A few clarifications
1. This bear has been stupid in a lot of ways recently, including procrastinating necessary phone calls to strangers, but the proximal cause of yesterday's post was the discovery that I had put my underwear on backwards. Just seemed to put the crowning touch on a chain of mostly-minor stupidities. (Earlier stupidities are more serious, but can't be fixed now.)
2. When I title a post "I hate Macs", I mean it literallty: I hate Macs. This is a statement of personal preference, akin to the statement "I hate bananas". In the latter case it's because I nearly choked to death on one when I was four years old. In the former, it's because deep and unfixable design decisions render it incompatible with a working style and keyboard habits I have developed over two decades of Unix use, and see no good reason to change.
Things would be different if I actually had to use a Mac (or Windows) computer at work for any extended period of time -- in that case, I would have to either change my habits or figure out long-term workarounds. It probably wouldn't change the fact that the Macbook Pro's keyboard makes my hands hurt, and it wouldn't change my resentment over having to give up an environment in which I've been happy and productive for over two decades.
Fortunately, I don't have any compelling reason to give up Linux, so I will put up with the inevitable but temporary hassles of using a Mac during the occasional meeting, business trip, or software-testing cycle, and continue to write grumpy blog posts about it.
3. As long as I'm here, allow me to complain about an internal alarm clock that gets me up at 7:30 after going to bed at 3:00.