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Seattle, WA – Starbucks yesterday announced that beginning in March they plan to drop its name from their logo to conincide with the company’s 40 anniversary.

“Honestly, we couldn’t agree on a font type” commented the company’s Director of Marketing.  ”We were locked in a conference room for six days arguing between Comic Sans MS and Courier New.  One employee just kept screaming ‘Wingdings!’”  ”So finally, we decided to remove the text altogether and just enlarge the chick on the front, and then we broke for pizza.”

“It’s like they stole my soul” proclaimed one Seattle based Hipster.  ”How will people be sure where my coffee came from when I play my guitar on the corner?  The logo on the cup was part of my identity.”  ”It really makes you take stock of your life, the knit hat in the summer, the unkempt beard, the well worn cords, you ask yourself, ‘what’s it all for?’”

“We’re really considering getting enough motivation to actually do something about this” said the head of the National Association of Hipsters, Seattle Chapter.  ”We have a number of protest ideas under consideration, our best being blocking access to the cream and sugar with our Macbooks.”  ”It’s going to be very hard to order my Upside Down, Venti, Half Café, Soy, Non-Fat, No Whip, Extra Foam, Triple Shot, 2 Pump Mocha Latte with room tomorrow, I just don’t know how I’m going to do it.”

“I don’t know what they’re so upset about, I think the chick on the cup is kinda hot” commented one patron.  ”All I know is, their little protest better not come between me and my morning coffee.  This coffee is the only thing that keeps me sane at work each day…the only thing.”  He ended the interview with an eye twitch.

I bought a Mac

I’m no longer a PC, and I’m only 29 years old.

While wars have been started over less, the debate over Mac vs PC is one of the hotest topics on the Internet.  For the past 28.5 years, I have fought bravely on the side of the PC, but alas, I have pulled a Benedict Arnold and joined the Steve Jobs Infantry.  Don’t get me wrong, PCs have been good to me.  Some of my best childhood memories are my father and I continuously swapping 5.25 floppy disks in our first desktop PC setup in our dining room.  We learned DOS together, we  single-handedly won World War 2 by defeating the Germans in PT-109, and if it wasn’t for Math Climber, I still wouldn’t understand fractions.  I’ve made a good living off PCs, from a Student Technician in College, to a Network Analyst at a small town in Massachusetts, to Manager of the Production Engineering group at Monster.com, PCs have provided me with a steady paycheck for a good number of years.  So why, you ask, have I bitched slapped Bill Gates and crew and jumped ship?  Excellent question!  I do not fit the “typical Mac user” profile: I have never voted democrat, I drive an SUV instead of a Prius, I’ve never attended a film festival, I did not put the Apple Sticker on my car (it’s fruity enough), and while I do enjoy the occasional cup of Starbucks coffe, most mornings I make it myself at home.

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Due to my natural ability to procrastinate, I have finally begun my spring cleaning…in August…(yes, I know).  I have lived in this townhouse for 4 years now, and my new philosophy is anything I have yet to unbox from the move is probably not something I still need.

I’ve sold a few things on Ebay, but I’ve already been burned a couple times, and since you can no longer leave a buyer negative feedback (read: STUPID), I will probably no longer use Ebay.  I’ve also tried listing some things on Craigslist, but I’ve never had any luck there.  I was just about to start throwing everything into black garbage bags and make it Mother Earth’s problem when I stumbled upon a site called Freecycle.  Basically, it’s like a really really local Craigslist where you can offer items you no longer want/need to a message board, and people can contact you if they want said item  (You can also post items you’re looking for).  I decided to give it a try with the ultimate test, a used mattress and box spring that Craigslist failed to take off my hands.  I posted my item on the Lowell, MA message board, and within 30 minutes I had a response from someone looking to pick up my items.  Assuming this person actually comes to pick up the items, I’m impressed.

While I think the entire “Green” movement has become nothing more than a Marketing Department’s wet dream, it’s still nice to see web sites of this nature offering an alternative to just throwing away perfectly good “junk”.  So, we’ll see how this works out, but I encourage you to check out Freecycle, post some junk you have laying around and make that junk….well you know.

Where from here?

Where do I go from here? That is the question I’ve been asking myself for weeks now. I no longer enjoy my job, that much I know, but what do I do next? I am pretty convinced I do not want to stay in IT, I no longer enjoy the lifestyle (does anyone?). I also happen to hate the state I live I’m for a number of reasons, most of which you can find on this blog. So, as I begin my job search, I find I do not know what to search for.

I’ve had some ideas while on this journey. I’d love to write a novel, but since my only formal training consists of this blog, and no one reads it, I cannot rely on this for sustainable income. I’ve thought about development, a field which I actually do have formal training, but I would have to go to back to entry level.

Basically, all I have so far are a couple ideas and a bunch of excuses.

So, as I begin this journey, I’ll be updating this blog of zero readers of my status, stayed tuned

EDIT: As I read through the post, I realized just how bad the iPhone spell checker is, so I corrected a few

If anyone out there is actually reading this, you’ll notice I’ve switched from Blogger to WordPress (or, maybe you were never paying attention and didn’t notice).  Basically, it came down to the fact that WordPress was the first to release an iPhone app.  Yup, I’m that impatient. :-)

Engadget

Hello Engadget, if you’re reading this, I’d really like to write for you

Well, actually no, but for those "Hair of the Dog" fans, you’ll get it.  However, I did have the pleasure of finally visiting the Windy City for a week and catching up with some friends that moved out there a little over a year ago.  Some friends from NY flew out as well, so it was a good week of sightseeing, catching up with old friends, and of course, some drinking.  Seeing as this was my first time in Chicago, I used the opportunity to take a large number of pictures, almost to the point of annoying everyone I was with (or maybe I passed that point).  You can view the photos here

Besides catching up with some friends that I miss dearly, visiting another great city made me realize how badly I want to step up the process of getting out of Massachusetts.   It’s not that I hate it here, it’s just that I hate it here.  The people suck, the government is backwards, and the living expenses are through the roof, but I digress.  Anyway, Chicago has officially made the list of places to consider, so let’s see what happens.

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