A moment of silence
My friends, we are gathered here today in remembrance of dear William Elery Channing the Third, who on the 19th of March, 2008, slipped into a coma from which we can't afford to wake him.
He will not be forgotten.
William was my first. He introduced me to a world of wireless, to draining batteries, and a portability and freedom I had only dreamed of. Together, we discovered Firefox, and browser based MMORPGs, and the concept of obtaining things like music and games for free at a minimal moral fee. We were innocent and rash, we were young, but such things cannot last forever. You've aged, my friend. And when the blue screens started happening more and more frequently, I knew I had to start saying goodbye.
And so, we part.
It will be hard to move on, to press a different power button, to stroke a different touchpad. I don't think I can do it.
So that's it. I'm done with Windows, done with all I know and love. Your siblings would only remind me of what I lost.
I'm moving on to a Mac.
He will not be forgotten.
William was my first. He introduced me to a world of wireless, to draining batteries, and a portability and freedom I had only dreamed of. Together, we discovered Firefox, and browser based MMORPGs, and the concept of obtaining things like music and games for free at a minimal moral fee. We were innocent and rash, we were young, but such things cannot last forever. You've aged, my friend. And when the blue screens started happening more and more frequently, I knew I had to start saying goodbye.
And so, we part.
It will be hard to move on, to press a different power button, to stroke a different touchpad. I don't think I can do it.
So that's it. I'm done with Windows, done with all I know and love. Your siblings would only remind me of what I lost.
I'm moving on to a Mac.