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Comment from: enchiridion posted at March 10, 2006 4:24 PM

"The internet" is an illusion, a shared delusion.

but hey, congrats on the new 'digs'. (your padded cell next may even be next to mine.)

Comment from: HumanSockPuppet posted at March 10, 2006 4:26 PM

The new computer sounds tasty. I have considered getting a Macintosh.

Be sure to keep us updated on how the puppy runs.

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at March 10, 2006 4:26 PM

Camwhore photocomics of the FUTURE.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at March 10, 2006 4:35 PM

Man, my hair's getting greyer all the time.

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at March 10, 2006 4:43 PM

I'm going through the same problem, Eric. But I'm more than a little annoyed, given that I'm not even 30 yet. But my dad said he went through the same thing at my age, so I suppose I'll just have to curse my genetics.

Though if it makes you feel better, that's not the first thing I thought of when I looked at that pic.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at March 10, 2006 4:49 PM

Do I even want to know what the first thing you thought of was?

Comment from: Freeptop posted at March 10, 2006 4:50 PM

I thought that was a product of the light reflecting off your hair, rather than your hair being grey, actually. Especially since the sides look black, but the portion directly underneath the overhead lighting looks "greyer."

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at March 10, 2006 4:51 PM

...wait a second...

My photo's... mirror reversed.

The Hell?

Comment from: Andrew Crowe posted at March 10, 2006 5:08 PM

I got me a MacBook too just this past Tuesday. Aren't they just that shiny?

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at March 10, 2006 5:13 PM

Mark me down for the looks-like-Frakes school of thought.

If the gray hair bothers you, be grateful you don't have kids.

Comment from: Doug posted at March 10, 2006 5:45 PM

My photo's... mirror reversed.

No, that's actually an image of alternate Eric Burns from the Alternate Universe Where Bad Guys Wear Beards, snapped just when the CPU hit full clock speed and rippped a temporary hole in spacetime.

Of course, because both you and the alternate universe version both have beards, it means that instead of him being your evil doppelgaenger, he's your slightly naughty one. Oh, and he parts his hair on the other side.

Comment from: Pseudowolf posted at March 10, 2006 6:02 PM

Whoa. I wonder what alterna-Eric's girlfriend is like?

And that photo in the upper-right of the picture. Is that....Tangent??

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at March 10, 2006 6:22 PM

Eric's beard is not normally that thin. That's how you know it's the alternative universe.

Photos do exacerbate the grey situation somewhat.

Comment from: InkBlot posted at March 10, 2006 6:33 PM

I always thought he looked like a Phil Foglio cartoon. Which sounds a bit more polite than saying, "muppet." Which is also true. At least, in my mind, where both are compliments.

If they're not in yours, dear reader, please forget I said them. :)

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at March 10, 2006 6:50 PM

Well, at the risk of giving you a slight complex about it, I was wondering if someone had recently punched you in the nose. It kind of reminded me of one friend in high school, the guy I knew that broke his nose five times.

Though in terms of overall appearance, you remind me of a different friend, who only broke his nose twice.

Comment from: Darth Paradox posted at March 10, 2006 6:53 PM

I had a CS prof who looked incredibly similar to a Muppet. A lot of this had to do with his generally jovial mood and the fact that his beard came right up to the bottom edge of his lower lip (i.e. without any of the gaps you often see to the sides of that central peak - see Eric's picture for an example), giving his lower lip a certain distinction that is rather common for Muppets to have.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at March 10, 2006 7:28 PM

Well, at the risk of giving you a slight complex about it, I was wondering if someone had recently punched you in the nose. It kind of reminded me of one friend in high school, the guy I knew that broke his nose five times.

No complex -- I broke my nose in college. And the grey doesn't bother me at all. I think it looks good on me.

And yeah. There's more than a little Jonathan Frakes in that picture. ;)

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at March 10, 2006 7:29 PM

The picture in the corner is of the legendary Seraphim Kyriotate -- otherwise known as that cat what sleeps on me all the time.

Comment from: John Bankert posted at March 10, 2006 8:34 PM

Man, my hair's getting greyer all the time.

At least you have hair. My baldspot gets bigger all the time. :^)

Comment from: djcoffman posted at March 10, 2006 8:58 PM

Eric! Answer your e-mail

Comment from: Bo Lindbergh posted at March 10, 2006 9:37 PM

Hey, it's a totally random toy store customer!

Comment from: kirabug posted at March 10, 2006 10:57 PM

And while you test out your new machine, I got to learn how to install Windows XP. yay me. bleh. trade?

Comment from: miyaa posted at March 10, 2006 11:02 PM

Eric, you look like you should be Jay and Silent Bob's stunt double. Maybe this pic should replace the pic from your driver's license?

Comment from: miyaa posted at March 10, 2006 11:05 PM

Okay, okay. If I do decide that my next computer should be an Apple instead of a Windows PC (or maybe a Unix box instead of either), what would I need to change for software? I have the Office and Corel Office stuff, plus the whole Adobe software suite, but no Macromedia stuff. I know that none of you are like apple geek experts, but what the hell...

Comment from: MikeR posted at March 10, 2006 11:37 PM

I know the Adobe stuff works very well with a Mac, being that it's meant for a Mac. You would have to buy the Mac versions, though. The other stuff I'm not so sure of, but I do have MS Word for Mac.

The only thing I have a problem with so far is the iMac mouse. I HATE it.

Comment from: Plaid Phantom posted at March 11, 2006 1:04 AM

So THAT's what Frakes has been doing all these years. I'M ON TO YOU!!!

Somehow I always pictured you as a bit older. Oh well.

Comment from: kirabug posted at March 11, 2006 1:58 AM

have the Office and Corel Office stuff, plus the whole Adobe software suite, but no Macromedia stuff.

...actually, i'm in the running for the apple geek position at work. seriously.

and you'd have to buy the mac versions of each of the packages you just named. the days when the windows and mac versions were packaged together are long gone, i'm afraid. but the good news is that mac versions exist for most of what you named (i'm not familiar with corel office so i'd have to check on that one). and by the time you'd get around to doing this adobe might have the macromedia stuff in the adobe suite seeing as adobe now owns macromedia.

but it's worth it.

Comment from: miyaa posted at March 11, 2006 2:33 AM

And I do find the mac versions of Adobe far superior than the Windows version, because the apple was made for graphic design. And the mac office version should be fine. My real fears are in the games department: Civ IV, Madden, and the like. Especially Civilization IV. I mean, I'm working on creating a websnark country to defeat those silly French. But Catherine the Great, that Russian Princess...no wonder they invented vodka.

Comment from: TasteMyHouse posted at March 11, 2006 3:00 AM

Macbooks = Intel processors.

Can you boot XP on them?

Comment from: Ray Radlein posted at March 11, 2006 3:48 AM

Civ IV is coming for the Mac (FWIW, the latest version of Cedega allows the Win version to run under Linux), but it's still a few months off, at least. I'll see if I can remember to find out more the next time I drop by Apolyton.

Comment from: Moony posted at March 11, 2006 3:59 AM

You have very pinchable cheeks, Eric. :D

Comment from: Copper Hamster posted at March 11, 2006 8:29 AM

Taste: No, they don't have a BIOS, they use a new tech called EFI instead, which XP does not play with.

Vista was supposed to but it has been announced no support for EFI at launch.

Comment from: Starline posted at March 11, 2006 11:38 AM

I'm so jealous.

Comment from: Cadete posted at March 11, 2006 1:39 PM

Here I was, happy with my month-and-a-half old iBook G4 and you have to go and rub in our faces that you have one of the brand new ones... I know that since I'm only a student and this is my first laptop I don't really need something very big, but still....

However, I can put my 12' iBook in my everyday backpack, I want to see you do that with your fancy new toy.

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at March 11, 2006 1:51 PM

Windows boots on a MacBook Pro.

Comment from: Reinder Dijkhuis posted at March 11, 2006 2:15 PM

So after reading this, I went to the local Apple Center. Gods, those things are droolworthy. Only two things about them are not to like: the mouse, and the price. € 1380 is not the sort of money I can spend without a serious business case supporting it.

I guess I'll have to start making up a business case. Tell us more about what that thing can do really well...

Comment from: TasteMyHouse posted at March 11, 2006 3:27 PM

Weds, that was terrible. Like, painful and embarassing to look at.

God job! =D

Comment from: Cadete posted at March 11, 2006 4:25 PM

Reinder, where can you buy one at €1380?
I went to the Portuguese Apple internet store and the cheapest macBook Pro that i could find was worth €2.179,00.

Comment from: Reinder Dijkhuis posted at March 11, 2006 4:45 PM

Cadete: I was drooling over all the Macs on display at the store, and the giant screen they had there, but specifically over the more standard models such as the iMac Intel Core, because having bought an iBook six months ago I'm even less in the market for another laptop than I am for a desktop machine. This doesn't stop me from coveting both, of course.
At Apple Centre Bossina in Groningen, NL, the cheapest MacBook Pro can be yours for the low, low price of €2,139 (using the American convention for punctuating four-digit integers). That's VAT inclusive, I thinkNot worth the detour.

Comment from: Ray Radlein posted at March 12, 2006 4:36 AM

By the way, miyaa, I just checked at Apolyton, and Civ IV for the Mac is scheduled for June.

Comment from: Pseudowolf posted at March 13, 2006 8:24 AM

However, I can put my 12' iBook in my everyday backpack, I want to see you do that with your fancy new toy.

When I first read that, I thought "Holy crap! Apple makes a 12 foot computer?!?"

Took me a few moments to realize what you meant.

Yeah, it's early.

Comment from: larksilver posted at March 13, 2006 10:54 AM

I love new toys. I'm glad you're having fun with yours.

Don't worry too much about the grey - it looks good on you.

I dated a fella once who, at 25, was very nearly bald, and had more grey in what black hair was left than you do now. He always said it wasn't a bald spot, but a solar sex panel, but that's another story.

Comment from: Gearyster posted at March 13, 2006 10:59 AM

I immediately though "extra from a Myst game".

Comment from: gwalla posted at March 14, 2006 2:26 AM

LINUX IS THE ONE TRUE OPERA*is shot*

Comment from: Reinder Dijkhuis posted at March 14, 2006 5:41 AM

I thought the Ring of the Nibelungen was the one true opera.

Comment from: larksilver posted at March 14, 2006 12:07 PM

augh the Ring Cycle. Hours, and hours, and even more hours of sopranos knocking you over with their vibratos big enough to drive a truck through. Okay, okay, so the instrumental bits are amazing, in places (the brass fanfares are ooOOOoooooo). And the male leads, if sung well, are orgasmic, if you like that sort of thing (okay, okay, I'm a sucker for a rich bass/baritone, what can I say?), but still.

The whole thing? In a row? Kill me now.

Comment from: Reinder Dijkhuis posted at March 15, 2006 8:48 AM

Telling me that something is a bit of an endurance trial is unlikely to make me less interested, larksilver :)

Comment from: larksilver posted at March 15, 2006 4:03 PM

I suppose that's one way of looking at it, Reinder. I just, as a general rule of thumb, prefer not to sit still that long. I'm not sure I'm capable of it, to be honest. I'd be asleep, despite the grandeur of it. I'm the chick what has a hard time sitting through a movie without zonking out, unless my hands are busy.

Performing it, now.... if I had one of those "OMG Huge Voice!" talents, rather than a sweeter voice more suitable to Mozart - or Disney (sigh), I would love to do the endurance test of performing in the Ring. Alas.

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