Most of you know how much I detest Macs. I do not question whether they can do amazing things. My problem lies in the fact that you have to pay three times as much for a Mac as you would for a PC with comparable stats and features. You’re paying for the branding. Also, Mac assumes you are an idiot… but I won’t get into that… today.

Anyway… I’ve been stuck with Mac products for my entire career. My current computer (at work) is the iBook G4. It has a new annoying habit of refusing to start. Each day, I spend a little bit more time trying to get it to start up. First, I get the big black box that says “HA HA… try and restart me” or something like that. Then I restart. Deadzo. Then I restart. Deadzo. Then I restart and get the command prompt. I type in mac-boot and I get the sad Mac icon with the question mark (as if to say “are you talking to me?”). Restart… deadzo… restart… deadzo… restart… mean black box… etc. Eventually… after 10-20 minutes, everything pops up and the thing performs normally. Until today…

I spent over an hour in the mean black box/deadzo/command prompt loop. It REFUSED to start. What’s strange is that it started on the first try for the last two days. It was almost like this vindictive little thing saved up two days of energy to challenge me in an old-fashioned showdown today. After an hour of the loop… I finally unplugged it… picked it up… and gave it a good shake. I plugged everything back in… pressed that bratty white button… and POOF! It started right up! I WON! *blows on her smoking guns*

Something tells me it’s not over…