First, because this just happened a few minutes ago (as of 4:00pm Pacific), I won a Gary Vaynerchuk wristband! No, not the old one. The new, green one! The one that’s not going to be available to the general public for three more weeks! Woo!
Things are looking up!
What I Want from the New Macbook Pro
… Assuming there is going to be a new Macbook Pro. The rumors are flying about this (which is not unusual for anything Apple related), but there only a couple of things I really want from a new Macbook Pro.
Six Reasons Why I Need A Macbook Pro, and One Reason Why I Can’t Have It
Why I need a Macbook Pro:
- Portability: If I have a laptop, I can bring it to things like New Media Expo–and not feel like the only douche without a laptop!
- It’s pretty. Duh.
- School: I’m in my final year of High School (thank god), and that means I’ll be in University soon. Personally, I’ve taken enough notes by hand throughout my school years already; A laptop would be amazing to have to take notes, as well as in whatever my major will end up being (probably Graphic Design).
- Inspiration: The most effective way to inspire me is to change the scenery–walk away from my desk, out of my room. Going in the backyard, or even downstairs on the couch and watching TV is an easy way to get the creative juices pumping. It would be a lot easier to tap into that creativity with Photoshop right in front of me, as opposed to upstairs in my room, which has become the non-creative zone.
- If I had a laptop, I could stream (live!) from anywhere in the house, not just my desk. If I didn’t have to be at my desk to stream, I could stream more often! Which is ultimately something I want to do, so…
- Mucho Power: This kind of goes along with #5: If I’m streaming (Firefox), browsing and listening to music via Pandora (Safari), and have my usual array of apps running (Mail, NewsFire, Skitch, iChat)… and I want to, say, open Photoshop or some other intense program, my computer gets all kinds of slow. If I can use the laptop to stream and either the laptop or desktop to browse and the desktop to design (wow, that sounds like a run-on sentence), I won’t have so much crap going on at once, and Photoshop will be less of a pain to use. I personally love Photoshop. A lot. But it’s a pain when you can’t apply a filter without a five-minute wait for it to render.
The internet DOES need invites.
So recently Pasquale wrote a blog post about how someone added him on MSN and was chatting with him in a manner that was just… well… stupid. And then again, a similar experience (check out all of the pictures, not just that one). Personally, I had never had that experience, until now.
I just recently created a new AIM, and someone added me, and struck up conversation, like so:
New Media Expo, Day One
I had unbelievable amounts of fun. That’s all there is to say. Oh, and I met iJustine, heyitsRachel, djsteen, MostlyLisa, Brandice, and a bunch of others. In real life. It made me really happy. Also, when I got to hug Justine and Lisa… my life was complete.