Matthew, looking over my shoulder just now: “Hey, you’ve got a new operating system.”Me: “Yeah. My hard drive crashed on this laptop the other day. The tech guy at work installed a new one, and it had Windows 7 on it.”Matthew, voice dripping with fake sincerity: “Mama! Mama! We can have a Windows 7 launch party now!”The nerd family — wait, the Macintosh nerd family — at breakfast. Remember this great parody of the unbelievably stupid Windows 7 Launch Party initiative Microsoft undertook?UPDATE: Homeschool field trip to Valley Forge today. This just in via e-mail: “Exact quote: ‘Mom, I fell off the cannon'”.

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