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| 8:22 PM, Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
ugh.
Four hours of sleep and work from 9 to 6 ... this is getting ridiculous. I need to get to sleep earlier.
On the plus side, Andy Ihnatko is possibly the greatest Mac columnist in existence. Two excerpts from his July 2003 Macworld article, "Memo to Al", show why. (ed. note: the article is addressed to Al Gore, who recently joined Apple's board of directors. Why did he do it? Maybe he wanted to invent a new internet.)
"Will Microsoft ever consider muscling into Apple's territory by making a reliable and easy OS that people actually want to use? Who knows? But if it does, the mental image of you and Steve standing across from each other in front of a keyboard, typing in the IP address of Microsoft's primary server, exchanging a solemn nod, and then simultaneously turning a pair of keys on an Xserve should give that company pause."
"What made the iPod such a winner? Lots of things, but high on the list is its sensible antipiracy approach. I can copy music between my Mac and my iPod naked for all Apple cares; it emits a discreet cough of reprimand only when I try to copy music to someone else's computer. Sony's MP3 players incorporate Sony Music's vision of a world where you have to check music in and out of a device's library, and a future in which you have to cough up another dollar every fifth time you want to listen to David Bowie's Lodger.
Which is why nobody buys Sony's MP3 players."
In other news, apparently Shatterpoint is out. Blast ... another book to pick up and not enough money with which to do it. Jars is coming out with a new album in October ... still need to save up fifteen or so for that. And Reunion comes out in July, and I need money for that, too. Being broke sucks.
Oh, and when I got home I found out that the hard drive on my old beige G3/233 had failed sometime between March and May. So now I'm stuck running my second box from an even older Powerbook G3/233, with a 2GB hard drive and a video card that sustained massive damage when I got hit by that stupid car down on Pleasant Street and it flew fifteen feet to the other side of the road. Padded case, my ... ahem.
Yeah, so the Powerbook is annoying me. Fortunately I can hook up my ADB keyboard and mouse and my old monitor to it, so it's not entirely bad, but it's still a horrible, horrible little machine which lags every time someone signs off or on AIM. I think the hard drive and mobo may have taken some hits when the comp did the whole Porkins-above-Death-Star imitation.
"You are simply a horrible little monster and I pray for your quick and merciful death."
--White Mage
BTW, am currently trying to pick up a copy of Jars' Platinum and This Road off eBay. Heads will roll if I don't get at least Platinum, so be warned -- I may be cranky Sunday.
-David
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