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January 09, 2002

Better than watching geller bending silver spoons. Better than witnessing newborn nebulas in bloom. She who see's from up high smiles and surely sings. Prospective pries her once weighty eyes and it gives you wings. I haven�t felt the way, I feel today in so long it�s hard for me to specify. I�m beginning to notice how much this feels like a waking limb. Pins and needles, nice to know you, good-bye, nice to know you. Deeper than the deepest Coustou would ever go. Higher than the heights of what we often think we know. Impressed that she who clearly sees the wood of the trees. To obtain a birds eye is to turn a blizzard to a breeze. I haven�t felt the way, I feel today in so long it�s hard for me to specify. I�m beginning to notice how much this feels like a waking limb. Pins and needles, nice to know you, good-bye, nice to know you. Could it be that it had been there all along? I haven�t felt the way, I feel today in so long it�s hard for me to specify. I�m beginning to notice how much this feels like a waking limb. Pins and needles, nice to know you, good-bye, nice to know you.

I feel like I fiend, I've actually bought 4 albumns in the past two days. I wonder if it will wash off...

The Shareholder and voting trust agreements of my dad are finally done and overwith so I have no more obligations prior to making my way back to school for class this upcoming monday. Supposedly Marci is getting into town sometime yesterday or today or god knows when along with her friend Brett so I'll probably have lunch with them or go downtown or something with them before I go back to school.

I hate sleeping for 14 hours a day and still being tired the remaining hours of the day. Am I not eating right? Am I not getting enough exercise? Am I sleeping too much for my own good? Do I have a asinus infection? Maybe all these are true and that's my problem. Am I going to do something about it? Eh, if anything the sleeping too much but beyond that I don't mind being tired all that much. While it does make it a pain to do some things I enjoy, I usually lose the tired feeling if I'm having fun, and, well, the rest of the time I feel like a martyr or something. Everything I do for others is at great expense to me because I am so tired all the time.

The new iMac was announced recently, and I must say I like the styling of it. If I were to buy a Mac, I would probably buy it. The idea of cramming the computer into the base of the monitor is a very cool one, and they pulled it off well. It has just about all the ports one would want built into it, and considering the hardware included, the price only sits at around $1300. Joel was running laps around his room at the idea of the new iMac, claiming it and OSX will be the death of Microsoft and more generally, the PC. I couldn't disagree more...

Apple has been releasing all kinds of new technologies and great concepts and yet the PC and windows market is still running strong. Why? A number of reasons explain why the Mac is not the computer of choice. And sadly, they have essentially nothing to do with Apple or things Apple has done. For the same reason the zip drive has succedded for so long where Syquest and Imation failed, and people still write cds in CDDA format as opposed to mp3 or another compressed format, and people still drive cars with internal combustion engines while technology like flywheel-turbine engines exist, people still buy and build PCs based on various windows operating systems. It's not fear of change, or just sheer stubborness or bullheadedness as most Mac enthusiasts I've heard claim, it's the logistical issues of it. Most schools and businesses use PCs because of the wider distribution base in the home. It makes a lot of sense for all machines people and their kids are going to use to all work together and be happy. Likewise software developers (most notably game developers) have a bias toward development on PCs. So what the hell did Microsoft do to get this? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. They got it by accident. Both companies started around the same time and niether made such a decisive move such that would warrent the kind of market share divide we have today. And no decisive design or marketing move is suddenly going to fling the table around. Sorry people, but developers and consumers (notably commercial and governmental) aren't going to flock to this thing because it looks cool and has really great hardware design and specs. I personally don't think that anything is going to revolutionize or drastically change the face of the computing industry until they perfect organic or quantum computers. Of course that's just me. Look I like the new iMac design, it's pretty and has some good hardware. But you know what, I own three PCs all running win2k professional and I can't think of anything I'd change about them. More importantly, I can't think of anything I'd gain by buying a new iMac besides just another computer. OSX? it's nice, but you're not seeing my hands go up in the air. There's just not enough there, there really isn't to get me out of my seat.

Besides, as an added bonus I like hand picking all the parts and building a machine myself. Call me set in my ways. Accuse me of lacking vision. But until there's a wholely better way of doing what I do, I don't really care.

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