Conversions

Hello and welcome to The Countdown to thirty.

Saddle up to the table for some stubborn belly fat for the mind.

Hallelujah I’m Converted!!!

I can still remember the first time I caught that elitist grin from some khaki short wearing dread locked art student self righteously brandishing his ugly grey mactop with its strange OS. Oh for sure later on in marketing classes I would give these beasts a try only to find my screen freeze up at that pivotal time just before you remember to save your project. Up until a few years ago I had passed off on any notion I had in my tiny brain to return to this elitist OS.

Being forced into servitude by a healthy mortgage I took up a reasonable profession in which Apple products were heavily featured. Apparently Mac’s are so well marketed that every marketing firm in the world feels that they have to exclusively use their product. So, things definitely change when your boss hands you a Mac and tells you to start moving dev files between servers.

I can now confidently say that for work applications Mac’s are by far the superior choice to XP. Search Google if your looking for tech specs I’m not that guy and this is not that blog. 3 reasons for those of us that are less technical more practical.

1. You never have to turn them off. Seriously I typically get at least 8 days of uptime before I will notice any form of slowing. XP needs a daily reboot to be any where near functional.
2. Quick installation and deletion of files. Got and executable file? Drag it into the applications folder and boom you’re done. No install waits no restart your comp for app to work.
3. The dock. I know I know its just a tool bar with hot keys, but typically you only use 3-6 apps a day for work why would you want to go through a tree menu off your start bar to find some random app module? Drop it in the dock and your good to go.

Switching topics….

How can you not be excited about this upcoming Sunday? Bears/Seahawks should be epic and with a broken footed MVP you begin to wonder if this is actually the Bears year. A late game also ensures that offices across the Chicago land area will be severely undermanned the following Monday. If you catch a red eyed lunatic swerving his way around the Schaumburg area give me a wave…or a finger I probably deserve both.

More pills

Find out tomorrow if medications have kept my Italian blood from holding on to its delicious cholesterol. If stats aren’t down were upping the dosage and I’m probably going vegan. Sigh, is a lifetime of eating mulch a lifetime worth living? If my numbers do drop believe me I will be high tailing it straight into the comforting arms of a cooked medium porterhouse and a tall Sam Adams.

Losing a reader, gaining a friend…

A big welcome back to my friend Rachel who’s returning from Italy with her husband. Guess we actually have to talk now eh?

Links to other nut jobs

Blogs are serious business, here are a bunch that recently caught my eye. Highlihgts include strangely elaborate descriptions of 13 year old. Emo chicks providing bad poetry, heavily photoshopped blogs featuring Asians and other randomness.

Check ‘em out, give a hello, but for the love of all that’s sacred don’t post a link to another site as apparently as My space = pedophiles Blogger = pretentious

http://imageready.blogspot.com/
http://mypinkbubblegum.blogspot.com/
http://anistonhair.blogspot.com/
http://bulbadise.blogspot.com/
http://faithoflife.blogspot.com/
http://relfysux.blogspot.com/

Final Thoughts

1. Wisconsin is the cheap whore of the Midwest.
2. If you knock on my door at 8pm and then try to convince me to vote for your candidate and I stumble out of my house reeking of booze and cigarettes please don’t make a disgusted face. I’m still a voter and no I don’t want your f’n fridge magnet.
3. Old men who smoke should not keep mustaches. It looks like they pissed on their upper lip.