A Mac for Cory Doctorow
Okay, I know it has been a long time since I've posted here. (May? Crap! I didn't know it had been THAT long!) But a real cry for help can't be ignored. Heck, the latest idiocy from Rob Enderle didn't even stir me to post here, so you know I've been busier than heck somewhere else, right? (And where the heck was the Macalope on that story? Enderle is your whipping boy, Horned One! Let him get too uppity and he'll get downright annoying before you know it. Thank God for John Molloy on... ZDnet UK? Wow. Had to go all the way to the UK to find someone to stomp on Enderle this time. That's sad. But I digress...)
The truth is, the ol' CouchGuy has been spending most of his time on Twitter. Insidious, that's what it is. It is so EASY to snap off a comment there. The fact that I have all of 4 followers on Twitter (as opposed to the legion of 12-14 hardy souls reading this blog) doesn't slow me down, either. On Twitter you feel what you say matters, even if all rational evidence says otherwise. (See, that's like Google saying the App Store has no future. But I digress again...)
Anyway, I'm hanging out on Twitter and I catch a tweet from Cory Doctorow (or @doctorow if you speak Twitterese). Cory (I call him by his first name though I don't know him at all because I'm less likely to misspell that than "Doctorow") is one of my favorite writers, and as I've said here before, we all owe him big time for writing Little Brother. Anyway, Cory tweets:
C'mon, doesn't that just make your eyes tear up just a little?
We all know editing PDFs without the proper tools is really a pain in the ass. I couldn't stand the thought of poor Cory wasting all that precious writing time fiddling with a Linux solution to PDF editing. Maybe that's why it is taking so freaking long for Makers to get posted in 81 parts! It's like he's trying to drive a nail with his shoe. There's a hammer right there in the toolbox, Cory!
Something has to be done. So I posted:
(#amac4cory is a hashtag. It is a lame attempt to create a twittermeme so everyone can jump on the bandwagon. If I have to explain it, you aren't on Twitter anyway.)
So, come on, my legion of readers! Retweet and repost the message all over the place about #amac4cory. There has to be an address we can mail all those friggin' dimes to noted somewhere on craphound.com, right? Make it 12 cents each so he can get Acrobat & InDesign, too. Let's free Cory Doctorow from this burden so he can get on with what he does best.
PDF editing with a Linux box? Gotta love him. (And man, do I hope he has a sense of humor. After reading Little Brother I know he must have a thousand ways to screw with you if he doesn't like you...)
Anyway, I'm hanging out on Twitter and I catch a tweet from Cory Doctorow (or @doctorow if you speak Twitterese). Cory (I call him by his first name though I don't know him at all because I'm less likely to misspell that than "Doctorow") is one of my favorite writers, and as I've said here before, we all owe him big time for writing Little Brother. Anyway, Cory tweets:
Dear hivemind: I hire a typographer to design some pages, he delivers PDFs. How do I make minor edits/corrections to them from a Linux box?
C'mon, doesn't that just make your eyes tear up just a little?
We all know editing PDFs without the proper tools is really a pain in the ass. I couldn't stand the thought of poor Cory wasting all that precious writing time fiddling with a Linux solution to PDF editing. Maybe that's why it is taking so freaking long for Makers to get posted in 81 parts! It's like he's trying to drive a nail with his shoe. There's a hammer right there in the toolbox, Cory!
Something has to be done. So I posted:
If everyone who downloaded "Little Brother" sent him a dime each, poor @doctorow could buy himself a Mac. Who's with me? #amac4cory
(#amac4cory is a hashtag. It is a lame attempt to create a twittermeme so everyone can jump on the bandwagon. If I have to explain it, you aren't on Twitter anyway.)
So, come on, my legion of readers! Retweet and repost the message all over the place about #amac4cory. There has to be an address we can mail all those friggin' dimes to noted somewhere on craphound.com, right? Make it 12 cents each so he can get Acrobat & InDesign, too. Let's free Cory Doctorow from this burden so he can get on with what he does best.
PDF editing with a Linux box? Gotta love him. (And man, do I hope he has a sense of humor. After reading Little Brother I know he must have a thousand ways to screw with you if he doesn't like you...)
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