Decisions,Tiger

Decisions

I could name off about 5 people that this message could hit home with, and I want to keep it short, so for today your names are spared. Life is too short to play the "what if..." game. People who check their answers after exams get the same score they would get if they didn't check their answers. And with a third of my life over, I don't have time for those stupid games; and neither should you.

You see, if I could go back and change things, I would be with a girl that I wouldn't be happy with. I would be so financially secure that it would be ridiculous. I would never stare down death, and always be secure. And I would be the most boring person on the face of this planet, and everything would be perfect. EXCEPT I am not with a girl that makes me unhappy, I am not financially secure, I've gazed at death on multiple occasions, and I am always confident. I'm incredibly interesting, and everything is perfect.

You see all the A's, all the money, all the girlfriends, all the cars, all the [blank] can't compare to time, or even life at that. So forget about what you could have done, and focus on what you are doing, which is sitting on your butt and missing life.

Dedicated To
Woody Cherry
Josh Paulus
Patrick Kelly and the Saturday Night Band
Olivia Nichols
Dustin Silvestri
Elise Devinney

and

Ezekiel Rage


And Now Let The Fun Begin



You know, I take a lot of crap for being a 1337 h4x0® Mac *niX guru. But that's ok, because I have something that you don't have; and that is called an "advanced computing platform". You know all the cool stuff you've been promised in Longhorn.

We have a journaling filesystem (props to BeOS for their people), like the promised, now vaporware WinFS.
We have a hardware accelerated GUI
We have a "WebCore" called WebCore
We have everything you promise, today.

The only thing we don't have is full directory encryption, because we don't like bloatware, and the resources they take up.
Instead we have hot-keyed home directory encryption, so you don't have to decrypt all 500 megs of Microsoft Office every-time you load up a program.

So I'm sitting here searching for text in PDFs I haven't seen/read, along with Office Documents, websites, ID3 tags, Pictures with metadata. All from the core OS, not applications, the core OS.

Oh yeah and Dashboard is cool.
And Automator will rock the booty hole when I can find out something useful to do with it.

So take your 45 million lines of code, and I will stick with my 15 million lines of euphoria. See you in 2006.



(A Longhorn is a herbivore which processes it's food multiple times through regurgitation and redundant stomachs. It gets along but is utterly slow, and is often prey to large predator cats)