So my wife took the girls to get their picture with Santa and, as she was going to pick their picture, she discovered Santa uses a Mac!
Why am I not surprised? I bet he also uses Quicksilver.
Santa Uses a Mac!
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One for the Kids – Elf Yourself
Someone told me about this really goofy website called ElfYourself.com. It has four little elf bodies and you upload the faces of you and three pals and then you end up doing a very funny little elf dance. My kids love it and I must admit … so do I.
How to geek up your Elf.
Use a screencasting capture program (I used iShowU) to capture the whole thing into a Quicktime movie. You can then drop it in iMove or FinalCut for some quick titles and you are off to the races. I did this and now our family elf dancing routine is going on the annual Christmas DVD.
Day of the Ninja
According to my Google Geek Holidays, December 5 is the official “Day of the Ninja“. Indeed there appears to be a grass roots effort at making this official. Now I’m all about holidays but not sure exactly how much traction this effort is going to get. Nevertheless, if you are in the mood to wear all black to work, today is the day. I would, however, recommend leaving the ninja sword at home. Razor sharp swords at the workplace are usually a bad idea.
Continue readingThe Brotherhood of Mac
So tomorrow I’m starting a big case and I want to give a print out of my Keynote to the judge with space on the side for him to take notes. It is never a bad idea to have the guy wearing the black robe go home with my Keynote in his briefcase while the other guy creates funny adjectives for me like “slick” and “fancy”.
Anyway, I put a PDF version of the Keynote on a thumb drive and cruised into the nearest Kinkos to have them run it on their gazillion dollar color machine. After all that work, it needs to look pretty. The only problem was the Kinkos guy could not get it to print. He was surrounded with customers and invited me “behind the counter” to try and figure it out myself. For some reason the Kinkos machine was hanging up in the middle of the print job. They poor guy was swamped and he really didn’t have time to help me. It is early December at Kinkos and that means the “Christmas Letter Gang” is in full swing. You know those Christmas letters, right? The one that explains about Uncle Earl’s Lumbago and how Linus finally won the cow chip throwing contest? (Yes, there is such a thing as cow chip throwing.)
Well, I really need to win tomorrow so I told him I’d grab my laptop out of the car and re-create the PDF to see if that was the issue. He then shrugged at me . . . probably secretly hoping I just wouldn’t come back.
Anyway, I went to the car and returned with my trusty Mac. That was when things changed for the better.
The Kinko’s guy, demonstrating an instinctual Mac geekiness, popped his head out of the crowd of irate Yuletiders like a lemur on the first night of mating season. Suddenly the Christmas letters weren’t so important. Turns out the Kinkos guy was part of “The Brotherhood.” He explained he is a proud owner of a G5 and card carrying member of the Brotherhood of Mac.
He brushed aside the Lumbago gang like so much rubbish and came straight over to bask in the glory that is my MacBook Pro. We reset the PDF and I gave him a quick spin on OmniFocus and then we went back to the big Kinkos machine. Suddenly he had all the time in the world for me.
Turns out the problem was Kinkos’ monster printer but we figured it out and in no time I had some beautiful color copies of my Keynote and a new MacGeek friend.
Never underestimate the Power of the Brotherhood.
An Open Apology to My Side Dock
Hello Side Dock,
It is so nice to see you again on my vertically challenged MacBook Pro. I know what you are thinking. You are upset that I’ve ignored you since installing Leopard. Well, I must admit I was smitten with that fancy new lower dock. How could I help myself? It is shiny. And it reflects things! Well you knew all along you’d be coming back to my Mac and indeed here you are. I can only apologize publicly and hope you understand that us geeky types are always tempted by shiny, reflective things.
MacSparky