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DIY Hallowe'en: Mac and PC

Xeni Jardin at 5:01 pm Sun, Oct 31, 2010

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74865_676850040120_18909600_38473796_7892302_n.jpg From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, BB reader NightBrigade says,
My girlfriend and I went out as a Mac and a PC! We actually swapped our preferences so that I could include the "Fatal Error" joke on the PC screen.

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • teapot

    Is that a Jobs-esque turtleneck he is wearing? Ha!

    Kind of unlucky she isn’t running PS.. you guys could have matched.

  • sebastianrenix

    Hey were you guys at the same party as me in Burbank on Saturday night? There was a couple with your costume….it was dark but I could swear it was you. My girlfriend and I were the zebra and cheetah.

    • NightBrigade

      Yeah, we were there!

  • Grognard

    Fitting that the PC is showing an error message.

  • Anonymous

    Halpert?

  • Anonymous

    Should have gone as a BSOD — nothing more terrifying! Oh man, I am totally doing that next year.

  • bcsizemo

    Obligatory: “Dude you bought a Dell!” joke….

    • Niklas

      It’s “Dude you brought a Dell”! Sheesh! Kids these days…

  • Anonymous

    Looks like she’s having a kernel panic.