montyfood

Okay. I know. I know.

I know I have no actual readers so this next post is mildly ironic.

I know that half of the year has slipped by and in that time I've managed three actual posts (this, the fourth, being a post about posting, or lack thereof).

I know that makes it look like my attempts at bloggery were well-intentioned but ultimately misjudged.

BUT...

What you, mythical reader, don't know, is in the past demi-year I have in fact written many draft blog posts about wildly diverse and interesting subjects (legal disclaimer: actual content may differ from exaggerated claims made), but in my control-freak perfectionism I always hold off posting them for fear they are half-baked, and I don't want to be adding yet more blog-based bull to an internet that is already swimming in the stuff. My mission is to bring light, inspiration, even hope to the befuddled denizens of the cyberspherisphere. Now, with a new resolve, I shall gradually polish and publish all, if not most, of those erstwhile in limbo opinions and not be responsible for the consequences.

Furthermore, Blogger/Google/Bloogle now have a whippity-doo OS X Widget (for, if you hadn't guessed, I abide in Macintosia) so I can post any old random braindump without needing to carefully craft it in my outliner of choice, Notebook, and also without need of booting Firefux ('cos the Bloogle posting compose thingy still be wonky in Safari) or finally paying for a copy of MarsEdit, which I probably would if it supported Blogger labels.

So get ready, I've got more shit to shovel...

[UPDATE: Mr Red Sweater himself popped by to correct my misgivings about MarsEdit. What a nice man.]

I just got round to watching the pre-release iPhone Guided Tour movie and something was nagging me about the host. He seemed so familiar. Then it hit me. My mind went back 15 years to the day I opened my first Mac (a meagre LC II which cost about as much as a Mac Pro tower would today). As part of the welcome procedure there was a little show called Macintosh Basics featuring this guy on the left. Compare:



The multicoloured Apple logo sweatshirt has been superseded by a Jobs-like black Gap top, his eyesight isn't so hot, and I noticed he's even settled down with Mrs Basics, but no doubt about it, it's him.

I reckon Steve iphoned his friends at Pixar and said "Resurrect Jay" (for that was his name) "but fire up the RenderMan - this time we need him 3D."

[UPDATE: Looks like I'm not the only one to have spotted Jay. (Third comment down, from jpellino.)]