Sunny, fresh, active, much going on in what feels like a fast lane. How is it possible to experience renewal and excitement and freshness in January?... ah well, stranger things have happened, I suppose.
I have a new office computer, one of the new iMacs – Intel chip, utterly immense screen, high-resolution, stylish, and fast as the dickens (no, this time I don't mean the Dickens). And a charming little remote control that clings to the side.
It arrived and I set it up in the same few hours that the Net was frantically reporting on Steve Jobs' keynote, where he introduced the iPhone and iTV. The iPhone, though I am not foolish enough to be an early adopter, is astounding and very impressive indeed, if the Net video is to be believed.
As I bought my first Macintosh in 1984 – their first year (though I bought the second model in existence, the 512K) – it is pleasant to me to see the company doing so well, and generating some of the passionately well-made and imaginative technology that they wanted to from the beginning.... I know it's all terribly bourgeois/capitalist, but if you have to make products and money and such, you might as well at least make them well.
In any case, I'm having fun with my new toy.
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