Celebrities are people too. Just because they might not give you that extra moment of personal attention you've been craving or they might be having a bad day doesn't mean they're evil.
I met Douglas Adams (for the second time) at this month's Macworld Expo. He was sitting at a table autographing free Starship Titanic boxes and even a few beta copies of the game which were being given away (the game's not out for the Mac yet, and he apologized profusely for that). Lots of people in the line tried to strike up personal conversations with him, and some of them walked away annoyed that he didn't seem as enthralled by them as they were with him. No one took a moment to consider that they were holding up a long line and Douglas. Adams's hand was probably getting tired from signing so many boxes.
If you set unrealistic expectations for the people you idolize, they're going to fall short, and it's not their fault.
About the Dilbert TV show: Dilbert started out cool, but Scott Adams's continual moneygrubbing is really bugging me, too. I mean, $20 for little magnetic cutouts of the characters? He probably deserves credit for shamelessly and unapologetically milking the franchise while it's still milkable, but he won't be getting any of my money.
Besides, the jokes are becoming stale. Jokes about choosing the name of a new product are funny the first time you see them in the paper, but they become very old very fast when they start appearing on mugs, on tee shirts, in calendars, and now on TV...
Back in mid-November, a few people started reporting that they had gotten a phonecall from a pollster asking questions about the Microsoft court case. Apparently, the questions were obviously slanted such that you either had to appear to be pro-Microsoft or anti-capitalism. See "http://www.macintouch.com/mssurvey.html" for the comments.
Yesterday on Pointcast I found an article titled "Majority of Americans Believe Microsoft is Good for U.S. Economy abd Has Benefited Customers." It's on the Companies channel, under MSFT. The article is a PRNewswire release which gives all of the questions asked in the phone survey, along with how many people gave each answer.
I desperately want to give people the URL to this article... problem is, I can't find it anywhere on the web. It's not on Microsoft's web site, it's not on PRNewswire's web site, and I can't find a web site for the polling company (Hart and Teeter, who have run similar polls to show that Americans didn't want the government to block the Win 98 release and that Americans love Microsoft in general).
If anyone can help me figure out why this press release shows up in Pointcast but not anywhere on the web, I would really like to know!
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Celebrities are people too. Just because they might not give you that extra moment of personal attention you've been craving or they might be having a bad day doesn't mean they're evil.
I met Douglas Adams (for the second time) at this month's Macworld Expo. He was sitting at a table autographing free Starship Titanic boxes and even a few beta copies of the game which were being given away (the game's not out for the Mac yet, and he apologized profusely for that). Lots of people in the line tried to strike up personal conversations with him, and some of them walked away annoyed that he didn't seem as enthralled by them as they were with him. No one took a moment to consider that they were holding up a long line and Douglas. Adams's hand was probably getting tired from signing so many boxes.
If you set unrealistic expectations for the people you idolize, they're going to fall short, and it's not their fault.
About the Dilbert TV show: Dilbert started out cool, but Scott Adams's continual moneygrubbing is really bugging me, too. I mean, $20 for little magnetic cutouts of the characters? He probably deserves credit for shamelessly and unapologetically milking the franchise while it's still milkable, but he won't be getting any of my money.
Besides, the jokes are becoming stale. Jokes about choosing the name of a new product are funny the first time you see them in the paper, but they become very old very fast when they start appearing on mugs, on tee shirts, in calendars, and now on TV...
Back in mid-November, a few people started reporting that they had gotten a phonecall from a pollster asking questions about the Microsoft court case. Apparently, the questions were obviously slanted such that you either had to appear to be pro-Microsoft or anti-capitalism. See "http://www.macintouch.com/mssurvey.html" for the comments.
Yesterday on Pointcast I found an article titled "Majority of Americans Believe Microsoft is Good for U.S. Economy abd Has Benefited Customers." It's on the Companies channel, under MSFT. The article is a PRNewswire release which gives all of the questions asked in the phone survey, along with how many people gave each answer.
I desperately want to give people the URL to this article... problem is, I can't find it anywhere on the web. It's not on Microsoft's web site, it's not on PRNewswire's web site, and I can't find a web site for the polling company (Hart and Teeter, who have run similar polls to show that Americans didn't want the government to block the Win 98 release and that Americans love Microsoft in general).
If anyone can help me figure out why this press release shows up in Pointcast but not anywhere on the web, I would really like to know!