The Macthusiast

But I am back now.

The iPhone spurred me on. If you can't see the possibilities, well just spend your time talking about what other people are living those possibilites.

I don't have a voice for podcasting, so I will have to hone my writing skills. I have been away, writing classes on All things Mac.

So, I hope to find the time to begin to post what's up and what can be up.

Send me questions.

On the plane, as a surprise I saw a movie that I think is better than anything I have seen this year, including Captain Jack Sparrow (different genre).

If you haven't seen Inside Man, A Spike Lee Joint, you need to see it. It's violent in that people are beat up, but it's not gratuitously violent. And it is good with Scorcese-esque moving shots and the famous Spike Lee actor-on-the-dolly trucking shot. And the idea on the script is good. Questions on who is the worse criminal, and immoral relevance. Interesting ideas, between diplomacy and violence, when one works and when the other is called for; and who is in control - the mastermind or the public's finest. Great filmmaking --- rent it, buy it, whatever, but support the Lee --- besides ... Apple is littered everywhere in this thing.

He even uses North African rappers in his music! It's a great production, and GREEEAAAATTTT writing.

I purposefully didn't Mac-out today. When we went to the Center, folks were sitting down in the lobby floor, using the internet. I decided at that point that I would go on a head get room service since Doris was with me, and I knew I wanted to be on-line late at night and early in the AM.

The true geeks are all running around in their Apple Shirts. And I cut my hair, cuz I know folks my age attending would have gray hair and usually in a ponytail; and I am not one of them. The volunteers told me that when they arrive at 6:30AM to open, people are already in line for the keynote. So, I might end up in an overflow room. I'll let you know.

Look at my photo page and view the pictures from the afternoon. I learned how to make tea such that it tastes just the way you smell it. So I bought some tea that knocked me away. No kimonos because it is Chinese tea; but it is expensive tea.

I wanna take more pictures and I wanna spend time in the city. I might have to play hookey one afternoon. But when?

Keynote in the morning ...

And soon I shall be lifting off to San Francisco trying to be cool and taking that Geek Walk to the M-Ctr, Moscone, the Mac Mecca. I am one-block away from the center. Tomorrow I mark out my itenerary, get my traveler's gear and pack. Saturday I cleanup and get the last minute items. Sunday AM I am gone.

I knew I was going to go no matter what. I toyed with the other gatherings, but WWDC is what I need to see. I have to become inspired enough to bring back to the inert, yet highly comfortable DC-area folks who should be leading the Mac-attack on the East coast, what the opportunities are. My Goal? Have enough activity to have a summit! Not the culty kind, but the kind where everybody beinefits.

I don't understand why it isn't inspiring to other engineers and technologists I know, that Apple is bridging us to the future. The new technology is not locked in a material somewhere, the opportunity, the money is being made by people who understand that, the new technology is locked in what information means. The next wave is not information technology, but knowledge technology. And the tide is signalling all of us that the knowledge is building. For those who don't see it, well ... they'll have to wait for the next thing.

Why can't they see that the next thing, after this wave, whatever it may be, will only be more complex. If they think that innovation will get easier, they are thinking like Lit. The opportunity will require folks to get off their mental bee-hines and become insprired by ideas and information. They have to see what the information means to them or somebody and what it is worth.

More on this when I embark on my writing career; well after the pilgramage to San-Mecca.
I will be in touch. My next entry will be when I am in the Hotel, after registration.

Talk with you then.

PS> Ya'll hear about AOL? I bet if I took a survey other places are slimming down, contracts not coming though? I gotta get on the horn!