Happy birthday!

You can either have a new computer or a nice (very, very nice) bottle of whiskey. But not both!

Shall we start a Mac v. PC debate?

Happy birfday! Now where’s your birth certificate, muslin?

Happy Birthday!

and you should really get a Mac…no more blue screens of death!

Thanks everyone.  Sorry, I’m PC for life. Macs drives me crazy (plus my extremely fast n’ hard two-finger typing technique just plain doesn’t work on their keyboards).

Happy birthday Kevin, I sent some love your way.

And you can use any keyboard and mouse on a Mac.

happy birthday!!!

Huzzah!!  Happy birthday, old bean!

And you can use any keyboard and mouse on a Mac.

But I’ll never be able to replace the OS!

Once you got used to all the Unix tools available to you you’d never look back.

To the Mac advocates: Are you willing to donate the extra $1,000 it will take to get a Mac with the same processing power as a PC?

I like Macs fine - I use a both every day as a graphic designer - but there’s no doubt about which gets you more for your money.

There’s no better time to buy a PC right now either.  With the down economy the deals being offered up by HP, Dell and everyone else are great!

Happy BDay Kevin!  Have a good one.  We’ll keep the blog fires burning!  (Although Mrs. P. pretty much took a scorched earth policy with that latest edition of The Orliad).

That’s always been the Mac’s Achilles Heel - price. The sad fact is that in making the design so ridiculously proprietary, they don’t get the benefit of scale when it comes to manufacturing costs.

But I think the trade-off is higher reliability and and a much more stable operating system. Is it worth the increased cost? Depends on your application.

I think the cost differential isn’t as bad as it used to be, and whatever it may be is totally worth it to me. I have to support my computer illiterate in-laws and it was a nightmare when they had PCs. With my FIL’s porn habit I think he was probably in the top 10 of zombie computers. Now that they are on Macs it’s a dream.

I would love to get a Mac, but can’t afford one. Mr. Polly and I have been giving each other dirty looks over our one PC, so I just went out and got a netbook: an MSI Wind.

Red. It’s my midlife crisis computer. But for you Mac people, the Wind turns into what they’re calling a Hackbook: you can run OSX on it. I don’t know how: I’m almost as bad as Justlen’s FIL, aside from the viewing proclivities. But Google it!

I haven’t set up my Wind yet; I’m scared of it, to tell you the truth. It reminds me of my first two-wheeler, and I didn’t ride that thing for months.

It cost $390, tax included, at J&R;. I don’t think you’re going to do much better anywhere, Kevin. MSI’s gotten pretty good reviews, too. The regular notebook comes with a lot of stuff for $450.

Y’all come in and shop and we could go test-drive some place for Roastacon! Happy Birthday, btw.

You’re a week older than I am, and always will be. Hah.

—-Unless you’re fifty-one weeks younger. Or—-no, I’m going to stop now.

Happy Birthday.

Well, just to add some perspective, I have a G5 Mac from 2003 and I have never had to reload the OS. It’s flawlessly upgraded through every release of the OS. And it still screams. To me that’s worth some value.

I have an old G4 iLamp, and it still does the job.

One more unsolicited suggestion: e-Machine. They make a great, very affordable PC.

And pick up an external hard drive or two, if you don’t have one already.  I had two PCs die in a week (hardware issues) and my one salvation was that all my media was on ex-drives.

Kevin,

Happy Birthday!  As a (fairly) new AARP card recipient, I know that each day we get should be treasured. 

I have forwarded my birthday present to you, as this group of bloggers has shown me that irreverence is a key element to maintaining sanity in “things political.” 

Keep up the outstanding work on the new PC, and send me some (use the new e-mail on this posting) information on Roastacon.  Not sure I can make it, but you never know…

Happy Birthday Best Friend. I LOVE YOU!!

Happy Birthday Best Friend. I LOVE YOU!!

I love my wife to pieces.

Everyone, can’t say it enough, thanks a million for being you.

Alright you two, get a room, willya?

I love my wife to pieces.

I understand the sentiment, but doesn’t the “to pieces” have an unpleasant connotation?  For instance, didn’t Lizzie Borden love her parents “to pieces?”

Happy Birthday, Kevin.  I’m glad to chip in.

Any website that lets me use ALL my words must be maintained at any cost.

And I say that having recently earned the rare merit badge of being banned at Wonkette.  (Sara has boundaries.  Who knew?)

Fucking Mac this and PC that ... just go have a goddamned bowl of creamy macaroni and cheese and watch some old Daily Show clips for that guy who acts as PC in the kewl kidz commercials.

Fuck, all this goddamned hand-wringing over a motherfucking piece of machinery makes me yearn for the good old days when a transistor radio, a Lite Brite and an E-Z Bake oven were the height of technology.

*whine* My computer’s operating system doesn’t have the whizbang-doodly-gig-applicanator so now I have re-route all of my dizicks and coddlyflingers through my flux capacitator before I can download my pirated music videos. *sniffle*

Happy birthday? Where’s your fucking birth certificate? Fuck, for all we know you’ll be back here in July talking about how it’s your birthday an’ shit and we need to kick in some more of our goddamned hard-earned cash so that you and Chris can get the newest photoshop add-on which will allow you make homemade porn with the faces of Malcolm X, Liz Taylor and Rip Torn superimposed on the screen.

Who over the age of 10 celebrates their fucking birthday anyway? Here’s a virtual Tonka truck, a kaleidoscope and the first five books in the Hardy Boys series. Now go blow out the fucking candles and get in bed.

Fucking birthdays ...

(enjoy the break, much love from the Emerald Triangle, and to add some ambiance, just put on some Peter Tosh)

Who loves ya, HB?  That’s right, I love ya.

p.s. Oddly enough I was thinking a few days ago about how I should listen to Peter Tosh since it had been a very long time.

Happy birfday! Now where’s your birth certificate, muslin?

And that’s vault copy, mind you.  None of this “Certificate of Live Birth” shit.

Happy Birthday, RumpMaster!

This seems to be my day to arrive late, but hopefully not a dollar short.

Just to compound the confusion: I’ve used Macs and PCs, sometimes simultaneously. The main difference I’ve noticed is that, while PCs fail routinely, Macs fail in utterly catastrophic ways for which there is no back door, and from which there is no return.

Current-tech Macs may have finally included something comparable to “Safe Mode” or “Last Known Good Configuration,” but I’ve spent too much of my life “rebuilding the desktop” and “zapping the PRAM” to chance big bucks on anything that doesn’t have a DOS hatch in it somewhere. Blue Screens are scary, but The Flashing Question Mark isn’t asking you if your machine is dead, it’s telling you, calling the time and pulling out the tubes.

Thanks for the agreeable home-away-from-home, the wicked laughs and the introduction to some very charming friends who set an almost impossibly high bar for seeming witty and informed, damn you all to Hell.

Single user mode on boot drops you right into the Unix terminal.

Thanks, justlen (assuming that was meant for me.

Don’t get me wrong, I liked my Macs very much. I’m probably the last PC user in the advertising business. But at the rate I beat these machines up, I settled on the system I could replace for $500 in a pinch. All of my other reasons are just sour-grapes so I don’t feel so cheap.

Happy Birthday O Lord of the Roast! I’ll tell George Soros to send you my next DFH/ACORN check and a couple of spare virgins. I keep telling him. Stop with the virgins already! But he never listens.

Happy Birthday Kevin! Always happy to make a donation to my favorite blog.

it’s my birthday too, yeah. No, really, I swear. Also George Lucas. He’s older than I am, but I’m betting I’m older than you (just because I’m so old, ya know). I’m a woman, born on Mother’s Day (every 5, 6, and 11 years, when the day falls on a Sunday, and the very last day which Mother’s Day can be), and now that I’m a mother my kids call it the double whammy - when the two holidays collide into one huge present.

In addition to being Kevin and Daphne’s birthday, May 14 also serves as wedding anniversary for Mayflower Madam Sydney Biddle Barrows and marked the signing of the Warsaw Pact in 1955.

Happy birthday, Kevin. I love this place and am grateful for all you and your minions do to make it so lively. For what it’s worth, I use a Mac Pro tower and have never had a single problem of any kind. I’ve edited four feature films and lots of short subjects on it with no glitches.

I’ve never used a PC, so I can’t make a comparison.

Hmm, I didn’t know about those 2 events, Betty. There’s also the obscure factoid involving Israel which distracted me all these years.

I use both, the trick is to know geeks, they discard computers after three years.

I make sure they give them to me

We have 2 Macs, three PCs, all desktops online as well as three Dell laptops with wireless connectivity and never paid one cent for any of them.

They work as well as any of the new trash junk I use at work.

The last computer I paid for was the original IMAC, which was such a piece of shit, I refused to buy another computer.

My first computer was the original Mac, with no hard drive, the operating system was 350k and loaded from a floppy.

I bought it from a junkie for ten bucks, it was state of the art.

D’oh.  Happy birthday, um ... yesterday.

Another bloomin’ Taurean! Might have figured.

I’ve no idea what year you were born, but there’s a possibility you might be three days older than me, or even more. In which case, you’ll ALWAYS be three days or more older than me. Old-timer. I’m not entertaining the idea that you’re younger than me. No sirree.

Many Happy Returns, and enjoy your break!

Hey moran, get a job and buy your own damn computer!

Lazy welfare-receiving bitch!

BLOGGING IS NOT A JOB, MORAN!!

Attack of the Paultards.  Oh joy.

p.s. Please learn to read, moran.

Why is it that certain segments of society - notably the right wing - don’t know how to spell? Is it inbreeding?  Poorly conducted homeschooling?  Formaldehyde from the trailers/

Can’t we ship all the Paultards off to some Libertarian paradise, say Somalia?

Perhaps dear “abraham” is using a reference to a Masai warrior, or even to the Syriac title for Jesus Christ in his usage of “moran?”

Or not.

Hey happy birthday Kevin - have a good one.

Heheheheh.  What a bunch of ignorant morans.  What’s the matter?  Did your statist public school education not equip you with the proper critical thinking skills to avoid being sucked into a losing argument?

Whatever happened to hard work and savings to buy the things you want/need?  Or is public begging online considered acceptable in this day and age?  Is this a behaviour learnt in public or private school?

I want a new computer, too.  A quad CoreDuo with 8GB RAM, a four terrabyte RAID-5 sytem, and 1000Mbps network connectivity to a T3.  I will use it to flood your amazingly obtuse blog with randomly generated comments praising the hairy bag that hangs between our esteemed host’s legs.

lol, he said terrabyte.  Funny.  An “earth” byte.  Really funny.

I guess it doesn’t occur to morans that placing purposely misspelted words in internet missives is a well-worn method used strictly to draw flies to shit.

sunkawakan—Actually, that’s “terra” in the sense of “war on terra.”  There could be a terra-ist walking around NY with a TerrayByte RAID-5 system as we speak, and only waterboarding some brown people can stop his nefarious plan.

BTW, I’m not sure what to think of abraham’s blog.  I like the minimalist design, and probably even agree with him sometimes, but it’s hard to get past the incessant flame-bait.

abe—Are you the fly or the shit in your analogy?

Rest assured, no more response from me.  Even flies know to flee toxic shit.

I guess it doesn’t occur to morans that placing purposely misspelted words in internet missives is a well-worn method used strictly to draw flies to shit.

So, what kind of cake for this birthday party?  How about a brownie souffle cake with mint cream?

The standing order at our house for birthday cake is Duncan Hines yellow, chocolate frosting, and M&Ms;sprinkled on top.

We favor Boston Cream Pie, which is not a pie, does not involve cream and does not occur (for us, anyway) in Boston.

Betty,

Perhaps that Boston Cream Pie could be coated with a chocolate ganache.  That would insure it had adequate cream.

I got some chocolate for your cake.  Nice and creamy.  Betty Cracker can tell you where I got it from.  Morans.

All this witty Paultardian repartee makes me want to rush out and buy a copy of Atlas Shrugged.  I always figured Rand was inspired by reading Benjamin Button becuase her hero regresses to infancy…

Someone’s very, very ronery.

fuck you, hans brix!

Well, it’s Friday afternoon, so I am going to return to base for debriefing and cocktails.

Heheheheh. What a bunch of ignorant morans.

Damn it, I knew I should’ve checked Angie’s List before hiring a singing telegram.

How much money does Kevin need for the computer?

Shameless plea for votes here!

So there is this progressive type conference thingy called Netroots Nation. Apparently it is a dealio where all the terrible librul, pajama-clad, basement-dwelling bloggers convene for the purpose of buttsecks and socialistic abortions and learning to hate Jeebus and such. Anywhos! AKMuckraker, could use some voting help to gets her one of them free, socialistic scholarship thingys, to go learn better how to do progressive abortions in Alaska, and you know TruckNutz!!!!

Go here and vote.

And Happiest of Birthdays Kevin!

Joy, I voted. I love reading mudflats.

Also, vote for Moe!

Shameless plea for votes here!

Happy to do so, Joy!  I’ll be there myself.