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One hundred and one...

Mood: Odd.
Music: Theme to Mario DS (Doo - doo doo - doo dooo da doo...)
Game: World of Warcraft
Book: We Were Soldiers Once, And Young, Moore and Galloway

My last post was the hundredth post to this blog. I hadn't really noticed, to be honest. But the blog engine pays attention to such things. So basically, I've spewed drivel 101 times. Rock on with my bad self.

This morning, on the way to work, I ate my yummy muffin (sweet nectarine and strawberry this morning) and then, instead of reading (today's book is We Were Soldiers Once, And Young) I remembered I bought Mario DS when my foo was in town, and never got around to playing it, and I had somehow managed to throw my DS into my bag on the way out the door a few days ago.

It turns out that Mario DS is sort of an amalgam of other Mario Games...and I spent my entire ride just trying out a few of the minigames. Distracting. Not going to win any major awards...but it's fun.

I've also decided to add the game I'm playing and the book I'm reading to the top of my blog...because it's more info, and it might inspire some of you to start reading or playing.

Anyway, that's just housekeeping stuff. Now, my general entry:

Captain's Log...kidding. Each morning, on the way to work, I pick up a muffin. I go to a place called Blue Sky Bakery and it's kinda a hip trendy bakery/coffee place...but the muffins are amazing, and baked that morning. I'm not a coffee drinker, so I couldn't say how the coffee is. Anyway, the muffins are really really good. I even bring an extra for Adam most days, and he usually enjoys them too.

Anyway, as I walk in and get assaulted by the smells of fresh baking and coffee and listen to the cool music, I realize that there's a guy sitting at a table there with an iBook. Or some flavor of Mac laptop. There's usually someone with a Mac laptop in there most mornings...and a few weeks ago, there were three. A practical LAN.

Last week, on the way back from lunch at the Hunterspoint Cafe (Dominican food. Yum.) we stopped at Ten63, which is, yes, a hip trendy coffee place that apparently has great coffee, but their pastries aren't fabulous. Still make great mint lemonade and cocoa. Anyway, in there? 3 people with Mac laptops.

Now, there weren't any PC laptops in there. Just mac laptops. And, if I think about it, the last time I was in a Starbucks, the guy sitting at the table was whacking on an iBook.

Frankly, there's some information there that is tantalizingly out of reach. You could make all sorts of assumptions based on the fact that I seem to see iBooks and Mac laptops in hip coffeeshops often. Here's what's bugging me:

- I haven't seen any PC laptops in coffeeshops.
- The people with the Mac laptops are all there in the middle of the day.
- I know that PC laptops far outsell Mac laptops.

I can draw multiple possible conclusions:

- People who own Mac laptops like them some trendy coffee.
- People who own Mac laptops have no jobs.
- People who own Mac laptops are freelancers of some flavor, who can work where they like.
- People who have Mac laptops insist on using them everywhere, including coffeeshops, not unlike iPods.
- I frequent places where Mac Users like to go, making me at least sympathetic in taste to Mac Users.

I dunno. Open for input. I know some of you out there are avid (see also:rabid) Mac laptop users. What's up? Why don't you just work at a desk?

Ya know, maybe I'll bring my Dell laptop to a coffeeshop and work there for a little while...just to start to smooth the demographic. Who knows?

Posted by Glenn at January 10, 2005 11:54 AM