Simon Aldous, Microsoft employee, the other day in an interview with PCR:
One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it’s very graphical and easy to use. What we’ve tried to do with Windows 7—whether it’s traditional format or in a touch format—is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics.
Translation: “People love the way Mac OS X looks, and Windows looks like a turd, so we tried copying OS X a little more this time around.”
Yesterday, Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft Employee, rebuking Aldous’ comment on the Windows 7 blog:
An inaccurate quote has been floating around the Internet today about the design origins of Windows 7 and whether its look and feel was “borrowed” from Mac OS X. Unfortunately this came from a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7. I hate to say this about one of our own, but his comments were inaccurate and uninformed.
Translation: “Fuck, Simon, don’t actually say that to people.”
We don’t listen to music in the office. We listen to US Army audio transcripts from the front lines of the Vietnam War. The power of these bits of history really help us focus on fixing bugs in Basecamp.
Neven Mrgan writes:
I like Uggs. I think they’re cute. They’re from the snow-bunny universe and I can dig that. Big, goofy rain boots also speak to me; they’re jovial.
I don’t usually think Uggs are cute, but they don’t bother me too much so long as the person wearing them is dressed somewhat appropriately (it’s the sweatpants, dirty tee with Uggs that I hate), and I too must admit I often enjoy seeing girls in Wellies (although usually the red ones, not the ones that look like farming boots).
My biggest problem, which trumps all of these other footwear issues, is Crocs. Luckily, this insult to humanity is generally limited to the summer, but when it’s in season I want to punch 60% of the population.
A new site collecting inspirational quotes from Jason Fried:
“I am Jason Fried. I say amazing and thoughtful things that are real. Get real by reading what I say while I’m getting real.”
So, so real.
I don’t read fiction. I find it a waste of time. There are so many amazing things that are real; I don’t need to spend any time on a made-up story.
This makes me sad. I appreciate Fried’s frankness, his passion and his ideas, but I will never understand someone who can simply swear off fiction so easily. Does he not watch films? Plays? Read poetry? Has he sworn off television and radio shows? Or is his anti-fiction stance limited only to books?
Can he not appreciate both true and fictional stories? Does he feel great novelists or playwrights or screenwriters have all wasted their lives?
Sometimes “getting real” can go too far.
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