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Browsers

I really want to like Safari. I really do. Being native to the Mac, it’s obviously the best choice since it’s so integrated into the O/S, but I just can’t.

While it has features I love (automatically offering to enter those two-factor authentication numbers), there are so many little glitchy things that drive me crazy. For instance, all of a sudden it decided it wasn’t going to play the video part of videos. It plays the sound, but all I see is a black square. The Safari Technology Preview version fixed that, it has its own set of issues. It seems like Apple fixes one thing and two others break. And then there’s the whole other issue with any of the Apple-approved (because you can now only get extensions through the App Store) adblocker extensions in Safari. They all suck. GIVE ME uBLOCK ORIGIN!

I was a Chrome user for years, but I hated the way it sucked up memory and brought my Mac to its knees (and not in a good way, you pervs). I’ve tried the Brave Browser, Firefox, and even Opera. Each one has at least one issue that renders them unusable for me.

I’m currently on the new Microsoft Edge. I hate to admit it, but of everything I’ve used, it—shockingly, since it is a Microsoft product—is working the best. It’s built on Chrome, but doesn’t seem to suck memory the way Chrome does. And while it doesn’t have that nifty TFA feature built into Safari, it at least plays videos properly. All the Chrome extensions that I want to use work (including uBlock Origin!), so it looks like it might be my de facto choice until Apple gets their shit together.

I’m not holding my breath on that one.

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Definitions

From Billions of Versions of Normal:

The Washington Post’s Mensa invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer,
unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

9. Inoculate: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth
explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.