1. It is thin. Do people not understand this!? 0.75” - 0.9” is not thin. My Macbook pro is only 1 inch thick. 0.16” - 0.76” is thin.
2. It looks awesome. If anyone thinks that Lenovo notebooks look awesome, they need to be commited.

Those are THE two reasons why people want a Macbook Air instead of something else, including other Apple notebooks. For a notebook to “Eat Macbook Air for lunch,” it has to be thin and look awesome. I can get ports somewhere else. I can get a DVD player somewhere else. If a computer is not thin and does not look awesome IT IS JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER “SUB-NOTEBOOK.” I have a Macbook Pro and I would not use a Macbook Air because I care more about the connectivity and 3D graphics than the size, but if I did care more about size and looks you would be an idiot if you told me the Lenovo X300 is better. Better at what? Better at being ugly? better at being kind-of-thin-but-not-really? Wired says, “Lenovo’s Got a MacBook Air Without the Compromise.” Are you freaking kidding me?! If you are about to say that it has more ports then please, just go home.

What have been doing lately, you ask? If you didn’t ask, just humor me, ok? I’ve been…

• doing math and computer science homework and projects. Although lately it seems like I signed up for four math classes instead of two of each. I’ve even managed to bore my wife, who is a math teacher, talking about it.
• Figuring out how I can replace iPhoto with Adobe Bridge because Adobe Bridge doesn’t choke and then pee on itself when I ask it to open alot of files. (Although, I do have to make Adobe Bridge pancakes sometimes.)
• Coverting my friends to Apple. (Which seems to be increasingly less difficult. Can I even say “increasingly less?” Oh well, I just did.
• Drooling over the demo videos for Aperture. The only problem is that if I got it, I would have to buy a new computer and a real camera to really make it worth it.

That’s a brief summary. See you next month!

After a few hours of soul searching, I have decided that most valuable does indeed assume that a player’s team has been successful because of his play. So, it is with great sadness that I have to look past the best football player in the NFL when I cast my vote. Neil Rackers, I’m sorry. I know LaDanian only has eight touchdowns and you have the equivalent of that plus a safety. I also know that TO has 504 yards and you have 633 yards of three point goodness. Finally, I know that last year’s MVP, Peyton Manning, is averaging 16 fantasy points and you are average 15. Yes, averaging a mere point less that last year’s MVP is an admirable feat, but unfortunately, your team is 1-3 so I can’t vote for you for MVP. Maybe next year.

I do not agree that new technologies have to have this same level of intuitiveness, especially if even the purpose of the new technology represents a new way of doing things. Take the mouse for example. Arguably, it is one of the most usable pieces of technology in existence. Now. But imagine you are living 1963 and you walk into Douglas Engelbart’s office and see a wooden block on his desk with a button on it. He sits you down at his desk and says, “tell me what this does.” What if his computer is off? There is nothing inherently intuitive about a mouse. Once you are shown how it works, you find out that using it really is easy, but the technology was so new at one time that people didn’t just know what to do with it. We have to allow for at least a small learning curve when trying out new technology or we will never advance.

To those people I say, you have been reading my blog, right? I know that my readers crave my earth shatteringly profound commentaries on how inept I am at writing (or thinking for that matter), but sometimes it takes awhile for an idea to gel. I don’t want to post just anything here. If I write too often or if I am too interesting, then I will begin to gain new readers. If I gain new readers I will have pressure to write more often and be more interesting and funnier. No, I prefer to provide my readers with what they have come to expect. Nothing. That way, they are happy. I don’t have to come up with thoughts very often, and the world is generally a better place.

Now, if you really want to see something that get’s updated more often. I do regularly update my photos. I like to think they actually are somewhat original. Uhh…It seems I don’t know how to end posts very well, so…it’s been real, yo.