My very chemistry has changed. In relationships, hobbies, and life, I find myself fidgeting in the safe smallness of the status quo. I want more from you now, and I want more from myself, and I’m less afraid of the risks it’ll take to get there because I have breathed through chaos before and I believe now—finally—that we’ll all still be here when the band stops playing.
Month: February 2014
Hawk Hill
Hawk Hill, California with Aaron Durand
This week Nabeel and I recorded our seventeenth episode of our podcast “Hallway Chat”.
In this show we discussed the 30th anniversary of the Mac (and I discovered Nabeel was a PC guy), Facebook Paper, Android and TiVo.
Sadly we had an additional 20 minutes of the show that we had to nuke because of audio interference problems we discovered after recording the entire show.
Back Bay, Boston
My first Mac
Apple is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh.
The Mac is certainly one of those things that had a profound impact and changed my life in so many ways.
The Mac wasn’t my first personal computer but (that would have been an Apple IIe) but it was my favorite computer.
My first Mac was the Macintosh SE. It had a built in floppy drive and more importantly it had an internal 20MB disk drive. My parents bought it for me during my sophomore year in college (1988). Thanks mom and dad.
I loved that thing. I could run wonderful software on it like MacDraw, Hypercard and do some primitive hacking on my OS with ResEdit.
A few years later, I sold that machine on usenet and bought my very first laptop — a Powerbook 140.
So much has changed since those salad days. I’m grateful for the Mac, what it stood for and how it changed my life.
What was your first Mac?
Charles River — Boston