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July 27, 2004
Wow
That's about all I can say at the moment. Wow. The amount of attention that the Apple Product Cycle piece has garnered is a little overwhelming. I've never thought of myself as an especially talented writer. I guess I just struck a chord with a lot of folks.
To give everyone some perspective, check out Webalizer's analysis of my site logs for July as of 6:56 PM EDT today:
Perhaps in a few days, I'll post some of the more interesting reactions I've read so far. For now, I'd like to send some quick shout-outs to some of the referring sites that have been showing up a lot in my log files:
And of course the first site that picked the piece up and an essential every-day read for in-the-know Mac users: MacNN.com
That's all I have for now. As I said before, wow.
Posted by Dan at July 27, 2004 09:35 PM
Comments
First Post!
That was damn funny, especially about the fat nerd and nerd toys. It really had me rolling and I don't laugh too often. Maybe you should write more! David Pogue does need a little competition!
Posted by: Ilan Terrell at July 27, 2004 10:16 PM
hey Dan, congratulations on your great 'word of fiction'!
you should check out del.icio.us some time, it's a groovy "social bookmark manager" that helps you store your favorite links organized by tags, and shows you who bookmarks the same links as you...
cheers,
greg
Posted by: greg at July 27, 2004 11:21 PM
AppleForum.com is korean.
Posted by: kevin at July 28, 2004 07:43 PM
Kevin,
Thanks for the clarification.
Is there anyone who can read Korean who'd like to... aw, forget it.
Posted by: Dan S at July 28, 2004 07:49 PM
Thanks - I know truth when I read it! I'm trying to teach myself all the things I need to do program development for the Mac & I figure, if I'm not crazy now, by the time I get my hoped-for-product to market, I will be! Good job - Found you through "Good Morning Silicon Valley".
Jane
Posted by: Jane Kohner at July 28, 2004 11:52 PM
Absolutely hilarious!! If you do more, it'll become required reading along with ATAT. Who said Mac users don't have a sense of humor. Located via MyAppleMenu.
Posted by: Paul Ennis at July 29, 2004 09:44 AM
Nice job. Appreciators will be also happified by the followings:
appleturns.com
crazyapplerumors.com
Enjoyable!
~winky
Posted by: Winky IIIV and a half at July 29, 2004 01:23 PM
Yeah... by the way, if you open Sherlock, you can copy a bunch of Korean text in there, and select "Korean to English" for a quick ruff translation.
~
Posted by: ~w at July 29, 2004 01:24 PM
that really was amazing
Posted by: Stefan Hayden at July 29, 2004 06:08 PM
As Paul Fussell would say, "Funny, and funny by international standards." Change "expect" to "except" (near the end) and it will be even better.
Posted by: Charles E Flynn at July 29, 2004 11:41 PM
John Moltz just threw his [insert gadget here] against the wall in envy.
Oh, and it's either "lay snug in their bed" and "took MDMA" etc. or "lie snug in their bed" and "take a nice cuppa" etc.
If i'm wrong on this i blame MDMA.
Posted by: D. B. Spoke at July 30, 2004 04:42 AM
This was really funny. As a sideline spectator in the whole Mac/PC war, it struck me as dead-on. All that's missing is a name for the generic mysterious product -- the product that everybody wants and yet nobody knows. May I humbly sumbit... MacGuffin (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?McGuffin)
Posted by: Bernard Gilroy at July 31, 2004 12:04 PM
That's purdy darn funny, I tell you whut.
Posted by: Duh at August 1, 2004 01:52 PM
Hey, this was really funny. "Insanely great", ha ha, LOL!
Beats waiting for XP Service Pack N (where N = 'current_year + 4 or maybe 5'). Sigh... Who knew about those viruses, huh?
Now that I'm a father, don't tell anyone, but my kids use Macs.
Rgds,
bg
p.s. I made $135k while typing this. Suckers!
Posted by: Bill G. at August 1, 2004 06:48 PM
I just want to say that, having been through the Apple product cycle way too many times in my life, and I have never laughed so hard about our collective obsession with the Mac.
As Mac users, most of us are in sore need of some perspective, and your sarcastic 8-page piece is as full of hyperbole, exageration, and bullshit, as we are.
As I posted on one of the referring Mac sites. Unlike you, I HAVE been to Mac trade shows, and have also gotten caught inside an Apple store shortly after a new product introduction. Looking around me at the mayhem, weirdness and "fat, smelly nerds", the only questions that came to mind where "who the hell are these people?" and "am I a part of THIS community???"
Anyway, thank you so much for your piece, rest assured that it's making its way around my office.
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