Day: March 30, 2009

Crankypantsing

Not Cool Enough

Shelly

This was posted to BoingBoing Gadgets. I ended up with the very same computer, for exactly the same reasons. There’s the expected Windows-bashing in the comments thread over there, with the same asinine arguments:

  • Windows is too expensive (From people who think you should pay $2000 for a Mac vs. $700 for a PC.)
  • Your PC will be full of viruses in no time (Um, no, some Windows users are actually smart enough to operate anti-virus software.)
  • Macs are great for non-tech savvy people. No, wait, only non-tech savvy fools use Windows. M’kaythen!
  • Use Linux! (As if the OS–the cheapest part of the equation–were the sole reason for buying a PC, and besides, Windows Vista Home Premium only costs me $20 through my job. Twenty dollars vs. a free OS that none of my programs will work with? No, thanks.)
  • And how on earth has a company that sells just a handful of flavors of computer become the icon of hip, cool, diversity, when PCs come in a million different sizes, shapes, and prices?
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Title of the Day

Shelly

Porcine meat: carcases and cuts. I swear, no work day is complete without a UN or EU document on the handling of meat.

In other news, the neighbors upstairs and across the hall (the ones who took the place of the Stompy Girls), are moving out. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since they moved in. I watched both their puppies grow up! It’ll be nice not to have to worry about them not cleaning up after their dogs, but other than that, they’ve been awesome neighbors, and I’ll miss them. Hopefully, the new people will be quiet.

Before they left, they brought me two bookcases (yay!), a really nice tea kettle, some stainless steel pots and pans, mixing bowls, some odds and ends of food, and the remains from their liquor cabinet. w00t! I never turn down free booze! They would have given me their almost new gas grill, too, except I don’t cook out and really don’t have anywhere to put it on my patio.

In other other news, there was a hard, heavy frost last night. It took me forever to scrape my car windows. I hope the sprouting plants in my garden are okay.