I've been waiting to make a coney joke for ages.

Yesterday, I installed Windows XP on my MacBook.  I must say that the experience was mostly painless.  I did, however, feel the need to polish my MacBook, cleaning my grubby fingerprints off the case and the screen while the software slowly installed.  It was a kind of ritual grooming; I realized halfway through that I was attempting to calm the computer like I would a horse, with a soft brush and Robert Redford-like whispering.

I do not whisper well.  My voice, it carries, you see. 

Anyway, I needed the ability to dual boot because workplaces tend to like it when you use the same operating system they do.  While the company I contract for is more than accommodating of my Fruit Company Computer, there are certain programs that simply don't have an Apple equivalent or a web/java client.  I personally have never heard of Groove, but apparently it's essential to my survival.  I will find out today exactly what this Groove does.

Overall, it's a small tragedy, and one that I'm willing to accept.  My hard drive is 30 gigabytes smaller for the surgery, but the addition of a 120GB portable external to the fold made up for it.  I can't say I suffered.  Indeed, I seem to have come out of the procedure carting about a tidy profit.

This week's voting incentive is another comic, a funny one this time.  Rich wrote it; I fear for my job as writer of EN. 

~Matt

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You know it's time to close the window when the junebugs fly in and hit you in the back of the head. 

In Florida, where I grew up, the seasonal plague of insects was lovebugs. These strange bugs were almost comical, stuck butt-to-butt in a twisted form of mating, the females dragging the smaller males around, neither able to get where they want to go. Invariably, they would end up plastered all over the front of your car. Here in Los Angeles, we have junebugs. (Yes, I know it's July.) Whenever one gets in the house you can hear it flying into the walls desperately trying to get out. I'm loathe to kill them, since they're plump enough to be really gross when they go squish, so I try to catch them and throw them outside.

~Rich 

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