Macs and Whoppers

First, shout out to Haik for the link.

I'd really like to try to spruce this blog up a bit by adding some photographs. (OK at least I can link to one nice photo. Jen (my wife) is a graphic designer and as many of you might know designers almost exclusively utilize Macs. Now don't get me wrong, the Mac is an excellent machine. I have a PC at work and if we did not have a crack IT team I would have even less hair then I do (which admittedly would be pretty difficult). The problem with PCs I am told is that one company makes this piece of hardware, another company makes that piece, one company makes this software application and another company makes that, hence the thing tends to crash be cause there is not a seamless interface between all the pieces of technology. Now the Mac I am told is all made by Apple, hardware, software the whole schmeer, hence seamless technology, hence less malfunctions. In essence, the Mac works better because when one piece speaks to the other, there is a much greater likelihood of understanding.

KEEP READING THIS IS ALL A METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING POLITICAL (of course I will never be as talented as the scribe here).

Now the Mac is a lot like the non-QWERTY (QWERTY keyboards are standard on all of your computers) typewriters. The non-QWERTY typewriters all went by the wayside, even though many of them had superior keyboards to the QWERTY typewriters. Why? Because the person who invented the QWERTY system marketed it well and shut out the competition before it even had the chance to take off. Same thing with the Mac, the PC although in my estimate a inferior product had the head start and people who bought into the idea did not want to let it go.

Now that brings us up to the three points of this post.

First, is that I need a PC (or at least a Windows OS) to post photos and that I obviously do not have.

Second, the PC is really quite an eloquent metaphor for what is going on at City Hall, different commissions, boards, task forces, council, administration, offices etc. All were designed to run on the same unit, but all were not made by the same designer. We need a city that runs more like a Mac and less like a PC.

Now, here it comes . . . . The YMCA and now this idea in respect to SEI or socioeconomic integration from the Task Force united and assembled by the School Board. OK so the idea was pitched and . . . and . . . a swing and a miss. There are those out there who feel the schools are integrated enough. Many feel as a matter of common equity that we should have total integration. However, and here is the rub, the discussion has only been one sided "information" disseminated from the Task force in a way that has a lot of people concerned. Why? Why you ask? Because nobody really knows what the plan is at this point in time.

Let us all hope that whatever the SEI plan turns into, the Task force does not, after taking into account the concerns of the community, refuse to let go of or adapt a QWERTY keyboard or PC or YMCA on the Water. That would truly be the Whopper of them all.

See you on the streets of Ward 1 tomorrow.

Best
Ed