Sadly, there are some things this geek just doesn’t understand. Maybe it was Steve Jobs introducing the iPad yesterday that just made me shake my head a little too much so that something which used to just rattle broke loose. Maybe it was a combination of things such as this 365 Julie/Julia tech project I started or it just might have been nothing at all. Let’s go with that for now.

See peeps, there are just some things I don’t understand. So many in fact, I just have to start tossing them out of my head to clear some much needed room:


Things This Geek Just Doesn’t Understand:

The iPad. Seriously I just don’t get why anyone would want something that might look prettier than a netbook yet is more expensive and far less capable. Locked iPhone OS? No hard drive? You have ZERO control over it and can’t put any programs you want on it? It’s not really a computer. It’s a stretched iTouch Etch-A-Sketch that’s not even better than an eBook reader thingamabob and yet costs more? In this economy? Nope. Don’t think so.

A lot of people, articles and writers all over the Net talking all disappointed about Apple’s latest product AND they agree with my opinion. That’s like never happened… thanks iPad!

Stargate Universe. It’s definitely not SG-1 or Atlantis. One of the guys who made the two previous Stargate series created this one. It’s nothing like SG-1 or Atlantis but it’s ratings are just like wormholes; no evidence it exists. To say it sucks is giving it too much credit (not to mention slighting the word suck). It has so nothing to do with the previous franchises, lose the Stargate in the title so it stops tainting SG-1 and Atlantis, already. Could you see the pitch for the show? “It’s not like Stargate the movie, SG-1 or Atlantis. It’s all about people on a ship, marooned like Voyager but far less interesting. They’ll love it!”

Making Simple Shapes with Photoshop. It’s like a 5 part process to make a filled or outlined square, circle, or any common shape. All the other paint programs out there do it in one step. COME ON ALREADY, ADOBE!

The iPad. Not only was it a five year old skit from Mad TV, but it was also a low-cost touch screen kitchen appliance that was going to run a form of BeOs which was announced at the PC Expo way back in 1998! (It never came out.)

Celeron or Cheap AMD celeron-class chips in laptops. I hate underpowered laptops and there’s really no reason for slow cheap chips to appear in laptops these days. Know what the price difference for laptop manufacturers is between a dog-like Celeron/AMD chip and a good one? Usually $20-50. Really no excuse to use bad, slow processors these days except to dupe customers who don’t know better. Also it’s a crime to make a nice laptop and put a 1.6Ghz celeron/AMD single core sloth inside! Criminal, I say, criminal!

80,000 people also agree with me. About Jay Leno vs Conan O’Brien. On a recent Oprah Winfrey poll, 98% of the people said they were on CoCo’s side and 96% said Jay shouldn’t get the Tonight Show back. (Ok, so only 97% of 80,000 people agree with me.) I’m as freaking shocked as all of you.

My Julie & Julia inspired blog tech challenge. I’m on my 28th day. I committed myself to attempt to post 365 entries that were worth the geek read this year and I’m not doing too bad almost a month into it. No cutting and pasting links like other people. Just talking about what I like, use, read, heard and believe. Not doing too bad. Wow.(For now)

Later geeks. Until tomorrow. Maybe.