From: Frosty555
Subject: Crash Different, as well as a few other things

Brad and Shannon (though aimed more at Hunter Cressall),

I just watched this mac parody after coming back from a rather aggravating
and infuriating day in a video editing competition. The competition
involved having one day to storyboard, film, and edit (using iMovie on an
iBook, or whatever the white laptops are called) a 5 minute video.
Unfortunately being a solely windows based user I have never used a mac
seriously in my life. My general take on it was "how hard can it be?".

First off, I hate the mice. Now I'm sure that the original white 2-button
windows mice were probably just as uncomfortable to use, but tell me
there's an alternative to those pill-shaped half-transparent mice where the
entire top of it is actually a button? I mean, there's only one button,
maybe they thought we were all so stupid that unless they made the entire
mouse the button, we wouldn't be able to find it. I don't know. All I know
is that the mouse gave me some horribly cramps.

Well... having come back and watching this mac parody, I was rolling on the
ground trying to keep by sides in. Almost EVERYTHING that was talked about
on this parody I experienced that day. Especially, ESPECIALLY that nagging
update manager! What is it some kind of podium? Bouncing up and down every
10 seconds or so just to make you think you're starting to lose it. Me and
the person I was working with couldn't figure it out because clicking on it
did nothing.

I didn't get the "mighty blue apple" bit. I guess on OSX there's a header
that's always on the top of the screen but I didn't notice it.

The only things that we didn't encounter was the renaming of files (I
couldn't even figure out where to SEE the files. In windows there's
Explorer and My Computer. On a mac there's..... the finder??), and I only
WISH I knew about the apple-period-space thing, that would have made my
life much easier when iMovie crashed about 3 or 4 times over the course of
the day, hanging the system. We also didn't have any trouble getting an
audio CD to stop playing. You... just kinda click the stop button. Now it
took a while to figure out how to SEEK to a part of the song. Took a good 5
minutes before we figured out that clicking on the song title changed it to
a slider.

I sent it to my friend I was working with and he had a good laugh over it
too. Man you guys are my new heroes. Great job!

-Frosty555




From: Hunter Cressall
To: Frosty555
Subject: RE: Crash Different, as well as a few other things



You like me... You really like me...

Thanks for the praise! And yes, almost everything you indicated that didn't happen to you IS an OS X thing. The file renaming issue comes out of using explorer or 'my computer' in Windows... You know how you can click on any file in the explorer window and then type a letter like 'v' and explorer jumps to the files beginning with the letter 'v'? Well in OS 9 and 10 if you click on ...oh say 'USER SETTINGS' and type 'v' that file - 'user settings' - is immediately renamed 'v' and then whisked away to be with the other files named something starting with the letter 'v' so you have to go looking for it. Then you have to remember what the damn file was called to begin with so you can restore its name. Hit 'undo' you say? That simply undoes the last thing you did...like scroll down to the 'v's...

Tell me this... Did you have to pull the battery to recover from a freeze? That's my favorite Mac thing ever. I can keep myself warm and happy just remembering all the times I've had to physically extract my battery in front of clients because my powerbook just seized up.

Happy day.

Anyway, glad you loved my cathartic monologue and I'm trying to get another one up soon.

Thanks SO much for the email!


Hunter

posted on 7:38 AM

Saturday, February 28, 2004

 
Wow.
I was just running a search for our Mac parody, to see where all it had gone, and I run across these huge arguments on all the forums about it. So many people actually get pissed off about this! Then it sparks this huge "Mac vs. Pc" internet war. 50 million people in this country don't care enough to vote, but "Mac or PC" is a loaded topic. Reminds me alot of the old "Ford vs. Chevy" arguments at truckstops.
The reason we picked on Mac is because they had such a cool ad campaign that just begged to be made fun of. Come on, one commercial started with Yo-Yo Ma saying "Okay, I don't know anything about computers, but you should buy a mac..." Okay, you don't know ANYTHING about computers, but I should base my computer shopping on your opinion? Riiiggghhhtt....
If people in this country were half as passionate about the debt, welfare, homeless, heart disease, the obesity epidemic, corrupt government, or the declining state of our our schools as they are about "Mac vs. Pc," or "X-Box vs. Playstation," or "Star Trek" vs. "Star Wars,"something might actually change!
Of course, that would mean that these people would have to leave the house every once in a while...

posted on 11:42 PM