Incite Full

So i’m typing this post from a brand spanking new Mac Book Pro. Well, it’s actually about 20 days old getting its first use, but that’s only because the setup people missed my first appointment. Finally it has been configured and installed, and you know what? I’m not impressed. Yet.

Obviously it will take some time to get over the initial differences. And I still need to figure out who’s fault certain issues are (like why X11 isn’t installed by default, or the forwarding isn’t automatic). But I will give it all a fair shake, especially if these issues belong to the applications- I’m looking at you Entourage. I also need to get used to writing text on this OS- command right and left for home and end? Sigh, another thing to get used to…

Aside from that, things have been going pretty well. I’m seeing the Dark Knight at Thursday’s midnight show, and i’m really excited for it. It’s been a long while since I saw a movie on opening night. (On an aside, I now officially hate this “command-left” for the beginning of a line, as Firefox asks me if I want to go back a page. Sigh.) Things like this are probably going to annoy me for  a very long while. If anyone has any hints, tips, or primers, feel free to send them my way.

I’ve been running again. Beating my recent best of 3.5 miles, I went for 4 miles in less than it took me to do the 3.5 last time. That’s progress! Thinking about running makes me think about Jung- actually. He had this idea of speed, and how important it was to the people of his time. Speeding locomotives, cars, etc- epeed was everywhere.

Our generation is the now generation. We even have NOW! that’s what I call music volume 25 or something ridiculous. We are so impatient and unwilling to wait for things. Careers, printers, elevators- everything has to be faster than fast, sooner than soon. It’s actually kind of frustrating when you step back and realize it all.

I’m waiting for steph to be done with work so that I can leave. This is the peril of carpooling. I’m here an hour after I should be gone. I’d be upset except it doesn’t happen often, and I know she’s just as frustrated by it. It, to me, is the exact opposite of where I do my recycling. This place I have to physically drive all he glass, plastic, cans, and cardboard to the recycling center. Do you know what I have to do after that? I have to sort all of that shit into about 15 different bins. Is it any wonder why people don’t recycle? You can’t make things this annoyingly difficult and tedious and expect them to succeed. Especially if it’s voluntary, these aren’t fucking taxes.

So it doesn’t surprise me when our world is screwed up. No, it’s not hard work, but it’s more work than it ought to be. Hell I didn’t even know it existed until Brian told me about it, which is clearly a failure of advertising. I’m sure there isn’t much budget for that sort of thing. Listen, I will be frank: I know staving off infection, starvation, and global warming isn’t going to be easy, but whats with the assault on free time and patience going to do for their cause?

“I don’t believe in tips”