Safari

Mike knows that I'm a bit of a Mac fan. (I leave off the "atic" from that word; I don't proselytize, so much as geek out--"wow, check out this feature!") When he and Alexandra returned from a short vacation on Sunday, he returned to his Windows PC to find the message "Safari installation complete." He was immediately suspicious and asked if I had come to the house. Turns out the recent update of iTunes installs Safari by default, as well. Not my fault--I don't even have a key!

But the joke's on him because I prefer Firefox (consistency of interface fom my PC days)!

Sold Out

Much to my dismay, I only just found out that a band I've followed for years (The Cult) is going to be in town this Tuesday. My belated awareness of this fact means, of course, that the venue is all sold out for the show. There's always the option to hunt for scalped tickets, but I'll have to evaluate how strongly I feel about paying large dollars to see these guys.

Starbucks

Let me begin by stating that this is not a complaint about Starbucks' coffee. My tastebuds can't detect any difference in coffee, frankly, so I don't so much care about who roasts their beans, or if its Arabica or Hawaiian or Kenyan.

What I do find a bit confusing is the way that orders are processed. Lately, as I wander from cafe to cafe in search of a place to sit and work for a while, I've been asked a number of times if I want whipped cream on my mocha. I don't mind whipped cream, but the foam is good enough for me, so I typically respond to the negative. In fact, to forestall just this kind of question, I've begun issuing that edict as part of my order in the first place: " mocha, no whip, please". Well, when I placed this very same order at Starbucks, I was given a mocha which was also devoid of foam! What shift of dictionary gave them 'venti' and 'breve' and 'haf-caf', but turned 'whipped cream' into 'foam'?

Extra Large

I recently picked up the special edition of Blue Harvest, the Family Guy Star Wars spoof.  Included in the box was a t-shirt, displaying their version of the poster logo.  The base t-shirt is black, to match the background of the original as well.  It's an extra large, which is one X too big for me.

I also recently generated the Apple Developer Connection (ADC).  The main benefits are support and early exposure to development software (such as kernel debugging, periodic builds of Safari, etc).  Another thing that arrived with the materials was a t-shirt.  It's a black cotton tee, like the Blue Harvest shirt, with the words "I" and "code" joined by the apple logo.  "I Apple code"?  Anyway, the shirt is also an extra-large.

Does it say something about the target audience of these materials that both shirts are extra large?