things that need a name

things that need a name runx.md

Things That Need a Name

• The Chicken Problem
• The Photoshop Problem
  • cf. Unix
  • How do you know enough to know which five commands are twenty times more important than all the others?
  • banner vs. cd
  • "Posterize" vs. "Unsharp Mask"
• The Kawaii Marriott Reaction
  • Stockholm Syndrome, but for customer service
• The thing where you say "I'm from Chicago" for whatever
• recommendation that's definitely not a recommendation
  • aka #MerlinShitList OR
  • The Shoah Problem
    • "This $thing is amazing, but I can't exactly… recommend it"
    • (why twitter should have bookmarks and not freaking hearts)
• the "you forgot about…" problem
  • No. I did not forget about anything.
  • lists are curation, you dingaling
  • if you want all the things I "forgot," buy an encyclopedia
• DBF phenomenon: an ambitious challenge plus a fall-back easy challenge
• Via Alex's Emergent Bipolar Mornings "That’s another thing we need a word for, like a brief and sudden interruption that can’t be avoided and must be dealt with but does not and likely would not end in catastrophe"
• Channing Tatum's Marvel pseudo trauma
• TV shows I didn't stop watching for any particular reason
  • because life just happens
• Merlin's array from cognition to doing
• Apps and services you love so much that you wish you had more occasion to use them
• "Transphobia"
  • you sure they're solely…"scared?"
  • because you might want to leaven that "fear" with more than a dash of "weird, irrational hatred"
• when two people you like on twitter interact with each other
• a meta name for this very kind of thing
  • uhhhh…"sniglet?"