Aaron Adams’s Lame-ass Blog

One of my coworkers got a Zune for Christmas and gave me this picture of FedEx delivering it to his house.

Ha ha, just kidding. It’s actually a picture of a 5MB hard drive from 1956. Fascinating.

Stolen from Your Mac Life, where I made the same dumb joke.

Back to technical things… Listen ye to the meandering story of two PowerBook upgrades and our out-loud thinking about what Todd should do with his desktop machine. Should he upgrade his Dell, or should he use an Intel-based Mac and Parallels to meet his needs?

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Listen up: Instructing me to install something like Fink or Darwin Ports and the Apple developer tools to get an application like Ettercap is completely unacceptable. I don’t want the overhead and instability of one of those package managers on my system, and it’s ridiculous that I should waste the disk space with Apple’s developer tools when I’ll probably use 1% of it, and I’m not a developer to boot. Make a binary package installer (ya know, kinda like a Linux RPM), complete with dependencies, and let me download it. Seriously. This isn’t 198x anymore. We now have the “Intarweb” where asking other people with the right computers to make installer packages is easy, and you can provide a kind of “hyper link” to them. It sounds crazy, I know. I realize I have a lot of weird ideas and crazy expectations, and that’s what makes me a pain in the ass.

Headline:

Drive-By Media Turns on John McCain

So is he aroused? Or have they turned against him?

“On”: The all-purpose preposition that can mean anything and nothing at the same time.

For the second year, I’ve been hearing about some stupid alleged “war on Christmas” (The phrase should really be, “war against Christmas”. I wish I could physically pound this idea into the heads of people who say “war on” too much, and generally use “on” as the all-purpose preposition that can mean anything.) where one side twists themselves into some goddamn pretzel trying to make sure they can’t even remotely be thought to offend anyone by either going to great lengths to include every possible permutation of holidays, or producing some greeting so generic as to be meaningless, and another side which gets worked up into a rabid froth because someone didn’t say “Christmas” specifically and exclusively. It’s all very stupid and a complete waste of time.

However, in my desire to get everyone to quit their pointless bitching and deal with the important issues in life, I have devised an all-purpose, meaningful holiday greeting that speaks to a specific, clear idea and leaves nobody out, which is universally understood, and brings a sense of peace, in true [generic end-of-year holiday] fashion, to the greeter, if not the greet-ee.

“Fuck off.”

Seriously. Try saying it out loud right now. Now say it to a coworker, a relative, or one of the endless legions of unhelpful people you come into contact with every 2.8 seconds. It’s liberating and it makes this time of year much simpler in every way.

Fuck off, everybody!