6th October 2011

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bye steve jobs :/

Kind of unconventional post but as an inside-and-out Cupertino kid, I’ll feel better once it’s out. Here are some splendid quotes I discovered on Facebook.

“Three apples changed the world. The first one seduced Eve, the second one fell on Newton, and the third was offered to the world half bitten by Steve Jobs.”

and one more: 

“The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.”

-President Obama

I started kindergarten at a fortunate time in the city that serves as Apple Headquarters. We had a batch of Macintosh computers donated to every classroom, starting that year, for the next several years. SO I’m gonna reminisce and such.

That’s where I learned to play WordMunchers and develop a basic grasp of machines.

When we had two iMacs donated to each classroom, amidst several other older Macs, we FOUGHT so hard for these. Look at that cute fucking mouse. SO cute. Fits so well in a fourth grader’s hand. (Connie? Remember) And it was because of these that I learned to type like a bamf and become addicted to the “interactive tube”: my teacher’s report comments went from “Varada needs to experiment more with technology and become more comfortable with it” to “Varada needs to get the fuck off our iMacs” (not rly for the second part, but basically, she threw out that criticism). 

First laptops I ever saw IRL. All our teachers had these! In fifth grade we were allowed to check them out for one night at a time and make progress on “Type To Learn”, which by then I was able to finish in just a matter of a few weeks (while before the revolution of the iMacs I would never get through the whole course even in a year). Sometime at this point I surpassed my sister in mad typing skills. Anyway I left this at home one morning and got my laptop check out privileges revoked for the rest of the year :( sosad

We had these in middle school. I remember lurking Xangas from these little puppies, but they weren’t all that exciting because they were already fairly old and laggy.

Got this when I graduated middle school. Not because anyone was proud of me for graduating middle school but because my sister had done something super pro in her freshman year of high school that merited such a toy but my parents were well aware that I wouldn’t help her set it up or input music if I didn’t have one of my own. So I got one :) This marked my introduction to computer viruses and Limewire noobery… hmm… but also meant the birth of my Apple ID! I was part of the family!

My first laptop. The first Apple in our family, acquired for my 16th birthday (2007, I think 2nd generation?) It had a Pentium 2 processor and 1GB RAM lol but that was TOTALLY enough for me until this spring when I doubled it… then replaced it… q.q it’s still on my desk though. This computer owned so hard. 

Lost my first gen color iPod at some point when my parents were remodeling the house in the middle of my junior year so I got this as a 17th birthday present. I kinda wished I had waited for an iPod touch though :/

This 15-inch BEAST is my current laptop as of August :) It’s the best. It’s such a manly creation and can handle all the shit I throw at it SIMULTANEOUSLY. i7 that’s what’s up haha. 

These twinsies are the most exciting toy innoD has at the moment. They lure students to the table like white on rice, even if they are way slower for sign-in purposes they’re such a sick addition to the tabling family.

Gonna preorder this tomorrow… yee. :)