Cyber Zen

I became a Apple computer disciple decades ago when I saw a demonstration of Apple’s new computer code named “Lisa.” Although too expensive for my corporation to consider, its ease of use and incredible graphic capabilities totally overwhelmed me. I beheld cyber-Nirvana and performed prostrastrations to the Enlightened One, Steve Jobs. From that day forward, I discounted the dogma of DOS and became an Apple arahant.

Whenever employers attempted to convert me to any form of Microsoft or Windoze, I lashed myself to my MacIntosh. Even when my trusty Mac lacked enough memory to run my e-mail function, I stole time from a fellow Apple outcast to download Internet kilobytes. But even with its limited capabilities and capacities, my little ol’ Mac kept running when the rest of the office blanched with regular Windoze viruses, worms, bugs, hiccups and related attacks of nausea.

That’s why I find it so karmic, zen-like or just serendipitous that whenever Microsoft really needs excellence in computing or special graphic capability, their marketing department, graphics folks, or advertising agencies always reach for the best — Apple Mac computers and software. The news report linked below tells how Microsoft used Apple hardware and software to create its new ads about how much better Windoze is than the Job’s toy. Seems to me that the poor schlep who is lost in the whales colon isn’t named Jobs. Maybe Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld stopped off at that mall’s Apple Store when they finished buying shoes and really liked what they saw.

So for an ironic, zen-like, karmic moment, check out this story “Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ campaign created with Macs”