Jeremy Richards ([info]jeremyrichards) wrote,
@ 2008-01-09 14:04:00
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It may not be possible to continue normally

Dear PC,

Unfortunately, you're not nearly as cool or surreal as John Hodgman, your television avatar. At three and a half years, you now qualify for PC Medicare, so I have elected to move you into virtual hospice. This lifespan is typical, I imagine, even with the constant surgeries, the RAM implants, and the futile attempts at rehabilitation. I'm sorry to see you so slow and feeble. You're always putting down files and forgetting where you left them, always crashing and cracking a rib.



Accordingly, I have requested a priest to offer your last rites. Wait, what's your denomination? I always assumed you were a Quaker. Don't mind the feeding tube/external drive. I'm just siphoning anything still valuable and passing it along to your successor, my new MacBook. I think she's a Buddhist.





Dear MacBook,

Here is all my money.

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[info]ejase
2008-01-09 10:37 pm UTC (link)
I own four Mac's. You will come to love them more than sex.

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Mac the Life
[info]jeremyrichards
2008-01-09 10:54 pm UTC (link)
For a second I glanced at those two sentences and thought your Macs were reproducing.

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Re: Mac the Life
[info]ejase
2008-01-09 11:18 pm UTC (link)
That could be hot.
Imagine the form factors!

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[info]joethelionn
2008-01-09 10:37 pm UTC (link)
You will be rewarded a thousandfold.

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[info]jeremyrichards
2008-01-09 10:52 pm UTC (link)
I do love it so far. I only wish that Netflix Instant Viewing and Space Time would get their Mac versions up and running.

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[info]ejase
2008-01-09 11:23 pm UTC (link)
Oh my god. Space Time. Never heard of it, but wow, amazing.

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[info]jeremyrichards
2008-01-09 11:29 pm UTC (link)
Totally! It's weird that they draw so much influence from Mac design, but only roll it out for PC ...

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[info]sashash
2008-01-10 04:54 pm UTC (link)
yay! welcome to the cult!

i love my Macbook Pro. it's done me nothing less than wonders in the year i've had it.

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[info]jeremyrichards
2008-01-10 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Nice. Have you seen the new MacBook Pro? It's insane.

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old PCs
[info]dr_spork
2008-01-14 04:22 am UTC (link)
If you have an old PC with broken Windows, put Puppy Linux on it and you can resurrect it. Especially if you already have another computer to use, you've got nothing to lose. I put Puppy 3.01 NOP on my old 500MHz / 128M RAM machine from 2001 and now it blazes. In fact, it was so much faster than my new computer that runs Vista that I had to put Ubuntu Linux on the newer one too. And also, Linux never crashes, boots up in under 30 seconds, and never gets a virus. OSX is based off of it.

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Re: old PCs
[info]jeremyrichards
2008-01-14 05:34 am UTC (link)
Thanks! I'll check it out.

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Re: old PCs
[info]dr_spork
2008-01-14 06:34 pm UTC (link)
btw here's a demo if you haven't already seen it

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