Photography is Not a Crime

By Carlos Miller
I never understood why people put those little Apple stickers on their cars because it’s nothing but a company logo. Even if you are loyal to a brand, you have to admit, putting a sticker on your car is a little idolizing.

And it’s not like I don’t understand brand loyalty. I’ve spent more money on Canon products than Miami taxpayers have spent on the Performing Arts Center, but you don’t see a little Canon sticker on the back of my Honda, which happens to the latest in a long line of Hondas I’ve owned since my teens.

But now I’m realizing that perhaps those people who put Apple stickers on their cars are really disgruntled PC users and are simply making a statement.

Like fuck you, Bill Gates.

If that’s the case, then let me dust off a spot next to my Impeach Bush sticker, for I intend to buy a Mac Pro next week now that my lemon of a PC decided it does not want to start anymore.

The fact that I am even blogging right now is because I have a laptop, which came with Vista, meaning I was forced to install XP over it. Talk about a regressive company.

The move to Macintosh is long overdue, especially now that I am getting into videography. I’ve always flirted with the idea of buying a Mac, but I have always been dissuaded by those loyal PC users who tell me all kinds of negative things about Macs and pointing out that I won’t be able to easily acquire pirated software. Not that I would do such a thing.

So I stubbornly stuck with my PC, through viruses and crashes and errors and issues with my registry, whatever the hell that means. In the last two years, I’ve spent just as much time dealing with computer issues as I have doing actual work on my computer. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

Last year, I needed more memory, so I installed an additional two gigabytes, but that meant that I needed to upgrade to XP64, which meant that I needed to buy a new printer.

Then there is the issue with CD and DVD drives, which every once in a while, decide to disappear on me, usually when I am on a deadline and need to get some photos burned on a CD.

This morning, I turn on the computer only to get this startling grinding sound from somewhere inside the computer, so I shut it off, waited a few seconds, then started it up only to get that screen where I am advised to start in a “safe mode”.

But every time I tried, it kept going back to the same screen. I end up getting the XP64 CD to see if that would repair Windows, but then I was asked for an “administrative password”, as if I don’t have enough passwords to memorize.

Of course, there are ways to bypass this obstacle, but they all require me to dedicate an entire afternoon to this project, and frankly, I give up. I’ll stick with my laptop until my Mac Pro arrives.

And in the meantime, I’ll raise my Jolly Roger flag.

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