Please stop begging for Apples

Listen, who wouldn't want Mac gear? A shiny new iPod every quarter, fresh PowerBooks straight outta Taiwan, and a spankin' G5 each month until the switch to Intel. Sounds like Moby's shopping list, don't it? Well, anyone and everyone can please stop begging for said items and do like the rest of us: get a job.

There seems to be no shortage of beggars online. Some have legitimate reasons. Some are just kids wanting an iPod. I can sympathize with that. I remember being a little guy and lusting after a wrist TV back in the 80's. It was the first of it's kind. I wound up writing to some "investor" who advertised in the back of Popular Science... Yeah, brilliant I know.

What got me started on all this was a digg post a while ago about a guy begging for a G5 because Final Cut Pro 5 requires one. He's a video editor, yada yada yada. I'd give him a shiny quarter for a cogent argument. Is there some killer feature in FCP 5 that he can't live without? Is his entire business dependent upon this upgrade? Maybe he should re-evaluate his business plan then. I know people who still do A/B editing on U-matic tapes and they do fine work. So suck it up and get that third or fifth job, lazy bones. Besides, didn't you hear iMovie works pretty well?

Or, you could embarrass the devil out of yourself like the Star Wars Kid, and get Waxy.org to rally to your support, raise a bunch of dough, then get an iPod! And by the way, does anyone want to buy me an amp for my iPod?