must be good.>> ^peggedbea:

massages baby, massages. >> ^burdturgler:
>> ^peggedbea:
i learned the art and joy of bartering services with associates.
free medical care, free accounting, free oil changes, free pot, free babysitting, free coffee, free massages, free hair cuts ftw! now all i need is a good dentist!!

I can't get people to do the shit that I actually pay them to do. What services are you exchanging for all of this? The mind wobbles ..

massages baby, massages. >> ^burdturgler:

>> ^peggedbea:
i learned the art and joy of bartering services with associates.
free medical care, free accounting, free oil changes, free pot, free babysitting, free coffee, free massages, free hair cuts ftw! now all i need is a good dentist!!

I can't get people to do the shit that I actually pay them to do. What services are you exchanging for all of this? The mind wobbles ..

>> ^peggedbea:

i learned the art and joy of bartering services with associates.
free medical care, free accounting, free oil changes, free pot, free babysitting, free coffee, free massages, free hair cuts ftw! now all i need is a good dentist!!


I can't get people to do the shit that I actually pay them to do. What services are you exchanging for all of this? The mind wobbles ..

>> ^chilaxe:

@bamdrew @peggedbea
"Did you hear about the pretty Muslim woman who came out of a party and was stoned? She didn't survive."
Comedians can think of jokes about anything that has presence in the culture, even quantum physics, so even if you only want friendly jokes, comedians can provide that if they want to. He doesn't want to or he's not smart enough to, so he said something that isn't true.


If that's what passes for Muslim humour, I can see why he doesn't do it.

@bamdrew @peggedbea

"Did you hear about the pretty Muslim woman who came out of a party and was stoned? She didn't survive."

Comedians can think of jokes about anything that has presence in the culture, even quantum physics, so even if you only want friendly jokes, comedians can provide that if they want to. He doesn't want to or he's not smart enough to, so he said something that isn't true.

>> ^peggedbea:

like i said, the cop-hate isn't personal. and it's not even really about this particular event. i know some cops personally, i don't hate them at all.
it's a societal paradigm that makes these things possible.
sure, that dude's unstable and a jackass. he handled it totally wrong. but cop lights = punishment in the modern pysche. living in a punishment/coercion paradigm make us all a little sick in the head. do you NOT get a sick feeling in your stomache whenever you see a cop flash his lights at you?
edit: the "quote" function broke so... @MarineGunrock


What do you suggest? Giving people cookies for _NOT_ speeding?