Re: [OT] Google Streetview car spotted

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haha legend, that's the funniest thing I've read on here in ages!!!
That's a perfectly acceptable reason for buying a mac, or indeed
buying anything!!

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of Mark McCall
> > Sent: 20 September 2008 12:20
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Google Streetview car spotted

> > and didn't you buy a Mac mini a few days ago :)
>
> I did - yes - but I was feeling weak and low at the time and was
questioning
> my own sexuality - well, plus the girl in the Apple Store in
Southampton was
> exceptionally cute and I'm just glad that she didn't suggest buying
a Mac
> Pro or Macbook Pro because as a single man I'm just far too easily
lead by a
> sweet smile and a well filled t-shirt that has "How may I help
you
today"
> plastered right across where any properly brought up man has no
right to be
> looking until at least the third date ... and that's the excuse I'm
sticking
> to. ;-)
>
> Oh - by the way - remember I built my nice "big" server
early this
year (or
> was it late last year) that was going to be able to grow in storage
space
> for a while? Bloody thing in now full so I'm going to have to splash
some
> cash now on taking SATA "outside the box" ... currently
looking at
using the
> following ...
>
> 1 off http://tinyurl.com/4suqoy
> 1 off http://tinyurl.com/3nu4to
> 4 off http://tinyurl.com/3anuyb
> 4 off http://tinyurl.com/5frnt9
>
> ...which should get me another 20 drive bays to fill and keep me in
storage
> space for another year or so. :-D
>
> Which leads me on to a moan ... why the feck can't the muppets who
design
> connectors nowadays actually put some kind of locking mechanism on
them?
> (You can ignore the flimsy "lock" on SATA cables as that's
about as
much use
> as a chocolate fireguard). eSATA cables that don't latch, HDMI
cables that
> don't latch BAH!
>
> /me shuffles off muttering something about "the world's never
been
the same
> since the travesty that was the SCART connector" and needing to
pop
over to
> Southampton Applestore again...
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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