You're Getting A Dell!

Have you seen those Apple commercials, the ones that have average-joe type people talking about how they've switched over from their old PCs to new Macintoshes, and about how happy they are over the change? They're all 'real' about it too, we relate to them and their daily concerns, so on.

Yet, I dunno, I don't relate to these people, they all seem like jackasses. I dislike them, more than anything else. Normally, I don't have this sort of reaction to these anti-commercial commercials, I like the genre well enough, but it seems like with this ad campaign Apple really went out of their way to get ugly, annoying spokeswomen.

Hemming, hawing, talking about their jobs as Internet Media Producers and things like that, blaming their husbands for wanting to keep PCs, utterly, deeply unlikable. The people just don't look like ones I'd like to be identified with, either, look at the woman at the top of this post.

Now, Steve from the Dell commercials, he's a role model. I'm getting a Dell!

This doesn't really merit a full post. I don't even expect that anyone will read it, since the post is a few days old. Anyways, on AT&T Digital Cable, there's this menu that you move through in order to select the channel that you want to watch. "Dude, Where's My Car?" was just one of the movies that was on TV, but, its name was too long for the entry space on the Digital Cable menu - it'd been shortened to "Dude, My Car?". And, really, getting rid of the "Where's" turns it from a silly title into something art-house-like: "Dude, My Car?" Very translated-French.

Stone