March 2008 Archives

Saw a sign the other day in a department store window that said "Sale on Women's Purses". Well, duh! Of course it's a sale on women's purses. How often do you see a sale on men's purses? Never. Cause the man purse just isn't something that's in style for the everyday man. Sure, you got your fanny pack...but that doesn't really count.

No man is going to carry a purse. Now, if he did, you'd likely see bragging rights and guys doing some crazy Tim Allen "Home Improvement" kind of shit with their purses. "Hey, Bob! Check out my new purse! It's a Gucci! Check it out, man!" (unzips the side) "Beer opener, stud finder, even has a full socket set in it!"

In my first post of the Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be President series, I mentioned the incident with Peter Paul and Stan Lee of their involvement with the Clintons during one of Hillary's Senate campaigns. According to WorldNetDaily, the Clintons may face a fraud trial, a trial the Clintons have been trying to dismiss. Why this case hasn't gotten more media attention is beyond me.

Just as Hillary has said in prior debates, it's important the people understand who the candidates are, what they've done, and what they represent. Stan Lee and other comic book writers have written within the pages of many comic books that heroes are judged by their actions above anything else. Hillary's actions tell a much different story than that of a hero. Amid allegations of corruption, lies, and a willingness to do anything to win, the picture couldn't be any clearer: Hillary is not the one we need in the White House or any government office for that matter. Much like a vote for John McCain, to vote for Hillary is a vote for "more of the same". Which is ironic because that's the very thing Hillary claims she's not about.

Actions speak much louder than words. Remember than the next time you're at a voting booth.

Let's not forget about the one thing that effects the economy more than anything. No, it's not gas prices. It's milk! Have you gone to the grocery store and seen the cost of a gallon of milk these days? Any higher and we'll definitely be in a recession! It's really impacting my desire to drink chocolate milk. At this rate, I may have to switch from Hershey's syrup to Quik!

Let's just hope the cows don't go on strike! If that happens then we're really screwed! Have you ever had that powered milk crap? It's horrible! So do everyone a favor...DON'T piss off the cows! And being that this is Good Friday, we might as well declare this Kiss A Cow day. I mean, really...who doesn't love a cow?

The Ferraro Special Comment: Amen, Keith! Amen!

I knew that it would be inevitable...eventually my new Mac would crash. No computer is perfect. Hardware and software problems can and will occur. So why would a Mac be any different?

I bought my Mac Mini about 4-5 months ago. Last November, I upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard the very day it came out. Since that time, I've had a few programs crash and quit here and there. Hasn't happened on a frequent basis. Nothing I would call major by any stretch of the imagination. Programs crash now and then. That's just a fact of life. And when it happens, I can usually just relaunch the program and be on my merry way. I save and I save often when working on important files. So to have a program crash really doesn't hurt my feelings.

So, this morning, I was working on a few things. I had a few programs open: Mail, Safari, GSync, Aptana, Adium, and iTunes. Not much. Then I started to launch Firefox to do a quick webpage test. Bam! The screen when opaque with a small box like the one listed here telling me that I need to restart my computer. So I shutdown and restarted my computer.

Upon logging back in, I was presented with a simple window telling me that my computer had crashed unexpectedly and asked if I'd like to send a log to Apple. Viewing the log gives you a few simple options to view the log information itself, basic system info, and a place to add some comments on what you were doing at the time the crash happened so you can send this information to Apple. This is very similar to what happens on a Windows XP/Vista system when it crashes. Only difference is that a Windows system itself goes directly to a very unfriendly blue screen when it crashes (the dreaded Blue Screen of Death!) and doesn't tell the end user anything useful about what just happened or what to do when it happens. BSOD's are generally confusing to an end user and pretty much freaks out anyone who doesn't know shit about computers. Apple at least gives an indication to the user on what they need to do. The ability to send the logs to the OS maker is pretty much the same between the two OS's, but I do feel that Apple's is more straight-forward and a bit less confusing since it keeps everything in just one windows and a few tabs.

This is the first and only time I've had a kernel panic. The fact that it didn't happen in the 4 months I've been using Leopard is impressive. This is just testament that a Mac does indeed crash a lot less often than a Windows machine. Before I got my Mac, I pretty much used Windows XP exclusively. My experience has been that programs on XP as well as XP itself crash more often than they do on a Mac. Plus, I find I can recover from a crash much more effectively on my Mac.

As weird as this may seem, the experience of having a kernel panic on a Mac was somehow comforting. I didn't get the feeling that the end of the world was happening. Nor did I think something drastically wrong was with my computer to make me think I had to call Apple on it. Now, if this becomes a highly repetitive thing, I can see that. But, for now, I have the comfort knowing that I can go back to doing my thing and not worry about it so much. Somehow I feel this is exactly what goes on in the mind of the average Mac user. And, in my opinion, that's a very good thing. An informed computer user is an educated computer.