{"id":528,"date":"2006-09-13T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2006\/09\/microsoft-hits-fowl-ball.html"},"modified":"2006-09-13T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T17:37:00","slug":"microsoft-hits-fowl-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2006\/09\/microsoft-hits-fowl-ball.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Hits Fowl Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, Bill Gates is poised to foist the new Vista operating system on us at the end of this year. &#8212; Probably &#8212; Like all preceding Microsoft OS releases, this one has been delayed several times, and may well be again. But it will ship eventually. And then we&#8217;ll wait and wait for the suckers, ummm&#8230; &#8220;early adopters&#8221;, to debug the thing. Then Microsoft will release Service Pack 1 to fix all the really scary bugs. Then the rest of us can upgrade. So we&#8217;re pretty safe until deep into 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we can <a href=\"http:\/\/cooltech.iafrica.com\/features\/144860.htm\">chuckle along with the Latvians<\/a>. Apparently, &#8220;Vista&#8221; means &#8220;fowl&#8221; in Latvia. And while Bill Gates does vaguely resemble a chicken, he&#8217;s no Frank Purdue. More importantly, &#8220;Vista&#8221; is also slang for &#8220;frumpy woman&#8221;, which isn&#8217;t an entirely disingenuous description of most of Microsoft&#8217;s products. And it would seem that not a lot of funny things happen in Latvia, so they are really yukking it up over this one.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m pushing for adopting the slang term in English. Wouldn&#8217;t you really like to say, &#8220;Oh yeah, she&#8217;s a real vista.&#8221; Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. It has a nice ring to it. Unless it&#8217;s ringing for you I suppose.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, Bill Gates is poised to foist the new Vista operating system on us at the<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2006\/09\/microsoft-hits-fowl-ball.html\" title=\"Read Microsoft Hits Fowl Ball\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}