Comments on: the neoMac Ethos? http://www.haibane.info/2006/10/18/the-neomac-ethos/ a celebration of science fiction, anime, and geek culture Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ken Talton http://www.haibane.info/2006/10/18/the-neomac-ethos/#comment-554 Ken Talton Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:38:18 +0000 http://www.haibane.info/2006/10/18/the-neomac-ethos/#comment-554 Mac places a very high premium on being fashionable. Fashion=conformity. Which is why I know I'm better than everyone else, for only I have the courage to wear a lime gree liesure suit with combat boots and a pink cowboy hat. ...ok...not really....but when I dream.... Mac places a very high premium on being fashionable.

Fashion=conformity.

Which is why I know I’m better than everyone else, for only I have the courage to wear a lime gree liesure suit with combat boots and a pink cowboy hat.

…ok…not really….but when I dream….

]]> By: Steven Den Beste http://www.haibane.info/2006/10/18/the-neomac-ethos/#comment-549 Steven Den Beste Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:37:36 +0000 http://www.haibane.info/2006/10/18/the-neomac-ethos/#comment-549 The Mac experience is like Zen. Your time spent with the Mac is a transcendant experience, a form of spiritual meditation, as you attempt to rise above your petty life and achieve satori, the universal wisdom of Steve Jobs and his way of looking at all things computer. Certainly there can only be one way of doing things, the <i>Mac</i> way, the <i>Jobs</i> way. Doing things your own way is straying from the path of wisdom. Didn't you know that? The Mac experience is like Zen. Your time spent with the Mac is a transcendant experience, a form of spiritual meditation, as you attempt to rise above your petty life and achieve satori, the universal wisdom of Steve Jobs and his way of looking at all things computer. Certainly there can only be one way of doing things, the Mac way, the Jobs way. Doing things your own way is straying from the path of wisdom.

Didn’t you know that?

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