Snowflakes in Hell

I have to admit, since he’s gotten elected, by being the un-Santorum, I have been wondering exactly what he’s been doing.   Because if he’s doing something, I’m not exactly sure what it is.   It seems I’m not alone, and now the press is starting to ask these questions.  I anxiously await to hear whether they can determine whether he’s alive.

John Edwards hair preening I think has to hurt him with male voters.  Especially if he ended up running against Fred Thompson.   Do you think Fred Thompson preens his hair?  I think the statement would go something like this:

“As you can see, I don’t really have that much hair left to preen.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go have sex with my hot wife.”

If people voted based purely on logic, that wouldn’t matter, but they don’t, and so it does.

I won’t say I’ll never get an iPhone, but when it comes to Apple, I’m not an early adopter.  Why?  Because they stick it to you on price if you adopt early.  Even if you’re a late adopter, they’ll charge you a pretty sizeable chunk of change.  Plus, I kind of like my phone to be, well, a phone.  I use my phone to make calls.  I’m not sure I really want my phone to have a camera, play video, or play MP3s.   When I want to play MP3s, I’ll use the iPod.  If I want to take a picture, I’ll whip out my Nikon digital camera.

Now, I know there are more than a few haters out there, but I think I at least have some company in the world of Apple.  I’m a computer professional by day, so I’ve used a lot of different types of laptops, and I can say that they pretty much all have their problems, Macs included.   I still wouldn’t really use anything else, because I can’t stand using Windows for 10 minutes before I want to use whatever machine its running on as target practice.

Linux, which I used for years as a desktop, makes a great server, and reasonably good workstation, but it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of user interface design, and tends to borrow the best and worst features of all the other systems out there.   I stopped using Linux on the desktop because every time I bought a new peripheral, I’d have to have to spend 20 minutes to figure out how to make it work with Linux.   Linux will actually work with most things these days, an they are getting pretty good at the plug and play thing for common devices, but when things don’t work, you better know what you’re doing.   On the Mac, things just work, and since I get paid to make things work by day, I don’t exactly feel like doing it when I come home at night.

I may not buy an iPhone, but I do think Apple makes genuinely good products overall.  It’s not just marketing hype.  Having to deal with Windows on a daily basis professionally, I wouldn’t even think of using it for my personal life.  I was long of the opinoin that NeXTStep was one of the best operating systems ever engineered, but had the misfortune of running on underpowered and overpriced hardware.  Apple hardware is still overpriced, but it’s worth it to me not to have to deal with the aggravation of Windows.  I can understand why someone may not feel it’s worth the price tag; even I wince at the price of Apple’s hardware, but you can have my MacBook when you pry it from my cold dead hands ;)

Apparently the contractor who was scheduled to do the Alexandria fireworks canceled at the last minute, so they had to cancel the show.  At least that was the rumor on King Street.  The show was definitely canceled though, so I got to watch no fireworks this Fourth of July.  Fortunately, I got to go to my favorite Thai restaurant in the area, Mai Thai.  I’m a fan of their Thai Drunken Noodle with mixed seafood.  I’ve been meaning to try their curry dishes, but so far I’m a fan of their noodle dishes.  Back home I have a few good Thai places I like to go to, but if you’re ever in the DC area, Mai Thai is pretty good.