

Reinstall OS X without erasing the drive Do the following: 1. Or you could buy parts to build your own tree. The staff would sell you ornaments, but not know anything about them or what they were for. The holiday would be cheap, small, quartz-crystal driven, and would let you take a licking and keep on shopping. You would be able to hang over 64,000 ornaments on your tree (all identical) at the same time. The holiday season would cost $16 million but would be celebrated faster than any other holiday during the year. Each ornament would weight about seven pounds, and require you to pay shipping and handling charges. Their Personal Xmas-ing Device, which would be barely larger than an ornament and flat, would allow you to celebrate the season with a device attached conveniently to your belt.Įvery month, you would receive another lovely hand-crafted item from an authentic Civil War pewter ornament collection. They would market the Reverse Polish Ornament, which is put in your attic on the weekend after Thanksgiving, and placed out for viewing the day after the January Bowl Games.

We used to have Christmas back in the ’70s, didn’t we? Your ornaments would have a secret trap door that only the NSA could access in case they needed to monitor your tree for reasons of national security. X-Files would have an episode about them. Blueprints for ornaments would be highly classified government documents. Their service department would have an unlisted phone number, and be located at the North Pole. Christmas morning there would be presents for everyone, but no one would know what they were. The ornaments would be large perfectly smooth and seamless black cubes. “Baby’s First Ornament” would have a hand-crank that you turn to hang the thing on the tree. Wait a minute? Isn’t IBM running this Christmas.? Options would be available for ‘equalization’ of color combinations on the tree. Also the colors of the ornaments would be prettier than most all the others. Ornaments would be priced slightly higher, but would hang on the tree remarkably quickly. It would do everything the Microsoft ornaments do, but years earlier, and with a smaller mouse (not stirring of course).

Most everyone would hate Microsoft ornaments, but nonetheless would buy them since most of the other tree types wouldn’t work with their hooks. It would interrogate your other decorations to find out who made them. Ornament/95 would weigh 1500 pounds (requiring a reinforced steel countertop tree), draw enough electricity to power a small city, take up 95% of the space in your living room, would claim to be the first ornament that uses the colors red/green together. You wouldn’t have to take the tree, but you still have to pay for it anyway. Receiving presents would take about 24-36 hours of mainframe processing time.Įach time you bought an ornament, you would have to buy a tree as well. They would want one big Santa, dressed in blue, where kids queue up for their present-processing.
