lars backlund | blog of lasseman

Charming?

Man what a week this has been and still is. On monday I flew down to Gothenbourg, spent the day there and then went by train up to Stockholm. Spent the night in Morgana Crack & Conference hotell (if you’re wondering, it’s a refurbished bomb bunker from the seventies) and then had a meeting on tuesday. After that it was onto the train again where I divided my time between speaking on the cellphone about a business case for one of the projects I’m involved with and watching like seven episodes of South Park. Some Cartman goes a long way enduring a 50 minute delay.

I then went to where I am currently residing, or maybe dwelling is more of a proper term. Dwelling because I don’t like eating by myself in a restaurant, it’s sort of weird. So I usually just go out and buy something and bring back to my bat cave. Anyway I spent today in meeting again here in Gbg and will spend the entire day tomorrow in another meeting here, then it’s finally back to old sweet Sundsvall.

This place isn’t that bad actually, I’m just ripping on it because I can. It’s no Knaust Hotel but it’s a 2 minute walk from work which makes up for a lot (just as with Morgana).

Gbg all in all ain’t that bad but I’d rather stick a fork in my knee than work out of Farsta on a regular basis Farsta might be a case of the good old Swenglish actually,

” Far : stad”
A place far away from everything, where you don’t want to live, breathe or work. If it doesn’t pay really, really, ridiculously well.

Anyway. Enough about this. How about some jokes?

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Colored turds

Got a cute post from an anonymous someone a while ago it seems (I suck at reading my comments). “macgrabben slår till…..du hatar väl mac..haha….äntligen har du insett, det tog ett tag bara.” Basically someone surprised and amused by the fact I have switched to Mac seeing as I used to have an intense distaste for the platform earlier.

Now I still absolutely loath Mac OS 9 and their PPC platform since it made the whole computer expensive, inefficient, slow and.yeah..well it was simply not for me. Mac has historically blown goats ass, in particular back in the days when they didn’t allow third party vendors to manufacture hardware for the system. The Mac OS 9 memory allocation was a pure joke, not to mention the overall user experience.

Mac has not really been an option for me until they switched to Intel and since the release of Tiger and of course, me becoming more of a leisure user, dropping my interest in hardware and using the computer as a gaming platform. Today Mac can easily run Windows (not that I would), has plenty of open source software and great shareware. In the later years I have also gotten really pissed off by the whole Windows Genuine Advantage ordeal and their “Genuine software” programs. I was also sick of all the viruses and firewalls (a problem I am quite sure the Mac would suffer from if the platform had as large market share).

Anyway. I guess what I’m trying to say that I see myself as different than the tools who used Mac because they were pretty and easy to use and never minded the fact them being expensive, slow and in general utterly worthless. That probably makes me come off as being somewhat of an asshole, but I’m fine with that :)

From an evening of poker and buzz

Sigh

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