So, one of the staples of life in the northwest is the ubiquitous coffee shop, be it Starbucks, Tulley’s, or any of a dozen others. Now, I don’t actually drink coffee, as it tastes like what I imagine straining water through a Bog Body and then heating it would taste like, but I do occasionally go into Starbucks, as I have a number of friends that cannot live without their weekly or daily coffee.
Note: If you want to see a Bog Body, click here.
On those occasions when I’m in a Starbucks, I have noted that there is always at least one person there working industriously at their laptop (which is almost always a Mac) while sipping coffee. I have seen as many as five people at one time working away, their keys tapping in unison as they go about their strange and possibly eldritch business.
Note: I am delighted that I managed to work ‘eldritch’ into the blog.
So, the question, of course, is what the hell are these people working on? I would never actually look at their screen as I happened by, which would be rude, much like reading over someone’s shoulder. Granted, if when I passed by, I heard faint ‘70s porn music, I would obviously look, but who wouldn’t?
The answer is: World Domination.
It makes sense, really.
Tomorrow: World Domination and a Latte: Part 2
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Obviously, they're actually freedom fighters, working hard against the tyranny and oppression we have suffered under Windows Vista. These are but one of several of these renegade groups; they are complimented by artists who can't sell paintings but teach at fine arts academies, deciphering blobs on paper to actually be radical political statements. At present, they have a tentative cease-arms with the Linux users, but the coffee divide is pushing them ever further apart, until doubtless history will repeat itself with the Great Hack of 2002. (And the mac-users thought they were invincible...)
But on who's side are the console guys? They are the only ones with the numbers too truly tip the balance?
:)
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