<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">From: "Khismett Riddle" <<a href="mailto:spindleflax@gmail.com">spindleflax@gmail.com
</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Newark] Two things...<br><br>My current plans see September fifteenth this year passing without me<br>wandering around on the streets in what passes for British autumn handing<br>out cardboard sleeves with free coasters inside to uninterested pedestrians
<br>and desperately shouting my ill-planned self-important free-software<br>aphorisms at the passers-by who will almost certainly upgrade to by-passers<br>at the very sight my liberal grin and long, unkempt hair. But by all means,
<br>strap on the sandwich-board of hope and rev up the adages, just make sure<br>you point out that there's some software on the disks that the prospective<br>LUGger might like to try before they turn it into a coaster. Ah, how I wish
<br>I could see their sinking expressions as they realise they're being<br>out-smarted and patronised at the same time by software that has seemingly<br>taken over their computer - oh how they long to be back in that comforting,
<br>familiar glare of Windows. Sure, it's not as clever and it costs more and -<br>Hell - you've got to pay McAffee or Symantec if you want to stay in control<br>of it, but you just can't replace that hilarious little paper-clip and its
<br>indefatigable antics.<br><br>Seriously, though, I'm all for humiliating the public in front of their<br>computer-savvy toddlers, but don't you think it's a little more effort than<br>it's worth? Generation Jones' Windozers have enough on their plates without
<br>you saying "ubuntu" is no longer a bond 'twixt all members of humanity but<br>it's now a yardstick for their technosavvy. Savvy? Of course you savvy 'cus<br>y'all have savvy, kapish? Just wear a T-shirt that proclaims "PEBKAC" to all
<br>who care to gaze upon it and you'll get the flickers of confusion and<br>concern that you're after along with the occasional spark of recognition as<br>someone dusts off the acronym and wonders if ThinkGeek is getting too
<br>popular to still be cool (yeah, it is. Sorry.).<br><br>Maybe we have to put up with some ambivalence lest we succumb to amarulence<br>at such an amalgam. Or maybe I've been away from my computer too long and<br>should STFU.
<br><br>On the other point, I'm too bitter to have a weblog for the aggregation of<br>and too paranoid to flaunt my real identity widely on so public an Internet<br>but I don't mind my name making an appearance amidst so prestigious a
<br>presentation of digital-prestidigitators-- sorry! Sorry, I'm going. I've had<br>this allergic reaction to a bug-bite on my arm and it all swelled up so I<br>couldn't type and I've been off my computer for days watching movies and
<br>eating poppadoms and- and... ETX<br><br></blockquote></div><br>WHOA! Awesome rant :D<br>Sums it up quite neatly<br><br>I've had a few of those buggers bite me also..<br><br>On a side note..<br>I agree. To advocate to the general public (as Chris' suggested) would probably be a waste of time..
<br><br>heck - I've had far more success when being paid to fix peoples windows installations with saying,<br>"Y'know, you don't have to put up with all this defragging and virus scanning and restarting.."
<br>Which usually piques the curiosity of the stressed Windoze victim..<br><br>but anyways,<br>A smaller start to meets would be better.. drinks in a bar somewhere.. a bearded social sorta thing<br>(whoever suggested it) was definitely on the right track
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