Edwin Bühler, your application can only serve to intensify the tendency to analyze and classify the simple pleasures until they can no longer be enjoyed. Please savor this 10.2, and an ice cold bottle of Mad Dog 20/20, with our heartiest congratulations.
Posted by ladd at August 15, 2003 11:56 PM | TrackBackLadd,
What the hell does this program do? Obviously I'm not going to download it one way or the other, I was just curious. Mad Dog 20/20 should start putting beta-carotene in their product. To help support the name sake. Whatever. Norm?
Posted by: Nick on August 16, 2003 01:42 AMOne might only assume the UI is so hideously large that one might be adjusted to making reviews of the finer qualities of these beverages whist in the process of enjoying them.
Posted by: rankin on August 16, 2003 02:57 AMI would have been interested in knowing what it did. But seeing it was reviewed here I expect it's not worth the bother of downloading.
Posted by: Aleksander on August 16, 2003 08:36 AMThe download link does not work.
Posted by: Aleksander on August 16, 2003 08:37 AMJust click on the pic. It's some kind of wine cellar organizer.
Posted by: 99th monkey on August 16, 2003 08:47 AMWell I guess that if your like Niles and Frasier Crane and drink a lot of wine it might be of some use.
Posted by: Aleksander on August 16, 2003 08:51 AMI think ladd is jealous that there are other people in the world that can be analytical about being shitfaced on a saturday night. Get over it ladd and give us your take on the Ripple and its subtle nuances.
Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 16, 2003 10:21 AMNot sure if this is a form of irony, but I believe one would have to be drunk to be in the right state of mind to willingly use this program for classifying wines.
Maybe if they simplified the UI, and removed a bunch of the redundant sections such as Used, Vineyard, Stock, Misc, Reviews, and the sub layer comment sections, this might be an ALMOST decent CONCEPT. Then of course we'd all have to smack the programmer on the head with a nice power maul, and when he wakes up in about....I'd say 15 days, they will have had enough time to think their mistakes over.
Kinda like a time out. But with hitting.
Wait, does it REALLY say 'green' as one of the options under taste? That is wrong. Exceedingly wrong. I'm almost positive, but no wine has, does, or will taste like 'green'. Broccoli on the other hand....
Posted by: Laemkral on August 16, 2003 10:42 AMgood luck trying to find broccoli flavored wine...
Posted by: Nick on August 16, 2003 11:02 AMWell, I suppose if you left thebroccoli in a bowl/cup/barrel for long enough.... It might not taste any different.
BTW, did a search on one of the sites for brocolli wine, and came up with several hits including .
Several of the hits I looked at could have been written by visitors of the pvt site (or staff members).
"no body:"
Something written by a staff member could never be confused for something written by a visitor because of the language barrier that divides us.
Posted by: Jan on August 16, 2003 07:52 PMThats right. Us visitors to the site lack the basic copmprehensions of the English language, in all its various forms, as it tends to be taught in public school.
ie. We iz stoopid.
Mmmmmmm-maddog.
Posted by: Bubba the Screw on August 17, 2003 01:44 PMReading the text from the screenshot, I think the programmer has a great sense of humor. If you're looking for bad software to rag on, you must be running out 'cause this ain't bad.
Posted by: Plazman on August 18, 2003 12:53 PMSo let me get this... obsessing about technology, COOL. Obsessing about wine (something that has been with us for thousands of years) LAME.
If you are going to make fun of something, understand what you are making fun of. There is more to life than Coors light, nachos and stretch pants.
Posted by: schewy on August 18, 2003 02:35 PMPlazman,
The text in the screenshot was written by me, not the author.
Schewy,
I believe we've mocked technology considerably more frequently than we've mocked wine. That said, we will be sure to belittle wine snobs more often now that we know it bothers you.
Someone should write a program that generates wine snob insults. Not me, though, because I am an idiot.
Posted by: Nick on August 18, 2003 08:16 PMCongratulations, Nick! You get to wear the 'I'm Smart Enough To Know That We're All Bozos On This Bus' T-shirt!
Of course, you' re facing the most dangerous stage through the Alps, and the van Tol team has vowed to push you into the path of a BMW. It's their nature. They still ache at the loss of the ancestral tulip farm...
Woo-hoo!
Ladd... great Wash. DC equivalent of MD 20/20 was called Mooby Fooby. Radio ad: "Jump up and down. Stand on your head. Any change fall out, you buy Mooby Fooby."
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