Comments on: The Original Macintosh http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070902/the-original-macintosh/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JohnK http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070902/the-original-macintosh/comment-page-1/#comment-114 JohnK Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:50:33 +0000 http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070902/the-original-macintosh/#comment-114 <p>Actually, I once had a powder blue bike with a rack on the back and a basket on the front. That was for about 3 weeks in February of this year -- after which either the fashion or the bike police impounded it for bad taste, or perhaps I was parked where I wasn't supposed to.</p> <p>I wish I did something slightly less practical at uni, say, an Arts degree. And went to a real university. Why couldn't I have gotten drunk between classes, stumbling between stone pillars?</p> Actually, I once had a powder blue bike with a rack on the back and a basket on the front. That was for about 3 weeks in February of this year — after which either the fashion or the bike police impounded it for bad taste, or perhaps I was parked where I wasn’t supposed to.

I wish I did something slightly less practical at uni, say, an Arts degree. And went to a real university. Why couldn’t I have gotten drunk between classes, stumbling between stone pillars?

]]> By: kj http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070902/the-original-macintosh/comment-page-1/#comment-112 kj Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:46:15 +0000 http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070902/the-original-macintosh/#comment-112 <p>Dude, that is my day to day. I must be living the dream!</p> <p>Bicycles: check; Stone buildings: check; Bad sweaters: well, not <em>that</em> bad.</p> <p>There's even a guy I work with who has a basket on his bike. On the back though. And it's a timber basket, of course - reinforced with carbon fibre. He has an awesome leather saddle too. His bike is like one of those cars, you know, with the wood-grain panels on the side? I keep telling him to put more wood grain on it.</p> Dude, that is my day to day. I must be living the dream!

Bicycles: check; Stone buildings: check; Bad sweaters: well, not that bad.

There’s even a guy I work with who has a basket on his bike. On the back though. And it’s a timber basket, of course – reinforced with carbon fibre. He has an awesome leather saddle too. His bike is like one of those cars, you know, with the wood-grain panels on the side? I keep telling him to put more wood grain on it.

]]> By: Tim http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070902/the-original-macintosh/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Tim Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:09:54 +0000 http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070902/the-original-macintosh/#comment-113 <p>Hey, that looks almost like the main quad at Sydney Uni. Which I guess means my uni life was like that. But I never cycled there.</p> Hey, that looks almost like the main quad at Sydney Uni. Which I guess means my uni life was like that. But I never cycled there.

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