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vimlena.com they/she bassist/guitarist (@celebrityduis.com) typo.social/@vimlena I love computers and typography. I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this.
vimlena.com they/she bassist/guitarist (@celebrityduis.com) typo.social/@vimlena I love computers and typography. I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this.
![“But What Does This Have to do With the Macintosh?
“There is a life-size picture of a dogcow conveniently located in the Finder. Look under ‘Page Setup…’ Now look under ‘Options.’ Walla [sic], there is the dogcow in all it’s raging glory. Like any talented dog, it can do flips. Like any talented cow, it can do precision bitmap alignment. The reason that the dogcow can invert has to do with the fact that it’s genes have about as much order as the crowd at a Sex Pistols concert.
“The dogcow has a name, and it’s not Myria. The dogcow’s name is Clarus. Several people have said to me, ‘Mark, you handsome devil, I think I’ve heard that name, or something similar, somewhere before.’ I always tell them, ‘No, you’re hallucinating again. You never remember anything.’ The dogcow’s name is Clarus for the same reason you call a table a ‘table.’ Make sure to note that Miss Manners says:
“Gentle Reader: you should only address a dogcow by name, and then only after it has spoken to you. Miss Manners would not consider ‘Moof!’ a term of affection.
“Whether or not the animal in the Macintosh dialog is just a picture of a dogcow or an actual dogcow has been widely debated, mostly by people who were procrastinating getting their real work done. I personally would argue that it is just a picture, but I’m sure a large sum of money could change my mind.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixtcvkuvkgev5ny6paorbdis/bafkreignkcwu6pw535nrmyg2kxttwo3yrvvqft7ciwa7tijnm7bifbggum)
