every day i love my mac a little more

the upgrades were wildly successful and C has all his music on the iPod; the transfer of 1.5GB via Firewire felt like it took 2 seconds, especially after the incredibly painful 100MB zip backup of the files before the brain wipes.

so he keeps showing me all day the delightful juxtapositions of random shuffle - my favorite being Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax beside a Joseph Campbell lecture on the chakras.

meanwhile, i have been booted from the network at work over and over and over and over and over. nothing solves it. i hate the damn Windows machine and i know it senses my resentment. for some reason the office has a statistically unlikely high percentage of left-handers and native mac users (not all are both, but we do have two of those as well) and i'm just trying to figure out how to convince my boss that a few G5s could really boost productivity...

a seattle moment

i belong to an organization, which to protect the innocent, will remain nameless. i love it and all the people involved, and in fact am making no statement in the following about the value of the proposals made tonight.

this organization decided to consider a name change back in July. after several layers of process, and winnowing 200 or so name suggestions down to a final five and then a one, tonight was the vote on whether or not to confirm the change. this last contender was chosen by a good 2/3 vote.

also on the agenda was a mission statement revision.

assuming a name change is approved, it will not take effect (with the attendant new stationary, etc) until after this July. so, a year from start to finish of process.

during the discussion period, it was proposed that we were being hasty and choosing an inappropriate name, and that, in fact, we should establish a committee to further explore this subject and involve the services of a consultant. in other words, even though everyone in the group has had the opportunity to contribute through a six-month process, THERE HASN'T BEEN ENOUGH DISCUSSION. and there was vocal agreement.

in fact, it was suggested that if we didn't change the name, then we shouldn't rush to change the mission statement, even though everyone seemed to be in agreement that the change was in line with the professionally facilitated "visioning" in July.

i'm really a part of life in Seattle now, where everything is done by a committee, where no decision is final, even if we all voted. and in this case, three times :)