The Mad Rants of a Raving Genius

Typical. The day after I tell you all to visit an (most likely) illegal site to watch the trailer, you can just go to starwars.com and see it without worrying about the morals of pirated movie trailers. THOU SHALT WATCH!!! Anyhoo, I very nearly flunked a majorly huge and very important AP chemistry test which determined my grade for the rest of my life! No, just kidding. It wasn’t that important. <—Note: I didn’t say I didn’t almost flunk it.

So now that that’s all and well and done with, I go into the wild blue yonder to find out what my teachers REALLY think about me. That means parent teacher conferences tomorrow. DUN DUN DUN. Good news, however, is that the day’s a half-day. Along with Wednesday. And Thursday and Friday we have off. What an exceedingly inefficient week. We might as well just have stayed at home watching Boston Legal and eating Cheetos. Me, I prefer Mountain Dew and Yu-Gi-Oh!…just kidding. More like SpongeBob…

And in my last few (thousand) words, I want to insert a little rant about people who say Microsoft is the devil’s company. I know none of you usual readers of my blog will care (heck, for all I know you call it Winblows too). I just recently visited this dude’s site (stardestroyer.net) and in a little section of it, he talks about all the evils of Windows and how Microsoft has a monopoly on the computing business, blah, blah, blah. Sure, Windows has lots of flaws and security holes and is practically the only OS on the market. But what OS doesn’t have flaws? I’d love to see a perfect operating system. But sadly, even the vaunted Linux of Windows-haters isn’t perfect. So I’ll stick with the tried and true. This guy also said that people who use Windows because “everyone else does” are doing it for the wrong reasons. He says that just because lot’s of people use Windows doesn’t mean it’s good. That’s true as well, but he in his hatred of Bill Gates and all things Microsoft, he neglects to look at how people just don’t care. Take me for instance. I have no confidential information for hackers to take off my computer (save perhaps my locker combination and SSN although I don’t think either of those is on there), Windows has lots of good products (okay, so they do slow your computer down, but what doesn’t?), and Windows has all the games. Well, Macs have a few games, Linux has none that I can think of, so that just leaves Windows. This dude also concedes that Windows is for gaming but not for anything “important.” What could possibly be more important than gaming??

The main thing that got me is how he says people who use Windows have so many problems, have to reboot all the time, yada yada, but I’ve never had any major problems with Windows! There was one time where it kept crashing but we found that it was caused by a hardware problem, not Windows. C’mon people, lay off the Microsoft-bashing! Microsoft doesn’t hold a monopoly on the computing business! There’s still Apple! And people can go online and find lots of versions of Linux…for free! Jeez, some people can just be so narrow-minded. All right. I’m done. Thanks for humoring me (that is, you people who actually read this far).