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To: zax who wrote (20)	2/19/2011 10:46:52 AM
From: SI Brad	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32680

This is great, I love to get slammed on, and I don't take it personally. I also think Lahcim is going overboard with his praise for something I did 15 years ago. If anything I should be cast aside as a one-time wonderboy who hasn't done anything remarkable since. But thanks for the ego boost :-) However, he's right that I'm no fanboy. Apple is the new Borg. I begrudgingly bought my wife a Mac laptop after she begged me to. Ever since then I've been gradually assimilated. We have 4 Macs in the house and 3 PCs. I now carry an iPhone AND and iPad to the coffeeshop, and I'm sure I look like one of those pretentious apple-loving dorks that used to irritate me. I've been into the local Apple store a few times here in Kansas City, and each time it looks like a party going on...teeming with happy people, standing room only. The first time I thought, "it's going to take forever to stand in line and buy something". The next thing I knew, a sales guy had run my credit card through his iPhone and I was walking out the door with a neatly packaged accessory, thinking "that was an AWESOME retail experience". Meanwhile a seed started growing in my brain that the salesperson cleverly planted: "I use a Mac as a Windows Machine, and it's the best Windows PC I've ever had." 6 months later here I am buying a beautifully crafted, overpriced Windows PC with an Apple logo. For my birthday a few days ago, my wife got me an iPhone 4 to replace my buggy iPhone 2. My God, the engineering that goes into the packaging is amazing! What a treat it is just to open the box! I hate being under the influence of an external force, and I feel weak for admitting it, but there is something magically compelling about Apple that gives one patience for its products' defects. My wife laughs at me because I swore I'd never buy myself a Mac. The company is truly clicking on all cylinders. Ok, so maybe I am a bit of a fanboy. Troll away.

To: zax who wrote (20)	2/19/2011 9:19:01 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	Respond to of 32680

Huh. I do believe your perception of Brad is still quite wrong. But be that as it may, who cares, it's completely inconsiquential. Anyway, just to go off topic one more time, Brad also designed the original look and feel of Silicon Investor. Yes, that has all been horrifically bastardized since then, by the subsequent owners. But zax, I see you've only been here since '98, so that's all unseen water under the bridge for you. Ah, the good old, simple, fast, slick SI interface. How I adored it. How easy and smooth it was, compared to everything else on the entire, image free, ad free, crap free internet of those days long gone now. Back to AAPL, and it's present, very precarious state. Place your bets folks, I'm just watching cause there is not one chance in hell I'll buy it at this point in time and I cannot short in my SEP/IRA. Fun times ahead, that is for sure, so even just watching will be fascinating and instructive! (g) EDIT: Crap. Wrote all that before reading the subsequent discussion. Nevermind. (g)