So I went to the Drive to see why the species name is sisyphus, the mythical character doomed to repeat a pointless task every day. It's all about spider sex, and it's pretty grim. "But since they lack nerves, they can be difficult to position..." And sex can lead to cannibalism. That seems pretty pointless. And now I feel sorry for a spider.
When I was a little kid, my mother introduced me to the ambiguities of the English language by telling me I shouldn't be afraid of the Purple People Eater because he only eats purple people. So when I was working on this post, I thought of Sheb Wooley, and now that song is stuck in my head.
It wasn't so much the programmers, but the higher-ups who insisted on DJs never playing a song longer than three minutes so they could sell X units of ads. That's the reason record companies made a shorter single that faded out, because otherwise they wouldn't get radio play for the full version.
Fahrenheit is a scale based on human comfort. Zero is really cold, and 100 is really hot, in human terms. It's quite simple, but not at all random. Centigrade is fine when you want to boil or freeze water. Kelvin is for mad scientists.
This post is a breathtakingly perfect example of doublespeak. What is it about, anyway? A person with low vision using a text-to-speech app would be flummoxed.