This week we met with a client who has a 17″ G4 Powerbook, and I fell in love with it. Hrmm. A BTO 17″ MacBook Pro with a 100GB 7200-RPM drive (minus $99 from the stock price, but a faster drive) with the educational discount is $2509, vs. $2699 at the regular price. That’s a lot of clams. (a 2.3Ghz 15″ with the standard 120GB drive is $2499. Would I pay $10 for more screen size? Hell yeah.)
Watching the Ian McKellan-written Richard III this evening, at the exit of Dame Maggie Smith (The Duchess of York), who is delivering a final word to Annette Bening (the widowed Queen Elizabeth), who is standing on the tarmac of the airport.
Jen: I never understood why she [Queen Elizabeth] stuck around in this play. Why didn’t she leave England too?
Bill: Yeah, I don’t know.
Jen: Like Jackie said, “They’re killing Kennedys. I’m out!”
This is some cool McGuvyer shit. Build a solar powered iPod charger from simple parts in about 15 minutes. I’d try this in a second.
I just got an unexpected freelance check this afternoon, one I knew was coming but wasn’t banking on until sometime mid-December. It’s deposited in my bank account this afternoon, which means I might just pull the trigger and get the new toy I’ve been dreaming of since the beginning of the year.
Computerworld has a great article about the state of elections countrywide. Here’s the entry for Maryland.
On my way back from a client meeting in Frederick yesterday, I saw this line of cars in a farmer’s field and stopped to snap a few photos.