Too Jetta? Pshaw.

alternateorg on April 5, 2002

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.

Only the convertible

alternateorg on March 29, 2002

Due to my aforementioned obesssion with all things Tekken, I found myself watching, nay, fully enjoying Only The Strong, the world’s foremost B-rated movie featuring everyone’s favorite hard-to-spell-but-fun-to-watch martial art, Capoeira.

This is not a Tekken-related post. Just thought I’d get that out of the way.

So like I said, I’m watching this wonderful peice of motion picture goodness when I have to make dinner. So I’m in the kitchen, preheating the oven to 375 for our -ahem- Mac n Cheeze bake when it sounds like the TV has changed because there’s now what is unmistakably a Mazda commercial on. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Yah zoomzoomzoom.

Those who know me well enough will know I have somewhat of a Mazda fetish, and even if rotary engines are still not slated for release again until September, I revel in the odd Miata commercial. So I peek around my red-painted dining room corner and what do I see? Our kicking-ass capoeira movie has not magically changed into a commercial for the lovable scamp that reinvented the roadster; the music/tagline is simply coming from the movie.

I kid you not, friends, our beloved Mazda branding has been LIFTED from a Brazilian song used during the pivotal ‘beach training’ scene of ‘Only The Strong.’ Needless to say, I was beside myself with joy of the delicious and random mixing pop-culture references, both of which are near and dear to me. Just thought I’d share.

I wonder if Guy Smiley is still around

alternateorg on March 6, 2002

You’d think that having two kids, I’d have noticed radical changes like these, but no. Most disturbing:


But the new “Sesame Street” is predicated on the idea that kids can’t handle that kind of instability, and so the day’s number is announced right at the outset and the same way every time: The Count presses numbered keys on an organ keyboard, and when the right number appears, confetti is released. That’s right, bright, colorful confetti, not gothic lightning and thunder. Then the Count counts to that number, still sans lightning or thunder. The dark, sinister master of the numeric universe has been reduced to a kind of Muppet Vanna White.

How very sad. I wonder if it’s just Sesame Street’s time to accept defeat to the marketing machines that are Disney and Nickelodeon. Maybe they already have and this is their way of saying it.

Exclusive Flash MX Screenshots

alternateorg on February 25, 2002

So while speculation has been plentiful about Flash MX and Flash 6 (MX for Mac, 6 for Windows), your trusty pals at Alternate have ‘received’ exlusive screenshots of the recently announced Flash MX Beta for MacOS X. Bask in its glory, my friends, even though A. Flash isn’t that cool and B. We really shouldn’t get that excited over the fact that MM has finally started paying attention to its UIs. But it’s interesting all the same. And before ThinkSecret or MOSR.