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Green tea & cocaine: Charisma +12, Intelligence -5

January 20, 2006 on 2:53 am | In Uncategorized |

4:02 in the morning, cracked out and writing my first blog posting ever. Perfect.

This is James King, I’m currently living in Brooklyn, NY employed sporadically as a freelance designer, making money when I need to and delving into various other interests the rest of the time, usually until my cash flow runs dry. I call it the “back to zero” lifestyle and it affords me loads of personal creative time and the ability to submit to my non-existent sleeping schedule.

A little bit about my computing background - I was raised into PC’s for many years, often building my own from scratch, and then taking delight in squeezing every bit of juice possible out of it. My last desktop sounded like a vacuum cleaner on steroids, thanks to an overclocked Athlon and a heatsink the size of a grapefruit. When I turned it off the desk would shake from the torque of the fan motor. In some aspects it was annoying, in other aspects it was damn sexy.

Then I met Lola, my first Apple, my first laptop, my first computerlust. A first generation 17″ Powerbook, she was all I could ever want.

Lola is beautiful. Lola is smart. Lola is thin. She made me realize things, akin to the first time you make out with a real looker and then think back about all the flaws of past lovers, sometimes while your making out with said looker. Lola made me see the true clumsyness of the Windows OS, the lack of UI logic, and the overall ugliness of the experience. But alas Lola, even you aren’t without your shortcomings, and eventually I will leave you for a newer model — one with a faster CPU and those two little dimples at the top of the buttocks that I love oh so much.

In short, I have become a believer in Apple’s design philosophies, but miss the blazing speed of my Athlonmower. Stay tuned for the my next posting - The Trifecta of Evil. Bedtime.