Comments on: Cool world

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:40:54 +0000

Good upon you, Simon — I’m glad someone appreciated those pugs after all I went through.

By: simon

simon — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:36:51 +0000

Thank you so much for that. I love pugs.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:05:21 +0000

Dude, proselytizing’s for dorks. If my entire Apple-happy lifetime didn’t serve as a silent advertisement, you wouldn’t have listened to any actual words.

Of course, I’m a dork, so I tried actual words anyway, back in the dark days when you ordered a (my God, can this memory be right?) Dell. And you didn’t listen. There. Now the internerds all know your secret shame.

Welcome to the ~~Dark~~ Dork side. One. Of. Us.

By: KP

KP — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:04:44 +0000

FOR THOSE WITH WARM LAPS: http://www.raindesigninc.com – get an iLap. It’s a great invention that muito adds to the comfort of your computing.

Ahh, the Mac love. I am obsessed with Sven, my three-year-old Powerbook that still evokes pleasure within my loins. It’s like a little club – you don’t know what you’re missing til you try it and are subsequently enchanted.

The mac.com account. Try it for free and see if you like it. It’s easy integrated web publishing using iWeb (for those of us not John-savvy enough to create using multiple programs) and I use the iDisk to transfer files that I need at work so I don’t have to take Sven every day. Matt and I can sync our iCals, do photocasting, use iChat, etc. I also don’t get much junk mail, which is fabulous. I also like that I can email photos from iPhoto without going through the motions of attachments. Also you get all sorts of .mac-member treats for various programs.

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:25:03 +0000

Jag: You will love Quicksilver. Go get it now.
Michael: I understand your plight, though the lack-of-availability problem is largely a thing of the past. Still, I do hate reading about something cool and then getting to the “Windows only” part. And I always saw you as more of an Olivia DeHavilland.
Darko: Your check is in the mail.
Elli: Prepare for lap-burns. Or get a small throw-pillow.
Jane: Ditto, though probably to a lesser degree.
jdog: The hate was probably due to unfamiliarity of feel. It took me a few days to get used to it. Now my unfamiliarity pangs run in the other direction.

By: jdog

jdog — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:45:53 +0000

My interactions with Macs has been severely limited, and what interaction I did have, I hated. Now I try to spend as little time as possible on computers (aside from work). Perhaps if I spent more time with computers, I would find the above tools more enticing. Still, should I really gamble on buying something that I previously hated? I don’t know. I will get that Firefox, though, just to make you happy (getting new computer soon).

Incidentally, I think “the dry ice of blogs” should become one of isoglossia’s taglines. Because that’s some funny shit.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:02:53 +0000

Disclosure: I just upgraded to a new MacBook (not the Pro model) myself yesterday. LOVE IT.

By: Elli

Elli — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:29:37 +0000

A new MacBook Pro is being built for me as I type — I can’t wait to try Aperture when it arrives. Not free, but so pretty.

By: DarkoV

DarkoV — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:05:55 +0000

Mr. Sgazzetti,
With each successive entry you make, your Coolness Thermometer gets cooler. You are the Dry Ice of bloggers. I may have to download one of your pics to frame and place on the mantle. When I die, I’ll be aiming to come back as you.

And if none of this is true, I hope I at the very least get a new Mac. LIfe would be much easier to deal with.

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:55:25 +0000

I’d actually love to leave XP, so this post certainly stirred my loins. But I can’t. I wish I could.

Back in the 80s, my older brother got an Amiga, which was pretty much the coolest thing ever back then — at least until it started vanishing from planet earth, taking games and programs with it. My next computer was a Mac in 1994. I can’t remember which it was — but it crashed a lot and it was (again) a struggle to find programs and games. After 15 years of being behind windows users, I finally had a Vivien Leigh moment, and vowed (with God as my witness) never to be behind again.

And that’s where I am now. The part of me that demands instant gratification is happy that finding something (games, apps) for windows is a guarantee; the part of me that likes quality is not. Like Goethe said: Two souls are in my breast. (Although I think he used Linux.)

By: Jagosaurus

Jagosaurus — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:01:06 +0000

*geeking out over the apps in this post*

I’m very sorry I didn’t proselytize your ass.*

*Is it just me or does that sound like a sexual metaphor?