September 23, 2001
Computers
You know, I am a Mac person, a Mac person forced to live in the PC world. I know, I know, you've all heard that one before. But you know, I am just sick of Windows. I am tired of the fact that no external peripherals work unless they're on the parallel port. Why do they even bother making SCSI cards for PCs? I am tired of all of the little fault errors that Schmindoze conjures up. I am tired of programs that just quit with that stupid little red circle/white x that says the application was terminated because of this stupid little fault. And this fault is completely incomprehensible by anyone, anywhere. It's all just code. And if you ask the techies no matter where you are, they'll look at the code, shrug their shoulders, and mutter "eh," as if their ignorance of the fault will make me feel better. Why? Because I'm in good company? (Actually, at this place, I am in excellent company because our two top IT guys are just big, beefy, barrel-chested studs. *Drool* But I digress...again...)
Whatever. Just a Mac-biased rant. I love my grape iMac DV with a 30GB hard drive, 1 GB of RAM, which is completely compatible and swappable with X's souped up Pentium 4 (they finally got something right in the battle of the platforms), FireWire CD burner that works everytime, 60GB external FireWire hard drive (for all of those .mp3s and .mpgs, you know). I love how it looks, how it sounds, the icons, the fact that the MacOS has always had built-in ligatures in its font sets. It's all good. Next up, the G5 Powerbook when it's released next year. Can't wait, can't wait. At least it will give me the time to scrape up the money to buy the thing. In the meantime, here is someone else who favours the Mac and a nicely compiled comparison of the MacOS and Windows.
I should be out of a job in a few months. The big, bloated pharma that I work for is moving down to San Diego, like right now. They have already told us that we will be out of a job by the end of May, 2002, mainly because they have a redundant staff, and as such, there is no need to even offer us a relocation package. Hmmpff. However, with the re-introduction of my current boss, Dragon Lady (who is a tome in herself), I figure we should be out of here by the end of the year. I guess I'll have much more to say about this in the coming weeks. C U Next Tuesday. That's all I have to say. Thank you.
