flogging a dead horse, but masterfully

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: flogging a dead horse, but masterfully
Date: 15:17 on 29 Sep 2006
Andy Ihnatko should be on hates-software. He does it so well. :-)

To rudely over-quote:

    But what I've endured over the past few months is the equivalent
    of a weeklong road trip with someone whose company you've always 
    enjoyed, but never really known as a true friend. Windows has 
    propped its bare smelly feet up on my dashboard and told me the 
    story about how he was so hung over during his aunt's funeral that 
    he threw up into the coffin a little. His greasy hair has left 
    smears on the inside of the window that no solvent can shift. He 
    just sort of assumed that he could use my iPod, and during the one 
    time he took a turn at the wheel, the battery was completely flat 
    and I had to listen the story about the funeral a second time.

    So I'm not saying that my fond regards won't return in time. But I'm 
    going to have to spend a few weeks alone first.

    [...]

    As Mac users, we haven't had enough exposure to wretched software 
    design to develop any natural antibodies, and for this, we envy our 
    brethren in the Windows community. We truly, truly do.

    [...]

    Thirty days after you unpacked a new PC, it starts. The DVD decoder 
    starts asking you if you want to now purchase the optional super DVD 
    decoder. The antivirus app tells you that your subscriptions are out 
    of date and you need to provide a credit-card number. There was some 
    kind of branded media player that you never launched even once, and 
    it continues to throw popups in your face every five minutes despite 
    your yelling at the screen every time it happens.

    Yes, your user experience has now turned into Pledge Week at your 
    local public television station ... and you did't even get to see a 
    Monty Python marathon first.

    [...]

    What shocks me back into reality? A sudden memory from a couple of 
    weeks ago, when I came across the official personal website of 
    Justin Guarini.

    You know ... the guy who came in second during the first season of 
    "American Idol." The one who looks like Sideshow Bob from "The 
    Simpsons," and who sings like a yard-sale painting of a teary-eyed 
    clown on brown velvet.

    Yeah, he built the site in iWeb.

    If I'm a member of the same user community as that guy, then 
    clearly, I shouldn't go throwing stones.

http://www.macuser.com/ihnatko/ihnatko_harsh_words_for_window.php


-- 
Chris Devers

ObTypoHate: Realizing just before hitting 'send' that I almost omitted 
the 's' from the subject line, changing the meaning utterly. Whoops!

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