In fact, looking around my apartment? The only greens are dark, non-holiday greens (I’ve got a dark (very dark) green couch. And that’s about it.

But then, I’ve never really celebrated the holiday. When I was growing up it was just another saint’s day. Even though I had a grandmother who was a Murphy (Apparently a common Irish name).

Of course, I don’t celebrate other ethnic holidays (Is there one if you have German ancestors) or one I should celebrate in honor of my Sicilian grandfather (1st generation American? His parents came over on a boat.)?

(I found another typo at the same time in the same story that I would have thought was blatantly obvious and fixed that also.)

Okay. I don’t have an editor, proof-reader, or beta reader. So it’s my responsibility to catch these things . Early and often. I’m just surprised that none of the people who’ve read this story caught these errors and said something in the year it’s been posted to TtH.

I should just grab one and run with it until it’s done… but which one?

What, exactly, is a fanboy?

A person who thinks THEIR thing (whatever it may be – Linux, Microsoft something, Apple something, Video game, TV show something, sports/team something, etc.) is better than all the other similar things to such an extreme level that they spend their free (and not so free) time bashing the other things that resemble theirs (e.g. Zune vs. iPod, Mac OS X vs Windows 7, Movie A vs Movie B). Their thing obviously came down from Mount Sinai with Moses while that OTHER thing bubbled up from the depths of some hell-place.

And they always feel persecuted. Contrary to all evidence. Even when they dominate the comments section of the blogs they haunt.

And then there are the anti-thing fanboys. They hate (and that’s the only word for it) something BECAUSE of who or what it came from. People who hate ANYTHING from Apple, because it came from Apple. People who hate anything from SONY, because it’s SONY.

And they are extremely unreasonable about it. Attempting to reason with anyone of these extremist fanboys? You’ll earn a fanboy label of your own as one of their hated fanboy targets.

One thing to note is that the fanboys and fanboy-haters seem to be in direct proportion to the size of their core base. So, there are a lot more, by an order of magnitude, MS (Xbox, Zune, whatever) fanboys spewing their fanboy-hate than there are Apple fanboys engaged in the same thing. And Linux fanboys? They are out there but they seem to stick to the backwater Linux fan places.

(Yes, that is of course anecdotal. I’m only referring to the web sites/blogs I frequent.)

And it doesn’t take much to get them going.

It’s basically making all the tech blog sites unusable for those of us who either don’t hate or who live in a world where multiple THINGS have uses. (We could drag politics into it and say the political blogs are crumbling under the same effect – crazy fanboys drowning out reasoned debate.)

I don’t see it dying down any time soon. Thanks to the way a lot of ad-supported web sites work (pay-per-view/pay per click) those websites encourage the fanboys. They incite them – driving away the rest of us.

Kathryn Bigelow got the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker! (Okay, the movie got some other awards besides that, including Best Picture, but this was the big one.)

And, apparently causing heads to explode all over the movie-criticism websites, Sandra Bullock won Best Actress. Since she beat out both Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep (and the other 2 actresses are too “new” to have a following in Hollywood) – that sounds like the “It was her turn” award vote that got her it.

And a Star Trek movie actually got an  award (one of the technical ones) and a Pixar movie won Best Animation (again.).

And I missed the new iPad commercial that played right before that Pixar award. Darn. (And the Apple Hate drenched all the tech blog-sites seconds later. Time to stop reading them I think.)