Curse you Newton

I want to buy a MacBook Pro, mostly out of necessity, so it’s more of a need. But other than that there is only a single Apple product that I want, can you guess what it is? An iPod, NO, an iPhone, what am I some gibbering nitwit that thinks just because something looks nice it’s ok to ship crap. I want the Newton, otherwise known as a MessagePad. I don’t care which one, be it a 100 or a 2100.

Being that this product was cancelled by Steve Jobs in early 1998, I have to go to places like eBay to get it, and for AU$45 and $10 postage and handling, I could get a MessagePad 2100, why I immediately thought “I have to get this”. However, the damn thing has no stylus, who sells a stylus operated device without a bloody stylus? So I hit the back button and go to the next one, a MessagePad 130 this time and still at 99 cents! But no, again there’s no bloody stylus.

Sure I could use a fingernail but that would mean having an incomplete device, or I could use the stylus from my PalmPilot Professional, but this would just feel weird and perverted. While that may sound stupid to some people, remember that I’m longing for a device that was released in November 1997, 10 years ago, that’s like 30 digital years.

I guess a more appropriate title for this post would have been “Curse you Newton sellers” but I’m too lazy to change it. Either way, fuck you, you bastards with your Newtons, your Newtons without styluses, or as the French would say “Va te faire foutre, vous bâtards avec vos newton, vos newton sans aiguilles”

Pardon the language, I’ve been venting.

An Essay

I got bored and decided to post my Screen History and Research essay.

Mad Max and Hang ‘Em High: Two different flavours of revenge.

The two films I have chosen for comparison are, ‘Mad Max’ (1979) and ‘Hang ‘Em High’ (1968). ‘Mad Max’ is a film released in Australia in 1979 and internationally in 1980, directed by George Miller and staring Mel Gibson. The plot for ‘Mad Max’ is a nomadic motorcycle gang, as an act of revenge, kills the best friend and wife of hero police officer, pushing him over the edge and causing him to set out to avenge their deaths. ‘Hang ‘Em High’ is a film released in 1968, directed by Ted Post and staring Clint Eastwood. ‘Hang ‘Em High’s plot is a man is hung by nine men for a crime he did not commit; after surviving the hanging he becomes a Federal Marshal and sets out to bring the nine would-be killers to justice.

Open Office is a fucking bastard

Open Office can fuck right off!

It can go where ever it bloody sent the words it has taken from my essays. I’m sitting here with just 200 words left untill I hit the minimum word limit then I save check the word count again and  poof I’ve lost 75 words, time goes on I add back what I’ve lost and then 250 fuck right off again.

Pardon the language, I’ve been venting.