The Temple of Bague

I had a very geeky conversation with the strangest of people last night. I had gone to pick up my oldest lad from Scouts and was standing speaking to him, one of the Scout leaders, and the Scout leader’s daughter. The Scout leader is a tiny wee wifie in her late fifties (I think - it’s difficult to tell).

Anyway, the daughter had been referring to $oldestLad and his friend as “Slave 1″ and “Slave 2″. Scout Leader wifie piped in with “Boba Fett’s ship was called Slave-1″. I was kinda taken aback and said “oooo good pop-culture reference. But technically it was Jango Fett’s ship first.” To which she replied, “Well, yeah but he’s allowed to give it to his son.” To which I replied “But it’s not technically his son because he’s a clone.”

Scout Leader wifie replied “Not necessarily - he was completely unaltered so he could be his son.”

Out-geeked by a scout leader. I feel shame.

deKay thinks he’s being clever by running a spectrum emulator under wine on Mac OSX. Except he’s not being clever at all, because my dashboard widget STILL wins.

My lovely lady wife has Mac Envy. It’s a terrible thing to see. She was wrestling with MS Office this morning and was practically turning purple. So, I’ve been commanded to “Get Her A Mac”. Thing is, we’ve been stuck with the PeeCee for over a year now and she’d kinda got used to the whole “fighting against the operating system” thing. Until, that is, she saw my shiny MacBook.

So there we go - mission for 2008 is “Get Debbie an iMac.”

Oh yes I have - thanks to this site, I’ve just spent an hour or so making the most awesome everlasting wallet out of duck tape (or duct tape, for our American readers).

So once again, my firm belief that the whole universe is held together by duct tape is confirmed.

Not only that, but it’ll last forever - if a bit gets worn, well, just tape it up again!

This post has been a long time in the making. Cast your mind back to 2006 - we were an entirely Apple household, with no sign of a nasty PC. Then came the house-moving, the shipping to the other side of the world, the whole Australia fiasco, and then all the coming back.

So on our return, with pretty limited resources, we had to switch to cheap and nasty PeeCees. Well, that time is over. Two days ago I became the proud recipient of a lovely glossy shiny little MacBook.

So - initial thoughts. It’s a little 13″ puppy, with 2.1GHz Core 2 duo processor (I’m still not entirely comfortable with the idea of having an Intel chip in a Mac, but hey-ho), and 4Gb RAM. And it’s lovely. I’m still exploring my way around OSX Leopard - the last release I used was Panther - but so far it’s been elegant, simple and with many shiny aspects.

I can’t believe how quickly I’ve fallen back into the mac way of doing things. More time working with applications than arguing with the O/S can only be a good thing.