kdavies wrote: we DO look like that...why is that so bad? We buck the system a little, we're casual. Why should he represent a Mac any other way?

Well, no. Not all Mac users (or enthusiasts) look like that. Only the iPod-wearing, non-technical, hipster music listening and clothes-wearing Mac users do. There's tons and tons of black leather-clad, Kompressor-listening uberhackers out there that love Macs for their crunchy-good BSD/unix style power, not to mention just running straight Linux on good hardware.

You buck the system... how? By wearing a hoody and jeans to work? Look, you may be able to wear an intentionally distressed Dashboard Confessional t-shirt when you go to work at your local CorporateMultiMediaConglomCo, but you're still a corporate whore. Just because they allow you to dress casual while working in your windowless cube hive doesn't mean you've somehow stuck it to the man.

Why is this all a problem? Err, hello? You "think different" because you're conforming to a stereotype so well known they use it as an icon in a TV commercial?

Thanks, braniacs. I'll remember to "think different" more often in the near future. But for now me and my homebuilt, customized, entirely warranty-free 5 year old PC are going to go bath in some real God-flesh eating weirdness.

Think different? *snarf!* Heh, most Mac users wouldn't know what "different" was even if it bit them on the inside of their ass.