It’s all so simple… CUT… PASTE!

I know that I will be ridiculed for adopting MS Vista and then having a problem with it. I am supposed to wait upteen years before Vista is considered either obsolete or bug-proof, then adopt it. Well I didn’t, and here’s the dilemma…

Vista has this little, teeny tiny problem. CUT AND PASTE. Geez. I thought the cavemen worked this out on CaveDrawings2.4 but here we are in 2007… I can happily CUT/COPY something from one application, then go to another and hit PASTE… and nothing happens.

I think it only happened to me about 18 times today, so it probably isn’t wasting more than 18 minutes a day… times 365 days equals 6,570 minutes (4 1/2 days), times the average American male lifespan of 75 years (minus my fun-time youth of let’s say 25 years) equals 328,500 minutes wasted (about 228 days or a third of a year)… I’m not bitter.

Will work for cache

Ok, now that my computer has AI, I am looking forward to the day when it is smart enough and fast enough – Bytor, and his many brethren combined – to eliminate the need for caching. Caching is a crutch. Not a nice new aluminum crutch with the foamy pads for your armpits, but an old, handmade T of sticks found in the woods and used out of necessity.

Here’s what’s wrong with cache… What if you cache something bad? It happens all the time, and to me it has happened a lot lately. Some hideous monstrosity gets stuck in cache – and I don’t mean MY cache, which I could potentially clear with the aid of benevolent ByTor, but other systems’ caches – and then you are stuck looking at it until such time as the cache. Finally. DIES.

Right now, I am looking at an error page being spit out of cache repeatedly. Even though the real page is now text that says simply “hi”. Or maybe “hi” is throwing an error in text format.

My computer has AI

So I am trying to work with Maya. No, not the one that hangs out with Miguel. The 3D program.

I am working on a Quad-Core PC with a rockin’ video card… no Commodore 64 hooked up to a black and white tv… and half the time I load up Maya, I see nothing but white in the main window. Which makes it kinda hard to work. It sort of throws WYSIWYG out the window.

But I have thankfully figured out the reason why this happens. I was reminded of Sherlock Holmes’ statement that goes something like ‘when you have exhausted all other options, whatever remains is the truth, no matter how unlikely.’ That might have been Holmes. Or possibly Judge Judy. Anyway, this led me to the absolute certainty that

MY COMPUTER HAS A.I.

My computer’s name is “ByTor” – I am not the one that requires computers to have names, Microsoft is. So I named it something silly from my long-hair rock history. Anyway, ByTor knows when I actually want to DO SOMETHING and then it chooses to thwart me. Every single time I open Maya with the thought of just fiddling around, things work fine. But then, at that very moment I need to get something done, my artificially intelligent PC says 1000100101001001001001 which is sort of a sinister computer laugh, and it won’t let me do it.

I AM ON TO YOU, BYTOR.

See what I mean, dammit?

Look at that hideous title atop this page! Sure, it’s six whole words. God forbid. And it freaks out the title area for this page.

 In my spare time, I plan to fix that.

Oh, Dear Lord… why?

Why did I start a blog, you ask?

Because otherwise the acid bile of these problems will burn through my gut and spill all over the place and that is messy.