My new employers were gracious enough to buy me a 17″ MacBook Pro to use for work and I’ve spent the last couple of days working on it and replicating all of my OS X applications and customizations over from my iMac. I have to say that I’m loving both Leopard and this machine. It’s my first Intel Mac, my iMac is a 2Ghz G5, and this thing is at least twice as fast as my G5 if not more.
Having a good laptop on which I can get real work done, with a sizable screen and comfortable keyboard, is a huge boon. I’ve never much liked working from home. It’s very motivating for me to get up and go to work, and I like being out of the house during the day. Nothing makes you feel like a shut-in quite so much as never leaving the house. I’ve always preferred to go out and get my work done in coffee shops and now I can do precisely that during the day. There’s a great place right down the street called Edgehill Studios that has an awesome coffee shop with big bright windows and modern furniture that’s not too comfortable so you can sit in it and get work done.
For Halloween this year I went out as Rick James Lipton, an amalgamation of Rick James, bitch, and former Parisian pimp James Lipton. For the role I grew a beard and I’ve kept it.
As I was sitting, working on my new MacBook Pro, wearing a corduroy sport coat, Threadless t-shirt, jeans, and bright red Reebok running shoes, and sporting a beard it occurred to me: I look like a total Mac geek. It’s unavoidable. I might as well go back to the year 1999 when I looked more than a little bit like productivity guru Merlin Mann.
Folks, don’t miss my supercool Casio calculator watch.
Admittedly, I wish I knew where that watch was. I’d probably still be wearing it.
Tags: geek, Merlin Mann
