Garret Says:
September 27th, 2006 at 8:47 am
Superior? You should try playing a game that supports surround sound and uses EAX technology. Can’t do that on OSX at all. Build .NET applications? Nope.
auramac Says:
September 27th, 2006 at 11:06 am
One of the reasons I don’t Need Windows- an entirely different list from the one called “Why I Much Prefer a Mac”- is that I’ve got too many interests and things going on in my life- musician, artist, tech support specialist- to have the slightest interest in playing computer games as the clock keeps ticking away. Bang!- you’re dead. At least, not really alive. Oh, I like to veg, and rest, and play- but I’m too old and too young for the gaming. But we are digressing, aren’t we?……
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
stuff
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.”
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.”
Friday, September 1, 2006
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.
Monday, August 21, 2006
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.
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.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
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
”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
Saturday, August 19, 2006
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.
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
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
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