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by nsxwolf 4641 days ago
Have you ever had a really, really good hamburger bun that set the burger apart from almost any other burger you've ever eaten?

If you have, why not describe it as "artisanal"? Some bread really is good enough to warrant a special description.

Likewise, the iPhone 5c is a really, really nice plastic object. I know next to nothing about plastics, but I do know that the 5c is set apart from, say, this Handspring Visor that's (for some reason) on my desk.

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> why not describe it as "artisanal"?

Because that's misleading, making you think a person was more involved in the creation of the bun than merely a machine operator pouring powder and water in one end and cranking buns out the other.

You have a Handspring Visor on your desk? Have you just not cleaned your desk in 10 years? I kid, but I am genuinely curious what exactly you use it for these days?

I cleaned out my bin of extra cords and random electronics this weekend. I found my Visor and promptly put it in the "give away" pile.

It's basically that I haven't cleaned out my desk, but this thing made it to the top of the pile a bit ago because I was curious if I could get it onto the Internet and what that would mean exactly in 2013.

Sadly I cannot find the wireless module.