Fourteen Things
I was searching for a document on my computer and found the following instead. Don't know where it came from. And if creating the list myself, I probably would have added a few and left off a few from personal experience - such as:
#15. Don't eat two bean burritos the night before attending an all day, indoor conference. Or
#16. Don't eat the whole pound of sugar-free chocolate while on a romantic getaway.
Anyway, here is Dave Barry's list:
Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn—by Dave Barry
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
5. You should not confuse your career with your life.
6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
7. Never lick a steak knife.
8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.
13. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)
14. Your friends love you anyway.
4 comments:
#15 Public education is underfunded, uses outdated textbooks, outdated methods of teaching, underpays teachers, still relies on paper-and-pencil learning even the face of newer and better technologies...and largely uses Macs. Go figure.
BYU-I's president Kim B. Clark was the Dean of the Harvard Business school. Among his publications are this and this. That is to say, he's no slouch, and certainly would require his hardware to keep pace. He uses Macs. At a Q&A after a presentation he gave on his most recent book he responded to a question about Apple with, "Apple makes the best computers in the world."
Kim Clark probably has only used the highest tech versions with quick-to-be-there techies to fix his problemos. The rest of the common world slugs aways using piece of crap machinery pushed on the public with cool ad campaigns that are really talking about the highest level machines, not the common stuff most of the people in the world can afford. I've used almost every version of mid-level and below Mac on the market over the past 10 years and they are pieces of crap. Bottom line.
"Yah, whatever."
The key thing is, by and large, there are no problemos. I don't have the highest tech version. At the time of purchase in 2005 our iMac G5 (not the latest intel version) was the midrange of Apple's consumer level computers. I have never needed a techie to fix anything. It works and I only ever see the spinning ball if I really push it. Obviously, the difficulties you have had with Macs is not something that anyone can dismiss, and perhaps it is as you say, education versions are stripped down and thus prone to problems. On the other hand, there are many thousands who swear by Apple computers, and their mostly positive experiences with
Macs can not be dismissed either. In truth, the cool ad campaigns are not talking about the highest level machines. They are talking about the consumer level machines.
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