"Till human voices wake us, and we drown."

I bought it [them].

New iPod Touch. New Macbook Pro.

I sold a third of my library. 200 leather-bound books that had been gathering dust, used mostly now, as "furniture". Now someone will read them again. The bucks bought machines.

But, read the April 2008 PC Magazine. "So how do we stay green, given our passion for gadgets?" And "A pile of our obsolete computers could make a 22-store mountain that covers the entire 472 square miles of the city of Los Angeles."

Guilty.

We got the MBP to replace a 5-year-old IBM Thinkpad. (The "beemer" has 512K, twice the storage of our original desktop, a true behemoth for its time, que no?).

"According to a 2004 survey, three-quarters of all still-functional PCs ever sold are in storage instead of in use." [PC Magazine, again]

Maybe I can figure a way to deal with the hard drive... my tendency would be Captain Destructo... and get the rest of the beemer back into use.

(By the way, Opera runs fine on a Mac. Be warned: Gimp doesn't!)