23 Mar
2005
23 Mar
'05
9:07 a.m.
So how of you out there saw my name in this RE: message and groaned, "not
again..."?
Hey, Mr. Fogg: I'm a reporter and a pretty serious computer collector, too.
So, if it makes your tiny brain happy, go ahead believing that anyone who isn't
in high-tech must not be as smart as you; that any idiot can be a good writer
and researcher; that I spend my day like the papparazzi desperate to fill
pages; and that it's all to inflate my ego. Oh, and that I'm one step from
selling fries at McDonalds, that sure was clever of you. But you know what?
When your computer company has layoffs, that will be something to write about
too. Maybe then you'll be selling fries, or worse, reduced to helping stupid
users at Fry's. At least they won't off-shore your job, you moron.
--- James Fogg <James at jdfogg.com> wrote:
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Gee... lets
just completely overlook the Apple Mac Portable
and mention
the Powerbook 100 instead... The Tandy 100 could've gotten
a mention,
even the Atari Portfolio could've gotten a mention too.
Its times like this, you want to roll those mags up and shove
it up the editors arse !!! ;-)
Magazine writers are Journalism and English majors. They are one
paycheck away from "would you like fries with that?" The relentless
drumbeat of deadlines makes them desperate to fill their little part of
the magazine with anything that sounds good, or it's fry grease for
them. After a while they begin to believe their swollen ego.
It's not just computer mags, look at all the hopelessly simplified (or
wrong) psychological advice given in women's magazines.