I feel a little like Kip with this post.

*singing*
I…love technology. But not as much as you, you see. Still, I love technology….

I’ve already lauded the praises of my computer and my ipod. But I’m going to need to devote another post to the genius that is…TECHNOLOGY.

I’m a gadget geek. I got it from my dad…it’s not just because of my generation. Each new thing that comes out, I want to try it, to have it. I don’t really know why…I just have an appreciation for things that make life a little easier (although do they really do that, or are they just really cool?).

Scott Adams in his Dilbert Blog had a funny post about this the other day. I won’t even try to summarize because I’m not nearly as funny as that guy, but I will say this:

I like software.
I like hardware.
I like to upgrade things that don’t really need upgrading. I think

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Volume 7

Today, I’m thankful for my computer. I have this beautiful 20″ iMac sitting in front of me right now. It’s such a terrific computer with a gorgeous display and it RUNS MAC OS X.

It was a Christmas present to me last year and I absolutely love it. I would like to build a better desk for it, but that is down the road, when I have some spare time to figure everything out since I have a strangely shaped room.

There’s a couple of things that I love about this computer:

1. Its beautiful form factor. I don’t know if there has been a slimmer, more attractive computer.
2. It runs Mac OS X. I know I mentioned this before, but this is a wonderful thing.
3. The Bluetooth option. I don’t have the internal Bluetooth, but I have a USB Bluetooth key, which allows me to use this very nice wireless keyboard and mouse. What’s genius about them is that I was able to haul my computer to a mini-showcase for Alli last weekend and run a slideshow of all her work on my screen on our table. It looked very nice and super professional, almost like a TV.
4. The nice big screen. Brilliant colors. 20″ widescreen. You gotta love it.

Now, don’t get me wrong. If somebody got me a companion iBook laptop to go with it, I wouldn’t kick that computer out of bed for eating crackers, but it would most certainly be my traveling companion (emphasis on companion…I wouldn’t even get MS Office for it…I’d just rock iWork on it). This gorgeous machine in front of me will be my primary computer for a long time.

(Unless of course I get into music or movie production or something insane like that where I might need to get one of those slick new Quad G5’s.)

So thanks, Apple (and more importantly Mom and Dad). I really love my computer.

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Snowballs are being thrown around in hell.

In a move that I can’t really quite understand, yesterday, Steve Jobs announced that in the future, Apple Computers will be produced with Intel chips, abandoning their long relationship with IBM and their PowerPC chip.

I don’t know why Apple would choose to do this, other than to increase marketshare more by going with a more widely accepted (and much cheaper) chipset for their computers…wait…I guess that’s a pretty good idea.

And to be honest, I don’t care. As long as OS X continues to rock the house as the best operating system on the planet, I will be happy. If they don’t screw it up on the Intel boxes, they should be fine. I say, the more Mac users, the merrier.

UPDATE: Todd Dominey over at WhatDoIKnow.org has a great overview of the news. Explains a lot.

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OK…I love having the ability to create a wish list on Amazon.com. Here’s mine…

As a reminder, my birthday is 2 days before Christmas. Just in case you want to get me anything.

Here are things of interest on my list:

Apple iMac G5 and Apple iBook
Apple is really going after the home market. These are really really affordable home-use computers that are completely customizable to the power that you want. What is particularly interesting is that there are folks who want the portability of a laptop so they immediately look at the PowerBook, but what is interesting is that Apple has now positioned their pricing so that you can buy a 17″ powerbook for the same price that you can get BOTH a 17″ iMac and a 12″ iBook, giving you both the stability of a desktop at home (and a nice one at that, with the G5 technology) as well as the portability of a nice little 12″ iBook G4.

Some Spectacular DVDs
Napoleon Dynamite
Dodgeball
Rounders: Collector’s Edition
Family Guy: Seasons 1,2,3
Billy Madison / Happy Gilmore 2-pack (does it get more genius than putting these two together?)

Music
U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Zero 7: When it Falls
The Urge: Too Much Stereo (the only album of theirs that I don’t have…)
Frank Sinatra Christmas

Books
Doyle Brunson’s Super System
Dinner for Two by Mike Gayle
Positively Fifth Street by James McManus

I would also like the following, but they can’t really be categorized…
Nice Playing Cards
Scene It DVD Game
Trivial Pursuit DVD Pop Culture Game
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 for Mac
Remote for my Digital Camera

I know it seems like a lot, internet, but if you buy from my Amazon wish list, you can have it sent right to me.

Christmas is fun. Alli and I got all our shopping done last Monday…all we have left to buy for is each other. I’m excited.

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