yesterday at MacWorld
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rowanfSo, back to me instead of interesting news stories. *wry grin* Yesterday was my day at MacWorld. The new laptops are quite nice looking. I'd have to think hard about the 12 inch if I was in the market just because of the increased portability. OTOH, I don't mostly carry my laptop around... I carry a zip disk and my Visor and leave my Wallstreet by the bed where I do most of my home computing. Luckily I don't have to think about this right now.
I got informed in my personnel discussion earlier this week that I am the last MacOs 9.2 holdout in the lab (we have 1/3 Mac users here... I love that). Also we have some OS X stuff coming up to test so I have to upgrade. *cringe* Yaah! I don't want to be switched. ;-) (I trust you all saw this OS X switched parody video)
The only thing I bought at MacWorld was a cool red leather case for my iPod and a car charger and various other little connectors. MacSense announced a "HomePod" that will allow users to to beam MP3 files on their wireless network for pickup anywhere in the house. I suspect there will be one of those in our future! We're up to 3,200 songs on my iPod! I note that this has slowed down the searching for artist/album/etc a bit. My cute little red leather stuffed to the gills iPod (well, 3/4 full ;-).
I was tempted to upgrade Painter but I haven't done any artwork in too long to justify it. And I don't know when I'd have the time. *sigh* I haven't done a painting or even written a poem in about two years. I am working (in a fairly desultory fashion) on the design for a Dionysos painting but who knows when I'll even have the rough pencil done let alone start the #($# painting. I keep thinking that when I am no longer working two jobs I will get some artwork done. I guess we'll find out in a few months. Planetree will probably move in March or April.
Kurt & Marina and I wandered MacWorld together which was fun. They bought l ots of things which was fun for me. I love the energy of buying things but I'd rather not expend it myself. ;-) They were good stolling companions and Marina's bright flowered skirt definitely made it easier to rendevouz then Kurt and my drab business clo thes. (Aside: When did I start wearing a black blazer every day and what is wrong with this picture?! Note to self - check the travelsmith catalog and see if they have a red blazer. Nope, women's sizes only get navy & black. That must be why I wear a blac k jacket every day. *sniff*)
K&M & I met Petra & Jen at Amira for dinner. Wednesday nights some subset of Fat Chance dance there. It was really great and so was the food and company. We shared around a number of dishes - lamb kabob, kefta araby (with ses ame sauce), apricot chicken, pastilla and a veggie combo all washed down with a nice enough cabernet. I notice that I am looking at tribal style dancing differently now that I understand the mechanics better. Very cool stuff.
I got home after 11pm and s o did not manage to set up tea with Carole this morning which is just as well because my alarm did not get me up. I evidently turned it off and turned over until Russell's went off. And I do have a FULL day ahead! Work followed by a Bridge interfaith meet ing. *yawn* I hope I can concentrate by the time I get to that meeting!
I got informed in my personnel discussion earlier this week that I am the last MacOs 9.2 holdout in the lab (we have 1/3 Mac users here... I love that). Also we have some OS X stuff coming up to test so I have to upgrade. *cringe* Yaah! I don't want to be switched. ;-) (I trust you all saw this OS X switched parody video)
The only thing I bought at MacWorld was a cool red leather case for my iPod and a car charger and various other little connectors. MacSense announced a "HomePod" that will allow users to to beam MP3 files on their wireless network for pickup anywhere in the house. I suspect there will be one of those in our future! We're up to 3,200 songs on my iPod! I note that this has slowed down the searching for artist/album/etc a bit. My cute little red leather stuffed to the gills iPod (well, 3/4 full ;-).
I was tempted to upgrade Painter but I haven't done any artwork in too long to justify it. And I don't know when I'd have the time. *sigh* I haven't done a painting or even written a poem in about two years. I am working (in a fairly desultory fashion) on the design for a Dionysos painting but who knows when I'll even have the rough pencil done let alone start the #($# painting. I keep thinking that when I am no longer working two jobs I will get some artwork done. I guess we'll find out in a few months. Planetree will probably move in March or April.
Kurt & Marina and I wandered MacWorld together which was fun. They bought l ots of things which was fun for me. I love the energy of buying things but I'd rather not expend it myself. ;-) They were good stolling companions and Marina's bright flowered skirt definitely made it easier to rendevouz then Kurt and my drab business clo thes. (Aside: When did I start wearing a black blazer every day and what is wrong with this picture?! Note to self - check the travelsmith catalog and see if they have a red blazer. Nope, women's sizes only get navy & black. That must be why I wear a blac k jacket every day. *sniff*)
K&M & I met Petra & Jen at Amira for dinner. Wednesday nights some subset of Fat Chance dance there. It was really great and so was the food and company. We shared around a number of dishes - lamb kabob, kefta araby (with ses ame sauce), apricot chicken, pastilla and a veggie combo all washed down with a nice enough cabernet. I notice that I am looking at tribal style dancing differently now that I understand the mechanics better. Very cool stuff.
I got home after 11pm and s o did not manage to set up tea with Carole this morning which is just as well because my alarm did not get me up. I evidently turned it off and turned over until Russell's went off. And I do have a FULL day ahead! Work followed by a Bridge interfaith meet ing. *yawn* I hope I can concentrate by the time I get to that meeting!
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Roaming Macworld
Date: 2003-01-09 11:33 pm (UTC)Those small laptops are TEMPTING. The big laptops (17 inch monitor) have auto-lit keyboards; I want that.
Oh well, at least I found the Peet's stand and bought a funn y bumpersticker from the EFF and a monitor cleaning kit. And I developed a resolve that I must learn how to use OSX. One of our home computers is running 10.1, all I have to do is e n t e r t h e r o o m a n d p u s h t h e b u t t o n. . . very soon now. If you hear of overview/training materials, please advise. I realize I'm probably not supposed to need a manual, but I don't want to turn out like the switch guy in the video!
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Re: Roaming Macworld
Date: 2003-01-10 10:54 am (UTC)I didn't notice the lighted keyboard on the 17", how cool.
*LOL* It is being *really* hard to contemplate changing to OS X. I'm afraid I'll come in Monday and they'll have done it. (I told the sys admin he could.) Will it still be my Mac!? Eeek!
MacWorld, X, etc
Date: 2003-01-10 12:54 pm (UTC)As for X, I think it's about as different as going from 9 to Windows. If you found learning Windows painful, I suspect you'll find X onerous, and if not, not.
I think Apple's turning into Bang & Olufson, and the Powerbooks are cool but partly a matter of playing to your strenghts -- "we have to push notebooks and be cooler and easier because our desktop machines are all 2-3X slower than cheaper Intel boxes (with no improvement likely in the near future), with a tiny fraction of the software and peripherals available (with no improvement likely ever)". I'll probably upgrade to X when I have to replace my machine, but I'll give serious consideration to saving some $$$ and switching to Windows.
Hard to believe you're wearing black every day!
-- Russell