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I’m sorry 7 you’re just not what I am looking for in an OS.  Don’t get me wrong, you’re a definite improvement over the 1 step forward 2 steps backwards that was  Vista.  You got some pretty new bells and whistles and you may even be as stable as Grandma XP (which is good compared to its far past but far from good). While  your Apple charm school lessons have done much to enhance your overall elegance- well it is still so much lipstick on a pig.  When we first got together I knew you were a beta but you have been in release candidate for months now and your still giving me way too many blue screens of death. I know it doesn’t help to point fingers or compare you to other OSs but you have crashed more times in the last month then my trusty macbook has in 2 years.  I’m not saying its over since BeyondTV/Snapstream doesn’t make DVR software for OS X, you will still have a place at the core of my DVR Box. But I have to tell you, if you can’t get your act together I might have to consider MythTV on Linux.  I know crazy Uncle Walt (not really  my Uncle) Mossberg thinks your almost as good as OS X. But your not.  Oh you can still do a few things for me that no other OS can.  But I don’t have to work in Access as much these days and I am getting pretty comfy with MYSQL and as I said, if things don’t improve I might seriously consider Linux/MythTV for the one box (quad core Intel w/ 4 TVtuners and 2 terabytes of HDTV goodness) really keeping you with me at home.

Don’t worry, we can still be work buddies. I’m not planning any moves and I can’t imagine the paradigm shift that would have to happen for our office to go Mac, its just not even possible with our current HRIS software. And its not like I won’t ever see you outside of the office. As I said there are certain things you do very well, and I am willing to keep you around in Virtual Machine form. I will  call on you when I need some quick and dirty MS Office project that can’t be done in Office for Mac or Google Docs.  And when I am done, I can just shut down the VM software and forget about you until our next month boot up call.

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I was tagged and completed one of those “25 random things about me” and true to #25 I decided to repost to my blog.

1. Someday I will finish and publish a novel.

2. I have finished many shorts stories over the years and have never attempted to have any of them published.

3. I have an irrational fear of birds.

4. That said very few things in this world truly frighten me. I have driven a buck twenty bumper to bumper on a tortuous road, gone bungee jumping, cliff diving, skydiving and countless other youthful indiscretions.

5. And that said I have been terrified on a couple of occasions. The first was a month before Josh was born and we were driving to Holly Cross to do a tour of the maternity ward. We were stopped in traffic on 495 near magical kingdom AKA the Mormon Temple. Melissa stated screaming as a SVU plowed into us at highway speeds. The accident put her into early labor and it was hours before they were able to stop the labor and give us any assurance that she and the baby would be OK. The second time in recent memory was when I held my son for the first time.

6. Even though I am pro-science and highly critical of religious dogma, I am surprisingly religious. I have never doubted in G-d, only humanity’s ability to understand.

7. Most of my life I preferred to read what Academics call literature and now I prefer speculative fiction. I can even admit to truly loving some urban/dark fantasy that could just as easily be housed in the romance isle.

8. I am a terrible insomniac and Lunesta has changed my life.

9. I have been contemplating giving up meat on moral grounds but am not sure I have the will power to make it happen.

10. I’m a Mac, and a PC and a LINUX

11. As a kid I used to take things apart to to figure out how they worked, I still do.

12. I used to build PCs before it was considered easy.

12. I am very mechanically inclined but have never changed my own oil, mostly because I don’t like getting dirty.

13. I love to garden. I know that sounds contradictory but I don’t mind dirt dirt. It is the greasy and/or sticky things I don’t love.

14. I have studied Christianity more in depth than Judaism.

15. I hated being Jewish as a child but happily identify with Judaism as an adult.

16. My favorite game is Gin provided I am playing with my wife. She is a knocker!

17. My mind works best when I am multitasking.

18. I can listen to an audio book or watch TV while reading and follow both. I know this makes me a little odd but I was a multitasker before modern communication necessitated it.

19. My wife never ceases to amaze me.

20. On any given day Lifeguarding was my favorite job. Bar-tending was the most fun, and Teaching the most rewarding.

21. Even though I don’t LOVE it I am very good at HR an assume I will keep doing it forever unless I do #1 more than once and really really really well.

22. I am terrible with names.

23. Having a child (soon to be children) has changed my life in unbelievable and indescribable ways.

24. Yes I do get asked about the other Corey Feldman all to often and how funny is it that my best friend’s name is Tony Orlando.

25. Most of my life I have shared easily but with few. With Social media (blogging, facebook, twitter) I now share with many but no longer with ease.

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This day is dragging.  I am starting to wonder if time is actually slowing down.  Wait a second, didn’t the Large Hadron Collider  go live today.  Is it possible we are all being sucked into a black hole and time is literally slowing down?

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Joss Whedon rocks.  Neil Patrick Harris brilliant.  Nathan Fillion hilarious.  Felicia Day totally geeky hot.

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For the last two days I have been saddled with a Nissan Altima.  My wife’s car was rear ended for the second time in its short life and is in the shop.  I took the rental car the insurance company provided, so Melissa would have a car with a properly inspected child safety seat.  The really cool thing about this car is that there is no key.  Just a fob that stays in you pocket.  As long as you have the key fob in the car, you just press the button and it starts.  I can picture the day when you have one programmable key fob, as long as it is on your person, you can open your house, office, car etc… Technology does seem to blur the line between magic and science.

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When I first tried spaces I thought it was a nice gimmick but not a feature I would actually use.  This week I have been working on a couple projects that I wanted to test out in OS X so I brought my Macbook into the office.  Spaces has turned out to be one of my favorite new features. It took a couple minutes to retrain my brain, but I was amazed how quickly I adjusted and how I really prefer working in organized and separate desktops.  I put IChat in one space, Email in another and the third and fourth held my two projects.  I set it up with a hot corner, so with a quick move of the mouse (or a couple of keystrokes if that is what works for your inner geek) I have whatever I am looking for open and in full view.