A New Sean

I mentioned a while ago (in a sort of “farewell” type post) that the when I started blogging again, I wanted to create something like Shawn Blanc had created with his website.

Recently, I have discovered another Sean, Sean Sperte (coincidently — through Shawn’s twitter stream. Random) who has created a similar experience with his website — Geek & Mild.

I used to lay in bed at night, after I had turned off my laptop, and tucked myself safely away between the sheets, next my beautiful girl, and bust out the iPhone to peruse the older posts on Shawn’s site.

I’ve found myself doing this with Mr Sperte’s site lately as well. His content is a pleasant mix of Apple, web, tech in general, and life. I do like the fact that although he is apparently a committed Christian (something I definitely am not) he doesn’t always write from that perspective.

A perfect example of this is his post on Apples opposition to Prop 8, back in the day. His post is mostly a quote from Apple, with a question at the end of it —

“I’m stunned. It’s insane that any publicly held company would consider taking sides in a political discourse like this. I doubt a company-wide poll was conducted in order to determine how Apple employees felt about the issue, so it’s safe to assume this statement was generated among Apple executives — most likely the board of directors. How arrogant of them.

When I first read that post I thought to myself “FUCK YOU Sean Sperte, who the FUCK do you think you are?” But then I left it for a moment, and then I read it again. Sure, he’s Christian, and by virtue of that fact, probably supported1 Prop 8, but that wasn’t his point. His point was to question the intelligence of a public company actually making such a controversial statement so openly. At least I think, and hope it was.

So, yeh, there is my gushing, teenage wet dream post about a blog that has existed for a lot longer than this post indicates, but I have just found.

Footnotes

  1. If he didn’t, then I apologise ↵