To say that Nathan has become a bit of a picky eater would be the understatement of the year. The kid is so already in his Terrible Twos. This morning he actually made a face at his plate of homefreakingmade blueberry pancakes - with fresh blueberries! - and maple sausage. Then he started flinging things off his plate. So I took his plate away and we (David and I) finished breakfast. As I was putting Nathan’s plate in the dishwasher he started complaining by screaming. “Yeah, yeah. Life’s unfair so why don’t you go get yourself a cracker.” David immediately piped up that it was t-shirt worthy. Anything t-shirt worthy has got to be good enough to be my new motto. So away with “If your dog needs a new sweater then you need a new dog.“ From here forth my new personal motto is “Life’s unfair so why don’t you go get yourself a cracker.”
For the record Nathan did head over to the pantry, pull down the box of his favorite crackers and helped himself.
A few minutes ago David and I had the following conversation:
David: Why do we need a new web browser? Aren’t there enough browsers out there already?
Countess Shell: We DON’T need a new web browser. Who is putting out a new browser?
D: Google.
CS: Really? Call Derek. We don’t need a new browser. I LIKE Firefox.
D: (rolls eyes - at least I think he rolled his eyes as I can’t see him since he is sitting behind me) Yeah. Ok. I’ll get right on that.
CS: (reading that the new browser doesn’t come in Apple flavor yet): But I wanna play too. Why can’t I have the new browser too? I wanna play. That’s not fair. I wanna play too. Why can’t I play too?
I should just go get myself a cracker.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
This isn’t really about a new browser; this is Google’s latest attempt to dethrone Microsoft and take over the world.
People have been saying for ten years that the OS would become irrelevant, and the browser would replace it, and Web applications online would replace desktop applications on a local computer, and all data would move from local networks to the Internet “cloud.”
For Google to make a browser is the next logical step in such a transition, following their brand, money, search service, and Web application suite. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them do a version of Linux as a sort of bare-bones OS in future.
I think Google is badly mistaken, though, about the likelihood of such a plan succeeding, for many reasons which I won’t bore you with unless you ask.
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countess shell Reply:
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Oh I know it’s all about the “Let’s do no evil and kill Microsoft because it’s exactly the same thing!”
I’m just a little sad that I don’t get to play.
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Wes Reply:
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
You do get to play. Just install Windows on a partition on your MacBook and then you can use Chrome to your heart’s content.
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countess shell Reply:
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Blech. You know darn good and well by now that I’m not installing Windows on, well, anything. 8-P
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September 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
I love the motto. “Life’s unfair so why don’t you go get yourself a cracker.” I’m going to use that.
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countess shell Reply:
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Yay! I’m syndicated! No wait, that’s not it…
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