In: Online
17 Mar 2009
There is a funny phenomenon on blogs and sites like Digg.com. People lose their damned minds. I don’t know about you, but I have pretty good manners when it comes to dealing with people.
Today I received a comment on an old post of mine that convinced me to write this post. Thank you Mr. Bryan Blevins for his lovely comment, it goes something like this:
I had a hard time installing OS X Leopard. Turns out there was a bug with an app called Clear Dock that totally hosed my install. After two failed attempts, I had to do an archive install, reinstall all of my applications, copy over all of my data and re-create all of my personal settings. I don’t know about you but I call that a pain in the ass. I blogged my experience with the title “My day of hell installing OS X Leopard” and I thought it was. I spent 8 hours getting my laptop back to usable.
http://www.philoking.com/2007/10/26/my-day-of-hell-installing-os-x-leopard/
So today, Mr. Blevins spoke up to tell me what he thought of the difficulty I had:
“Oh Jesus H. Christ! Are you kidding me? You had a DAY of HELL installing Leopard? Box up your computer and send it back to Apple, ’cause you’re too stupid to own a computer.
My install of Leopard took 20 minutes tops, on a system nearly the same as yours.
You had to endure a boring screen for an hour. Oh the horror, how did you ever survive?”
So what I take from this is that:
Now I don’t think that’s quite fair, but that’s another issue. The question I have is if I had met Mr. Blevins in public, would he have spoke to me with such disdain and animosity? Reading through a few comments on Digg.com and you would think that the internet is inhabited with sociopaths. If you want to read more you should check out some of my articles where I dared to say I didn’t like a particular game or said something bad about Linux. You would think I was the anti-christ blogging about burning newborn babies.
In this rarest of cases, Brian was nice enough to supply me with his email address. Since I am betting that he did not subscribe to my feed (who wants to hear what such an idiot has to say) I will email him a link to this post and maybe he’ll come back to attack me again.
Chill out dude, so I didn’t like my experience installing OS X, I love Macs so you don’t have to hit me with your fanboy hate.

Jason Burns is a technology enthusiast, Microsoft guy, photographer, musician and all around geek. This blog is the general rambling one, check out the links for the specific ones!

2 Responses to Commentary about Commentary
Seo Company
March 18th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Good Information sharing. Thanks for that
Scott
March 18th, 2009 at 8:17 am
You suck and you’re bad at life and your mama wears army boots! Linux rul3z! w00t!