OS X(86)
There seems to be a big whup-to-hoo going on over Michael Dell’s recent email to Fortune about how happy his company would be to offer OS X to its customers should Apple choose to divorce OS X(86) from Apple hardware.
While I certainly missed the boat on commenting on the WWDC announcement (really, all I could possibly say that already hadn’t been said is that it was just another example of me divining the wrong prediction of Apple announcements, like the Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle), I’ve been percolating on it all the while - especially given my past experience at Be when it moved BeOS to x86.
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Now wait a minute. What’s wrong with coloring books?
I am aghast that you never read _Charlie…_. Had I only known…
I know what you mean, though: I always go back to _The Cricket in Times Square_, especially on the
bus, and regularly get weird looks. Like I’m a child molester or something. I’m praying
that the rumor I heard that it was going to be filmed by the same people that mangled
_Stuart Little_ is untrue. Then again, what author was it who remarked, when asked “Have you seen
what Hollywood is doing to your books?” “What do you mean? They haven’t done anything. They’re
still there, on the shelf.”
Hmm.
Comment by James M. Long — 6/16/2005 @ 10:50 am
Interesting response from the author about the Hollywoodization of their work. I don’t know if I could be that detached from my work - no matter how much money I was making. Good for them though.
Yeah, I’m kinda surprised at myself that I’ve held off until 31 to read it. From what I recall though, you spent all your time trying to get me to read Goodbye Mr. Chips (unsuccessfully, to this day). Have you read any of Dahl’s other books?
Comment by Brian — 6/16/2005 @ 11:09 pm
I, myself, have never read _Goodbye, Mr. Chips_, so your recall is failing. I did try once,
but it seemed a bit boring from page one. Seems more like something Big Nose would read.
I was obsessed with Robert Cormier in junior high, so
maybe it was _The Chocolate War_ or _I am the Cheese_ that I was trying to spread around.
Dahl is an interesting one. His books aimed at young readers (I would have a hard time calling
them children’s books) are pretty good: Danny, the Champion of the World; Charlie and the Great
Glass Elevator; the BFG is a little silly but interesting. Never read his adult fare.
Comment by James M. Long — 6/17/2005 @ 7:57 am
That’s right, that’s right - Chocolate War was your thing. I don’t think it was Jon who tried to get me to read Mr. Chips, but for the life of me I can’t remember who did…
I didn’t realize Dahl wrote books for adults (”mature books”, “books for old people”, “not for children books”?).
Comment by Brian — 6/17/2005 @ 8:19 am