A Public Service Announcement. Imagine it with the NBC “The More Your Know” music playing in the background.
Every so often, you’ll receive an email with a large number of recipients. Maybe it’s from your roommate. Maybe it’s from your boss. Maybe it’s from your mom. Sometimes you’ll read it, sometimes you’ll delete it without reading it.
If you need to reply, and the reply needs only to go to the sender of the email, don’t hit reply-all.
It’s great that your cat does that too, that you can’t make it to strike on Sunday, that you haven’t heard from Susan in so long and oh it’s nice to see pictures! I don’t care.
I don’t care.
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I know I haven’t posted for a few days, so I figured I’d send out a few minor updates.
First, this past Monday, I performed in The Homo Show, a variety show put on by About Face Theatre. It was tons of fun and, although I was really nervous, it went well. I performed a piece based off this post, although with a more positive ending. I got lots of positive feedback (and apparently made one woman cry, which is a first for me…) so it charged me up as I work toward my December performance.
On a separate note, I’m typing this on a shiny new (old) Power Mac G5 – one of the more advanced pre-Intel Mac desktops. I’m still getting used to it and all its quirks… For example, I know “different” and “stupid” aren’t the same thing, but some of the Mac keyboard shortcuts are just flat out stupid. As far as I can see, there’s no rhyme or reason to why some shortcuts use Ctrl, some use Apple, and some use Option.
If anyone knows of any logic behind Apple’s shortcut choices, I’d love to hear about it…
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