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Just when I thought I had nailed it

March 9, 2008 04:32 by KCorax

 

Just when I thought I had nailed it, I really nailed it, but some place totally other than the one I was looking at.

 

Sugarenia is in love with burned-in designs on Moleskin notebooks. I really don't get what's with people and their Moleskins. Sug even goes as far as describing it as a 'bundle of joy' which in my mind was reserved to Haagen Dazs icecream. This is a sacrilege !

 

Moleskins are seriously overpriced, not at all durable, the paper isn't the best I can find etc . The details that tipped me however were the very strong branding, aesthetic simplicity and the prominent claim of the maker for supremacy. Moleskin is marketed as the 'legendary notebook' (tm), which sounds awfully similar to the 'best operating system on the planet' .

 

The thing that baffled me is that I thought I had completely isolated the mindset that is common to all* Mac users. In fact I had isolated it to pop-ups, notifications etc. Tziralis of OpenCoffee  Athens recently noticed that I had a notification sliding occasionally (and flickering) from my Twitter client, which he found annoying. However I simply did not see it at all. I have also noticed that Mac users don't want their office to look 'busy' -- which is totally impossible and pointless to me.

 

However it's really clear to me now. The claim of supremacy is more common among mac users than the cleaniness. At least until I find some better classification rule.

 

Btw Sugar is an adorable girl, don't let the bashing deceive you.

 

* In any sweeping comment, all means 'the vast majority' .

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March 8. 2008 04:32

dtsomp

My desk (160x80cm) is totally covered in papers, cables and various junk, so... yup, I'm forced to agree that it's supremacy over tidiness LaughingI've yet to meet a tidy geek...

dtsomp

March 8. 2008 04:32

Korakas Aniktomatis

Then again you're not a proper mac user. You don't even have a well groomed beard, no black frame glasses, even got some open-source DNA in you ! You're definitely not it. You're just a little susceptible to the rhetoric of supremacy.

Korakas Aniktomatis

March 9. 2008 04:32

Sugarenia

Oh thank you! Thank you! A post for me!*bows gracefully*What, don't you know Mac people are like, snobs? And elitists? And like *gasp* keeping things tidy and clutter-free?Some people got nerve...

Sugarenia

March 9. 2008 04:32

Sugarenia

Btw, it's Moleskine... Smile *nazi*

Sugarenia

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