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Dragged our asses on reforming the pot laws and same-sex marriage issues, I guess...Should have done it sooner.

I have to say I enjoy the rag more than ever. It seems to have matured along with me, and I love the glossy covers. When I got the July issues in the mail I spend 5 minutes rubbing the smooth cover against my face 

I too also wonder why the contests are void in Maryland ("The Old Line State")? Not that I'd have any winning entry but I'm sure yall are missing out on my great mediocreness 

By the way, we got the results of our Reader Survey on Friday.

Rik, I've never sent in one of those Reader Survey forms because I can't bear to cut up my beloved MacAddict magazines.  BYTE magazine used to have tipped-in postcards where readers could vote for their favorite articles.  I think the cards were even postage-paid.

Now I wouldn't expct y'all to put in postage-paid cards, but you might get a better response if the readers didn't have to cut up the sacred pages themselves.

If you put a cathcy pharse in big letters on the card like "SEX!!", people will read it and understand that it is a form to enter a contest.There, that solves the problem

One of then even died of old age.

58 was way too young.

Check out the September issue of MacAddict -- available in late July

today is the 23 where is it

The way I look at it, what's happening to the MacAddict staff is no different than what's happening to the rest of us - they're just plain getting older. 

To illustrate my point, just look at the Beatles.  They used to be the hippest thing going among the young people of their generation.  Now, the survivors of that group are just a couple of old fuddy-duddys.  One of then even died of old age. 

So, until the next happening Mac mag...

John was shot and George died of cancer...where does "old age" come in?

One of then even died of old age.

58 was way too young.

Who died?

    MEMORY TO GEORGE  

"Hey, who is that?  They're good!"  They'd never realize that they were listening to stuff that was new when their parents/grandparents were young.

I smurf you not, I was getting my hair cut the other day and the stylist was bopping around to some Zep.  I said nothing like some good Zeppelin. She agreed, asked how I'd heard of them.  When I told her I grew up on their music, I thought she was gonna have a coronary.

kids...

(omigawd, I sound like my parents!!! )

But to stay On Topic (tm), I'll say that the mag certainly and expectedly has changed over the years since issue 1, in some ways for the better, in some for the not-so-much-better.  But not necessarily worse in my book.  After all, it's still about our beloved Macs (even if Apple as a company sucks and Jobs is a swaggering dictator with delusions of godhood  )

I'd like to see a little more of the old irreverance (sans profanity, please, it's supposed to be a family publication--yeah I know I cussed up there, but there are filters here that don't exist in a magazine except in the hands of the EDITOR--hint hint).

I'm all for bringing in more stuff by Ian Sammis.

What's missing? Dave Reynolds. The guy used to write about half the magazine, and it was good stuff. Prison Guy was fun as well. There isn't anything quite as trippy as the iBorg in the mag these days.

But three cheers for Rik, you're doing a great job. Colonel Panic is inspired.