i’ve caught a few of the
apple “switch”
commercials and found them mildly interesting, since i’ve recently
purchased an
ibook
after years of tolerating having a wintel box as my primary
computer.
i probably wouldn’t have thought twice about the ads until i
noticed aaron
adams’
[ which looks like it’s down as i type this post ] and
damon wright’s
. perhaps i’m showing the true depths of my superdorkness, but i
was thoroughly fascinated to read about these guys’ real life
experiences and how freakishly similar some of the parallels were
to my own life.
“hey!” i thought. “these guys really are just like me.”
well. unfortunately, i didn’t realize just how true that thought
could
be
:
“The bad news is that Apple couldn’t have picked a
starker collection of life’s losers with which to promote the
Macintosh.Here in unforgiving relief are a collection of scarred, terrified
refugees from life – for whom the computer is alternately a
punishment surrogate, a child substitute or a masturbation object.
”“These people are so freaky that if one sat next to you on the bus,
you’d suddenly find yourself wondering if walking home might be an
altogether less traumatic option.”
great. and yes, my wife does find this all very,
very amusing.