We were at the furniture store today and Brooke thought she’d push her stroller.  It was really cute

Wow, the writers are just all over the place with this series.  I almost want to check out the credits for every episode, and see who’s writing which episode, so I know which ones to skip.  I find it difficult to believe the same people are writing every episode.

This episode was much, much more interesting than the last several, for a couple of reasons:

1. We’re involved with Earth again, and with Earth’s enemies – which makes sense, since Destiny is out in between two galaxies and will be for quite some time, so there’s not a whole lot the writers can do with the other galaxy’s aliens.
2. We find out how the Lucian Alliance knew about the Icarus project.
3. We get to see some familiar faces, and it looks like we will continue to see them for at least another few episodes.
4. Things actually happen.

Also, Richard Dean Anderson is getting fat.  It makes me sad

These three episodes are more or less… silly.  The show’s plot is coming apart at the seams.  ”Lost” is of course a continuation of “Human”, but we’re never actually worried that they’ll be lost forever.  Their solution to get back to the ship, which they did in “Sabotage”, was rather obvious to anyone familiar with how Stargate networks function.  ”Pain” feels very out of place and disconnected from the rest of the plot.

I’m sure I just missed some offhand comment that would satisfy me, but one question keeps plaguing me as I watch this show.  Back at the beginning, they were trying to dial Earth, but they couldn’t because the ship didn’t have enough power.  But since the ship replenished its power to full capacity (more or less), they have not tried even a single time to dial Earth and see if they can get back home.  Why not?

At any rate, the show is going downhill rather quickly.  I don’t see how they can keep the series going.

I watched Human about two weeks ago; I’m still not really sure what to say.  Rush hooks himself up to the Ancient’s chair, and proceeds to dream the weeks preceding his introduction to the Stargate program, only modified by his actual knowledge of events and the fact that the chair is streaming tons of information at him.

The resolution of the episode (such as it is) feels a bit contrived and convenient, leaving us with no doubt as to what will happen in the coming episodes.  In other words, they’re obviously going to gain full control (or at least more control) over the ship soon.

At this point I’m two episodes behind, so nobody post any spoilers in the comments

Apple seems to think that nobody ever needs to maximize their application windows.  Instead, they provide a “zoom” button, which is supposed to toggle the window between “show as much content as possible” and a user-defined (manually set) size.

The problem is that this “zoom” button (which doesn’t actually zoom anything) is extremely inconsistent in behavior.  I draw these examples from my usage yesterday:

• Terminal and Xcode treat “zoom” as “maximize”.
• Safari tries to resize to fit content, but much of the time it’s wrong, and sometimes it fails entirely.  For example, on more than one website I clicked “zoom” and the window shrank, hiding even more content; clicking it again to try to toggle it back had no effect.  Safari seemed to do that a lot – the “zoom” button would simply do nothing, regardless of whether I had resized the window manually or not.
• iTunes treats it as a toggle between miniature mode and the user-defined size.  That’s hardly a “zoom”, now is it?

If you search the intertubes for “OSX maximize window”, you’ll find that pretty much every Mac-centric forum is populated entirely by people who believe nobody ever needs to maximize windows (never mind that some of Apple’s own apps do exactly that); the common reply to “I want to maximize this window” is “no, you don’t” and “just live without it, you’ll get used to it”.  (Yeah, because you have no choice…)

There’s something to be said for the fact that even if “maximize” is not strictly necessary, at least you always know what the button will do (speaking of the functionality in Windows and Linux).

I don’t want to argue about whether the whole UI paradigm of OSX is right or wrong, but at the very least it should be consistent…

Oh, and one other thing.  Apple, if you’re going to enforce a “no maximized windows” idea (by not supporting window maximization by default), you should at least enable snap-to-borders.