If you’ve met one of us;…
Imagine purchasing 20 computers.
- 10-Macs (whatever they are)
- 10-PCs (yeah baby)
Assume they all have the same basic software to allow the system to operate, and the exact same physical configurations, speed, capacities etc.
You distribute those machines to twenty people and you tell them:
Go enjoy.
Do with these as you wish.
And, three years later you come back to those people and offer them an upgrade, if they give you the old machines—which they happily do.
What would you expect to find when you examined the 20 machines?
I would expect:
- Some well-kept machines,
- Some that look like they’ve been through the wringer, (That’s the thing we used to have on washing machines—oh, never mind!)
- Some with pennies in the input slots (Yes, I’ve actually seen this happen.)
- Some with storage maxed out,
- Some with nothing on the HD,
- Some with everything, including unmentionables, on the HD.
Is the expression “Garbage-in Garbage-out.” Still a thing?
I haven’t heard it in a while.
You get my point.
And just to make it more fun, let’s call MACs normal people and Aspies PCs.
As a kid I wanted to be a foreign language interpreter at the UN.
Then I wanted to be a cadet at West Point.
I was given a chance to go to Annapolis, but didn’t go.
And, ended up as a police officer, a detective, a software expert, Wall St., negotiator and now I write books.
Some of us become engineers, others doctors.
I’ve worked in restaurants, installing garage doors, night watchman and operated the front desk in a bowling alley.
Some work in the mail room and others drive taxis.
Which I think adds some credibility to my saying:
“If you’ve met one of us; you’ve met one of us.”
Written June 8 2026