{"id":715,"date":"2006-01-21T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2006-01-21T03:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T03:22:00","slug":"mac-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/mac-curious\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac-Curious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Martin Sargent. You have a name that sounds like it was ripped from a cartoon or a comic book. But you have provided <a href=\"http:\/\/roughpatch.tv\/?p=41\" target=\"_blank\">the funny<\/a> today. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve always been a diehard PC guy. And I swear, until recently, I\u2019ve never touched a Mac in my life. But ever since this year\u2019s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, I\u2019ve been feeling kind of funny inside. Different. To put it bluntly, I can\u2019t stop thinking about getting my hands on a Mac. I have become\u2026Mac-Curious.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried chasing the feelings away by sticking a new hard drive in my big black Gateway box and giving it a RAM job, but when I was sliding in that glistening new SIMM stick, I realized, to my horror, I was thinking about a Mac.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My girlfriend has a Mac, and she loves it. She\u2019s always going on and on about its beautiful interface, ease of use, and how it takes her mere seconds to accomplish the task at hand. So last week, when she was sleeping, I snuck out of the bedroom, grabbed her PowerBook\u2019s 12.1-inch screen and flipped it up. I experimented with it for hours, feeling a sense of excitement I had never known, until I heard my girlfriend wake up. Terrified, I tried to finish before she caught me but couldn\u2019t figure out how to get the thing to log me off! \u201cGod,\u201d I said under my breath. \u201cI wish I knew how to quit you!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/roughpatch.tv\/?p=41\" target=\"_blank\">the whole depraved thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Digg<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Martin Sargent. You have a name that sounds like it was ripped from a cartoon or a comic book. But you have provided the funny today. I\u2019ve always been a diehard PC guy. And I swear, until recently, I\u2019ve never touched a Mac in my life. But ever since this year\u2019s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, I\u2019ve been feeling kind of funny inside. Different. To put it bluntly, I can\u2019t stop thinking about getting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}