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TV's PC Guy: So, to get into character as the PC, does that take some sort of method acting?

No, I’m not an actor, per se . . . . I was out there in the wilderness with PCs feeling completely frustrated, and appreciating their attempt to be nice and easy to use and constantly amazed by the fact that they were the most confusing boobs. I myself am a Mac user. I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to buy it, in 1984. I used it through high school and college; it was the first computer I used outside of college, then I went though a brief period of exile during my corporate years as a professional literary agent, where I was forced to use a PC . . . . Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat. They just know it. PC’s efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he’s much cooler than the Mac. The whole reason they’re standing in that white room is because he’s trying to help the Mac out.

From Woz's bio, on Steve Jobs: What did the two Steves do in the early days, pre-Apple Computer?

”Steve and I were into listening to Bob Dylan and his lyrics, trying to figure out who was better, Dylan or the Beatles. We both favored Dylan because the songs were about life and living and values in life and what was really important.”

SNL

SNL has sucked for years, but it's always had its moments and that's why I keep coming back. So you laugh a bit, sit through a bunch of crap, then are shocked again by something actually quite good- and funny. It's also at its best when it takes on this particular administration and other idiots in Washington. Amy is great doing "Rick! Rick!" but not so great on Update- none of them appear up to that job, especially when you think of John Stewart and Colbert's stuff.

Mr. Brittney Spears posting

auramac | 8/21/2006, 7:36 pm EST

Who can be surprised? He’s an idiot- of course he sucks. It’s like a plague, the crap being released- Paris Hilton- Justin Timberlake, too is a machine. Any decent producer nowadays can make a gas attack into a numerical entry on Billboard magazine, as long as there’s a video featuring half-naked dancers available.

My last Tera posting

I am saddened and in shock. I kept thinking and hoping those newer and better meds would keep coming. Her impact and the depth of the loss is amazing considering most of us have never met her- and knew her only through her incredibly insightful and powerful writing.

”Nothing improves without change.”

Ah, yes- but the world is a lesser place now, for sure.

  — Posted on Sun Aug 20 at 12:33 pm by auramac

Tera

Sucks, really sucks (e-mail from Bambi of Mac360) -

To Mac360 readers:

We lost a very good friend today-- Tera Jean Patricks.

This afternoon, I received a phone call from her parents. Tera was staying
at their home near Los Angeles. She passed away early this morning following
a long bout with cancer.

Tera was 46.

Gibson blogs

More idiotic postings on AOL- here's one and my response:

I think people should learn to forgive and forget. Hasn't everyone said things they have not meant. I know there are not perfect people in the world. Mel Gibson has apolgized. Why don't people accept this and leave him alone?
Posted at 9:54PM on Aug 19th 2006 by Mauve

Brainiac- of course Gibson apologized. What was he gonna say- "I had a few drinks but also meant what I said?" Do you not get that there was immediate damage control attempted by him and his "people" after the incident? Does the concept of saying "I'm sorry" and not meaning it, just to save your butt- escape you?! You never in your life said "I'm sorry"- just because you got caught? Also- it was Gibson and his people who asked the Jews for help- now his agent is saying it is "inappropriate" for the rabbi to discuss this in public? Oh, I get it- it was appropriate for Gibson to have his spin- now they want it to die down, so any talk is inappropriate while he works so very hard on his recovery- at home!

Posted at 1:04AM on Aug 20th 2006 by auramac

Frank Frazetta

Before he painted, Frazetta did some comics- cartoons, even Playboy- type stuff. (Yep- there's "Frazetta porn" out there!)

There've been many good and great sci-fi artists over the years, but Frazetta really stands out. And I notice more and more lately that you can't find a single Frazetta cover in the SF section of any bookstore! I'm glad I still have a few, but I might have to search e-Bay to replace those I lost over the years. One of my favorites of the Tarzan books, other than the first and "The Return of Tarzan," was "Tarzan and the Lion Man," great Frazetta cover- you can't find the book at all now! I guess I just assumed they'd always be there! Frazetta covers, Edgar Rice Burroughs on Ace Books (they had Frazetta- not Ballantine Books).

Yeah, looking at a Frazetta cover, you knew this book was no Johnny Weissmuller movie! (Though I liked Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies- the books were much better, though.)