Nice. Never had you down as a fashionista, but every day's a schoolday.

Had it been available in pretty much any other colour -- blue, green, black, gold, whatever -- I'd probably have taken that, but it was this red or silver. And silver reminds me so much of my work machine -- a corporate (HP) laptop so thoroughly locked down I can't even install the required extensions to a freaking text editor to be able to make an insert-timestamp macro, not to mention another text editor altogether -- that this became the only choice left.

Not, I suppose, without overtones of "I'll take the girly-coloured one just to show how I'm not insecure in my mascuinity at all", which any psychologist will probably tell you is just over-compensating, thus disproving itself. [Edit:] Come to think of it, if I had a Ferrari (or other sports car), I'd probably get that in red, too. Seems pretty standard for things like that... Not that this changes anything, the preceding speculation probably applies just as well. [/Edit]

At least the "Red Edition" didn't cost more than the boring-corporate silver default.

Post #431,361 by pwhysall 10/22/19 8:14:17 AM 10/22/19 8:14:17 AM Reply	Nice. Never had you down as a fashionista, but every day's a schoolday.
Post #431,365 by CRConrad 10/22/19 1:19:33 PM 3/14/20 2:34:36 PM Reply	Not "fashionista", more work aversion (and some "reverse male insecurity"). Had it been available in pretty much any other colour -- blue, green, black, gold, whatever -- I'd probably have taken that, but it was this red or silver. And silver reminds me so much of my work machine -- a corporate (HP) laptop so thoroughly locked down I can't even install the required extensions to a freaking text editor to be able to make an insert-timestamp macro, not to mention another text editor altogether -- that this became the only choice left. Not, I suppose, without overtones of "I'll take the girly-coloured one just to show how I'm not insecure in my mascuinity at all", which any psychologist will probably tell you is just over-compensating, thus disproving itself. [Edit:] Come to think of it, if I had a Ferrari (or other sports car), I'd probably get that in red, too. Seems pretty standard for things like that... Not that this changes anything, the preceding speculation probably applies just as well. [/Edit] At least the "Red Edition" didn't cost more than the boring-corporate silver default. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi Edited by CRConrad Oct. 22, 2019, 05:39:53 PM EDT Edited by CRConrad March 14, 2020, 02:34:36 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #431,378 by a6l6e6x 10/22/19 5:30:21 PM 10/22/19 5:30:21 PM Reply	Re: OT: "Red Edition" Communist! :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #431,383 by drook 10/23/19 7:40:55 AM 10/23/19 7:40:55 AM Reply	Wouldn't "Red Chinese" be more au courant? -- Drew
Post #431,385 by CRConrad 10/23/19 11:37:06 AM 10/23/19 11:37:06 AM Reply	No, the REAL Chinese -- i.e, not the "Red" ones: BestWare / Schenker seem to be assemblers of Clevo "barebones", and Clevo is from Taiwan: https://www.clevo.com.tw/ -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi

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