An Unexpected Ass Kicking.

[missionseeker]

And no, this has nothing to do with Cam.


[url="http://joelrunyon.com/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kicking"]http://joelrunyon.com/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kicking[/url]

[quote][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]I sat down at yet-another coffee shop in Portland determined to get some work done, catch up on some emails [/background][/size][/font][/color][url="http://joelrunyon.com/two3/archives"]and write another blog post[/url][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)].[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
About 30 minutes into my working, an elderly gentleman at least 80 years old sat down next to me with a hot coffee and a pastry. I smiled at him and nodded and looked back at my computer as I continued to work.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]“Do you like Apple?[/i] As he gestured to the new Macbook Air I had picked up a few days prior.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]“Yea, I’ve been using them for a while.”[/i] Wondering if I was going to get suckered into a mac vs. pc debate in a portland coffee shop with an elderly stranger.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]“Do you program on them?[/i][/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]“Well, I don’t really know how to code, but I write quite a bit and [url="http://impossiblehq.com/"]spend a lot of time creating online projects[/url] and helping clients run their businesses.”[/i][/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]“I’ve been against Macintosh company lately. They’re trying to get everyone to use iPads and when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.”[/i][/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]“That’s the problem with a lot of people”, he continued, “they don’t try to do stuff that’s never been done before, so they never do anything, [b]but if they try to do it, they find out there’s lots of things they can do that have never been done before.”[/b][/i][/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
I nodded my head in agreement and laughed to myself – thinking that would be something that I would say and the coincidence that out of all the people in the coffee shop I ended up talking to, it was this guy. What a way to open a conversation.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
The old man turned back at his coffee, took a sip, and then looked back at me.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]“In fact, I’ve done lots of things that haven’t been done before”, he said half-smiling.[/i][/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
Not sure if he was simply toying with me or not, my curiousity got the better of me.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(241, 245, 252)]
[i]Oh really? Like what types of things?, [/i]All the while, half-thinking he was going to make up something fairly non-impressive.[/background][/size][/font][/color]
[i]I invented the first computer.[/i][/quote]

[Era Might]

I am scandalized by your language.

[missionseeker]

I forgot the philter doesn't fiddler anymore.

[Era Might]

[quote name='missionseeker' timestamp='1345238468' post='2469327']
I forgot the philter doesn't fiddler anymore.
[/quote]
Your local nun does not approve.

[missionseeker]

Local nun?

There are no nuns for many miles.

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='missionseeker' timestamp='1345238631' post='2469330']
Local nun?

There are no nuns for many miles.
[/quote]

Then I guess you're off the hook for now. No ruler snap on the knuckles for you.

[Lil Red]

what a great article and follow-up article. thanks for sharing!

[missionseeker]

Yes, I enjoyed the follow up too.

I thought the comment about consuming VS creating and iPads very interesting.

[cmaD2006]

ok ... WHY doesn't the fiddler fiddle anymore?

[MIKolbe]

Because I said so

[4588686]

[quote name='missionseeker' timestamp='1345238219' post='2469320']
And no, this has nothing to do with Cam.


[url="http://joelrunyon.com/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kicking"]http://joelrunyon.co...ted-ass-kicking[/url]
[/quote][quote name='missionseeker' timestamp='1345238219' post='2469320']
And no, this has nothing to do with Cam.


[url="http://joelrunyon.com/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kicking"]http://joelrunyon.co...ted-ass-kicking[/url]
[/quote]


Actually, the man who invented the first computer was a homosexual who was driven to suicide by the sexual puritanism of the UK. Name was Turing. Ate an apple laced with cyanide after he was forced to go one a hormone therapy after his homosexuality was exposed in a twisted attempt to 'cure' him so he could stay out of prison for the crime of having a private sexual encounter with another man in his own home.

[MissScripture]

[quote name='cmariadiaz' timestamp='1345242447' post='2469369']
ok ... WHY doesn't the fiddler fiddle anymore?
[/quote]
Because it was philtering "mass" to "marse" and stuff like that.

[CatholicCid]

[quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1345246987' post='2469410']
Actually, the man who invented the first computer was a homosexual who was driven to suicide by the sexual puritanism of the UK. Name was Turing. Ate an apple laced with cyanide after he was forced to go one a hormone therapy after his homosexuality was exposed in a twisted attempt to 'cure' him so he could stay out of prison for the crime of having a private sexual encounter with another man in his own home.
[/quote]
Interesting article, questioning the suicide account: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561092

[missionseeker]

also, later in the article, it does say american. but for the sake of narrative he didn't add it the first time.


so... yeah.

[Jaime]

[quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1345246987' post='2469410']
Actually, the man who invented the first computer was a homosexual who was driven to suicide by the sexual puritanism of the UK. Name was Turing. Ate an apple laced with cyanide after he was forced to go one a hormone therapy after his homosexuality was exposed in a twisted attempt to 'cure' him so he could stay out of prison for the crime of having a private sexual encounter with another man in his own home.
[/quote]

Is there truth to this? Is this what Apple's logo refers to? Am I a sucker for a good story or incredibly dumb not to know this?