A stuttering march of progress

Open letter to anyone who isn't as dumb as me:

Blargh. I'm on a Mac at the moment (as I will be for the rest of eternity, it seems, at my new job, in my very own office. Which I have now. An office, with a door), and I want to blog a few of my recent writings, but I can't figure out how to cut and paste from Word into the Mac version of Firefox.

Drop-down menu doesn't work. open-apple C, open-apple P doesn't work. Dragging the text onto the little Firefox icon sure as hell doesn't work (using some version of OS 10 . . . 10.3.9 as it were).

Mac people: how do you make this work? Am I going to have to use another browser? What is the name of that thing? Isn't it Safari or something? What does the Icon look like?

This is going to be a long, steep ascent to the world of so-called user-friendliness. Quote, unquote.

For your troubles you'll get like 20 new reviews of various things, including several new albums, Broken Flowers, Stealth, 40-Year-Old Virgin, and other things. I'll also link to the article which has, by now, made me many country music enemies. In a town filled with Nashville-ophiles, that's not good.

Yours with more questions than answers,


Luke Baumgarten
Staff Writer
Pacific Northwest Inlander

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