by Ryan on December 3, 2007
Just a quick post here on how much I love IKEA. I’m on a tight budget these days and I find furniture outrageously expensive, particularly when compared to buying a PC or a PC monitor or even a flat screen TV. The folks at IKEA do a good job of bridging that price gap for me. Anyone that says IKEA falls apart too quickly doesn’t know how to use a screwdriver. I.e., if your IKEA furniture feels chinsy or rickety, you probably didn’t read the directions and assemble it properly or you didn’t tighten your screws well enough. For the price, IKEA cannot be beat.
UPDATE: The modern style of IKEA does seem to be going out of style. IKEA is certainly weak in overall style points. There are 2 sides to every argument – I guess I’m taking both sides on this one.
by Ryan on November 25, 2007
I had conversation with an overweight lady last night. She told me about how she was having trouble losing weight when all she does is eat salads. Later that evening, I went over to her house and looked in her fridge and I couldn’t find a single piece of fruit or a single raw vegetable – creamed spinach doesn’t count. Then, she went on to tell me about how she was worried about her old age and not having saved enough for retirement. She was having to pinch pennies left and right just to stay afloat. It seemed like standard sob story to me until she slipped and told me about how she had just spent $500 on botox and restalyne and that is was a fun experience for her and how she goes in and gets this treatment every month. What a moron. She’s complaining about how broke she is and yet she’s burning money on botox every month. People are weird.
by Ryan on November 8, 2007
Call it an Apple, call it a PC with a locked OS and a browser that points to Google. Call it what you like. There will be a PC released in the near future that’s old folks proof and designed and marketed directly at the parents of the baby boomers. Maybe it will even have a ad campaign marketed strictly through snail mail.
by Ryan on October 21, 2007
For the record…I like Apple and I use Mac’s quite a bit and generally enjoy my experiences with them; however, I must point out a few of my personal gripes with Apple, none of which will be news to anyone that has been breathing over the past century…
- Closed source operating system prevents many software developers from designing useful software to function on the Apple platform, which gives rise to the inability for many sites to function with it’s browser and many useful softwares to function on it’s OS.
- Forces users to pay for operating system upgrades when the OS is not a new OS, but ratherr a mere service pack (e.g. you musy pay $125 to go from version 10.3.9 to version 10.4.1 in order to simply access network storage)
- Forces users to purchase Apple’s own hardware (an Apple computer) in order to use it’s software (the Apple OS) – shunning the abilities of so many other hardware manufacturers. If Microsoft pulled a similar move, it would be disallowed through anti-competitive lawsuits as a result of the impact that it would put a number of companies out of business including Dell, HP, Gateway and hinder the profitability of every company that derives any significant portion of its revenues from PC and PC peripheral sales (IBM, Sony, Panasonic, etc.).
- Generally pricier for the same performance
by Ryan on October 20, 2007
After a easy setup and configuration of the new Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS), the device pooped out when I tried setting up network storage and after much reseach online, it turns out that everyone that bought this device had the same issues. I promptly returned the Jobso’s over promising wireless router and I am back looking for a new brand.
