Most Awesome Christmas song – ever…
And if I eat a sprout
You gotta eat a sprout
You gotta suffer too…
On January 6, 2009,
in Computing,
by Houston Haynes
I sometimes get into [ahem] conversations about the relative merits of paying the premium for Apple hardware, versus staying with PC. It’s a lot less of an issue now than it was five years ago, as Mac-o-philes have grown more tolerant of the PC format now that their hardware is essentially a PC with a bit of Steve Jobs’ “New Apple Smell” on it. I saw the graphic below – and it just made me laugh. Partly because it’s a bit absurd – and partly because there’s an aspect of truth to it.
The wedge described as “Cost of downtime for designers, engineers, and software writers who sit at their desks in awe of what they just created” and “‘Just because we can’ charge (Fanboy Fee)” are my favorites. Now that I look at it – I’m surprised that there’s not a large wedge of this pie graph dedicated to those silly Mac vs. PC ads.
On October 31, 2008,
in Life in LA LA Land,
by Houston Haynes
In honor of this festive season, I thought I’d share this picture of Mekong and Pumpkin taking an inquisitive sniff of a bottle of absinthe we bought a while back. We always joke that Mekong thinks he’s Superman – check out the spiffy collar – and Pumpkin is our little Aquaman with his green and gold collar and fascination with the all things containing water – particularly the toilet. So it seems appropriate that Halloween might be “their season of choice”.
Mekong and Pumpkin sniff a bottle of Kubler absinthe
And this one I just can’t pass up – it’s a pic of Mekong and Pumpking “spooning” during a nap, with Mekong stretching a paw out over Pumpkin’s head. It was hard not to wake them up with our snickering, so we’re glad to have captured the moment with a picture.
Being cute 24/7 is simply exhausting
Anyway – best wishes for a happy, fun, and safe holiday weekend from all of us here – both in and out of costume…
Two wrongest answers to any question from a woman
There was a time when I thought there was only one truly wrong answer to a question from a woman:
“I don’t care.”
It doesn’t matter if the woman is a love interest, a family member or co-worker – never use that phrase. Ever. The question could be “Would you like a paperclip or staple for your copies?” to “Missionary or Doggie Style tonight, honey?” – and in many cases may represent a completely false choice. It simply doesn’t matter. There’s probably more than one right answer to any question – and probably several categories of wrongness in others – but none compare to the red-hot anguish you will likely embrace in response to the abject intellectual poverty of that three-word phrase [especially if it's true].
But I’ve recently found that there’s also an equally wrong phrase that will that will likely land you in the seventh level of Venusian Hell:
“Are you serious?”
You might think that this is an appropriate means to gather more information, but in fact you likely just flunked an emotional spelling bee by slamming the door on her side of the conversation. There is no calculus known to humankind that can measure the depths of loathing that these two answers inspire in the fairer gender.
Instant PERSONAL INTERACTION FAIL. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
Save yourself a lifetime of grief by taking two seconds to think of anything else other than those two answers for your response. Your odds of finding the appropriate balance of rightness/wrongness will improve dramatically, as will your potential interaction with those of matching X chromosomes.
Houston Haynes