I wouldn’t necessarily advocate that you follow celebrities in everything they do—note: I mean emulate, not actually follow, because that, I can tell you from personal experience, will get you an interview with a very pleasant officer down at the police department. But after all, celebrities are just people too (those who aren’t beings from another planet, anyway). They have computing needs, just like you and me.
That’s why I was pleased to see a pair of pieces on auteurs who I’m a fan of, who use Macs. The first was David Simon, creator of HBO series The Wire, who was shown in an AP photo using a Mac. While Simon apparently uses a PC at home, he’s on the road a lot, so his MacBook Pro has become basically his only computer (still, I doubt we’ll ever see a Jimmy McNulty iPod ad—but how awesome would that be?).
The other was Steve Niles, author of comic book 30 Days of Night, who gave a short interview with The Guardian about technology. Niles’s favorite gadget is his iPod, but he’s also a Mac user, apparently, after 20 years on the PC—“my blood pressure is much lower, thank you,” he adds. Niles also dishes on one of our favorite topics: whether or not robots will rule the world. Check out the full interview at the link above.
I’m thinking of pitching a crossover story: Cops who use Macs to track down vampires. It’s a win-win-win.
Blade had a Mac, does that count?
There is also Science Fiction author Jerry Pornelle a long time tech writer at Byte and PC user who has recently switched to Mac and has been detailing his largely positive experiences at http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com
RE: "... pieces on auteurs who I'm a fan of, who use Macs."
I'm not a journalist and I'm definitely not a creative person, but I do believe that "who" should be "whom"
It's true: "whom" is the objective case, and since they're people I'm a fan "of", that would be the correct case. However, popular parlance and informal writing have long accepted "who" as a substitution for "whom".
I guess it was a tradeoff between being called out for my grammar mistake, and being called pretentious for using whom. ;)
I'm just glad he didn't write "whom I'm a fan of", that would just be wrong. I guess it's a case of two wrongs making a right (or write).