I work with a few. Most of the time they are fairly quite. But from time to time they climb up to their stupid high horse and start talking like they know all about all things [insert some arbitrary preference and alternatives here].
Great you like Mac. You don't need to tell me or anyone around me why you prefer it or its better unless someone asks, unless someone asks just use your mac and the fuck up.
Great you like Linux and you us it mostly at home. Nobody cares but you. It doesn't make you a better person. It doesn't make you smarter. It could make you look cheap though.
Great you ride a bicycle to work. Your carbon footprint is smaller than mine. So if it wasn't for my carbon foot print and tax money and gas taxes you wouldn't have roads and bike paths to ride on. I even know some of these people who don't even have a license so they couldn't drive even if they claimed they wanted to which of course they can't or won't do.
OOOOh you drive an Audi TT. So you drive a pretty VW golf with all wheel drive. Great you have driven it at 145mph. No sane person should even attempt those kinds of speeds on public roads, save of course you are in the car's home country where its legal on the autobahns.
I don't care if people talk about things they prefer or like. It's when they preach it and talk loud enough for me to hear it a couple rows away or like the rest of the world gives a damn about the purchase of their light meter for the DSLR they just got.
I love nearly all the things I mentioned here. Cars, Linux, Mac OS X, and Photography. But I don't preach them. If you want to use linux or windows I don't care. Whatever gets the job done. BMW, Audi, Honda, Toyota, whatever gets you to your destination.
I do have my preferences and I have posted them all over this blog for the last several years. But nobody made you listen to it where you couldn't get away from it.
In short. Shut up about your shit unless someone asks. If someone asks then talk about it. I said TALK not broadcast to half the office. Plus it makes me think your an ass.
Posted by Ben at March 13, 2008 12:31 PM"Shut up about your shit unless someone asks. "
But dude, that's why I blog. To tell you why I'm better than you!
I'm a Linux Zealot I think. Not Linux itself, just the open source mentality is something I'm totally on board with. Linux operating systems themselves tend to be slightly inferior in many ways... but to each his own.
Posted by: dusty on March 13, 2008 02:39 PMNobody is forced to read your blog. Your not standing up in the middle of class where there is a captive audience or in the middle of the street saying im better cause I use linux.
Which is what im bitching about.
Posted by: ben on March 13, 2008 02:51 PM