PooterGeek

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What George just said.
Also, as we’re thinking of buying the Complete New Yorker set we found Mr Jalopy’s posts very interesting – at first. It is ineed “the finest magazine ever published” (his words) and having 80 years’ worth of it – 80 years! – accessible in any form at all seems astonishing, amazing, impressive, whatever positive adjective you like. Contrast having it in hard copy form, cluttering up the room, or several rooms, generating dust, and so on – not to mention how much it would cost to acquire. But what does Mr Jalopy spend most of his 2,000 words on? On whining about how “the disk swapping is truly gruesome”, how “profoundly disappointed” he is that he can’t transfer the contents to his hard disk, and how he feels compelled to “revoke my recommendation that it is worth buying”. What? FFS, it’s the Complete New Yorker! Plenty of things can be called “onerous”, but is swapping DVDs around really such an awful burden? It’s not that we’d defend the nasty little copyright protections included on the DVDs, nor that Mr Jalopy should just shut up and be grateful – he does make some valid points, especially about how media corporations keep shooting themselves in the foot – but you don’t have to be able to recall the days before the Web and DVDs and all that to think that he’s going way over the top.
Or maybe you do. We don’t particularly want “the ability to have the entire New Yorker run on [our] airplane tray table, in bed, in the backyard or to read when … stuck at a drive-through window” (!), but Mr Jalopy says he does. Young people today, eh? They just don’t know how lucky they are, etc., etc.
Anyway – not to close on such a curmudgeonly note – many thanks for another year of entertainment and enlightenment, and all the best for 2006.

Jimmy Doyle

The Big Sleep, dated?

That’s a dirty crack, brother.