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”

  2. Lordy! I don’t think I’ve ever been first before.

    Not least in the queue when the Baby Jesus was handing out looks.

  13. As the only CARS fan who sat through the entire podcast while waving around my “Moltz #1” pennant, I have to say: you should have won. Your explanation of why the Beatles are better than other mortal loves alone should’ve sealed the deal.

    Don’t worry. I’m currently on non-speaking terms with Andy Ihnatko, too.

  21. I’m only posting on Christmas Day because someone’s bought my kids a Thomas the Tank Engine DVD that they’re watching . . . and it’s the new CGI rubbish, not the good old models.

    This is a protest post.

  22. I prefer the live-action version of Thomas the Tank Engine, the one with Katherine Hepburn and Danny Kaye.

  24. It was Lana Turner. She replaced Hepburn, as she did in ‘Green Dolphin Street’.

    Not right for the role, though. In either.

    I’d have preferred Kathy Staff. In both.

  25. Brilliant and incredibly sexy.

    She should have had the Jennifer Agutter role in the Railway Children.

    Mind you, if she had been waving her petticoat, the rails would have melted.

  28. So disaPUNTing.

    …

    Fnarp.

    But really, Punter is one of the goodies in world cricket: shame to see the pressure get to him at what could be the end of his career. I hope they keep him on for the last test. Be a shame for him to go out like this after all these years.

    Then again, he is an Aussie, so….

  29. Also, very much liked the vague ‘mu’ symbol in the BroMu.

    Makes me feel somewhat classical.

  31. Interesting that our guys get a new cap every time they do test duty but the Ockers only get presented with a baggy once.

  32. Waste not want not.

    Possibly why our bowlers and batsmen have been so profligate historically.

    Now finish it off in Sydney?

  34. Gentlemen, this is your first warning about excessive cricket content on this page. You won’t find me posting here about basketball because I care about my friends at CARS, and don’t want to risk boring them to tears with references to obscure American sports fetishes and personalities.

    I prefer boring them to tears with references to obscure design resources, such as Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style.

  36. Ace,

    I think the interposed cricket and basketball discussions would make for CARS-appropriate schizophrenic flow.

    I’m more of a college hoops fan than NBA, so put one up from way downtown whenever you’re ready.

  37. Don’t let me get started on rugby…

    And you can’t blame us for being cricket obsessed currently. First retention of the Ashes in Oz for 24 years.

    Man, I even remember that.

    Jeeez I’m old.

  43. At least no one is going on about Krikkit. Those robots still give me the frights. I know, I shouldn’t panic over such things.

    Happy New Year of the Rabbit, all!

  44. Ace, surely ‘strike two’?

    In a spirit of trans-atlantic reconciliation, what say we get back to the usual communal business of bullying John into a new post. Or possibly a New Year post? Or, best of all, a New Year’s Resolution to post weekly?

    I mean, it’s not as if he has anything else to do but serve our insatiable neediness.

  45. Moltz should do a preemptive summary of the year to come as it relates to crazy appleness. What will have happened, as it were.

  47. Nurdlingerness?

    I like Ace’s Proleptic Post idea.

    Especially if 2011 involves some sort of exciting alien invasion and/or chocolate cake.

    What a great way to (second) see in the year.

  48. I’ll go out on a limb here and predict that in 2011 there will not only be chocolate cake, but various kinds of pie.

    The rest is left to those better at prognostication…

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