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September 15th, 2008 by Bryan Allain | Filed under life.If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
+ “Yet Strang said he’s “more undecided than ever.” He said he was encouraged by Democratic pledges to reduce the number of abortions, but now worries the party is using abortion as a wedge issue by running ads sharply contrasting Palin and Obama on abortion rights.” …interesting…[Younger Evangelicals Split over Palin Choice as VP]
+ Writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide at age 46. I’m not familiar with his work, but it sounds like it influenced a lot of people. Andy Osenga wrote an impromptu poem, because DFW lived in his hometown. Joe Posnanski said, *He wrote so much about feeling alone. “The interesting thing,” he wrote, “is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.” - funny, was just having this conversation with Erica and Kate F. the other day. How that seems to be common to everyone in every culture. No one wants to be alone…everyone wants to be loved and appreciated.
+ Not sure If I’m on the “cool” side of this or not, but I think the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads are kinda funny. More so the second one than the first one (view the full 4-minute version here). I agree that this is about changing the perception of Microsoft…and selling the brand not the products…we’ll see if it works.
+ For 2 years now I’ve been planning on upgrading my living room entertainment center in the Spring of 2009. Would like to replace the 32″ Sony 4:3 TV with a nice 1080p widescreen (probably no bigger than 46″). I’d also need to upgrade my DirecTV DVR up to the HR20, or maybe even to this HR22.
+ Timothy Noah writes for Slate.com that the reason Sarah Palin was confused about what The Bush Doctrine was is that there is no “The Bush Doctrine”. But hey, Tina Fey did do a great Palin on SNL this weekend. I especially liked the line about her wearing “Tina Fey glasses”.
+ So the DOW dropped over 500 points today. Should I be worried about this?
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The problem with the microsoft ads is this. Are they funny? Sure. Are they hip? I guess. but I’ve used the products. The Mac ads aren’t what sold me on the macs. And no amount of hip microsoft ads will ever make me go back to windows. You said, “I agree that this is about changing the perception of Microsoft…and selling the brand not the products…we’ll see if it works.” I think that is the problem. Perception < Function in the real world.
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I have a Vizio 720p [32" dia], and I really like it. I don’t know that a 1080p set is really worth it. 720p seems to be where most everything is settling these days. You might also hold off on TiVo and DirecTV getting back together for an HD box. I will myself.
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What makes you so sure DirecTV and Tivo are going to reunite? Just about everything I’ve read about their relationship over the past couple of of years has been very negative.
and Mike, totally agree with you. I don’t care if Jerry Seinfeld namedrops me in the next Microsoft ad, I’m still not going back to a PC for my home computer.
They have renewed their love affair.
Brand new reader….well kind of. I’ve been reading you at burnside writers for a while now. love your stuff. subscribed up.
and yeah i agree…seinfeld/gates is great and #2 is better than the first by far. but im still going with mac.
Tyler, thanks so much for joining the conversation. glad to hear you’re a mac guy too. it’s a better way to live.