{"id":4177,"date":"2010-10-11T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2010-10-11T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T05:52:13","slug":"i-am-a-mac-fanboi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"I am a Mac fanboi."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons I use a Mac, but one of the reasons I liked it early on was because it was easy to use BOTH Japanese and English. One or the other is easy on a PC, but back in the day, both were kind of hard to do at the same time. I still have some 1.2M floppy disks around that only worked on Japanese laptops, not that the kids nowadays would know what the heck I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I can still use the Mac to send almost unintelligible Japanese email to my friends and relatives. My friends put a little more effort into decoding what I&#8217;m talking about and my relatives don&#8217;t. I think the engineers also are more likely to acknowledge the difficulties in speaking another language, since the probably have to speak English from time-to-time. In any case, I just spent a bunch of time sending an email to a guy I used to hang out with at work, who I haven&#8217;t seen for about nineteen years. I&#8217;m hoping I see him in Tokyo this year. I expect that he will be a plant manager or something and I&#8217;m the same guy I always was &#8211; a guy who has been told to actively stay away from my friends&#8217; female acquaintances and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>I was feeling quite miserable this afternoon, and by miserable I mean lightheaded and nauseous (like I said, I looked it up and I can say nauseous or nauseated). I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the same thing my mom had last week, or if it&#8217;s a side effect of my &#8216;flu shot, or if &#8211; like I told a co-worker &#8211; my lunch burrito was trying to kill me. In any case, I sat around being lazy instead of going to the gym, and I avoided three rounds of rowing and running around the building. I think I win! (And maybe I&#8217;ll feel better by tomorrow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons I use a Mac, but one of the reasons I liked it early on was because it was easy to use BOTH Japanese and English. One or the other is easy on a PC, but back in the day, both were kind of hard to do at the same time. I still have some 1.2M floppy disks around that only worked on Japanese laptops, not that the kids nowadays would know what the heck I&#8217;m talking about. In any case, I can still use the Mac to send almost unintelligible Japanese email to my friends and relatives. My friends put a little more effort into decoding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am a Mac fanboi.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}