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To know everything, to know the whole truth, is dull. There is no magic in that. Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about what and how and where.

Why i'm still not going to buy a mac

My feelings are pretty much expessed by Gus Sorola (I know it's an old video, but it's still hilarious). Mac fanboys disregarded, I don't think anyone who plays video games the way I play video games (And likely that precludes mac fanboys right off the bat), just can't own one of these things (unless you also happened to have a sweet gaming rig). The lack of compatibility for various hardware that one would want in a gaming system is damning, but more over the lack of compatibility with the games I would want to play, (i.e. games that are out now, plus games that have been out for a while, and not necessarly sold SO many copies that the publisher felt it was economically viable to port it to mac to sell some more) is a complete dealbreaker. Yes, I know about Boot Camp. But saying the solution to my problem is to run Windows on a mac is like calling a cab to go two houses down the wrong way on a one way street: Yeah, you're where you want to be, but it took you more time and effort when you could have just walked.

I'm a gamer, i'm going to own a PC. Until Apple does something that makes it highly desirable for a gamer to own a mac (running OSX, the main advantage of owning a mac), instead of a PC, there's precious little urge for me to move. The fact that they're shiny and well designed isn't compelling if they don't do what I want.

The various making funs.

This is why I read webcomics.

New Blood Elf Dance - Google Video

Alright, so I don't know if this is legit or not, but there's a video on GV of the Dance Emote for the new Blood Elf race in the upcoming expansion to World of Warcraft...Just watch the video. Even if you don't play WoW, it's pretty funny.

Oh my fucking god

While i've been distracted by exams and my lovely girlfriend and moving to California...

Funcom went and released DREAMFALL!!!!!!!

I've been waiting for this game for like, 5 years. Goodbye world, i'll see you later.

Oh Mr. Jon Crowley

Your computer has arrived.

Thank god the names are all uniform now. I was getting confused with all the ... iPowerPod MiniBook
...Pro

SPORE baby.

I was just watching the E3 video of SPORE last night, and I was laughing my ass off.  To demonstrate how easy it was to build a creature, they got Robin Willams to get up on stage and build a creature.  You should all watch this.  If you don't want to download the full video, the clip that involves Robin can be gotten Here. The end result of Robin's work can be seen in the picture to the side. It's very... Phallic.

Apple

So i've been put through a long indoctrination process to bring me over to the mac side of things. They put us in a neat little room for a training session yesterday where all the walls were whiteboards. The guy running that show was the very spitting image of what you'd expect a hardcore mac guy to be like. Anyhoo, at the end of the day, after using my mac for 8 hours straight, i'm fairly comfortable with it now, and I actually like a lot of the way things work in it better than Windows.

I've found that Apple is very, very good at presentation. All their products, whether they be hardware or software, are very easy to use, and nice to look at. They put the spit shine on all that they do. I think that this is possible for them because they do make 'the whole widget' as they say. When you own the entire user experience, it makes it a lot easier to integrate everything and make it all flow nicely, mesh well. Ironically, I think if Apple had a bigger market share than they do, they would begin to get slammed with Anti-trust litigation left, right, and center.

The marketing team at Apple is also top notch. If you haven't seen the new mac commericals... get off your ass. They're pretty funny.

Apparently Al Gore (Yeah, that Al Gore) is on our board of directors, and Bill Clinton comes to Cafe Macs for lunch from time to time.

It's very surreal being here. Apparently I lucked out and my place is a 10 min walk from downtown Mountain View, where there's a train station, and Apple sends a shuttle from there to drive the employees right to work. It's funny to sit around waiting for the shuttle, because a number of other area companies do this as well. So you're sitting there and all the names start showing up. Apple, Google, Yahoo!, NASA....

Very odd indeed.