Assorted Thoughts 14: Sent From A Boat 30 Miles Out To Sea (No, Really)

• Something I'd like to see: "Texting while driving isn't so baaflbkbfhfd -- Sent from my iPhone."
• My meds are there to, if not ensure sanity, then to at least ensure that you can see sanity on a good day, if you squint hard enough.
• It's hard to make some animals scary, no matter how hard you try.  To wit: would you be afraid of Mecha Bush Baby?
• Being bipedal would be a lot more fun if we had telescoping legs.
• I'm a tetrapod and I'm okay, I have four limbs, generally with five digits per limb, I sleep according to my physiology and ecological niche, and to make this rhyme there is no way.
• An appeal to sanity:
• I am an inveterate arguer.  But I've decided to opt out of the "Mac versus PC" debate, just like "cake or pie," and so on, because at this point it's just a bunch of fanboys screeching pointlessly.  As far as I can tell, this is the difference between Apple and Microsoft:
• Apple thinks it knows better than its users.  To be fair, judging from some of their successes with iWhatevers, they might often be right.  But it still can infuriate when they don't give you preference panes or hide folders with system files from your view.
• Microsoft thinks its users are idiots.  How else can you explain Clippy, the endless notification popups, and the existence of Internet Explorer?  You can do a lot with a PC, but it still grates when Windows decides you don't know about something you've done thousands of times before.
• I don't like the term "ex."  It has so many negative connotations.  What about those relationships that parted amicably and without hatred?  I therefore propose a new term to cover those that didn't end horribly: Romantic Involvements, or RomIns for short.