I'd like to shake this guy's hand. There always seems to be too much capitulation and not enough "bite me" to go around. Andrew Okulitch, I applaud you and your anti-political sentiments. Oh yeah, and have fun playing with your rocks.
It used to be, as a guy, you could get away with a lot in your quest to have some form of sexual contact with a woman. Apparently trick #376 should be categorized as Questionably Effective with risks including permanent change of residence and incarceration. It's always a sad day when we lose another one.
These Mac/PC commercials have gone to far....or maybe not far enough. I'm SOOOOOO tired of that tool Mac being all, "I'm younger and cooler than you are". Let's take the one where they're talking about spyware and viruses. "I don't have to worry about spyware, I run OS/X." What he should have said is "I don't have to worry about spyware, no one cares about disrupting the lives of K-12 students." The reality is that there is no spyware on the Mac because no one cares what Mac users are doing.
So Apple is trying to tell us that OS/X is impervious to malicious attack. Interesting. I wonder how much I'd have to pay to get some loser to hack-me-up some sweet OS/X virus. Something cool that would, oh I don't know, screw with their dock, change their color depth and deprive them of smoothly animated icons. Yeah, that'll get 'em. Naw, no money in that. But an iPod virus. Now that'll piss off a bunch of tools.
What I want to see are the missing commercials. Like the one where PC and Mac are at a party. And PC is surrounded by all these beautiful women, models, doctors, lawyers....and then there is Mac surrounded by a couple of semi-goths who are still in art school.
PC: "Look at all this great software. What more could a computer ask for?"
Mac: "Yeah, that's nice but I'm happy with my boutique library of programs. Like iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand. Oh yeah, and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing."
Voice over: "Mac, it's what you want if you're rebellious, artsy, and poor!"
[long pause]
"Or if you think you're cool."
Another long lost Apple Ad
Alright, so I didn't surrender. I couldn't do it. Free time has been at a premium, hence my recent extended absence. However, the pressures of life have been building somewhat recently and thought it might help to blow off a little steam and remind you all how much I despise stupidity. Human stupidity is a given, but why does it have to slap me in the face on a regular basis. One one hand, Atlantis is in orbit today as we continue to build an orbital space station. Meanwhile somewhere on the planet (probably in the southern United States), someone is watching the first 15 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time and thinking it reminds him of the fight he saw down at the bar last week.
How is it that we have such a variance in intelligence within the species? Do other species have the same issue? We see monkeys flinging crap and think, "Man, it's good to be more evolved." I think there is actually a monkey sitting there yelling at a companion, "What the hell?! Can't we just go out for dinner without you tossing your crap at some stranger? Damn stupid monkey." I think that probably happens a lot.
That same monkey watches as people pass by the zoo cage and thinks to himself, "Sure you can make movies, but have you watched them? I'd like to fling some celluloid at you after sitting through Fahrenheit 9/11."
Here are a couple of things to ponder:
"The depth of collective human ingenuity is surpassed only by the breadth of individual human stupidity." -- Uncle Jimbo
"Monkeys are cool. Smart monkeys are way cooler and they'll make better rulers than apes." -- Uncle Jimbo
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