Now that I have a blog, I spend oh-so very little time writing in it. There is a threshold of arsedness in my head which I seldom get over. Anyway, it's 1:30am on a friday morning a few days before xmas so what better time than this?
Punkt: I'm really enjoying playing with Nils now. He takes up a lot of our time, but the investment is starting to pay off. Perhaps it is a hard-wired nugget of reaction in my head, but every time he smiles it's worth about 1.5 minutes of screaming. Maybe I should post a conversion ratio? ;-)
Punkt: Over the past three years I have gotten into the mentality of watching new features appear in !MacOS X with a half-open eye because I knew my aging iBook couldn't keep up; "Quartz you say? Whoohoo look at that spangle crawl". I should just close my eyes fully and then open them afresh to the wonders of my new !MacBook. I like my new !MacBook, and I'm certainly glad I got it, but I'm not blown away. The battery life is pretty pish (3hours, pah), and there is still no 'snappy' feeling. However, I am running with the default config of 1G memory, so an upgrade could change all that.
We'll see; I really haven't been ever impressed or blown away by any computer I have bought. Then again, I am the sort of person who never closes any applications (or tabs). Perhaps I'll notice the difference when I switch back to an old laptop. I still have an old indigo clamshell ibook. Using that is always a sobering experience.
I have 10 minutes remaining on my battery: "You are now running on reserve power". The image it brings to mind is of an encampment of people in the frozen wastes, finally tucking in to the foul-smelling ration-pack that they avoided because it reminds them of the dogs they have just eaten to stave-off their hunger. So romantic.
I'll take that at as indication to leave. Time for some Vernor Vinge on the loo. Am I over-sharing? ;-)
Oh, go on then, one last thing:
Top-ten signs of getting old/being a parent, installment 2:
6: Hearing haunting cries of Nils within music. I'm not kidding; there was a jazz background on a programme I was just watching and it sounded exactly like a faint Nils cry.
5: Having 'Puke Paranoia'. This is when you are standing at work or going around a supermarket and you have the sudden creeping suspicion that there is a line of !NilsPuke(tm) running down your back.