{"id":40,"date":"2002-01-18T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2002-01-18T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/the_antifrys"},"modified":"2002-01-18T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2002-01-18T15:59:24","slug":"the_antifrys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/01\/the_antifrys.html","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Fry&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/Pat\/\" title=\"HR people: this man is poison\">Pat<\/a> called me at the office earlier this week.  The <em>only<\/em> reason<br \/>\nhe wanted to talk was to tell me about his trip to the Apple store.<br \/>\n&#8220;It was like the anti-Fry&#8217;s,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;No &#8212; it was like Frys is<br \/>\n<em>supposed to be<\/em>.  Everything is clean and bright&#8230; and the<br \/>\npeople in the store are there to <em>help<\/em> you, not keep you from<br \/>\nstealing.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, I couldn&#8217;t get him to shut up until I promised to go with him.<br \/>\n&#8220;Pat,&#8221; I said, &#8220;you know this is pointless.  We both have relatively<br \/>\nnew computers.  Neither of us can justify buying a new Mac.<br \/>\nGoing to the Apple Store is like, technology porn.  Look-but-don&#8217;t-touch.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the point?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut I went anyway.  And I have to say, I was impressed with the new iMac.<br \/>\nMy favorite part was not the CD\/DVD\/read\/write drive.  Not the amazing<br \/>\nswivel arm or the sharp flatscreen.  Not the pretty OSX graphics.<br \/>\nNo, I think I liked the UNIX terminal window.<br \/>\nWho is it that finally layers a modern user interface on UNIX?  Not<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\" title=\"We use CDE.  Ewwww.\">my company<\/a>.  Not HP, IBM, or SGI.<br \/>\nNot GNOME or KDE.  No&#8230; it&#8217;s Apple.  BSD with Java 1.3.1 &#038; Apache built-in.<br \/>\nHot damn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlrighty, that&#8217;s about it.  Time to head out for the evening.  Just<br \/>\none more thing &#8212; I&#8217;ve added a custom 404 error page.  The first and<br \/>\nonly Perl program I&#8217;ve ever written.  It provides<br \/>\na random haiku every time you try to access a nonexistent file on this<br \/>\nsite.  Give it a try:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/sdlkfej\" title=\"not a valid link -- but click anyway.\">https:\/\/www.goer.org\/sdlkfej<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the Apple store is like, technology porn. Look-but-don&#8217;t-touch. What&#8217;s the point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}