I saw a commercial on TV last night that disturbed me.
Not that this is something that doesn’t happen often. I’m disturbed by anybody that dances while they’re trying to sell me something, I’m disturbed by many Skittles advertisements, and I’m disturbed by the vagueness of woman-type advertisements.
Can somebody please tell me what, exactly, “feminine protection” is?
No, never mind. I’d rather not know.
But what disturbed me last night was this: Lincoln Mercury now offers the Micro$oft-powered Sync system in their car mp3 players.
This disturbs me for one reason: I’m not sure I want Micro$oft anywhere near my car.
Sure, they’ve got admirable goals: Sync will dial 911 in the event your airbags are deployed. And sure, it’s just in the music player, right? But it’s Micro$oft. I guarantee that if you have MS Anything loaded as an operating system on your car’s mp3 player, it won’t be long before pre-pubescent emo kids in
Not to mention the possibility of a crash (pun intended.) I don’t want to be tooling down the highway when an error message pops up on the dashboard: “A fatal exception 0F has occurred at 00457:000040B1.” What? Listen, I’m a geek and that message scares the hell out of me when it pops up on my laptop; show me that message on my dashboard when I’m going 75 and I’ll show you a geek who needs to change his underwear.
Oh, and yes – I tool down the highway. I don’t drive, I don’t cruise. I tool. Deal with it.
So in the interests of keeping my underwear clean, I think I’m going to avoid the
And that laptop won’t go anywhere near my Jeep’s brain unless I chaperone.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Yeah, the Sync system…that’s the only reason I’m not buying a Lincoln.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Really? Because I was also put off by the $2 gazillion price tag, but didn’t want to mention it.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I kind of like having Microsoft. It makes my computing life into a challenging game. Will it crash? Will clicking rapidly on things that don’t make sense have any effect? Will my files be here when I come back? Will I face the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH?!?! Who will win, Grace or Bill Gates?
I probably need to get out more.
January 7th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I dunno, wolf. I’d rather see MS in the Lincoln than somewhere useful. (Even the thought of MS in my Jeep will automatically launch me into a tirade starting with “Bill Gates!”, followed by 37 minutes of assorted profanity.)
January 8th, 2008 at 8:04 am
grace: I don’t know if it’s such a good idea to have a “Good vs. Evil” battle with your computer every day.
However, it’s still really cool. I applaud you.
January 8th, 2008 at 8:05 am
montucky: I’ll have to check, but I think it’s illegal in seven states to utter “Microsoft” and “Jeep” in the same sentence. I’ll let you know how much your bail is.