• R.I.P. my bondi blue buddy

    Yesterday marked the passing of my original, 1998 vintage, rev. B, bondi blue iMac. I was firing it back up to serve as a back up server, so I could bring the iBook off-line for some heavy duty servicing. Alas, my old buddy went down in an unspectacular snap, crackle and pop within thirty seconds of powering it up.

    It seems like it was only yesterday I was ankle tackling a fellow post-Thanksgiving shopper to get one of the last promotional iMacs on the Comp USA shelf (they were giving away a free printer, scanner, Imation Superdrive, AND 13 inch color TV with the purchase of an iMac**).

    As few of you as there are, I’d hate to lose one of you to server maintenance. Now that my little buddy is gone, I’m lost in a sea of uncertainty. What will I do now?!?

    **After mail-in rebates. Note: the color TV was not exclusive to iMac sales… they were giving one away with any PC purchase.

  • Hey, did someone mention coffee?

    Drinking coffee is like riding a bike… the longer you go without the bigger kick in the pants you get when you start back up. (I’ll bet you didn’t see that analogy coming.) It goes without saying that the energy level at coffee drinking start up is inversely proportional to bike riding start up, but I hope you still get my point. (It’s a tolerance thing.)

    Today was my first cup since the pre-flu, early days of 2006. It’s just too bad creativity levels are not directly proportional to energy levels. Otherwise this would be a hum dinger of an entry.

    This entry was brought to you, in part; by Bodum… the maker of my Swiss conceived French press coffee maker, assembled in Denmark. Their unofficial slogan is “You can’t get much more European than us.”

  • Reason # 1203 why kids aren’t in charge

    “Dad, I don’t want you to drink coffee.”