We are unabashedly an Apple Family. From my first "grown up" computer, to almost countless iPods, and iPhones, to, I can only assume, an iPad in the near-ish future (just because I make fun of something all the time doesn't mean I don't secretly want one...).
Liz is the same way. In fact it was she who first plunged the needle into my apparently-cash-bleeding veins. We champion apple in a way that has been made fun of by every major "making fun of" outlet, all by whom we would assume, are also Apple users (you're telling me the Simpson's writers don't use macs? I've personally seen Harry Shearer in the Third Street Promenade Apple store several times)...
We make fun of her father and brother for having an unfortunate PC "problem", and considered it a significant victory when her brother's wife got an iMac (the fact that it crashed within a couple months of the warranty ending and needed to be replaced was entirely her fault for not getting applecare, as any good Apple crusading asshole would know...)
So I took a twisted sort of prideful pleasure when I came across this and decided to share it in the hopes of maybe a freebee iPad thrown my way:
But then I figured there's no way anyone's going to send me an iPad just for a cute kid in with an Apple shirt on, so I figured, maybe two cute kids with an Apple shirt on?
And then I had a stroke of marketing genius...
I told the kids about it:
Needless to say, they weren't too excited about it, but damn it, Apple shit is EXPENSIVE, so I resorted to desperate measures...
I'm thinking a 27" iMac, a 32 gig iPad, and an iPod classic to replace the one that was just stolen from me at work (I'd ask for an iPhone to to replace the one that was also stolen from me at work, but I already went out and bought one, and hey, I'm not greedy...)
I mean this is a life-long, permanent tattoo. That's got to be worth something, right?
So while I await my delivery, I'll share with you how I know these are my children. I took 25 pictures of them asking them to just smile, and I got 25 pictures of this:
And if I ever needed any proof that Thalia is pure Gerloff, tell me this isn't then most ridiculously "me" face you've ever seen (if, that is, you know me, and/or my faces...)
I short, I love my kids only slightly less then I love my Apple stuff, and if that makes me anything short of a good, stereotypical, slightly cool-ish, sort of well-to-do Brooklyn Dad, then I don't even want to be a Brooklyn Dad...
I'll turn in my card.
Right now, I don't care.
Since we all know there's only one place with slightly cooler-ish, sort of weller-to do, stereotypical-er, better-type-of-dads that love Apple as much as, or even more than I do, I'll go straight to San Francisco and take my rightful place among the appl-elite... (heh, I just said "straight" and "san francisco" in the same sentence).
Seriously though, I want to move back to San Francisco. I will tattoo San Francisco on my children's faces for real if it got me back there.
Any takers?
How about just an 27" iMac for my birthday? It's coming up you know...
Anyways...
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