Am I A Snob?

Am I A Snob?

According to a recent study, Mac users are snobs (urban dictionary definition here for the sake of this blog post).

Apparently, according to the study, most Mac users tend to also:

- Buy teeth-whitening products
- Buy organic food
- Pay for music online
- Be perfectionists

So how do I fit based upon the article?

- I own Sensodyne Whitening toothpaste. I bought it primarily because I have sensitive teeth, but I opted for the whitening kind so I’d say this is an affirmative.

- Most of the food I buy is not organic. Then again, I always buy free range eggs (chickens may be stupid, but they deserve to run around if we’re going to steal and eat their unborn young).

- I pay for music online almost exclusively. My time is worth more than to dick around with Kazaa or Limewire.

- I have been accused repetitively of being a perfectionist, although if most of my coworkers saw the state of my house they would probably retract their accusations. So, at the very least, I’m apparently a perfectionist at work.

Urban Dictionary has the shortest snob definition as follows: “Anyone who thinks they are better than someone else based upon superficial factors.”

Now, I obviously like the Mac better because my last three computers have been Apple products, but I don’t think I fall in to the “snob” category. I don’t think that I am better than other people because I use a Mac – if I did, I would agree. But then again, this is me evaluating myself.

So if you know me and you follow my blog, what do you think? Am I a snobby, Mac-owning bastard? Sound off in the comments.

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3 Responses to “Am I A Snob?”

Marc Esher 08/03/11 10:00

You most likely will not remember this: a number of years ago, maybe 3, maybe 4… it was a while … i found a presentation of yours online. I think that’s what happened. It was about threads in java. I was just learning java threading and was interested in doing asynchronous stuff in CF using java threads, but i had some problem. Don’t remember what. Anyway, I emailed you about it, and you wrote me a reply back explaining the lifecycle of the request, and that even if i spawned threads in a request they’d continue to live on after the end of the request because essentially the cf server itself is main(). and on and on.

anyway, i had no expectation that you’d respond. but you did, with good detail.

i’d think a snob would’ve said “read the docs, dumbass”. but you didn’t do that.

I don’t know why, but all these years later, I still remember that. funny how things stick.
Maxim Porges 08/03/11 12:14

Thanks Mark – I do remember that!

All I ask is that one day when you are rich and famous, you remember my email and respond with a small token of your appreciation, such as a Ferrari or beachfront property in Maui. :)

- max
Marc Esher 08/03/14 04:18

i’d say that sounds fair!

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