3 Replies to “Bad Days for Macs [Dan Collins]”

1. lee says:

   July 12, 2008 at 8:56 pm

   Huh, not only did Bernie use poor judgment, but I’m pretty sure he stole an old joke. Judging from the first lines in the linked story, I think it’s this one I got in an email last February:

   A young boy went up to his father and asked him, ‘Dad, what is the difference
   between ‘Potentially’
   and ‘Realistically’?’

   The father thought for a moment, then answered, ‘Go ask your mother if she would
   sleep with Brad
   Pitt for a million dollars. Then ask your sister if she would sleep with Brad
   Pitt for a million
   dollars. And then, ask your brother if he’d sleep with Brad Pitt for a million
   dollars. Come back
   and tell me what you learn from that.’

   So the boy went to his mother and asked, ‘Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a
   million dollars?’
   The mother replied, ‘Of course, I would! We could really use that money to fix
   up the house and
   send you kids to a great university!’

   The boy then went to his sister and asked, ‘Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a
   million dollars?’
   The girl replied, ‘Oh good heavens! I LOVE Brad Pitt and I would sleep with him
   in a heartbeat.
   Are you nuts?’

   The boy then went to his brother and asked, ‘Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for
   a million
   dollars?’ ‘Of course,’ the brother replied. ‘Do you know how much a million
   bucks would buy?’

   The boy pondered the answers for a few days and then went back to his dad.

   His father asked him, ‘Did you find out the difference between ‘potentially’ and
   ‘realistically’?’
   The boy replied: ‘Yes.

   ‘Potentially,’ you and I are sitting on three million dollars, But
   ‘realistically,’ we’re living
   with two hookers and a future congressman.

2. jon says:

   July 12, 2008 at 10:47 pm

   If the iPhone thing went off with rather than without a hitch, it didn’t seem to bother all those losers/addicts/guinea pigs/technohipsters or whatever you want to call ’ems who stood in lines to get the new one as if it was some sort of pre-Internet concert of the century. Those guys will soon actually be bragging about all the trips they take to get one that works, thinking how impressive they are to have such a cool little gizmo, and not being actually capable of using the damn thing effectively because they’re too busy liveblogging their every experience on myfriendsterspace.dork.

   Yeah, I’ll probably get one in a few years.

3. Cave Bear says:

   July 13, 2008 at 6:27 am

   Dead on, jon.

   I loved the bit about the code upgrade knocking out the earlier version of the iPhone. It doesn’t happen very often, but every now and then a carrier will do an upgrade like that and it will be a spectacular FUBAR. I’ve seen AT&T do it a couple of times over the years, and OMG what a mess.

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