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So here I am. The G told me about Sunanda on the 21st. I was, maybe still am, scared and a little confused. I can’t really figure out what to think, but the idea of her finding peace in the life after is a recurring theme.
I wonder sometime if in the afterlife we are empowered with odd powers while we’re given time to tie up loose ends in this world. I would want to have the power to destroy belt buckles and pant waist buttons just to start. With these powers I could actually fight the battle at a whole another level.
The matters of life and death are a conundrum and I think it’s better left that way. However, the matters of Mac vs. PC should be discussed till we’re all blue in the face. Reading John Gruber’s Daringfireball, as I do everyday, I came across the interview he gave at waferbaby.com. John as hes so good at doing really tore into one of the core precepts of the Mac vs. PC arguments. Heres a sample…
“they will say, “what can a mac do that a wintel computer can’t?” and the truth is they do the same things, it’s just that the mac does them better. maybe only slightly better, but better nonetheless. the pc industry, however, is all about feature checklists. whoever has the most features wins; if you offer the same features, whoever is cheaper wins. and so if you compare macs and pcs that way, there seems to be no logical reason to decide to use a mac.
but that’s like saying that just because you can’t taste the difference between a $15 bottle of wine and a $50 bottle of wine, that there isn’t any difference. i mean, they offer the same features — grape flavor and the pleasant effects of alcohol. so why pay more?
the same is true of almost anything. if you couldn’t tell the difference between a $400 bicycle and a $1,000 bicycle, would you assume there was no difference? of course not — you’d assume the differences were subtle, but appreciable by serious cyclists.”
This is a really the core of it. 99% of the people who don’t use Macs have either never used a good Mac to do something that they do everyday with their PCs or they simply tried to find a tool they have on their PC, didn’t find it and quit out of frustration. I have seen people do both of these things firsthand and its really frustrating. Its one thing if people really use the Macs and then tell me that the difference isn’t worth the cost but I really hate it when people don’t even give it a half baked chance and quickly run off to play the lambs to Microsoft’s Mary. Its even worse when people try to squirm their way out of explaining that they have really used a Mac.
The whole Mozilla vs. IE argument is rather similar but the lines aren’t nearly as blurry on that battlefield. I’ll get into it one of these days once Ram and I get our project finished.
I also had to address some of the comments people left on my driving story…particularly this gem Mr. Steve left for me…
“Yeah, especially if the AC has a “anti-ball freeze” setting. Due to space constraints, I’d imagine it would be an international symbol with a frozen scrotum (perhaps with icicles attached) overlayed by a cancel symbol.”
This is just beautiful imagery right here. Scrotal temperature is not a laughing matter people. I just wish people would grow up and address this matter with the concern it rightly deserves. Sadly though the 2002 Dodge Grand Caravan had no such innovation in the AC department.
The Old Man asked, “Did a cop stop you and ask why you had no pants on?” Thankfully I had no such experiences. As much as I support the cause, I don’t think I would have been prepared to preach the gospel on the spot to an officer of the law.
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