Macworld Pundit Showdown

No words. They should have sent a poet.
Yours truly appeared on the Macworld Pundit Showdown with Andy Ihnatko, Adam Engst, Dan Moren and moderator Jason Snell. Thrill to the sounds of vacuous Mac jerks as they pretend to compete for points and something resembling a thin veneer of respectability. The competitiveness, pathos and excitement of a professional sporting event are, sadly, completely lacking from this hour of entertainment that the Des Moines, Iowa Macintosh Users Group newsletter called “Not worth reviewing.”

For you, however, sitting in your first floor apartment, eating Fiddle Faddle and watching episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica on Blu Ray while Googling cheesecake pictures of Maren Jensen and trying to resist the temptations of the flesh, well,
Yours truly appeared on the Macworld Pundit Showdown with Andy Ihnatko, Adam Engst, Dan Moren and moderator Jason Snell.

Thrill to the sounds of vacuous Mac jerks as they pretend to compete for points and something resembling a thin veneer of respectability. The competitiveness, pathos and excitement of a professional sporting event are, sadly, completely lacking from this hour of entertainment that the Des Moines, Iowa Macintosh Users Group newsletter called “Not worth reviewing.”

For you, however, sitting in your first floor apartment, eating Fiddle Faddle and watching episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica on Blu Ray while Googling cheesecake pictures of Maren Jensen and trying to resist the temptations of the flesh, facing yet another Christmas alone having alienated everyone you once held dear, well, it might be good for you.

176 thoughts on “Macworld Pundit Showdown”

  1. Alternately, current predictions suggest it could be Edison who returns, direct from Patent Purgatory.

  2. Resistance may not be futile, but it does tend to be somewhat feudal in certain cases.
    At least this what my Pants are telling me.

    (Pants should have the trademark symbol, but I can’t find it on my iPad.)

  3. I would help you out Huh? but my system preferences won’t let me display the keyboard and character viewer in the menu bar anymore and I can’t remember the shortcut.

    Hang on.

    †

    Nope.

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    Oh bugger.

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  4. If it helps, my feudal resistance is positively villainous.

    Or should that be villanus?

  5. Very disappointed in you taking the French rather than the Latin, Nxxx.

    Is that any way for you to start the New Year, hmmm?

    Next you’ll be wearing a beret and drinking baby-sized coffees in a state of existential ennui.

    Oh yes.

  6. Well, clearly I didn’t want to resort to cliché, Nxxx.

    Or ‘clishe’, as I heard someone call it just the other day.

    Bugger me we’re culcherd dahn in Kent.

  7. Can we change the direction of this conversation? I feel so left out.

    Or do I have to wait until John writes another post? sigh. I’ll just be over here in the corner.

  8. I feel left out too, and I’m…

    ….

    Now, in a true spirt it transatlantic co-operation I’m not even going to mention that Anderson just nipped Haddin out even as a typed that preceding sentence.

    Because I don’t even know what TMS is.

    Hang on, Sue . . . what are you doing in my corner?

    MY corner, MINE!

    Did . . . did you sit on my hat?

    DID YOU!??

    The teacher made that for me SPECIALLY!

    Man we need John to post, don’t we?

  9. Whose Line?

    Has someone been on internet radio, Steve, you sly little thing you?

    Is that two questions too?

  10. Does anyone remember what channel the British version of Whose Line was on here in the States? Was it Comedy Central?

    Did you chaps across the pond get the U.S. version?

  11. Yeah, Battlestar rocks!

    Hey, shout out–meeting will be on the 27th of October, 2009!

    Bring your ponies!

    Des Moines, IA

  12. Hey, back off, Ace.

    Sue and My Hat are 4ever.

    I’d forgotten there was a US Whose Line. We did get it, I think. Nxxx might know. Anything with Drew Carey in would get my vote, though. Although he’s all thin now, apparently.

    Splitter.

  13. I have carefully avoided Whose Line Is It Anyway, along with The Sound of Music and Strictly Come Dancing. The last on the grounds that it makes the floor slippery.

  14. Only from vomit in my house, Nxxx.

    Although my wife and spawn *love it*. Particularly my two year-old son (‘Kwik-Fit’ . . . he has a bright future) who demands ‘dress up’ and then prances round like *and* dressed as a fairy.

    I’m so proud.

    Props about Proops.

  15. Aren’t you getting confused with the song lyrics ‘Everything Proops In Large Amounts’, by Depeche Mode?

    Or maybe *I’m* confusing it with Tears for Fears’ ‘Proop, Proop, Let It All Out’?

  16. I would lIke to claim responsibility for the previous post.
    Not quite sure how that happened. This isn’t a sign of things to come, is it?

  17. The Inquisitors got the memo, so as to be prepared with hard-hitting questions, such as “Do you strangle your kittens before drowning them?”

  18. If one of you chaps would spring for travel expenses, I shall perform the inquisition of Huh?’s state of aliveness…. to spare the kittens.

    Or I could just call…

  19. Well I’m not going to take the jump this time.

    BTW BroŲ,
    “I was a boy scout, after all”. What was the attraction of scouting boys? I only ask as the Handbook, written in Wimbledon Common Windmill, is called “Scouting for boys.”

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