of macbook pros and brains
Posted in apple, brain on February 5th, 2009 by mdwYes it’s just a joy to use. I hate to be a walking advertisement for Apple, but I’m enjoying my new laptop even more than I thought I would. I always enjoy moving to a new computer; it’s a chance to re-organize my digital life, discarding any baggage in the process.
I’ve never had more than a couple commercial software programs on my machines – Adobe Photoshop is the one that we never seem to be without despite a long-running admiration I’ve had for Gimp. Now that I’m getting old, that trend seems to be going away, and now I’m buying software I don’t even need like versions. I’m perfectly content using subversion from the command line (in fact I still can’t seem to do certain things from Versions) but the program is so slick and the UI so compelling that I decided to buy. Anyway, enough about me getting old.
I look forward to the day when our mental data stores can be uploaded and downloaded as a way of re-ordering them. Just as the organizational schemes you used on old computers is less effective as time goes by, so too is your brain. Part of the reason is due to the way you’ve created your organization scheme for knowledge and your precious memories and such. Upload, re-format, create newer and more appropriate filesystem and then re-apply most of the data. Just like new computers, you’d invariably find that lots of that old stuff is just not needed. Similarly many of the priorities that drove your data organization earlier in life have changed, and an fsck is in order.
