I should’ve installed the anti-spam plug-in Akismet a long time ago. I activated it today and it shows I’ve got 396 comments identified as spam dating all the way back to October 2005! I guess these are ones that Wordpress’s default comment spam tools have missed.
Yup, I plan to stay up tonight.
The middle beverage is a Superman movie tie-in from Sobe. They’re careful to point out that it’s an “Adult Energy Supplement.”
I’ve been dreading posting this entry. A week or so ago, Michelle and Lei posted their senior prom pictures from back in the day. I thought they were brave for doing so (but really had nothing to worry about since they both looked good). I said I was thinking of also posting my prom picture. I’m not much older than they are, but they’re safe in saying their photos are from the ’90s still. My prom pic is from the eighties. Yikes. Without further ado here’s mine (I know I’ll regret this someday).
Apple’s new series of commercials touting Boot Camp on Intel Macs* is hilarious. It features a bespectacled, paunchy guy in a suit as the PC and a laidback, John Leguizamo-lookalike** as the Mac. The ad on viruses should get heavy rotation, I think. The rest of the ads, however, should probably get limited play. They’re funny alright but a little condescending. They’re potentially off-putting to PC users that Apple is trying to woo into the Mac fold. Unless, of course, they’re not Apple’s target audience at all. I suppose the ads could serve well to give Macheads a feeling of smug superiority over Windows users. Bleh.
*In a rush to create this entry, I totally missed that these ads are not about Boot Camp at all. I guess this Joy of Tech strip was still indelibly etched in my mind that I thought the new Apple ads were personified versions of it. If these ads are not about Boot Camp, then what this tells me is that Apple reluctantly bowed to pressure to provide users the ability to boot into Windows and these ads aim to show that OS X is the far superior OS to boot into. (Take that, Dvorak!)
**ok, just found out the actor is Justin Long from Herbie Fully Loaded. You can’t blame me for not knowing that.
