OK, so I was looking at my urban dictionary calendar, and today's word is "meh", meaning A way of expressing indifference; The verbal equivalent of a shrug o fthe shoulders...

So it got me to thinking, What if there were a "meh.OS".. if it was based off of Ubuntu, you could call it "meh.Buntu", or something like that. and since I like netbooks more than regular laptops or desktops, what about making a "meh.Book".. I'm kind of going on a apple-style naming system. (iPhone, iPod, iMac, iLife, etc. meh.Book, meh.OS, meh.Dia Player....)

I'm sure it would take a lot of money for someone to build a netbook specifically for this whole idea, so for my personal use, I'd choose an Aspire One, black, and have in big white letters on the outside, have (you guessed it) meh. And as for a wallpaper, let it be solid black, and have the bust of a short, fat, sleepy eyed penguin (the same general shape of Cartman on south park), and have a speech bubble that says the same thing, and across the bottom of the screen, have the definition as if it were an actual entry in the dictionary..

I don't really know if creating new meh-programs is feasible, since almost all linux distros have the same set of applications (open office, firefox, all the same games).. maybe its just a better idea to create a bootscreen, and make a wallpaper like I described..

Anyway, after realizing that you can't get very far into the "mah.Life", would anyone feel up to the challenge of making a bootscreen and/or wallpaper like I described? I'm not very technically or artistically gifted, I get ideas, relay them, and hope someone can make it happen... Any takers? I just request partial credit, or not, but if someone does make it happen, I gotta have it!

It would be difficult to get too enthusiastic about meh.buntu. I can see that it might have a role in the workplace, but it wouldn't be suitable for gaming (or if it was, they'd have to be pretty rubbish games). It would also need a custom media player that would only play low-bit-rate tracks from the likes of The Brotherhood of Man and Val Doonican.

Since apps such as OpenOffice.org and Firefox are open-source, it would be perfectly possible to mod them. NaffOffice.org and Mudskipper, anyone?

Thinkgeek.com do do a meh. T-shirt, as worn by Roy from The I.T. Crowd.

It'd be too difficult to get enthused about "meh-" anything, the way I see it. That system would have to force the computer to crap out every time real work needs to be done, like compiling. :P

Yes, its a fantastic concept, and those are some amazing ideas. It'd be like a *lackware that was actually made by slackers for slackers. But what's the point? If it lived up to a design maxim of being sub-par in every way and sacrificed quality at every opportunity, wouldn't people just complain? I mean, my time is valuable (I just celebrated my first anniversary of being unemployed), and if people complain I gets nervous. And when I gets nervous I start to wonder about my wardrobe choices for the day.

Anyway, I have a 5:30 tee-time so let me rap this up... If you would like, I'll take a crack at the splash-screen and/or wallpaper. It'll give me something to do between collecting unemployment checks, and it'll be much more fun than interviewing at Hardee's. Let me know what ideas you have concerning layout, logo, fonts, size...

---Kurt

Meh.

Double meh.