Jabulani Jonny

Look, I’m sorry if I’m being too critical…but come on people.  The other day I was in a computer store that was an Apple certified reseller.  They had Macbook Pros and 30" inch displays right next to some clunky Dell 600 series laptops.  It was kinda ugly.  Not to mention that the Dell’s were more expensive than the regular Macbooks that were out.  No kidding.  Anyway, this store is right next to the University of Pennsylvania, a school full of bright and intelligent students.  While I was in there eyeing a Macbook Pro, which will hopefully be a soon purchase, I heard many a student come in and mispronounce Microsoft’s new OS. 

First off, I wanted to snatch half of them up and point their head at the Macbook and go "do you see that? it can run OSX and Windows, side by side, and it comes with a whole lot more than that Dell 630, for cheaper", but I didn’t do that.  Secondly, these are intelligent people, Vista has been out for quite some time now, but I had to leave on about the 4th person that came in and called it Veeesta.  People…that’s an "I".  How do you pronounce "him" or "stick"?  When you say Veesta you sound like an eeejit. 

And second on the "will you please take a second look at the word and use basic pronunciation skills" list; again, another seemingly educated person in the hospital lounge, just blabbing loudly about nothing at all.  I mean, that in itself was kinda aggravating as I’m trying to enjoy 10 minutes of college football between bedside visits.  What is she blabbing about… Sah-DUE-koh.  Yeah I’d never heard of it either.  Oh you mean Su-DOH-kue.  Sheesh.  Look at the spelling… Sudoku.  So what’s gotten on your nerves this week?