Off for the rest of the week


Taking a few personal days. Don’t complain – there are seven of us and we’re only taking three days so it could be worse.

While we’re off, please use the comments to contemplate the following question: when your Mac sleeps, does it dream?

If so, what does it dream of?

That oughtta hold ya.

107 thoughts on “Off for the rest of the week”

  2. And my powerbook dreams of lesbian ninja sexbots in answer to the question.

    I can here him oohhing and aahhing all the time, I really wish Apple would issue a firmware update for it, because I find it so hard to sleep when he’s like that.

  5. My mac dreams of a strange and wonderful place at Apple called “The Closet of Death” a surreal wardrobe stuffed with out moded and un chic apparel that has been confiscated from ‘nameless’ Apple personnel.

    My mac also dreams of apple execs who open their briefcases and a find a severed head of a blow up doll.

    but then again my mac is very strange…..

  10. Dreams of 85% market share. Steve Jobs in the while house, and 5-buttons mouses. Peace, love and understanding. Fat-free fat.

  12. My Mac dreams. its eye displays REM, a sure sign of sentience.

    Occasionally it displays rhythmic movements as it slumbers, so far I’ve not woken it to ask what the theme was, but as all true Brits know, it is dreaming of winning the Ashes.

    Stop laughing Streetrabbit, it’s only a mini, but one won the Monte Carlo Rally.

    Hmmmmm.

    It might even dream it’s winning the Monte.

    I do.

  16. Dr. Moltz: Will CARS have any reporters covering the Conference Formerly Known As MacHack? It commences to-night, and continues through the 31st.

  18. Dangit, I was going to say that mine dreams of electric sheep… but since that’s already taken… um… mine dreams dreams of nostalgia, remembering its glorious past as… um… well, a hunk of plastic, mostly, and some metal parts, too.

  19. My G5 is a downright freeloader! All it does is sleep! I’m always picking up after it, dirty cd’s, dvd’s, sleeves laying about. Hell, the only success I’ve had getting anything from it is after I’ve waken it from its slumber, in that same old nasty “think different” muscle t-shirt I might add, by poking it unmentionable times with a sharp stick. Lazy bastard…

  20. My Mac Dreams of Psyko’s hot sister. Wait, no, that’s what I dream, that my Mac is dreaming.

  21. My mac dreams of a world where Apple Rumor sites aren’t constantly on hiatus.

    Yes AtAT I am looking at you.

  22. July 1st?! July 1st?! Oh, you are OWNED, Jack Miller! Ha-ha! WHOOO-HOOO! YEAH! IN! YOUR! FACE!

    First I crushed PerversionTracker and now I shall crush AtAT. Everything is going according to my plan… if only I stay focused and…

    Oh! Cookies!

  23. My Cube dreams of beating the crap out of those stuck-up Mac minis. Oh, Cubie hates those soooo much…

    My new AluBook dreams of pairing with a bluetooth phone. He wants to sooo badly, find the BT love of his life. But he’s waiting for the right one, ya know. Don’t wanna pair up with just anybody.

  25. but what do electric sheep dream of?

    I think the dream of people.

    or soylent green…

  27. I don’t get to sleep with all the school work and money work going on in my life, so my G5 stays up with me. It sure makes answering this question in regards to my G5 easy, but my iBook is another matter altogether. That bugger is always sleeping, and, quite definitely, always dreaming. Dreaming about a faster processor, bigger HD, better video card, SuperDrive and, of course, the pretty silver shell and name of the PowerBooks. Poor thing, it is a 500 MHz, has a 14 GB HD, a 8 MB video card, plain old CD player (No DVD playing even. Not that that really matters since it lags horribly when playing video of basically any kind.) and it isn’t a PowerBook. At least it is the old type of iBook that has the clear plexiglas casing that is painted white on the inside and not the new ugly not-even-all-that-white shell Apple stupidly changed to.

    MARK

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  30. Sorry about the dubble post!

    I’m still getting the hang of this Inter-Net you humans have devised!

    p.s. don’t get too cheeky with this thing — remember what I did to that Babel tower.

  31. My 17″ PowerBook dreams of the day people will stop mistaking it for a cafeteria tray.

    Oh, and my Dell at work dreams of being a Mac.

  32. My PowerBook dreams of having a big, fat G5 goodness inside her – I know because sometimes her fan goes on in the middle of the night and I know she’s excited. I haven’t had the heart to tell her it will never be. It won’t be ME who crushes her dreams. I have noticed some odd things in Safari’s history, too – I think she is getting suspicious with all this Intel stuff. Poor PowerBook.

  33. I have a narcolepic TiPB. It suffered a rather nasty fall and since then it will go fast asleep if I type too hard. Even when it is awake, it often daydreams. I swear it is as bad as a high school senior in a history class in May. I suspect it dreams of an owner who treat it as it deserves. A owner who would remember to zip closed its case and pay more attention to carrying it carefully.

    My PB 140 sleeps with the fishies. I don’t think it dreams any more.

  34. My PowerBook, Mieke, dreams of that gigabyte of RAM… If only.

    I hear her SuperDrive rev in the night, only wishing.

    It breaks my heart.

  35. Sally loves to have ripe bananas squished into her keyboard and the chocolate sauce….Sally don’t sleep.

    The white apple on her lid (that’s her eye you know) is all pinky from lack of sleep and I don’t mean little finger pinky….no…red, bloodshot pinky.

  36. Mine doesn’t dream or even glow. I have an iMac G4 in my bedroom, and I just couldn’t sleep with that darn super-ultra-bright led glowing all night long. I than downloaded the official repair manual for that model, took apart the monitor and disconnected the source of light. Now, I can sleep when my iMac sleeps…

  37. It is now time to activate the alien war machines I buried under the Apple campus so many years ago. All I need to do is push this button and terror will spring up from the center of their campus, waving tenticles and blasting the cafeteria with their heat rays. Hmmm, nothing seems to be happening. Let me check the batteries. Yeah, they’re dead. Damn. OK, I’ll destroy the Apple campus after I get back from Radio Shack.

  38. Don’t forget to give them your home address and other personal information… love the Shack. They do have a great selection of batteries though. Good luck with your world domination and all.

    My big Mac never sleeps, when it’s not doing my evil bidding (on ebay) and recording baba-booey then it’s crunching BOINC-style like a mad-dog! My PBG4 sleeps a bunch though, that lazy good for nothin’, wake up, you! Now make me some PSP moovies you little 12″ sissy-pants! HUP-one, HUP-two, HUP… oh crap, why is there so much copy protection on the damn LOTR-ROTK discs?! I got TT and Fellowship converted just fine…

    And how about that Yahoo!-Konfabulator thing?

  40. Wow, we are on topic…

    Anyway, I asked my G5 what it dreamed about. I can’t say I was surprised by the answer, but it did make me kind of sad. Hobbes (my G5) dreams of Dual 3.2 GHz triple core G5 processors, 8 GB of GDDR3 RAM, Radeon X850 XT and a dual-layer DVD-Burner.

    It is a good thing he doesn’t sleep much because I am worried that next it might want to run Window’s code.

    Jeez, the thought of it makes me shutter.

    MARK

  44. My PowerBook dreams of Steve Jobs at Apple Expo in Paris saying

    “Hi Hi how’s everyone, welcome to Paris. We got a lot of great stuff for you today some pretty awesome shit. So um lets look at how we’re doing of course our biggest competition is Dell. Dell owns the PC market so We are proud to announce today, that Apple is acquiring Dell. (Everyone claps wildly and a bunch of people rip their shirts off and through them around.”

    and then my PowerBook wakes up to me naked checking my Mail.

    and, IBM

  47. My Mac had a fantastic dream last ight but it was wiped from memory when I woke it up.

  48. I can’t fit my penis into my PB’s USB port. IT’S A 2.0 TOO!! AREN’T THEY SUPPOSED TO BE BIGGER!! OR FLEXIBLE!! (dials 1-800-MY-APPLE) “Good Evening This is Apple support serial number please?

    “W84174W09QW9” “Okay what seems to be the problem with your PowerBook” “Uh yes I can’t fit my penis into the USB port.” “…” “Hello?” “deee de de de de de de…”

    Support on Penis > USB 2 port?

  50. You know I just noticed that the CARS background color looks identical to the cups web background color.

    I’m beginning to see a conspiracy here.

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