Me: “No, X is bad news. I can’t remember at all how I came to this conclusion, but I recently observed something and firmly set a bad news flag against X.”
Those kinds of flags are the only way I can remember what I like. My memory is poor enough that I lose most details about books and movies within a few months, but if I really liked something, that 5-Yay rating sticks around for years.
Hmm, I guess that’s why part of my brain still thinks Moulin Rouge, which I saw on a very enjoyable date, and never really had the urge to actually watch again, is one of my favorite movies.
Compression seems a fine analogy to me, as long as we’re talking about mp3′s and flv’s, rather than zip’s and tar’s.
This drives me crazy when it happens to me.
Someone: “Shall we invite X?”
Me: “No, X is bad news. I can’t remember at all how I came to this conclusion, but I recently observed something and firmly set a bad news flag against X.”
Those kinds of flags are the only way I can remember what I like. My memory is poor enough that I lose most details about books and movies within a few months, but if I really liked something, that 5-Yay rating sticks around for years.
Hmm, I guess that’s why part of my brain still thinks Moulin Rouge, which I saw on a very enjoyable date, and never really had the urge to actually watch again, is one of my favorite movies.
Compression seems a fine analogy to me, as long as we’re talking about mp3′s and flv’s, rather than zip’s and tar’s.
tar’s are archived, not compressed. tar.gz’s are compressed.