Going all PC

Today I decided to go all PC all the time. Don’t get me wrong I love Macs and all, they are simply fantastic machines. On the other hand I love fiddling around with computers more (I noted this as I was testing a drive from OWC). The fun part of computers for me is trying something that doesn’t work and meddling until it does work. That is where the enjoyment is, that is where the feeling of accomplishment is. And face it, it isn’t like I really need to be super productive or anything.

So I took all my Mac stuff to the local computer store (not CompUSA) and traded it all for pure PC goodness. I know everyone says getting everything going is a lot of trouble but as I write this, I haven’t had any difficulties. I’m not quite used to the PC interface yet and everything seems a bit clunky but I’m sure it will grow on me.

I’ve got to say I already miss the G5, the G4 tower and the iBook but you gotta commit. I feel better staring at the new Athlon 64 tower and a new Athlon based laptop. Wireless of course. Unbelievably cool.

Well that is probably more info than you ever needed, I mean who cares what computer Chris Seibold uses? My fondest hope is that I can figure out how to record on the thing before the next Not Mac News. Before I get to the link part (I’m starting to feel the blog thing again) I’ve got a bit of ranting to do.

Tonight I watched some claptrap on discovery channel about martial arts (if it were martial artists redecorating a house they could put it on discovery and TLC). I was, frankly, disturbed. I’m not a big martial arts guy (or marital arts, ask the wife) but I have a healthy respect for people who can kick my ass using ancient secrets. Well, I’m not so sure they are really secrets as much as the people tend to be good at that stuff they practice a lot (and practice pays off). You call it chi, I call it concentration. Ah what a tangent, in any event there are now martial arts competitions where you basically dance. People get out there and worry about how their shouts sound and that killer move they have to work in to the routine. That is the lamest thing since Pepsi clear. You’re a martial artist you’re either supposed to break my nose when I pick on Daniel San, give me the ancient death palm, or walk away from the fight fully knowing that you could make me your bitch with the merest of effort. But no, you’re dancing, working on your repertoire. Hey that’s fine for gymkata but I expect more out of true martial artists. Martial arts competitions should be all secret healing techniques, busted lips and hurt feelings. (Actually I might be persuaded that martial arts should be inherently uncompetitive). I mean who ever won a fight by dancing? Well maybe Michael Jackson and Spongebob…

DKE is either going to fry me or chuckle at that one.

Since I’ve gone Mac free I suppose I won’t be posting any more. I’ll get one of those obscure blogs where I’ll post and Todd will read. So let me go out, for the final time, with a bunch of links.

I present:
The Fanatically Fabulous Final Freefall of Flattery:

Future Martial Arts Champion:
Dance White Boy, Dance

Apparently part of Martial Arts is learning how to take a serious beating:
Stocky teacher wails on students

Bill Maher is an idiot
Wherein Bill opines that vaccines don’t prevent disease. Ummm sure, cause, you know, polio is still a big problem and all….

Of course most folks don’t understand science on a philosophical level, this isn’t Star Trek: The next Generation , you can’t be an expert at everything. Still this is a great read:
Science was just a bunch of theory anyway. Right?

Well since it is my final post I suppose I should give a final overall tridiot rating:

cks/BpowerbookusingL tridiot rating: 152.5%

And, hey, thanks for reading
Note: I posted this blog at 12:01 AM 4/1/05, guess the servers are on central time or something

UPDATE: vile creature, will you never stop tormenting me?

Thanks a lot Tim…