{"id":399,"date":"2006-03-03T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-03-03T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T21:15:00","slug":"romeo-and-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Romeo and Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered that I want a Mac (Big surprise, a year ago I hated Mac and all that it was). I have my heart set on a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/1-800-MY-APPLE\/WebObjects\/AppleStore?family=Macmini\">dual core Intel mini<\/a>. Last night, I decided to pull out the old Shakespear and modify it a bit to make sense here, and here&#8217;s what I came up with (by the way, this is the famous balcony scene from Romeo &amp; Juliet, Scene 2 Act 2):<\/p>\n<p>Romeo and Macintosh<\/p>\n<p>O mac comp, mac comp, wherefore art thou a mac comp?<br \/>\ndeny thy Jobs and refuse thy G4 processor,<br \/>\nOr if thou wilt not, be but sworn my computer,<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll no longer be a &#8216;doze user.<\/p>\n<p>Tis but thy manufacturer that is my enemy.<br \/>\nThou art thyself, though not a mac.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s mac? It is nor processor, nor RAM, nor monitor, nor case, nor any other part belonging to a comp.<br \/>\nO, be some other brand!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in a brand name?<br \/>\nThat which we call a Dell<br \/>\nBy any other name would suck as much.<br \/>\nSo the mac mini would, were it not a mac called,<br \/>\nRetain that dear perfection which it owes<br \/>\nWithout that title.<br \/>\nMac mini, doff thy manufacturer,<br \/>\nAnd, for thy manufacturer, which is no part of thee,<br \/>\nTake all my desk space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/macmini\/gallery\/images\/gallery1img20060228.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/macmini\/gallery\/images\/gallery1img20060228.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the same note (at a different volume), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0&amp;search=microsoft%20ipod\">here<\/a>&#8216;s a brilliant little movie poking Microsoft for its horrible package design. It&#8217;s great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered that I want a Mac (Big surprise, a year ago I hated Mac and all that it was). I have my heart set on a dual core Intel mini. Last night, I decided to pull out the old Shakespear and modify it a bit to make sense here, and here&#8217;s what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}