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I prefer to write in Markdown, but often I have to write in Microsoft Word, and I hate it, because I find myself devoting significant time to managing Word, rather than writing and making formatting decisions.
This morning, I had a block of text that I wanted to format in bullets. Simple, right? I’ve done it a million times. But Word would not let me format that particular block in bullets, and I spent 15 minutes plinking around in the user interface and doing web searches figuring it out.
This is not at all unusual behavior for Word. There are even memes about it.
I think I’m going to stick with the Zen browser. I found it confusing at first, even though I used the Arc browser, which is similar, for months. But I think I have it figured out. I particularly like compact mode, where I can easily use a keyboard shortcut to show and hide the toolbars and sidebars for maximum screen real estate and focus.
"The Stainless Steel Rat" is the GOAT nickname for a fictional hero
He was the hero of the Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison. His full name is James Bolivar diGriz, aka “Slippery Jim diGriz.” Also good names. Harrison had a good ear for how names sound.
I loved those novels when I was a kid.
I also loved Harrison’s “Deathworld” novel series, whose hero also had a pretty good name — Jason dinAlt.
On the other hand, “Jake Cardigan” is a ridiculous name. He was the hero of the Tekwar novels and TV series, created by William Shatner. Ron Goulart ghostwrote the books.
