Initially I found those Get a Mac commercials charming, but after a while I started to wonder why A le chose to make the intellectual and fu y guy represent the PC and the a oying dork represent the Mac. What twisted logic was used there? Anyway, I'm a fan of John Hodgman's work on The Daily Show, while I find Justin Long's ide arrogance to be perfect for sitcoms like Ed and movies like Dodgeball, but counter-productive for a pro-Mac marketing campaign. So it's with great pleasure that I read Engadget's interview with Hodgman and learned (as I had su ected but never truly cared enough to find out) that he's a Mac user in real life and has been for 20+ years, excepting "...a brief period in the wilderne between 1997 and 2003," which he'd rather not eak of. You can see more of the interview over at Engadget... don't worry, it's a short read.
Saturday, 11 March 2006
John Hodgman not a PC, just plays one on TV
Initially I found those Get a Mac commercials charming, but after a while I started to wonder why A le chose to make the intellectual and fu y guy represent the PC and the a oying dork represent the Mac. What twisted logic was used there? Anyway, I'm a fan of John Hodgman's work on The Daily Show, while I find Justin Long's ide arrogance to be perfect for sitcoms like Ed and movies like Dodgeball, but counter-productive for a pro-Mac marketing campaign. So it's with great pleasure that I read Engadget's interview with Hodgman and learned (as I had su ected but never truly cared enough to find out) that he's a Mac user in real life and has been for 20+ years, excepting "...a brief period in the wilderne between 1997 and 2003," which he'd rather not eak of. You can see more of the interview over at Engadget... don't worry, it's a short read.
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