welcome to the blog.

yeah, i know. just what the world needs: another nerd-tastic, navel-gazing, self-important corner of the world wide web dedicated to the coolness of mac os x.

yeah, well..... GET USED TO IT.

with some amazement, i have watched myself evolve from disinterested bystander, to casual mac user, to unequivocal macintosh zealot. having been a computer geek since the 70's (!), and having evolved with the times from my very first trs-80 color computer, to vic-20, to commodore 64, to vax 11/780, to ms-dos, and eventually to win95 and nt and xp... and concurrently, as an audio professional, keeping a toe dipped in the mac side of the bathtub, from my very first mac se/30, thru the iicx and iici and quadra 650 and powerpc 970 and g4 and g5, into the modern day world of macintels and os x tiger... i can truly say that the current state of the mac, based on my experience, represents the pinnacle of the technological food chain, the crème de la crème of computer geekdom.

i don't know what is wrong with me, really. i mean, the computer is just another tool... like your stapler, or phone, or pencil sharpener.

right?

yeah... what ev. as any mac user knows, the the os x experience elevates the computer well beyond the status of mere tool... and into the realm of some kind of blissful nirvanic zendom, where seratonin flows freely and luxuriously in a warm rain of cogitative abundance; where great ideas grow on trees, springing effortlessly out from the void into joyous existence; where unbidden endorphins tickle your synapses as if by magic, and where a naked, cherubic, airbrushed steve jobs floats suspended in space while pressing frozen grapes into your speechless, adoring, gaping maw.

ok, that was kind of gross. in point of fact, though, i do not overstate the emotional impact that working on a mac has had on me, on a daily basis. every time i boot up my mac, i feel like i am getting away with something. the os is so beautiful to look at, and so elegantly laid out, and so effortless to navigate, that i truly feel as though the comforting blue cyber-scape of the mac desktop is an extension of my own neocortex... like my grey matter is intrinsically woven into the os.

it's kinda like a drug. it's kinda like a non-debilitating electronic mind expander, with none of the downsides of of an actual psychotropic. remember those brief, intoxicating moments during an lsd trip when the drug throttled up your neural carburetor to a full-throated roar, eagerly firing all those synapses that had been atrophying away in back of your cranial cavity.... gifting you with nearly godlike powers of intellect and perspicuity? at least, that's how i remember it - those ecstatic, tantalizingly brief minutes during the acid trip when you climbed mount olympus and took hold of the divine, before the piranhas appeared and began nibbling at the dark fringes of your brain, before the sweating and the tooth-grinding burnout kicked in. but i digress.

the point is: using mac os x gives me that same feeling of being on mental steroids. it's an incredible productivity tool, creative springboard and labor saving device. it's sexy, visually stimulating, and gorgeous to look at. chicks dig it. and, of course, logic only runs on mac, so they've kinda got you by the short 'n' curlies there. but, monopolistic jobsian thuggery notwithstanding, i wouldn't have it any other way.

so. the purpose of this blog is to document some of the individual 'omigawd' moments that make life on a macintosh such a transcendent joy. observations, soulful vignettes, day to day anecdotes, maybe some tips and tricks from time to time.... all in all, the collected impressions of one very happy mac user (me).

hope someone out there derives some benefit from this little enterprise... and if not, i'm sure i will enjoy putting it together. cheers!