People share whatever they want on FB. Who cares? If you don't want to look at it, don't look! I don't see it as an attack, though, just unenlightenment. And I'm a parent of a 7 and 3 year old.

Does this mean the house in Silverlake is available?

I can see by the early postings that this will become a total Mac/PC flamefest as all these things come to be.

But to stay on topic, I think you will find the Mac to be a good development platform. Indeed, at my company, which is a Microsoft partner from way back, Macs are creeping into the development and QA ranks. They offer a very low level of upkeep and a very robust software design that doesn't crash. In addition, since they are based on FreeBSD, open source software and tools can be used if desired.

As far as using other Unix systems, Linux and BSD are used a lot at our company, but getting to a BSD box is far easier on a Mac with its built in software than the machinations that are required to do the same thing on a PC.

Usually people arguing against the Mac are doing so from a Microsoft based status quo, citing for instance, the Mac's poor support of the massive and overly complex network directory systems on Windows, or the cost issue, which rarely takes into account the return on investment. Macs don't need IT support in most cases which can also turn some IT personnel against them.

This is an example of how the networks believe their punditocracy is more important than the people they are talking about. I browsed the coverage on MSNBC (only as a fan of Olbermann) on my TiVo watching only the speeches, which, thankfully, they didn't interrupt. I'm a big fan of Olbermann's, at least when he seemed to be the lone voice speaking about about this ridiculous administration, but this coverage has been beyond retarded. My TiVo is recording the C-SPAN coverage as I write.

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As for the notion that the press treats Obama too uncritically, Douglass told the New York Times, "I think my former colleagues in the press have been quite tough on him and I think they've done good strong enterprise reporting ... I don't think anybody’s been given a pass this year."

So candidates have gotten "passes" before? Like in 2000 and 2004?

L.A. to Portland is done in tiny spam cans these days. Just Ask the Pilot.

I work at a window seat in view of the SJC approach and departure route, and I've seen fairly frequently a Beech Starship landing there. Using Airliners.net I was able to narrow it down to just a couple of planes. Awesome site and another home run column from Patrick Smith!

http://airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Beech+2000+Starship+1&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=USA+-+California&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=&range=&sort_order=&page_limit=15&thumbnails=&calccount=1152814&truecount=false&engine_version=6.0

That's the one that made ME laugh out loud. Who ever knew what the other paddle thought?

Alex O'Neal said:

Touted as true, this story is neither funny nor reflective.

And yet you wrote quite a bit of reflective material on it...

How exactly does circumcision affect the transfer of HIV? I would like to see what they think the connection is.

Maybe this is no more sinister than taking a week off? This happens all the time in other comics.

After all the whining and complaining about the comic on these pages, I assumed WayLay had been dropped when it disappeard from the side bar.

But it's back! Forever?

Totie Fields and Robert Klien. I don't know who the middle guy is.

"If the first Abramoff trial, a Bush administration official is convicted"

I don't understand this sentence. It looks like a typo. Perhaps the first word should be "In?"

Just fyi. I looked it up at airliners.net and the plane with that number is a little Piper. Nice try to the original poster.

Write anything about Apple and the hateful and ignorant come out of the woodwork. This happens on every forum I've ever posted or read. Why are people so offended/outraged/amused by everything written about Apple?

Just to correct a few things before I go:

1. Apples don't run on any variant of linux. They run on a mach kerneled version of BSD with a proprietary OS called Mac OS X running on top.

2. Power Mac Cubes don't over heat and crash all the time. I've been using one for over 6 years now continuously and am even typing this note on it. I pretty much never turn it of, and it was up for 33 days before the last software update was applied last week.

Sorry about your hot notebook. I'd suggest using some other meat than bacon to describe your thighs, though. ;)

The website is throwing up a 404 (file not found) message but the text states there is a "bandwidth problem", not that a page is missing.

...and it's in the Entertainment section, although I can't really say I was THAT entertained. It really doesn't have enough meat (chicken?) in it to make me think it's real, and it's not funny enough to be entertaining.