Everyone remembers Ellen Feiss, right?
One of Apple Computers “switchers”?
Well now she has given her first interview
Among other revelations…her stoner appearance is partly because of Benadryl.
The Future of America.
<< trying to visualize one of my kids doing a spot like this and not knowing not only how much they got paid for it, but also how they were going to spend it–and failing utterly >>
But then again, this is what we’re dealing with. From her original letter to Apple:
http://www.apple.com/switch/stories/ellenfeiss.html
By the time my kids were in the third grade, they all understood, at a visceral level, the importance of saving your work frequently. Even if Daddy’s 'puter had locked up, her paper would still have been there, if she’d been saving her work.
Does Randy Newman know about this? 
Well, I know the importance of doing backups too, and I still have lost documents on occasion because in the heat of the moment I forgot to save. Or even worse, a couple of times I started a new document by using an old one as a template, deleted most of the document to start with a semi-blank template, and then by mistake used “Save” instead of “Save As” and overwrote the original. So I’m willing to give Ms. Feiss a break on this one.
However, that habit of using “like” in every sentence has just got to go. When did teenagers stop speaking in long, well-formed sentences with subordinate clauses and using the subjunctive? 
When man learned to speak, Arnold. 
Give the girl a break. The interview’s actually kinda funny, and hey, she’s 15. She’s not supposed to come across as an adult. Thumbs up for Ellen!
Here’s what I don’t get about those commercials. If you read between the lines, some of them are pretty much saying, “Are you a total dumbass? Then get a Mac, the computer for brain-dead rejects!”
The ones that refer to digital cameras really irk me. The first one has a guy who buys a camera and can’t figure out how to hook it up to his PC. He then relates how the guy at the computer store can’t figure it out either. I have a digital camera as do several of my friends and cow-orkers. ALL of the cameras came with the correct cable (usually USB). Can’t you freaks read the instructions? If your camera didn’t have the right cable, TAKE IT BACK!!
The second one has the “woman who saves Christmas” by hooking her Dad’s camera to her i-Book. Again, why can’t your Dad read damned instructions? Did he open the camera and throw away the installation disk?
GAH!!!
Here’s some more.
Bloody MacCommunists.
What’s worse, is I’ve heard a spokesperson for a student organization at Harvard using “like” as nearly every other word in a sentence! I listened to her and thought, “You know, if I were her parents and I heard what my $40K+/YR was buying me, I’d yank that kid out and send her some place where they teach correct English!”
The constant use of the work like allows them to not be responsible for anything they say, They make no declarative sentences using this convention, Everything is like something but not really and I did not say that exactly and I allowed you to bring up any related image you so choose and… hey wait, was this in LAW School?
:: I am not responsible for anything I say because I don’t say anything, like ya know?::