Comments on: The Good Death http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/04/03/the-good-death/ A blog for Mara Collins Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jenny http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/04/03/the-good-death/comment-page-1/#comment-1591 jenny Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:25:17 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/04/03/the-good-death/#comment-1591 my first thought in association with the power down button was to compare it in my mind with a scheduled c-section. I guess it's a pretty logical association, but still I loved your description of the loveliness and value of the messiness of birth and death and all that comes between. thank you for speaking my mind for me! my first thought in association with the power down button was to compare it in my mind with a scheduled c-section. I guess it’s a pretty logical association, but still I loved your description of the loveliness and value of the messiness of birth and death and all that comes between. thank you for speaking my mind for me!

]]> By: unreliable narrator http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/04/03/the-good-death/comment-page-1/#comment-1583 unreliable narrator Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:51:14 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/04/03/the-good-death/#comment-1583 Well, so the Brujo wasn't very happy about the power-down button idea either. But he come up with a couple of reengineering/modification suggestions.... 1) The user interface is like the Apple, so you can't hit the switch accidentally and then be all nooo nooo!--the system always asks you, Are you sure you want to log off now? 2) Then you have to wait a period of time--say, 24 hours--and reconfirm your desire that yes, you would like to log out. 3) Then (careening madly around in Tartarus traffic yesterday on our way to the bank before it closed) we came up with our BEST SCREENPLAY IDEA EVAR and I will confine myself to noting that the title of the movie is, yes, LOGOUT. Oh you incorrigible lover of messiness, you. But why not be all anal-retentive and anorectically tidy about life, like MEEEEEE?! Because it works SO WELL and it makes me SO HAPPY and it does such wonderful things for my Scabulous game, bwahahaha! Ha ha. Ahem. Speaking of which have you noticed how it EATS all our comments now?! Raven sent me another of his delightfully pointed Facebook gifts (a rotary phone) and I suppose we *are* running out of electronic options...is my being SO reluctant to talk on the phone another of my control-freaky ways of avoiding potential messiness, or am I just still traumatized by how horribly, horribly wrong it all once went on the telephone with the Film Critic? (Though actually it went great on the phone; and that was the problem.) Well, so the Brujo wasn’t very happy about the power-down button idea either. But he come up with a couple of reengineering/modification suggestions….

1) The user interface is like the Apple, so you can’t hit the switch accidentally and then be all nooo nooo!–the system always asks you, Are you sure you want to log off now?

2) Then you have to wait a period of time–say, 24 hours–and reconfirm your desire that yes, you would like to log out.

3) Then (careening madly around in Tartarus traffic yesterday on our way to the bank before it closed) we came up with our BEST SCREENPLAY IDEA EVAR and I will confine myself to noting that the title of the movie is, yes, LOGOUT.

Oh you incorrigible lover of messiness, you.

But why not be all anal-retentive and anorectically tidy about life, like MEEEEEE?! Because it works SO WELL and it makes me SO HAPPY and it does such wonderful things for my Scabulous game, bwahahaha! Ha ha. Ahem.

Speaking of which have you noticed how it EATS all our comments now?! Raven sent me another of his delightfully pointed Facebook gifts (a rotary phone) and I suppose we *are* running out of electronic options…is my being SO reluctant to talk on the phone another of my control-freaky ways of avoiding potential messiness, or am I just still traumatized by how horribly, horribly wrong it all once went on the telephone with the Film Critic? (Though actually it went great on the phone; and that was the problem.)

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