Into Thin Air: How I Spent $5,000 on Air and Made Fifty-Year Old Women Swoon

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/02/into-thin-air-h.html

by drm237 • 18 years ago

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edw519• 18 years ago

How much do I have to spend to get 2 25-year-old women to swoon?

rrival• 18 years ago

I think those rates are quoted hourly

ratsbane• 18 years ago

You could buy a puppy from an animal shelter. Or you could buy one of the new Macbooks for each of them. Those would probably have about the same effect. After all, "two Airs is humane." [argh, sorry.]

zitterbewegung• 18 years ago

Therefore the price is about $500 for the puppy depending on the dog. Then you have to factor in food costs and checkups to keep the dog looking cute.

jdueck2• 18 years ago

For some people (not me) it depends on whether you're in Thailand or not.

DarrenStuart2• 18 years ago

meanwhile I spent nothing and went to a bar and met lots of women :p

Note:When I was younger and before I was married :p

icky• 18 years ago

> Note:When I was younger and before I was married :p

What a lucky guy you are, to have a wife who reads news.yc! ;- )

DarrenStuart2• 18 years ago

you never know :p

nirmal2• 18 years ago

Writing down my thoughts in disjointed, syntax-less phrases is usually the first step to putting together an article, not the last.

drm237• 18 years ago

Would you have read the whole thing if it was a long winded essay in paragraph form?

I've seem more and more blog posts where this twitter style is used and for certain situations, it's very effective.

nirmal2• 18 years ago

If it was well written it wouldn't be long winded.

mwmanning• 18 years ago

"for certain situations, it's very effective"

It may be for some, but this isn't one of them. I made it about halfway through before I completely lost interest, because there was no indication of the point of the article or where it was going.

This article is a study in tedium.

jdueck2• 18 years ago

"I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one."

- Mark Twain

alaskamiller• 18 years ago

That was excruciating to read through. Being clever only works if it's actually clever.

sspencer• 18 years ago

How is this even news? Guy Kawasaki is the most outspoken Apple fan in the world. I just kind of took it for granted that he would buy all kinds of Apple junk.

To me, the article even had the opposite of the (probably intended) effect. Instead of thinking how cool and affordable an "Apple lifestyle" is, I just kind of winced at the idea of spending $5K on that stuff.

klein_waffle• 18 years ago

Why read Guy Kawasaki? Evangelized product that sold itself, string of failures since. This article boring Apple fanboyism.

simianstyle• 18 years ago

Am i the only person that thinks Guy Kawasaki is too arrogant for his own good? I suppose it comes with being a VC though...

jamesbritt• 18 years ago

"Day 32: All three buddies come through. Now have enough serial numbers to open up a Microsoft distributorship. Install Office 2008 on Air."

Nice one, Guy. Guess it's OK to pirate software and brag about it on your blog if you can use your influence to glom serial numbers.

Into Thin Air: How I Spent $5,000 on Air and Made Fifty-Year Old Women Swoon

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