Sexeteria

The list is endless, but this video review by the New York Times' David Pogue gives the latest reason why EVERYONE should be throwing apples at Bill Gates & Co. every time they step on stage to present some new "innovation." Plus, the video's just really, really amusing (if you're a geek girl like me).

For probably not nearly the last time, people:

Those "cool new features" you're getting with the latest MS operating system?

We Mac people have already had and been using them for years.

What does this have to do with sex, you ask? Simple. Apple is sexy. Its OS comes over with a nice, fresh new bottle of Astroglide, funky toys, and an encyclopedic knowledge of practical pleasure-inducing techniques. And so it never gets stale, it invents some new techniques to please you each time it comes over. It encourages you to play a variety of different roles with it and even to go bi-platform if you're into that. It doesn't mind if you call in some software from the outside to join you in your sessions. It thinks about what YOU like, as a partner, and then gives it back to you just the way you wanted it--sometimes before you even knew you wanted that--so every minute you spend with it is sheer pleasure.

Microsoft is not sexy. Its OS doesn't bother to bring anything when it comes over; it just treats you like shit and tells you you'll never find anyone else out there better than it is, so you'd better just do what it says. It spies on your every move, controls your ability to do things the way you want to, and makes it difficult to talk to other company's software. It freezes up on you just when you need it most. It even tells your friends on the outside how they should act, and threatens them or even maims or suffocates them if they don't comply. It bribes law enforcement to keep quiet when the neighbors call to try to help you when MS's behavior gets really rough. And when it senses that maybe you've wised up and finally have had enough of its abuse, it tries to stroke you by figuring out how Apple fucks and then attempts a lame approximation of Apple's moves, which seems better than nothing, but still kind of leaves you dry. And then, just as you're thinking maybe it isn't so bad, it fucks you up the ass hard without lube, and leaves lots of little bugs and viruses behind for you to clean up.

Screw MS and their unoriginal, monopolistic, robber baron asses. Come into the light, children. All are welcome. All are welcome. And even if you don't want to go Apple (though you should want to), at LEAST go Linux.

This is a completely random post but I just needed to share.

Today I popped in a DVD while doing stuff around the house was reminded once again of exactly why I will always think Freaks and Geeks was one of the best shows ever put on TV:

Come on, you have to admit that's genius. Damn short-sighted, unoriginal network TV for not realizing it had a treasure on its hands and choosing to cancel this show. It was the only show I ever saw that even came close to approximating the real emotions and hideously ugly and shockingly beautiful things kids experience during high school age. And man, did they capture the feel of 1980. Plus, the kids LOOK like kids really look in high school--those, tiny, pre-pubescent freshmen contrasting with those big, post-pubescent seniors all desperately trying to act like they're oh-so-totally comfortable with their newly adult bodies...

I also have a soft spot for the character Lindsay, who was a lot like me growing up--a girl who was both nice and smart and hopelessly frustrated with the preconceptions everyone around her attached to those adjectives for girls. Watching her character struggle to find and grab onto something--anything--else that might provide a little breathing space of difference in a suburban community that really didn't offer much in the way of alternatives often had me feeling like I was watching my own high school self right there on the screen.

But most of all, man did the show make me laugh. And that's what I love about it the most. I've been laughing all day watching it.

If you've never seen the series, rent it on DVD, or better yet, buy the special edition box set, which is some of the coolest DVD packaging I've ever seen.