Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for January 15, 2020

Occam’s descendants never had it easy, did they?

Review. Features. Choices.

Still sounds like a cat video website.

..and use it to slit his wrists.

One nice thing about actual stores – you don’t have limitless options.

He needs a shortcut.

It’s funny how everything you do on the computer you think will only take a few minutes ends up taking over an hour or more!

Check out Barry Schwartz’s book “The Paradox of Choice” Too many choices can lead to paralysis by analysis.

Tooooooo many choices these days

If you stop and read reviews and etc, you’ll be there for eternity….Know what you want before going on….

Undue diligence.

It would take less time to walk to the nearest drug store to buy one.

English Franciscan friar William of Ockham did the same thing. He also learned there are usually negative commenters for Amazon products, and concluded they are an unlucky group, kind of like that wagon party who thought it’d be OK to pass through Mormon territory on their way to California, and not sudden arrival at the promised land.

Nice touch with the plant dying too :^)

I get pissed off when I am required to make a user name and password just to look up information. Right there, they lose me forever. ( Starts swearing at all the sites that do that)

That’s me everyday. “I’ll just comment on a couple of comics, and…. Whoa!”

Famous last words.