Author: alternateorg

(First off, its good to know that I can break alternate if I want to. Sorry ’bout that.)

Since I don’t have a personal weblog, every couple of months I feel the urge to share strange experiences in my life on this Maccentric site. I know it’s a little odd, so bear with me. It’s somewhat rare.

So I’m sore from my Shaolin Kung Fu class. We stood in Horse stance for like 30 minutes and my thighs are killing me, but now I have a cool trick for how to get out of a chokehold. It is odd for me to attempt to reference “my Shaolin Kung Fu class” with any semblance of a straight face. I’m sure you all can understand. Secondly, and mainly, yesterday I did my ambulance ride along for my EMT-B class. By the way, I’ve wanted to be a paramedic for a while now, and this is how you go about doing that in San Diego. It was horribly boring, and incredibly fascinating at the same time. I was with American Medical Response, the biggest private amubulance company in the US, and essentially a medical taxi service (their words).

Highlights: I met a woman who went in for a colonoscopy and had a stroke. I helped lift a 493lb. psych patient. I tried and failed to take the blood pressure of a young girl who had a massive head trauma (ambulances on freeways are loud and bumpy). I learned the ER entry code for the biggest hospital in San Diego. I tried and succeeded to take the blood pressure of a woman with a broken hip (our last call, so I felt accomplished).

I have to do eight hours in an ER as well, and by luck of the draw I got the biggest and busiest trauma center in San Diego. Oh, and for spring break my girl and I went rock climbing in Joshua Tree and I couldn’t use a certain foothold because there was a rattlesnake there. I just think my life is rather interesting right now, that’s all. Thanks for listening, good ol’ Internet. You’re always there for me.

This guy just installed Linux over Windows. And everything he likes about Linux is in MacOS X. And everything he hates about Windows is not in MacOS X. So why didn’t he switch to MacOS X? He says it’s too ‘Jetta.’ Fuck that noise. Get a fucking clue, guy. His gripes:

I don’t miss the sluggishness. I don’t miss the crashes. I don’t miss restarting my computer every time I install anything. I don’t miss Plug N’ Pray. I don’t miss having to rip out Outlook and IE 15 times before they stay gone. I don’t miss talking paperclips.

With Linux, I don’t like the strangeness. I don’t like the lack of commercial-quality games. I don’t like the fact that my scanner doesn’t work. I don’t like the permissions system (next rebuild, all Root, all the time).

OSX is what he’s looking for but won’t admit it. Buy the better hardware and install the better software and shut the fuck up. It’s a Unix you can fucking use without the file permissions getting in the way. And your printers will work. And there’s games. Why can’t some people just swallow their pride and admit that OSX is everything they’ve ever dreamed about?

Because then Steve would win and we can’t have that, can we? In 5 years, MacOS X will be everywhere. Mark my words.