Can I Be Smug, Too?
Okay, so the title is a little deceptive. It’s taken from one of my online haunts, Fark, where the running gag is that Mac-users are smug, conceited, and clueless. I’d like to think I know better, of course. I am a Mac user at heart, an aficionado of Apple’s oft-maligned products. I’ve used them off and on since they were first introduced in 1984, all the way up to the switch to OS X. My current situation is, sadly, Macintosh-free, though I hope to pick up a Macbook during my second year of college.
That said, I’m not going without my Apple fix between now and then. Despite lacking any fruit-branded electronics for the last seven years, and being hopelessly lost in Microsoft territory, I have something coming in the next couple weeks able to render me, erm… fruitful.
Uh huh. I ordered an iPhone 3Gs.
There’s something empowering about the iPhone. I’ve been watching them since they were first introduced in 2007, when I called it a “high powered widget that really adds nothing to my day to day life”. Since then, Apple’s smart phone has only gotten better; it has 3G wireless capacity, better screen functionality, and thousands of third-party applications waiting at the App Store. Still, it’s just a widget, which means something in my life would have to change, so that it would add something to the daily experience.
Well, as you folks know, I’m headed back to school this fall. I met with my college counselor on Tuesday, and yesterday finished off my enrollment. I’ll be heading in to get some catch-up tutoring in Algebra (because darn it, it’s been twenty-four years) in a couple weeks, so I’ll be prepared for the college algebra class I never took despite having a couple years of school under my belt.
Outside of school, I’m getting out and exercising more, walking daily. (Well, I’ll return to walking daily once my shoes arrive. Walking barefoot on the hyper-textured asphalt track we have here tore my feet up last week, leaving them blistered and on the verge of bloody.) I’ve got some other, more active projects in the works, too, so I’ll be away from the house a bit more.
Given all of that, Ms. Awesomesauce and I decided I was going to need a cellphone. Being the pseudogeek that I am, I just couldn’t see getting anything but a smart phone with internet capabilities, and the iPhone seemed to be the best possible choice, given the options available and the discount I managed to swing.
So… count me among the Apple-enabled again! It feels good, for the moment.
At least until I get the bill.
