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Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably seen at least one of the TV ads for Mac by now.
Some of them are pretty funny.
But not quite as funny as these spoofs.
Found the link over at 947.fm on Gustav''s bio page.

A burglar broke in to a home and discovered images of child pornography displayed on the monitor of the homeowner's computer.
The burglar video taped the monitor containing the offensive images, left the video camera on the steps of a church, along with a note detailing the video contents and the address from which the camera was stolen.
Following the address printed on the burglar's note, police seized computer equipment containing 13,315 pornographic images.
The burglary is still unsolved.
Considering what the burglar did, if I were in charge of the burglary case, I would just kind of let ...

A presentation showing Microsoft''s "innovative" new OS, Vista.
Vista will supposedly revolutionize the way you use your computer.

Yes, that''s Mac OS X, not Windoze Vista, in the presentation.
So much for the Microsoft Revolution, eh?

Helped my Big Little Brother move in to his new house this weekend.
With two trucks (one U-haul and one looks-like-it-used-to-be-a-U-haul), 5 loads in each (that''s loading AND unloading) and about 6 hours, we moved the majority of his large furniture and boxes - tables, garage stuff, beds; you know - the stuff that everybody thinks they hate to move until it is actually moved and all that''s left is the little crap that everybody REALLY hates to move because there's so much of it.
Everywhere.
Very nice house. No bad memories of the past and a fresh start for ...

Several weeks ago, Apple released a software update and a firmware update.
Very soon after, many, many users complained that their MacBooks were randomly shutting down, blaming everything from the software & firmware updates to poorly seated RAM or a heatsink.
Apple finally fessed up, without giving an explaination).
I hadn''t experienced any of the random shutdown problems and counted myself as one of the lucky ones.
Until yesterday.
Normally, I just leave my MacBook on, closing the lid so that it goes to sleep (a carry over from my Linux/FreeBSD roots, where "uptime" was a bragging and boasting ...