Wednesday, 13 June 2001 3:30pm C ami must be using some kind of wacky Macintosh at work because she claims that the difference between Macs and PCs is that the home row bumps are on the F and J on a PC and the D and K on her Mac at work. Well, after reading that I took a quick gander over at the keyboard on my G4 Macintosh that was sitting right next to me, and the bumps were on F and J. Well then I thought, well, maybe it's just because this is their newer model keyboard, so I IMed my friend Lawrence who is a big Mac user and asked him where his bumps were, and both on his G3 tower (with the previous keyboard) and his Powerbook G3 had the bumps on the F and J. So I don't know what is up with Cami's computer at work, maybe it's like a Performa or something hahaha! But as far as the Mac vs. PC thing goes... they both definitely have strengths and weaknesses. Indeed, I think most Mac zealots or Windows Nazis have spent very little time with the "other side". I on the other hand, well, I'm writing this update from my notebook computer which is on Windows 2000, which is sitting next to my desktop computer, also running Windows 2000... which is sitting next to my dual processor G4 Macintosh. All on the same desk. Am I a geek or what? But at least when I have issues with one or the other, I actually know what I'm talking about. I think a lot of the "hard to use" arguments that come from both sides aren't really from anything being hard to use, but just unfamiliar. You're so used to doing things one way that adapting to a new way seems hard. For example, if you are a Mac user, you may be used to using the command key for keyboard short cuts. command-C to cut, etc. You switch over to Windows... where all the shortcuts use the control key... but you're used to hitting the command key, which on a mac keyboard is exactly where the "alt" key is on a PC keyboard. Or whatever. Anyway. My car. I think I would shoot myself if I ever raised a kid as moronic as the one that stole my car. I think most smart people, if they had decided to steal a car, would probably take the car, take all the stuff they wanted from the car and dump it somewhere. Or, alternatively, take the car, use it as a getaway car in a robbery or other crime you are about to commit, and then dump the car. This kid lives around the block. He steals a car from his own neighborhood and drives it around in the same neighborhood and I am quite sure that he intended to continue driving it around. How do I figure that? He put gas in my car. So while most smart people would have already dumped the car by the time I discovered it was missing, this kid was driving it around. For two days. In the same neighborhood. He even put gas in it. No one would put gas in a car they were about to leave behind somewhere, especially with gas as expensive as it is now. I don't know how much more stupid than that a person can get. Anyway. I'm not that happy to have my car back. I mean, yeah, I got it back, but what did I get back? I got back a car with a lot of body damage (inflicted by the retarded kid who doesn't know how to drive either), that needs a new timing belt, water pump and a brake job. With no stereo. Woohoo. Just what I always wanted to have back in my garage! Anyway. The kid is a minor. That means his parents are responsible. And believe me, they will be paying for this for years.