{"id":2248,"date":"2004-02-18T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/18\/heaven-and-hell\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:21:54","slug":"heaven-and-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/18\/heaven-and-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven and Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11730,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com\\\/journal\\\/2004_02_08_archive.asp#107678834795958113&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From Neil Gaiman, after admitting that while he is equally at home on Macs or Windows computers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004_02_08_archive.asp#107678834795958113\" title=\"Happy Valentine's Day. Except in India, of course...\">he is still primarily a PC user<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When I tell Mac people this, they smile their secret smile. They know that after we die, we go to a special place, and that those who used Macs will be raised on high, where they can sip their cappucinos and look down and see the virus-infected writhings and screamings of those who used PCs, as the damned Windows users are forever bombarded with boiling projectile vomit from the thousand-foot high screaming thing that used to be Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>  But I&#8217;m sure even the damned people down in the mud will be laughing up whatever&#8217;s left of their sleeves at those of us who secretly like fountain pens best.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;They&#8217;re Coming to Take Me Away&#8221; by Lard from the album <em>Last Temptation of Reid, The<\/em> (1990, 8:28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;the damned Windows users are forever bombarded with boiling projectile vomit from the thousand-foot high screaming thing that used to be Bill Gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}