"I Want To Be A Real Boy"

My mother is the kind of person who haggles at yard sales. (Quote: "If they don't mark a price, I don't mind talking them down.") Make Me a Real Designer Campaign My father is a hardcore computer guy. (Quote: "Just a 5 minute VIM demo and then I wont bug you any more about using it.") So I guess it was destined to happen. I'm a web designer without a Mac. A modern day Pinocchio of sorts.

See, it's not really that I have poor taste in laptops. When I bought the thing, I was teaching junior high at a small private school. Private school teachers and money don't really spend that much time together, so I did the best I could with what I had. eMac? And it's lasted pretty well; I only had to rebuild it once.

But after being laughed to scorn at the Six Apart Business Blogging Seminar for my eMachines laptop (can I help it that the Apple sticker is see-through?), I decided it was time to take action. So here's my tin-can jingling in the street. Spare a bloke a dollar for a real MacBook?

You can help the cause by visiting my camaign page over at DropCash.

Some More Apple, Please?

  • posted on 1 June 2006
  • by Jesse

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1 June 20061. Keith:

Haggle?

And VIM rules, BTW, and will run nicely on your new Mac, too.

Hope your dream comes true.

:-D

1 June 20062. Jesse Gardner:

Yes, yes, haggle. She heckles US.

Oh, and thanks for chiming in to prove my point. ;-)

2 June 20063. Arvind Satyanarayan:

I think you'll need a MacBook Pro if you want to do some proper designing. Though Photoshop is slow on both because it's not been ported to Intel yet.

2 June 20064. Sarah:

All I have to say...
Is that i'm going to be a real girl before you're a real boy.
That sounds so awkward.
You know what I mean.
You can eat my apple dust.
Love you!
:-)

2 June 20065. Jesse Gardner:

Aww, come on. If you're going to taunt the least you could do is drop some coins in the tin can! If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do, if you haven't got a ha-penny then God bless you!

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