Pet Peeve #52: When You Learn What a Keyboard Button Does by Accidentally Pressing It

I’ll never forget the first time I pressed “Insert” button on a computer keyboard. I was in sixth grade. I was working on a paper in a now-antiquated program called Microsoft Works on our first family PC. At the time I considered the program the pinnacle of technology next to a 16-bit dinosaur game that involved … Read more

Pet Peeve #50: Netflix Movies That Are Too Good to Watch

A while ago I read about a phenomenon on Netflix involving movies with really high ratings. Biopics, documentaries, foreign films, Oscar-winning independent films…those kinds of movies. Apparently Netflix discovered two things about peoples’ behavior when adding those types of movies to their queue. People are quick to add those 4.5-star movies to their queue, but … Read more