palmed off
Slashdot is running a story about 5 reasons for Palm’s slide. One indication of a once dominant company gone to pot is their willingness to collaborate with competitors - in this case, with Microsoft. I like Palm and I’m a longstanding consumer, but the day they start selling a mini desktop as opposed to a lean, battery efficient ebookreader - well, that’s the day I start looking at alternatives. Do I want my next purchase to be a T5 ? or do I look around for alternatives? Well, at least my trusty m515 has a bit more life in it.
Incidentally, a phone conversation today reminds me: I need some safe topics of conversation for parents (mothers, specifically). I keep acquiring and forgetting the knack of diverting attention away from details like what I eat and how much I sleep. A conversation today went: Have I been eating healthily ? Erm. Does eating fruit count ? Oh, it does. Cool. What ? Don’t eat the fruit because it’s probably sprayed with all sorts of nasty insecticides ? ZOMG! Canned fruit ? Preservatives?! But, but, but …
I can’t win. I need to stop trying
On 28-Sep-05 at 6:57 pm,
Splee wrote:
In the immortal words of a certain balding, yellow american anti-dad:
“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.”
On 28-Sep-05 at 6:59 pm,
Splee wrote:
That should have read “…yellow, american…”. Damned unreliable commas. Never there when you need ‘em.
On 03-Oct-05 at 10:46 am,
drac wrote:
I actually had that slogan hanging above my cubicle at one point. Had to take it down though. Quite the motivational speaker, is Mr. Simpson.
Hehe. Interesting place for a comma failure.