He's got jelly beans for Tommy

[austin_dern]

Easter activities: well, the first came a week-plus before Easter as bunny_hugger and I went the short distance away to get to Fabiano's chocolates. This was to buy chocolates that we could eat, of course, and to give to her parents for Easter, but also to get a box that I could send my parents. I got them a half-pound box of mixed assortments that my mother reports was eaten ``ninety percent'' by my father. I would question this but she did quote him as saying of the chocolate evaporation, ``Hey, you snooze, you lose'', which has an authentic ring to it. She got at least the two cherry cordials so she's tolerably satisfied. (bunny_hugger's brother was also delighted by the selection of candies he got.)

For Easter itself, we packed up our pet rabbit --- who was not at all happy to be put in the travel case, even for the new experience of riding in the back of my car --- and went to bunny_hugger's parents, so as to spend the night. Their dogs were a trifle less nervous about my general existence this time than they've been before, but that didn't stop them from growling a while and barking some as they suddenly realized that I'd been there for hours, often petting one of them.

The evening also had an odd interruption as it was the season premiere for Doctor Who, which bunny_hugger's mother had wanted to try out sometime. This seemed like a pretty good jumping-on point --- new season and new companion usually is --- although I'm not sure how much of it quite made sense to her, particularly as we tried to explain the backstory of Supposedly Mysterious Clara. Still, we had pizza, and salads, and the dogs looking pleading for more. (They shouldn't have more.)

Also, her parents also agree, iTunes 11 is the worst.

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Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Mm, I'd imagine most rabbits would prefer to go anywhere at speed under their own power. Still, hopefully he didn't hold it against you.

But was the pizza good? There seems to be so much mediocre pizza in the world. Even in the Bay Area, there's no shortage of thoroughly generic pizza, and few distinguished - though, the ones that really try, can make quite a success of it, in a variety of styles, from the heavenly (and, for my money, better than Edwardo's) Zachary's Chicago stuffed pizza, through the very American Porky's Pizza Palace (who also do a superb line in craft beers, enthusiastically supporting brewers from around the region), to the fantastically authentically Italian offerings of Tony's in North Beach.

I've not tried iTunes 11, personally, mostly because I understand it's rather a pain to roll back to 10.7, if I weren't to take to it. Plus, I know Requiem definitely works happily with 10.7, and I don't want to affect its operation - being able to strip the DRM from iTunes video files is very useful indeed, as I can then play them on the AV setup downstairs, rather than having to rig up Dandelion, or buy an Apple TV.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I actually am coming to the opinion that our pet rabbit is not very fond of me, particularly, or at least he thinks that I'm getting too much of bunny_hugger's attention. It's a delicate situation.

The pizza was quite satisfying, yes. Greasy but my that felt good. Of course now we're just hearing about Detroit-Style Pizza, which we never heard of before last week either but since the Mayor of Lansing is tweeting about it maybe we should pay attention.

iTunes 11 is a disaster. Poke into an Apple Store or a Best Buy or something where they have MacBooks on display and you can see, although you won't get the full user-interface disaster unless you plug in an iPod or iPad or such and see how thoroughly confused, disorganized, and illogical the separation of your stuff, your device's stuff, and the iTunes store all are. It's like they want to beat you down with buttons that don't seem to do what you want.

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

I'm on 11. and.... well, I know how to make it look like 10 with menu tweaks, and I like the 'Up next' and the changes to Podcasts. But overall it's not a step in a good direction, no.

I'm also, after my 6th gen has bitten the dust but two separate friends have been kindly generous, on a 5th gen iPod. (30GB. I'll move to the 80GB after I get many songs illicitly transferred.) The Solitare app is awful and there's moments of lag when the 6th gen would be instant. Otherwise, just fine and it'll keep me going for a year or two.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

``Up Next'' is a decent idea for playlists, but pretty much everything else is just a wreck. It's this confused jumble of incredibly different patterns that leave absolutely unclear the answer to ``how do I do ... anything?'' They should have realized they had to scrap it and start over when they were recording a video to explain to people how they were supposed to use the thing. What they should have done is remember the original iMac ads: ``Step one: plug in, Step two: turn on, Step three: ... there is no step three''.