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Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” Ads - made on a Mac

September 20, 2008 4:23pm

I can verify from personal experience that a lot of the Microsoft advertising is created on Macs.

Microsoft is pretty adamant about keeping Macs away from their offices (from what I've been told), but most of the work is done on Macs and then converted to WMV before it reaches the Microsoft people. That used to be my job.

I can't help but feel some sympathy for the poor guy that didn't hide their tracks good enough and caused this whole thing. I wouldn't have known myself. Damn tech geeks!

Shrine to bragging, deadly Internet "mall ninja"

February 29, 2008 9:33am

When I was in high school I worked as a busboy in a country club. One of the waiters (who looked exactly like Kurt Russell's best friend in "Overboard") used to brag like this in total earnestness. He claimed he was trained in a form of martial arts that was 3,000 years old and was illegal to even possess knowledge of. He was trained by some kind of shaolin master who was channeling the spirit of a dead martial arts master.

He would tell us stories about fighting 10 guys at once, jumping out of three story windows, all kinds of outrageous claims, meanwhile he was like a 200 lb waiter in an ill-fitting polyester tuxedo in upstate New York.

Brings a tear to my eye just to think of him. He was eventually taken out by a stealth assassin squad of pagan ninjas. Tragic.

Rise of ayahuasca ceremonies in USA

February 5, 2008 1:37pm

I have been looking into Ayahuasca for some time, and even considered a trip to Peru. I actually live in San Francisco. Can anyone recommend where I might find contact information for ceremonies here in California?

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